abhainn views Dublin through its inseparable relationship to water and its rivers asking what happens when we shift the focus and view the city through a hydro-lens? What can water, the rivers and their multispecies relationships teach us?
What happens when we walk Dublin city with these hydro-storytellers as the guides?

Abhainn is an embedded research project by Rosie O’Reilly in collaboration with musician Colm O’Ciosoig that reveals Dublin’s complex relationship with water. One of power, control, colonialism, pollution, of beauty and of the power of rivers and their multispecies relationships to shift our thinking asking what happens when we walk Dublin city with these hydro-storytellers as the guides?  

Each track has been recorded on tape for this analogue walking kit and is a collaborative journey with multiple voices, stories and sounds

the abhainn analogue walking kit is available to collect from me by emailing rosieoreilly (at) gmail.com

the kit has been returned by:

Kate Whylie

Ed Stanford

Brenda O'Farrel

This project thanks:

Dublin's water, rivers and it's multispecies connections.

All collaborators are listed with the tracks, without them it wouldn't have happened. The project is curated by Ruth Carroll as part of Dublin City Council’s first biodiversity in residence programme. Photography was made by Sean Breithaupt.

Special thanks to Gerry O'Connel in DCC, Ruth Carroll, David Boyle, Tom Barker, Manchán Magan, Rhona Byrne, Amanda Bell, James Orr, Ken Whelan, Yvette Monahan

Funded by Creative Ireland under the Creative Climate Action fund.