05/12/2026
Meet SNNW 2026’s Irish cultural instructors: Erin Fahey is a craftsperson and educator whose focus is connecting with the living world through traditional craft practices. She has led courses in willow basketry for the past 13 years and has also enjoyed many years of teaching adult and kids programming including for Rewild Portland. She will be leading two such weaving workshops this year at SNNW. Madrone co-owns Hedgerow Herb Co., a local herbal apothecary on W. Burnside St. She is a medicine maker, crafter, gardener, and farmer who began practicing herbalism in 2015. During this time she also began practicing old-time traditions of her Gaelic-speaking ancestors, honoring the wheel of the year. Her workshop focuses on plants associated with the seasonal festivals of Ireland. Dubhán Ó Longáin, from Bealach Féich in County Donegal, is a contemporary Irish writer, poet, folklorist, and educator who earned his PhD from Ulster University, specializing in the poetry of the Fenian Cycle. His workshop will focus on this exact topic. Holly Griffith has been the Artistic Director of Corrib Theatre, the only Irish Theatre on America's West Coast, since 2022. She moved to Portland from Dublin, where she earned an MFA in Theatre Directing with distinction at the Lir Academy, Trinity College Dublin. Her workshop will focus on folklore and Irish drama. Pilib Ó Duibhir is an Irish speaker and teacher, community organizer, and wildland firefighter living in Quilcine WA. They have spent considerable time in the north of Ireland working with language communities there and engaging in the language movement in support of Irish. They will be featuring a film, Athgjabháil na hÉireann: Resistance to Extraction in Ireland, followed by a discussion on contemporary environmental concerns in Ireland. More about these amazing educators, the workshop schedule, and registration at www.seannos.org/snnw. Bígí linn, a chairde!
