Sentence examples for turf cutting from inspiring English sources

I'll take you turf cutting with Heaney or onion eating with Swift... " The lad of the ceaseless hum becomes a major character in this novel from a young Northern Irish writer whose is now, perhaps, one of the most vital voices in current Irish literature.

New pollen and soil data show that the Norse allowed fields and what little forest existed to recover after tilling and turf cutting.

The Norse "damaged their environment" as they had done in Iceland, Diamond asserted, based on analyses of dust that suggested erosion caused by felling trees, agriculture, and turf cutting.

Devon County Council agreed to pay for repairs to the canal, in time for its 200th anniversary and on 7 July 2013, a 3 million pound project to repair the breach, began with an official turf cutting.

Barnesmore on the Donegal border should do the trick, a massive area of upland blanket bog, without much turf cutting or farming.

Afforestation, turf cutting and drainage have been gradually whittling away the bogs that still cover a fifth of this rugged and wind-swept country.

Photograph: ANDRES STAPFF/REUTERS Updated at 9.15pm BST 9.05pm BST 5 mins The turf is cutting up already.

("He didn't say if he would have brought down his turf-cutting kit, as the others seem to have," quipped Frank Keating).

The parasite performed best (in terms of population size) in patches which has been managed (mowing, burning or turf-cutting) in the previous seven years, mainly composed of young Calluna vulgaris individuals and had a canopy height between 10 and 30 cm.

At the turf-cutting ceremony for the Christie proton beam centre, chief executive Roger Spencer said: "This proton beam therapy facility represents a crucial piece of the jigsaw, which equips the Christie to become the biggest radiotherapy centre in the world as well as one of the top five cancer hospitals in the world".

The start of work on a new £18m police station in Harrogate has been marked by a turf-cutting ceremony.