TY Work Portfolio 1

Over the next week we'll be posting some of the work done for the recently-completed Transition Year course (more after the weekend).

The first three pieces are :-

• Celeste Weatherhead's essay about the execution of Saddam Hussein,
• Joseph Millar's account of a Transition Year hike in Wicklow earlier this year,
• and Rebecca Feeney-Barry's piece called 'The Watcher', which starts :-

I am emerging from a long slumber. I look out. The world looks so green. I remember seeing this world before but somehow it was different then. I did not have the same feeling of joy that I have now. I can sense the air against my slender body, warm and kind. As I unfold it slowly caresses my new wings to dry them. The moisture that has protected them all this time slowly evaporates. They feel light but powerful. I stand still, swaying gently. I look down and see the ground many times my own height below me. I know I could reach it in a second. I have a moment of fear, of apprehension, but now, the adrenalin rushes back into my veins. This is what I was meant to do.

Read on ...