CURRENT ISSUE:  OCTOBER 2023

Blowin’ In: Stillness

Blowin’ In: Stillnessby Susan Mangan Yesterday, at dusk, the air hovering above Crooked Lake turned to thick white soup. Ironic considering, I was inside my father’s small kitchen cooking a […]

Terry from Derry: Uncivil Wars

Terry From Derry: Uncivil Wars By Terry Boyle Growing up in the 70s amid the Troubles, I was constantly bombarded with the lyrics of every Republican song known in the […]

Late Autumn Blessings: Blowin’ In

    Blowin’ in: Late Autumn Blessings By Susan Mangan     If you stand near the uneven shores of the lake long enough and are still, so still that […]

Cleveland Comhrá: The Wreck of the Endurance

Cleveland Comhrá: Endurance By Bob Carney “Fortitudine Vincimus” By Endurance We Conquer Earlier this year, March 5, 2022, a team of researchers discovered the wreck of The Endurance, 9,842 feet […]

Speak Irish: Tree Dogs

Speak Irish: Tree Dogs By Bob Carney “This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn’t invented just to infuriate people forced to […]

Terry From Derry: The Lies We Tell Ourselves

Terry from Derry: The Lies We Tell Ourselves By Terry Boyle Recently, I’ve been talking to some people about the genius of the Irish playwright, John Millington Synge.  Writing at […]