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FJR /فجر is a new project about the criminalisation of refugees, the resistance to border policies and why this is something that matters to us all. If you can support - every bit helps!
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FROM CORK WITH LOVE created w/ migrant community in Ireland - LISTEN 27th July EIST RADIO
2025 is the fifth year of the series and to celebrate we opened to submissions [worldwide] for an open call episode - see below for this special episode.
Poetry of Migration, Activism & Refugee Solidarity
Featuring readings & interviews from Ireland with Lavie Olupona, Amano Miura, Fionnuala O'Connell, Helen Hutchinson, Dean Oke and Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan.
Palestinian American poet Noor Hindi reads from her recent collection, 'Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow' (Haymarket Press) and we talk about going beyond bearing witness, radical empathy and how to tell stories in a time which almost feels beyond words.
+ special episode created by the young people at Sauti Youth
+ live events in Cork and Dublin in Summer 2025
with video art by Silvio Severino
+ Open Call episode with emerging poets
Wander is created in solidarity with people seeking refuge and Traveller/Roma poets and gives space to poets with lived experience of migration.
Cover painting by Shukran Shirzad. Theme music by Josie Flood. With thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland for funding.
Wander - refugee poetry podcast from Ireland - season 4 starts with remembering the Palestinian poets who've been killed by Israel in the past months. And an interview with Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul. The multilingual episode includes Makhoul's poems in Arabic, English and Irish, with interpreter and translator Raphael Cohen, and poet Eibhlis Carcione.
Other episodes feature: South African poet Neo Gilson, Syrian-Irish writer Suad Aldarra, Ukrainian poet and performer Olha Matso (and hears their poetry) and community arts activist Joanna Dukkipatti of GoodDay Cork.
And Wander was Runner Up in the International Women's Podcast Awards 2023!
From Dzaleka refugee camp, Malawi, writers and activists with the African Youth Artistic Poetry group share their creative work; poets from Iraq, Somali and Iran from The Boat Collective community centre in Athens, Greece; and young people at the Cork Migrant Centre, facilitated by Raphael Olympio.
Also for the first time, a special live event at The Laneway Gallery, Cork in July 2024 with spoken word performances and specially commissioned digital art videos by Silvio Severino.
Stay tuned, stay protesting, stay demanding - in solidarity with people seeking refuge, and everyone fighting for change .
Cover painting by Shukran Shirzad. Theme music by Josie Flood. With thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland for funding.
This season commissioned new pieces by Sandrine Ndahiro, Raphael Olympio, Nandi Jola and Samuel Yakura.
Also features: FeliSpeaks, Majed Mujed, Nalougo and Sheila, two writers from the Write To Life (Freedom From Torture) group, and members of the Cork Migrant Centre group who work with Raphael Olympio.
Nominated for Best New Irish Podcast 2022!
Cover painting by Shukran Shirzad. Theme music by Josie Flood. With thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland.
Cover illustration by Haya Halaw.
Created with the support of the Pulitzer Center. An openDemocracy podcast presented by Mahmoud Hassino with interviews by Bairbre Flood, looks at refugee-led projects including: a Syrian activist group in Athens, a photography project in Jordan, an LGBTQ+ refugee network in Türkiye and the first Spanish magazine set up by refugees. With a title inspired by James Baldwin, ‘I Am Not Your Refugee’ offers resistance and support in the face of closed camps and isolation, Frontex and loneliness, violent pushbacks and marginalisation.
Read more in The Irish Examiner, GCN, Baynana and The New Internationalist.
مرحبًا بكم في سلسلة البودكاست الجديدة التي تم إنتاجها بالتعاون مع ناشطين وناشطات وفنانين وفنانات من مجتمع اللاجئين/ات الذين/اللواتي يعملن على تحدي الصور النمطية حول الهجرة. تذاع هذه السلسلة بشكل مشترك من قبل جريدة آريش إكسامينر وأوبن ديموكراسي.
به مجموعهٔ پادکستهای جدید ما خوش آمدید. این مجموعه پادکستها توسط برخی از سازمانهای پناهندگان، فعالان اجتماعی و هنرمندان پخش میگردد که برای چالشهای متعدد پیرامون مهاجرت ساخته شده است. این مستندهای رادیویی از سوی مجله دموکراسی باز و مجله آیرش ایگزماینر به گونه مشترک تولید شده است.
With poets from Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yemen and Ukraine. A Rohingya poet, a Yazidi writer, and the first episode’s guest, a Syrian British poet of Kurdish origin.
Amir Darwish, Dawood Saleh, Aryan Ashory, Mayyu Ali, Njamba Koffi, Shehab and Iya Kiva share their poetry, and why it’s important that everyone narrates their own stories, especially those with refugee experience. They talk about the writing process, their experiences and activism, and WORDS WORDS WORDS
Poets living in refugee camps in Greece, Malawi, Western Sahara and Jordan bring us their work, and explore the links between creativity and politics.
Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Cover art painting by Shukran Shirzad.
Watch Here a specially commissioned cut-out animation video by Silvio Severino for ‘Occupied By The Devil’ by Palestinian poet Hend Jouda – one of the selected poems from the WANDER 2025 open call. Sound production and English narration by Bairbre Flood. With thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland for their funding support. See more: Hend Jouda
Radio documentary produced by Caroline Mudingo Dipanda and Bairbre Flood in collaboration with members of the migrant community in Cork. After audio training workshops during the summer 2025, we...
Καλωσόρισμα, Marhaben, salam, bienvennu, bemvindo, to the Gekko podcast. Created in collaboration with Hend, Hannah, Pedro, Alhamma, Nara, Maria and Amir during a series of podcasting workshops at...
Tumaini (‘hope’ in Swahili) Festival is a unique refugee-led celebration of music, culture and solidarity in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi. Founded by Tresor Mpauni, who lived in the camp after being...
An exploration of Jewish Irish history and culture – from Deli 613, to the Irish Jewish Museum: historians, musicians and Jewish groups and individuals share different aspects of modern Jewish...
\ \ ATHENS / / Created by participants during podcast workshops at the One Happy Family community centre, Athens – this piece on the theme of compassion. In English and Farsi.
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2022 saw the start of a groundbreaking regularisation scheme for thousands of people who’ve been living and working in Ireland for many years without papers. It came after ten years of campaigning by...
Silence Would Be Treason are the last writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa from prison in Nigeria to an Irish nun in the run up to his execution in November 1995. Smuggled out of prison in bread baskets, they...
What motivates us to help others, and why should we help others? What does the latest psychological research show us about our brains on altruism? And are there ways we can be more effective...
The beauty, power and wonder of the sea as told by ex-fishermen, marine ecologists and environmental activists. In ‘Blue Carbon: A Sea Story’ Bairbre Flood takes to the sea with Colin Barnes, Cork...
In Ireland we’re more familiar with thinking of ourselves as the victims of history – which we were – than as active participants in colonialism. But it’s an uncomfortable fact that the Irish were...
The only Irish person recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jewish children during the Holocaust. A fascinating character for many reasons, her work during the Spanish Civil War and...
‘Against The Wire’ from Moria refugee camp, meets Mustapha, an interpreter with Medical Volunteers International; Jameela, a mother trying to bring up her children in the camp; Adrianna, a medic with...
New Irish poets and editors from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, India and South Africa give us an in-depth look at diversity in Irish writing and publishing. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, Christie Kandiwa, Chandrika...
From Tamra to Tel Aviv, Nazareth to Jerusalem, listen to members of Mahapach-Taghir (change in Hebrew-Arabic) and Sadaka-Reut (friendship in Arabic-Hebrew), and to women from all communities, to see...
Producer Bairbre Flood talks to students and teachers and examines what the education system can learn from the success of this iconic Cork school.
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Members of Atheist Ireland (Dublin & Cork), parents who are bringing up their children outside religion; and an ex-Muslim, ex-Hindu, and ex-Catholic speak frankly about their experiences. We talk to...
‘features some profound conversations about life in and life after Ireland’s asylum system, and touches music, belonging, identity, racism, activism.’ – Right To Remain Three women describe their...
‘The experiences and ideas of people forced to flee from their homes are often left out of the global conversation on migration but documentaries like The Hungry Road provide us opportunities to...