On my walk with Sinead along Dun Laoghaire pier she reflects on how walking this space provides her with the possibility of experiencing the therapeutic value of a horizon.

In search of a horizon - with Sinéad in Dun Laoghaire

Walking with Conor down from the Carrowkeel megalithic tombs in Sligo, he reflects on his memories of walking and learning about the land with his grandmother.   He recalls, as he walks, her own stories of walking as an act of imperial servitude and later of her own performance of de-colonisation and reclamation.

We walked the land together - with Conor coming down Carrowkeel

Jerry, walking through the Devil's Glen in Wicklow, introduces an edited collection from the walks he has been on with five adult educator colleagues over the year 2019-20.    Sinead, Fergal, Bríd, Conor and Camilla all reflect, as they walk, on the significance of walking in their lives.  A lot emerges in our walks together:  walking into the thinking spaces offered by horizons; walking as psycho-social acts of orientation; walking as protest; the class dimensions of walking; walking as colonial subservience and post-colonial reclamation; and the gendered and familial tensions and performance of walking ...

Six Adult Educators Reflect On Walking

A series of occasional walking dialogues and reflections which explore, on foot and in situ, the significance of place and walking on people’s ways of knowing and being in the world.  
Each conversation takes its own path: some are focused on a specific topic or theme that is walked and talked through; others focus on walking itself and the space that we find ourselves moving slowly through.   
One of the purposes of this walking project is to explore the possibilities of walking dialogues and reflections for education and research.  
Facilitated and produced by Jerry O'Neill, Department of Adult Education, Maynooth University.

We walked the land together - with Conor coming down Carrowkeel

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