Edited by Lucy O’Hagan
Art and layout by Denise Conroy

A Biannual Journal of Irish Foraging, Folklore, Myth, Magic, and Remedies

Airmid’s Journal is a beautiful ongoing zine series of practical magic, history, and lore. Rooted in its native Ireland, the knowledge found in these pages will instruct and inspire healers, scholars, and seekers the world over.

“You’re not learning a word; you’re learning a world.” —Dr. Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams

The Spring 2025 issue of Airmid’s Journal calls for the reclamation and celebration of the teanga—the language or tongue—of its native Ireland and other places where ancestral languages are fading. As much as any vital environmental or ceremonial traditions, language provides people an irreplaceable way of relating to one another and the land.

Crafted by a keen host of contributing writers, the magazine is illustrated by Denise Conroy (Votive Illustration) and friends. Following an opening editorial, its featured art and articles include…

• Beann Mhadagáin, poetry by Aoife de Bhál

• Tá Mé Gul Awailí, by Ronan O Raghallaigh: “Me teanga feels awkward. When I’m in Dublin dey call me a bogger. When I’m down the country dey call me a Dub…”

• Lost, poetry by Ola Majekodunmi

• An Dream Dearg: Irish Language Rights Campaign Network

• Gaeilge Bhriste, Béarla Cliste: An Entwined History of Irish Language and English Rule, by Denise Conroy

• Teanga na Plandaí, by Leasha Hogan: “Plants have their own teanga … deeply impacted by centuries of colonial violence that disrupt how we connect with the world around us.”

• Glow, poetry by Ola Majekodunmi

• Ar Lorg na Teanga: Tracking for Language, by Lucy ní hAobhagáin and Denise Conroy

• Amhráin agus Foinn: Songs and Tunes, by Cré

• I Long to Kiss Your Scarred Lips with a Decolonised Tongue, by Johan Sandberg McGuinne: “To begin to speak your ancestors’ mother tongue after intergenerational colonial policies woven into the very fabric of the nation-state you live in have stolen it from you is, in and of itself, an act of defiance.”

• Cailb, portrait by Denise Conroy

• Cúr Rua, poetry by Gráinne Holland

• 舌 (Tongue – Shita), poetry by Amano Miura

• Ag Déanamh Cnuasaigh Sleabhac, by Lucy ní hAobhagáin: “Of all the wild food harvests that I’ve come to know in Ireland, this is one that has stood the test of time and supermarket convenience.”

• An Rún, Gailtín Tí Móir, poetry and song by Catriona Ní Ghribín

This print version of Airmid’s Journal includes a QR code connecting readers to an audio version of the zine.

The Peculiar Parish Bookshop is proud to offer this important work to our readers.

Published by Airmid’s Journal (Spring 2025). New and in perfect condition, with a trim size of A5 (8.125” x 5.75”). The publishers donate 10% of all profits to support Gairdín an Phobail, a grassroots collective based in Béal Feirste.

40-page pamphlet plus covers, with black-and-white illustrations throughout.