Category Archives: Connections Brazil & Ireland • First Edition

Many delights and discoveries are brought about by the great act of sailing seas. We present some of them in this issue, through poetic and transatlantic journeys that bind the Irish and Brazilian cultures.

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 [...]

24
Aug
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 [...]

19
Aug
Pygmalion’s Image • Eiléian Ní Chuilleanáin

"Not only her stone face, laid back staring in the ferns, But everything the scoop of [...]

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 [...]

18
Aug
Stateless • Sara Ribeiro

"Stateless: “something or someone who, having lost their nationality of origin, has not acquired another; [...]

18
Aug
The Legend of Hy Brasil • Geraldo Cantarino

"Once upon a time there was an island. Fabulous, fantastic, fascinating. A body of imaginary [...]

18
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 [...]

16
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 [...]

12
Aug
Terra Brasilis • Bárbara Dominguez

"Our Terra Brasilis. It’s made of our stories, of a sky filled with storms and [...]

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 [...]

25
Jul
I woke up illegal today • Adriana Ribeiro

"I woke up illegal today. It was as if the sun, when it knocks at [...]

20
Jul
Immersion in English Language • Carine Queiroz

"The beauty of different habits and customs Make my soul rich Seeing the nobility of the English [...]

07
Jul