Covid-19 can’t stop us creating and connecting! The vision “She writes well” welcomes women worldwide to collaborate and produce an archive of stories. If you write to keep yourself well, or to remember, or to let your imagination run riot, then this project may interest you. My name is Kathryn Crowley and you can read … More Open call
It is almost one year since I wrote Spring Listening. I am working on new writing this month, however it feels apt to share the poem right now. Away from the traffic’s endless rumble I walk up a country road flanked on each side by breathing ditches sticky bud trees quiet teachers of time. Invisible … More Poetry
‘Magical Moments‘ features sixteen writers, aged 20-something to 70-something. I began work on this project in the cold and dark of November and the box of books arrived on a sunny Spring day, which was lovely. It all started with an open call for art and poetry inspired by music and sound. Writers were asked … More Magical Moments
About 5 years ago (it feels like a decade) I was asked to paint something in a dressing room with a mirror. This was the result. I love this Irish phrase ‘Is maith an scathán suil chara‘, which translates as ‘A friend’s eye is a good mirror‘. Not meeting up with good friends in person … More Text and images
Libraries have been closed for the last few months, and all my academic research is online for now. While taking breaks from the screen, I began writing Limericks in my own style. Whenever the mind fills with dust My two feet declare “wanderlust!” Among the trees thriving I feel my soul smiling In nature the … More The nature of my Limericks
Good news from Dublin. After four years, the Period Poverty in Ireland report is finally ready. Image from the Crimson Waves project: https://artyshe.com/social-arts/ The report states: Hopefully all the recommendations in the report will lead to action, and Ireland will become a country where free sanitary products are provided to all women. First, new legislation … More A period of change
Lá Féile Bríd (pronounced ‘Law fay-leh Breed’) is Irish for Bríd’s feast day. Whatever your spiritual beliefs, if you grew up in Ireland then chances are she will be woven into your consciousness through stories, celebration and culture. Imbolc and Lá Féile Bríd fall on February 1st, and this year it was auspicious for me … More Invoking Bríd
“Wired to the moon” might describe feeling a bit hyper. “Grounded” is the opposite. So why does it matter? This plant was a gift from Jackie, one of my yoga students. A few years ago it was tiny, now it is ready to be transplanted again. It is growing well because it has strong roots … More Are you grounded?
In 1960s England some people had an attitude of “No dogs, no blacks, no Irish”. Can you imagine being a migrant, perceived as the ‘other’, the job-stealer, the threat? For some asylum seekers in Ireland today, that kind of xenophobia is a reality. Direct provision became official state policy in March 2000. By February 2019 … More Dance, solidarity and happiness
