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The historian Thomas Pakenham began talking to his trees in the late 1980s to wish them luck in facing the wrath of the wind. I thought of Pakenham this week as I encountered some lingering debris from. During the storm, the live capturing of uprooted trees made for frightening drama, while the current dead trunks make for sad viewing.
These books are partly about the battle for preservation. Single storms underline the sheer difficulty of that task; after Storm Éowyn, the British National Trust observed how it had “wreaked havoc” on its estates and gardens in Northern Ireland estimating, for example, that 10,000 trees in Mount Stewart in Co Down had been flattened by the wind.
The novelist Niall Williams has written powerfully of their presence in his books centred on the fictional western Irish rural town of Faha and its soggy hinterland, most recently in last year’s Time of the Child. On the day of the big electricity switch on “there was to be a class of ribbon-cutting ceremony on a stage erected outside the church gates. All who could would be there for the moment of history without bloodshed when Faha would become current.
From the start, the poles were compromised by the torment of wind on roads, as Williams puts it, “that were mostly bends and without mark of change but for the electricity poles that to western gales had surrendered the perpendicular, some tilting to 10 o’clock, one in the swamp of Skellys near enough nine, so they had an air of the temporary and were the first cause of the blackouts that in Faha were now the custom of winter”.
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