Upland Voices Podcast - ACRES Donegal

The Upland Voices Podcasts Upland Voices is a podcast series focusing on Upland Farming in the West of Ireland with a greater emphasis on Co. Donegal. It is produced by ACRES* Donegal and presented by Aileen Collery. The first episode is a special episode featuring conversations with Sean Cadden (Historian), Catherine Keena (Countryside Specialist) and Martin Gavin (Upland Farmer). This episode delves into understanding what the Irish Uplands or the ‘Hills’ as they are more commonly known looked like and how they were managed before and after the great famine. It reveals the consequences for hill vegetation and structure following a significant shift in markets after the second world war and into the 1950s. During this period the demand for mutton and wool declined. Farmers responded to the change in market and a new system of hill farming was born. This episode aims to set the pace for e