Featured on RTE's Nationwide, this 32-page book is a collection of traditional weather signs.
Michael Gallagher has been a postman in the Cloghan area during the past four decades and has had the privilege of becoming well-acquainted with the people from the town lands on both sides of the Reelin river. It was from conversing in their native language with the people of this area that he first became interested in weather forecasting.
"Most of the people from na Cruacha could forecast the weather accurately for a month or season in advance and even for the year ahead, at times. They had such knowledge of Nature, learned from their daily struggle with the elements that each feature of God's Creation was linked to them with climatic conditions."
The book features plenty of colour photographs, anecdotes and descriptions of weather signs.
