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Winter/Spring issue 2025 is here!
Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this issue includes new work by Neil McCarthy, Seán Carlson, Máighréad Medbh, Jen Herron, Megeen R. Mulholland, Máire T. Robinson, Seán McNicholl, and N.K. Woods. Read on here.
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Jen Herron
How People Take Their Tea Mint in Morocco— with apple shisha in a crowded café. White leaves in a clay pot— a hilltop in Japan. Masala chai, sugar, milk— plastic chairs on a Mumbai street. Serene flecks in a white bowl— the matted floor of a Chinese suburb. Bagged, Nambarrie, semi-skimmed— a bungalow by the Irish coast. Jen Herron Jen’s…
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Megeen R. Mulholland
Folks Songeneration At last I tried to make it last, the last some her I spent at Cailleach’s dim and dust he home with shingles and shutters. Lull gone by, I fell to sleep without leaping sheep but to song: Seesaw, Margery Draw sold her bed to lie in straw. Wasn’t she a naughty girl, to sell her bed to…
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Neil McCarthy
Peter God From the off, let me state for the record his name was James. – How are you today, James? – Ah sure I´m fine, thanks Peter God. (Nicknames were nailed to your back where I come from) James commanded the far corner of the bar like a general surveying his infantry. Customers…
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Neil McCarthy
The Day I Nearly Killed Donal Reagan with the Bucket of a JCB The day I nearly killed Donal Reagan with the bucket of a JCB had actually started well – a 7am cycle through Myross Wood, out past Rineen at full tide, trees electric with waking birds, tractors dieseling along the lanes to a creamery on its last legs; …
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Máire T. Robinson
Trinity Knot: A Nollaig na mBan Story (in 3 Parts) I After my son was born, I didn’t know what birth story to tell. When people asked how it had gone, what version of the truth did they want to hear? The word traumatic was on the tip of my tongue but I swallowed it back. I defaulted. The important…
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Seán Carlson
Bus to Ballybunion The five o’clock bus is nearly full by the time it leaves Tralee eight minutes after the hour. The transport lurches from the station, shifting between low gears in afternoon traffic. “This is ridiculous,” an older man says. “It is,” a younger woman affirms across the aisle. “Every day now,” one of them offers. The first temporary-protection…
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Spring 2024 is here!
Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this issue includes new work by Lisa Bellamy, Elizabeth Gibson, Claire Hennessy, Jim Maguire, Virginie Trachsler, Ruadhán MacFadden, Christina Hennemann, Muiread O’Hanlon, and Samantha Calthrop. Read on here.
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Winter 2023 Arrives
Featuring poetry & prose from across the world, this packed quarterly includes new work by Mary O’Donnell, Finola Cahill, Gill Barr, Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi, Niamh Donnellan, Ciara Broderick, Mauk Donnabháin, Alan McCormick, George Moore, Alison McCrossan, and David Lohrey. Read on here.
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A Celtic Sojourn
For over twenty years famed Boston radio host Brian O’Donovan spread holiday cheer with his annual production of “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn.” From an oversized, red chair, O’Donovan presented to American audiences the Christmas traditions of Ireland through a mix of music, dance, poetry, and storytelling. Born and raised in Clonakilty, Cork, O’Donovan emigrated to Boston in 1980. Six years…
