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Portrait • Cecília Meireles

"[...] I had not grasped this change, So simple, so right, so soft: – In what mirror have I lost my face?" [...]

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

I’m a watermill • Glauber Andorinha

"I’m a watermill And by wind, I’m bathed. Such good fortune is mine In Ireland, I live. [...] [...]

19
Aug

Five minutes • Ronan Connolly

"She’s only five minutes late. But, it seems like an hour. Why did she not reply? Maybe she’s not coming? Just then, she is in his arms." [...]

19
Aug

Pygmalion’s Image • Eiléian Ní Chuilleanáin

"Not only her stone face, laid back staring in the ferns, But everything the scoop of the valley contains begins to move (And beyond the horizon the trucks beat the highway)." [...]

19
Aug

Of Irish Descent • Marc Zegans

"I caught your hair between my fingers and waited, till the sun went down, to move in gradual curve along your soft neck [...]" [...]

18
Aug

Stateless • Sara Ribeiro

"Stateless: “something or someone who, having lost their nationality of origin, has not acquired another; all that is officially found homeless”. Stateless." [...]

18
Aug

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

Immersion in English Language • Carine Queiroz

"The beauty of different habits and customs Make my soul rich Seeing the nobility of the English language Allowing me to meet people from different cultures Despite the daily challenges the Distance from my family and my [...]

07
Jul

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

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

Motive • Cecília Meireles

"I know that I sing. And the song is everything. The eternal blood in the rhythmic wings. And I know that one day I shall be silent: — nothing more." [...]

29
May

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

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

In Conversation • Marc Zegans

Marc Zegans is a poet and creative development advisor from California. He is the author of six collections of poems, two spoken word albums and theatrical productions. [...]

16
Sep

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

chronicle | short-story

The child and the eternal traveller • Geizi Carla dos Santos

"On the carpet in the small room, leaning over a white sheet of paper, she held a handful of coloured pencils. There was a question that needed to be solved as [...]

24
Aug

First time in a place I’ve already lived in • Bruna Gosta

"A vegetable called maxixe with Nina, a woman from the Caatinga that would tell us wise stories in the meantime. She said the cascavel snake is the most amicable animal on [...]

16
Aug

Terra Brasilis • Bárbara Dominguez

"Our Terra Brasilis. It’s made of our stories, of a sky filled with storms and countless suns. Brightened up by our families, friends, and varied villains. With seas and many hills, [...]

10
Aug

“When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart” • Paola Benevides

"On a day like today (January 13, 1941), James Joyce died at the age of 58 in Switzerland. This author, who also lived much of his experience on Earth as an [...]

25
Jul

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

So This Is Christmas • Luciana Damasceno

The list of Christmas songs on YouTube begins with Brazilian singer Simone crooning ‘Então é Natal’, a version of John Lennon’s ‘So This is Christmas’. It brings out both laughter and [...]

25
Dec

in conversation

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 and [...]

In Conversation • Fernanda Faez

The Festival Celta Brasil made history worldwide when it promoted the first traditional Irish music and dance competition in South America and when it hosted the first South American Irish Dance Competition. [...]

In Conversation • Mario Bakuna

Mario Bakuna is a London-based Brazilian composer, arranger, singer and guitar player, with twenty years of professional experience. A graduate of the Free University of Music in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he studied [...]

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 of [...]

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 Celtic tones found in The Nash Brothers music stem from Ireland [...]