Dave Hogan is an ecologist and musician with long-standing interests in landscape history and the early history and mythology of Ireland. He is a fluent Gaelic speaker.

He has worked extensively as an academic ecologist, a naturalist & wildlife biologist, an environmental consultant, and in heritage & tourism consultancy. He has a wide experience in lecturing, from formal academics in Canada and Ireland, to informal interpretive lectures in the Irish landscape (which is now his only classroom). He is an excellent communicator and lecturer, specialising in using non-technical language and images to illuminate important landscape features. He has wide experience of organising and leading nature and heritage tours to all parts of Ireland, but mainly in the West.

Over the years he has worked with geologists, archaeologists and vegetation historians and this teamwork has given him an intimate understanding of the natural and cultural heritage that is the Irish landscape. He has specialist knowledge and experience in flora, vegetation, ornithology, mammalogy, and landscape structure.

His interest in landscape has brought him into contact with the rich tapestry of social and cultural influences that have contributed to moulding the physical and biological landscape – placenames, history, mythology and the Irish language.

His early interest in Irish music and song fits right into this ‘cross-over’ and contributes to his passion. He has recorded with the original traditional group Cluain and has contributed to a more recent CD, The Bright Road – Barbara Callan & Lynn Saoirse.