Our Offerings
This year on the Autumn Equinox weekend September 20 - 22, 2025 we will host an annual retreat on Oiléain Chléire (Cape Clear island). Other day retreat and events will be held at our current home and venue in South Kilkenny. Details will be updated in due course.
To see past events here
Wild Hurling
Bringing the game outside of the confines of the club and the pitch, Diarmuid teaches professionals and beginners alike the skills and a community friendly game of hurling for all skill levels.
Diarmuid has facilitated Wild Hurling matches community events, festivals and


Ancestral Skills
To prepare to live in a sustainably with nature in a world of dwindling resources, we collaborate with craftspeople to give workshops in skills such as wild food foraging, butchering, deer hide tanning, oil pressing, soap making and more.


Rites of Passage
In the reclamation of our indigenous rites of passage, we draw from our historical experience as Gnostic Celts. Diarmuid and Siobhan both work as wedding celebrants, welcoming incoming souls.


Spreagtha le Gaeilge ~ Inspired by Irish
This is an Irish class with a difference. In the Tochailt Focail, Siobhán introduces people to the deeper implications of speaking Irish, for the psyche, biology and the mind. Using the foclóir as a tool of communication with our inner selves and the natural world. We can practice unblocking creative flow and finding an authentic expression tríd Gaeilge.
Original Workshops include: Is file mé (I am a poet) Luibh Litir (a love letter to the wildflowers, The Journey Ogham (particpants become a living Ogham mandala. Tochailt Focail (We dig into the words to discover the philosophy of our ancestors.
Siobhán has delivered workshops at festivals, retreats and private events.
For whom
Beyond our annual retreats, Wild Irish also caters to specific groups and events.
Festivals


Schools
Where better to start reclaiming our culture than in school. We have curated nature connection days and rites of passage for primary and secondary schools in Dublin, Kerry and Kilkenny.
Diarmuid has been working with young men in GAA clubs and sports teams for the past six years, hosting connection to place camps where young people experience deep healing experiences in nature. We have also hosted corporate teambuilding days. (Photo above with the Soar foundation.)
Teambuilding




With wild hurling, Irish language workshop and Celtic ritual we have participated in festivals around Ireland. In 2024, we attended Hidden Hearth, John Moriary Festival, Glór na Móna in Belfast, the Puca Festival and Lovestock,