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The title came from the landscape around the castle. A dark mystery filmed at Dunsany, it tells the story of an American writer who moves to a remote Irish setting and is haunted by characters from her novel.
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His first full-length indie feature, The Green Sea, which he wrote and directed, was released last month. Plunkett runs Dunsany on income from the remaining farm land, which is mostly tillage, and from film-making. He is bracing for the resumption of hunting season: “Come September, all hell breaks loose.” “I’ve been threatened to my face and on social media with being beaten up, having my tyres slashed, you name it.” Plunkett patrolled the estate’s forests and meadows, confronted interlopers, filmed them, summoned police and threatened legal action. He also resolved to block poachers and horse-mounted hunters: “I decided to go to war.”
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When concern about the planet turned to alarm, he became vegan and decided to let a chunk of the estate revert to nature. Uneasy about the climate crisis, at first Plunkett tried converting the estate to organic farming. I saw it as a burden, a life of servitude.” Educated in the US, England and the Netherlands, he wanted to make films, not manage a farm and high-maintenance castle. Randal became the 21 st baron after his father, Edward, died in 2011. About 250,000 hectares of wetlands have been lost in the past two decades. In the 1980s it had more than 500 rivers and lakes with pristine water, now there are just 20, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Ireland has a poor environmental record, despite its green image. In one striking success, wildcats have returned to Dutch forests after centuries of absence. Last year Plunkett became the first Irish member of the European Rewilding Network, an advocacy group for wildernesses across Europe. I had to Google it to know what it was.” There have also been sightings of snipe and stoats and an unconfirmed report of red squirrels.īotanists from Trinity College Dublin have started visiting to study the transformation. Lush, diverse vegetation attracted butterflies and other insects – “it’s like a buffet for them” – which drew more birds, including rarely seen woodpeckers, barn owls, red kites and sparrowhawks. “I see a lot of saplings growing that I haven’t planted.” “I didn’t do it, the birds did.” Trees regenerated and multiplied – oak, ash, beech, Scots pine and black poplar. Before, the estate had just three types of grass, now it has 23. Plunkett says vindication has come in multiple forms. One farmer said I should be ashamed of myself for destroying the farm.” “They just thought I was a complete waster. Some people considered it disgraceful neglect of an estate associated with agricultural innovation, he said. He still loves death metal, and sports a ponytail and (fake) leather jacket, but he decided seven years ago to turn over 300 hectares of his estate to nature – no livestock, planting, sowing or weeding. The 38-year-old, who was once a steak-eating bodybuilding death metal fan with no interest in land, is now vegan and on an environmental mission.