Land Remembers: A Story of Memory, Mapping, and Survival Based on Land by Maggie O’Farrell

“You will never understand how the land remembers.”

Set against the windswept edges of 19th-century Ireland, Land Remembers is a haunting storytelling podcast inspired by Land by Maggie O’Farrell. This series brings to life a powerful historical narrative of loss, inheritance, and survival in the aftermath of the Great Hunger.

In 1865, Tomas, a surveyor working on the British Ordnance Survey, travels across a scarred Irish landscape to map a country still haunted by famine and displacement. Accompanied by his ten-year-old son, Liam, Tomas believes the land itself holds memory—of vanished villages, unmarked graves, and lives erased from official records. But when  ...