Irish Folklore inspires an Irish-Australian artist

Irish Folklore inspires an Irish-Australian artist

Hawthorns are also associated with fertility, their musk-scented flowers blooming as harbingers of Spring. Their fruit ripens in time for Halloween, symbolizing death and rebirth. They stand as protectors, symbols of birth, death, and renewal, embodying a liminal space where exchanges occur between the human and spirit worlds. Continue reading →

Stardust

Stardust

My aunty and uncle said we were too young to go to the Stardust yet, but promised that when I came up next time we could go, we would be both sixteen then. Continue reading →

Cluas Mhara Sea Ears

Cluas Mhara Sea Ears

by Méabh O’Leary Irish-born Méabh O’Leary was prompted to write this poem about an abalone shell she found along the seashore on the Mornington Peninsula. ‘It reminds  me of my childhood  in Ireland, collecting shells from the strands and placing  them to my ear to hear the sea within.  Now as an adult in Australia, … Continue reading →

The Migrant Crisis

The Migrant Crisis

There have never been more people on the move than in our time. A few years ago the United Nations estimated the number of refugees at an astonishing 70 million. Yet close to 85% of these migrants end up not in Europe or North America but in developing Third-World countries. Continue reading →