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Love is a Funny Little Thing · Amanda Faccioli

"Love is a funny little feeling It fills me up with a warmth like no other. Their voices and laughter are like music to me Gently kindling my heart." [...]

05
Dec

Olavo Bilac, the poet of the Brazilian flag

Olavo Bilac was born in Rio de Janeiro in December 1865. Also known as the "Prince of the Poets", Bilac was a short story writer and journalist. In 1897, he was [...]

07
Sep

Mother’s Tears • Rafaela Ferracuti

"[...]I am a drop In this sea of expectations Miserably salty Life is an eternal tide Coming in and out Sometimes low Sometimes high" [...]

12
Aug

Breaking waves • Rafaela Ferracuti

"Here on this side I see the river flowing into the sea Oceans being roughened by the wind While the gale takes away my thoughts By her side I see the sun as a friend Now finding [...]

07
Jul

In Conversation • Claudio Quintino Crow

Claudio Quintino Crow is a musician, writer, historian, and independent researcher of Celtic and Irish culture. Author of the book “O Livro da Mitologia Celta," he has a conversation with us [...]

26
Jun

Dublin is • Lorcan McNamee

"Ireland is out there, but it is also in here, in this complex, fizzing, ruthless city. Dublin is mine, and also it is not; in reality it is not like that at all, but I feel [...]

18
Jun

Memory • Mar Lima

"You keep saying how you've changed Since you've met the Liffey But you can't explain How was the feeling of crossing the ocean You only remember feeling part of it Frozen by the cold cutting your [...]

13
Jun

The Ghost of Roger Casement • W.B. Yeats, 1938

O WHAT has made that sudden noise?What on the threshold stands?It never crossed the sea becauseJohn Bull and the sea are friends;But this is not the old seaNor this the old [...]

30
Apr

In Conversation • Mariana Bolfarine

Mariana Bolfarine holds a Ph.D. from the University of São Paulo (2015) and was a research fellow at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2013-2014). She teaches at the Federal University [...]

30
Apr

A View of Fazenda Garcia, Salvador, Bahia • Rick Kearns

"Ladies, young women walking home from working at shops, factories, taking care of rich kids or they’re graphic designers, professors accountants, too. They’re scaling these hills." [...]

30
Apr

Renewal • Róisín-Anne Jenkinson

"Renewal" • There are moments in life to step out in faith and take a chance, regardless of the risk of embarrassment or shame, but it is important we take those [...]

23
Feb

Starting • Marc Zegans

"I ride the sea on purple curl / As night draws near / ... / Out toward the last orange / Splash on open sea / And there we play, light [...]

02
Nov

Day D – Drummond Day

Today, the last day of October, it would be the 118th birthday of Carlos Drummond de Andrade and he made himself eternal through his poetry. In 2011, the Moreira Salles Institute [...]

31
Oct

Hilda Hilst

Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) was a Brazilian poet, playwright, and fiction writer. She was strongly influenced by James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, and this influence appears in themes and techniques that [...]

07
Jul

Love’s a fire that burns out of sight

Love's a fire that burns out of a sight; It's a wound, yet a painless torment; It's a discontent sense of contentment; It's a pang, yet unbearably slight. [...]

04
May

Hand in hand

I won't be the singer of some woman, some tale,/ I won't evoke the sights at dusk, the scene outside the window,/ I won't distribute drugs or suicide letters,/ [...]

04
Apr

Sonnet of Fidelity

Above all, to my love I'll be attentive First and always, with care and so much That even when facing the greatest enchantment By love be more enchanted my thoughts [...]

14
Feb

Sonnet of Intimacy

Vinicius de Moraes (October 1913 – 9 July 1980), was a Brazilian poet, lyricist, essayist, and playwright. He served as a diplomat and composed bossa nova music. [...]

24
Jan

Breaking News

Poetry has passed away strangled with strong marks of ignorance [...]

03
Nov

Suffering

A salt stone becomes part of the ocean — very little! — The soul remained lighter than the body. The music, far beyond the instrument. Of the lever, its reason of [...]

24
Oct

chronicle | short-story

I woke up illegal today • Adriana Ribeiro

"I woke up illegal today. It was as if the sun, when it knocks at the Irish doors, blew trumpets announcing my condition, and if I went out into the streets, [...]

20
Jul

art

Music

In Conversation · Edu Prado

Edu Prado is a Dublin based Musician, Music Producer and Composer, originally from Curitiba - Paraná, Brazil. He is living in [...]

03
Jan

Silêncio, Nilson Dourado’s new album

"Silêncio" comes from two or more of me. It is a layered album, matured over slow fire, in the alchemy of [...]

23
Oct

Brazilian musicians in the Irish pub scene

Musicians Guto Piazza and Luana Matos talked to us about the Irish PUB scene and how is the trajectory of a [...]

03
Apr

In Conversation • Daniel Nash

Daniel Nash and his brother Patrick Nash are The Nash Brothers, a guitar-driven, Blues Rock band from Waterford, Ireland. The subtle [...]

03
Feb

In Conversation • Leonardo Ramos

Leonardo Ramos is a photographer, musician and filmmaker. He is part of Harmundi, a Psychedelic folk music band, he sings, and [...]

20
Aug

In Conversation • Mila Maia

Mila Maia is from Santos, the coast of Brazil, based in Galway City, where she lives since 2018. Flutist and one [...]

03
Jun

Bossa Nova National Day

"Tall, tan, young, lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking And when she passes, I smile but she doesn't see" [...]

25
Jan

Carmen Miranda, Brazilian Samba Ambassador

"Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in all the curves of my body." Carmen Miranda [...]

30
Oct

history | culture

In Conversation • Father Kevin Keegan

Fr. Kevin Keegan is from Derry, Northern Ireland. Today he is based in the Church of the Sacred Heart in [...]

13
Jul

The life abroad are phases

The life of an expat is a life lived in phases, there is no permanence. Life anywhere is a succession [...]

12
Mar

Carmen Miranda, Brazilian Samba Ambassador

"Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in all the curves of my body." Carmen [...]

30
Oct

Bilingual Podcast

Lusofônica is a series of radio shows created for UCD Belfield FM during one trimester every Friday at midday or – meio dia for Portuguese speakers. 𝘓𝘶𝘴𝘰 is a prefix to 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘦, and 𝘍ô𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢 (𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘴) is related to sound and speech. So, listen to Portuguese sounds: poetry, words and music!

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