{"id":21431,"date":"2022-09-14T03:01:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T02:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/street-mural-celebrating-irelands-threatened-swift-apus-apus\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T03:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T02:01:56","slug":"street-mural-celebrating-irelands-threatened-swift-apus-apus","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/street-mural-celebrating-irelands-threatened-swift-apus-apus\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Mural Celebrating Ireland&#8217;s Threatened Swift (Apus apus)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>For Culture Night Laois on Friday, September 23rd, Creative Ireland Laois, Laois County Council Heritage Office and BirdWatch Ireland launch a street mural by artist, James Kirwan to <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span>celebrate\u00a0Ireland&#8217;s threatened Swift (<em>Apus apus<\/em>). The mural is located at the gable end of the Gearoid Horan\u2019s building on Patrick Street, Mountmellick and is adjacent to Mountmellick Community School. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Swift is a small migratory bird which arrives in Ireland to breed from Africa in May and departs by August\u00a0each year. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Mountmellick is a stronghold within County Laois for these charismatic and threatened bird.\u00a0<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Although similar in appearance to Swallows and Martins, the Swift\u2019s nearest relatives are thought to be the Hummingbirds, native to North and South America. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Artist James Kirwan has a keen interest in the importance of the protection of birds and their habitats in Ireland. He brings this, in his distinctive style, in his stunning\u00a0Mountmellick Swift Mural<em>.\u00a0<\/em>In October,\u00a0James is scheduled to return to Mountmellick to facilitate a creative workshop with art students\u00a0<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>in Mountmellick Community College which will explore his street artworks and techniques, and reflect his interest in nature, and his use of abstract shapes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Swift episode reissue with BirdWatch Ireland Ricky Whelan and\u00a0Niall Hatch is available at\u00a0BirdWatch Ireland&#8217;s \u2018In Your Nature\u2019\u00a0podcast. <\/span><\/span><strong><span><span>inyournature.buzzsprout.com.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span><span><span><span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Image: L-R BirdWatch Ireland&#8217;s Ricky Whelan with artist, James Kirwan<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21432,"template":"","class_list":["post-21431","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Street Mural Celebrating Ireland&#039;s Threatened Swift (Apus apus) - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For Culture Night Laois on Friday, September 23rd, Creative Ireland Laois, Laois County Council Heritage Office and BirdWatch Ireland launch a street mural by artist, James Kirwan to celebrate\u00a0Ireland&#039;s threatened Swift (Apus apus).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/street-mural-celebrating-irelands-threatened-swift-apus-apus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Street Mural Celebrating Ireland&#039;s Threatened Swift (Apus apus) - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For Culture Night Laois on Friday, September 23rd, Creative Ireland Laois, Laois County Council Heritage Office and BirdWatch Ireland launch a street mural by artist, James Kirwan to celebrate\u00a0Ireland&#8217;s threatened Swift (Apus apus). 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