Matt Corbett reckons the best thing about cutting turf is that you get to disappear into silence for the day. From early April to June, locals driving the narrow Connemara road past Carna towards ...

As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack damp peat - the cheap, smokey fuel he has harvested for half a century. The painstaking work of "footing turf," as the ...

CNN — In 1984, a peat cutter discovered human remains in a bog in Cheshire, England. They belonged to a man who died a brutal death some 2,100 years ago before being placed in the bog — examination of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I recently revisited one of my favourite places in Ireland — an Iron Age timber road dating from 148BC, ...