Irish Autumn Meeting & AGM

Fifty botanists enjoyed meeting up and watching the talks at this year's Irish Autumn Meeting on Saturday, 24th September at the National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin. After lunch there were two workshops - on Scaly Male-ferns by Alison Evans and a visit to look at aquatics in the ponds in the gardens with Nick Stewart. All the talks were recorded, and you can see them here:

• Ireland Officer's Year: Paul Green, BSBI Ireland officer
• The montane flora of West Galway: John Conaghan, BSBI County Recorder for West Galway
• Managing dunes for biodiversity: Aoife Delaney, Joint BSBI Recorder for County Leitrim
• Irish Scaly Male-ferns – a taxonomic study: Alison Evans ( handout)
• Looking at rare plants in Tipperary: Anne Lloyd
• Introduction to spikey-rosette aquatics: Nick Stewart

Or view via the BSBI Irish Autumn Meeting 2022 playlist.

We had a great programme of talks at the Irish Autumn Meeting & AGM in 2021, which was held online on Saturday, 25th September. The programme is below and recordings of the talks are available to watch again by clicking the links or via the BSBI Ireland 2021 Autumn Meeting playlist.

Programme

• Short Introductions - Julia Hanmer, BSBI Chief Executive & Sarah Woods, BSBI Fundraising Manager
• The cultural significance of plants in Irish life - Kevin Whelan
• Fragrant-orchids - how and why they were split into three species Part 1 and Part 2 - Richard Bateman, BSBI Orchid Expert
• Castletown Demense - Meadows, Bees, Birds and Trees - Rory Finnegan
• Interesting plant records while surveying Clubmosses in Galway & Mayo - Paul Green
• Report of the Aquatic Plant Project & Irish Grasslands Project - Paul Green