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Olavo de Carvalho, controversial Brazilian writer and philosopher

"Philosophy is the search for wisdom, poetry is wisdom in search of men." — Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian writer, teacher, and philosopher. Writers such as Goethe, Dostoievski, and Shakespeare influenced Olavo [...]

20
Feb

Silence · Lia Santos

"Words rest in silence. I only write when I bleed. Maybe my happiness does not fit the verses. Isn't that unnatural? [...]" [...]

05
Feb

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

Portrait • Cecília Meireles

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

26
Nov

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

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

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

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

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 · Edu Prado

Edu Prado is a Dublin based Musician, Music Producer and Composer, originally from Curitiba - Paraná, Brazil. He is living in Dublin since 2017, he has been working with music for TV [...]

03
Jan

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 [...]

26
Jun

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. [...]

20
Jun

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 [...]

20
May

In Conversation • Mariana Bolfarine

30
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 Celtic tones found in The Nash Brothers music stem from Ireland [...]

03
Feb

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

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 plays a range of exotic flutes. [...]

20
Aug

In Conversation • Pablo Santos

Pablo Santos is DJ, Music Producer from Brazil based in Dublin. He studied guitar at the Clube do Choro, in Brasília - Brazil. Some of his inspirations are the Bossa Nova, Elis [...]

12
Aug

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

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 [...]

20
May

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

Independence, Coffee and Diaspora

The origin of the "batuque" in São Paulo comes from African peoples, specifically the Bantu, and it passes for historical aspects [...]

10
Nov

“Flor de Primavera” • New single release by song-writer Elly

Elly is a gaucho musician based in Dublin, Ireland for 5 years, where he has already released the EP “One the [...]

28
Aug

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 • Pablo Santos

Pablo Santos is DJ, Music Producer from Brazil based in Dublin. He studied guitar at the Clube do Choro, in Brasília [...]

12
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

In Conversation • Marcio Tarktarov

Marcio was born in Jaboatão dos Guararapes, in Pernambuco, Brazil. He was born a percussionist, he was always banging on things. [...]

29
May

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

history | culture

Overseas land

In Caminha's letter, one of the indigenous looked at the captain's golden necklace and pointed out to the soil as [...]

22
Dec

Independence, Coffee and Diaspora

The origin of the "batuque" in São Paulo comes from African peoples, specifically the Bantu, and it passes for historical [...]

10
Nov

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

Portraits of Brazilians in Dublin

“To presume the colors of Brazil is a sin to the eyes of a thousand gods.” [...]

18
Dec

Portuguese Language Olympics in São Paulo

"An event that unite people, where each one knows a little about the other's culture." [...]

22
Nov

AMBI, keeping Brazilian culture alive in Ireland

AMBI aims to provide coexistence among Brazilian families living in Ireland and to keep alive the culture and language of [...]

05
Nov

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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