I’m outside Stoneyford, Co Kilkenny, at a small workshop covered in flowering clematis. I can hear birdsong, but there’s also a mechanical sound, a gentle rhythmic humming.
Inside, Eoghan Leadbetter is at his lathe, shaping and moulding a piece of beech into a bowl. Wood shavings and sawdust fly everywhere. Eoghan leans over the machine, holding the chisel steady as the piece of wood spins round and round. His head is down. He is deep in concentration.
He has crafted in woodturning since 2015. A friend knew he was interested in woodwork so gave him his lathe. “I remember telling him I wouldn’t be into it but from the first moment the…