Extracurricular Work — An Doras

An Doras

This Irish-language journal, published by the Chicago-based organization Na Gaeil, started as a double-sided 11" x 17" broadsheet in May 1996. It was originally funded by a $2000 mini-grant from the Illinois Humanities Council (IHC), for which I drafted the program proposal.

After the first issue, the format was increased to a 16" x 22" sheet. Each issue included original cover art and functioned as a self-mailer (folding down to 5.5" x 11"). Production of the print edition ended in Fall 1999.

Click here to go to online version of An Doras.

Illustrated Poem, "Tír Bhláthanna na Gréine"
(The Land of Sunflowers)

I'm not a trained illustrator, but I have always enjoyed drawing and sketching. This work was originally published in the debut issue of  An Doras.

Tá an dán seo scríofa as Gaeilge. Más maith leat an téacs a léamh, nó leagan níos mó a fheiceáil, téigh anseo. (This poem is written in Irish. If you would like to read the text, or see an enlarged version, click here.)

I see a fairy road when I close my eyes / where my car falls into a magic slumber, near a field of sundrenched grass / I sit and wait... / hoping for a little silver boat that would break the bright yellow horizon / listening for a heedless gust of wind that would bear me west over the farmers' houses / amidst the lazy ditchweed... / a complete drunken changeling... / ...in Kansas.

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