Is Crann Darach Mé

I wrote a forest of Irish trees

After I'd finished reading Finding the Mother Tree, by Dr Suzanne Simard (the scientist who discovered the so-called "wood wide web", or how trees communicate with each other through their roots), I woke up one morning with an Irish phrase floating in my mind.

Is crann darach mé

"I am an oak tree"

A few days prior, while exploring the theme of Roots for the second session of Scoil Scairte, we students were invited to write something similar to the Song of Amergin – the first poem ever written in the Irish language, by which Amergin sang Ireland into being. There was also a mention of the Irish Tree alphabet, created by artist and activist Katie Holten: one native Irish tree for every letter of the alphabet.

D is for dar, "oak".