Crann na beatha Stories and Poetry

Cead Fáilte A thousand welcomes to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for May 17th As a village scéalaí, I have returned again with another selection of short fictional stories and a poem for everyone. The first is chapter sixteen of the ongoing story From Beyond the Water Wall, the second part of that wolf puppy and his savior story I read last week, an LGBTQ science fiction story and a poe...

Cead Fáilte romhat! A thousand welcomes to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for May 10th, 2024 Your village Seanchaí is back again with more stories and poems for everyone. I have four stories and two poems this week. The first is chapter fifteen of the ongoing story From Beyond the Water Wall, a story about American civil war veterans that will shake you up at the end, a wonderful story a...

Cead Fáilte A thousand welcomes to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for May 3rd, 2024 I am back again with more stories and a poem for everyone. We have chapter fourteen from Beyond the Water Wall, another short, real short continuation of The Elementals, a adaption of two children’s stories mixed together that the authors actually read themselves and a nature themed poem, to which the aut...

Cead Fáilte A thousand welcomes to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for April 26th, 2024 I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your Irish scéalaí with more stories and poems from Medium writers. I have three stories and two poems this week. The first is chapter thirteen of the ongoing story From Beyond the Water Wall, then, another short, real short, continuation of The Elementals and a mythical stor...

Cead Fáilte A thousand welcomes to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for April 19th, 2024 I am back again with more stories and poetry for everyone this week. My debut on the world’s stage will get even bigger next Monday night as this podcast will start being broadcast on WAA Radio (see the advert above for date and time). I have four stories and four poems this week. The first is chapter...

Cead Fáilte A thousand welcomes to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for April 12th I have two stories and three poems for everyone this week. The first is chapter eleven of the ongoing story From Beyond the Water Wall, then, a somewhat lengthy story of a dystopian future western United States, a poem about the ocean in the Pacific northwest, a short poem about spring sunsets and another wo...

Cead Fáilte A thousand welcomes to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for April 5th, 2024 I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your Irish scéalaí with more stories and poems again. I only have two stories and a poem this week. The first is chapter ten of the ongoing story From Beyond the Water Wall by Don Woodby, then, a rather lengthy third chapter about our intrepid magician, Adelaide from Rachel An...

Cead Fáilte romhat! is é do bheatha A thousand welcomes to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for March 29th, 2024 I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your Irish scéalaí with more stories and poems from Medium writers. Again this week, I have five short stories and a poem. The first is chapter nine of the ongoing story From Beyond the Water Wall, then, a David Pahor story of escape, a children’s ghos...

Cead Fáilte romhat! is é do bheatha A thousand welcomes to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for March 22nd, 2024 I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your Irish scéalaí with more stories and poems from Medium writers. This week, I have five short stories and a poem. The first is chapter eight of the ongoing story From Beyond the Water Wall, chapter seventeen, the last chapter of the Sanctuary story,...

Cead Fáilte romhat! is é do bheatha Welcome once again to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for March 15th, 2024 I will keep this newsletter blog post short as I am currently on holiday and writing this from a break room at a, supposed to be, upscale KOA camp ground. We are taking our holiday on the South Carolina coast and I am writing this from Myrtle Beach, SC now. The issue I have is th...

Cead Fáilte romhat! is é do bheatha Welcome once again to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for March 8th, 2024 I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your Irish scéalaí and I am back again to read you more stories and poems from Medium writers. This week, I have four stories, and two poems for everyone. The first is the sixth chapter of the ongoing story From Beyond the Water Wall, A fictional bull fi...

Cead Fáilte romhat! is é do bheatha Welcome once again to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for March 1st, 2024 I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your Irish scéalaí and I am back again to read you more stories and poems from Medium writers. This week, I have three stories, and two poems for everyone. The first is the fifth chapter of the ongoing story From Beyond the Water Wall, A cute alien story...

Cead Fáilte romhat! is é do bheatha Welcome once again Merry meet. I have five readings for you this week. Four stories and two poems from the same Medium writer on the same page. One of the stories is the fourth chapter of From beyond the Water Wall. The thirteenth chapter of Sanctuary, the second story about Adelaide the young magician and a short, funny drabble story. The poems are a translatio...

Welcome once again. I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your Irish scéalaí. I am glad you have decided to take a little time out in your busy day to listen to some more stories and poems from Medium.com writers. This week, I have several great readings for you. Three poems, a sonnet, a couple of real short stories, the third chapter from the science fiction serial story we started from Don Woodby, and Robe...

Cead Fáilte romhat! is é do bheatha Welcome to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for Feb. 9th, 2024 I am Terrance Ó Domhnaill, your Irish scéalaí. Welcome once again. Take a little time out in your busy day to listen to some more stories and poems from Medium.com writers. I have a one of my own seasonal poems and three story chapters for you this week. The second chapter from the science fi...

Fáilte romhat! is é do bheatha Welcome to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for Feb. 2nd, 2024 Welcome once again. Take a little time out in your busy day to listen to some more stories and poems. Maybe grab a cuppa of something warm as I try to charm you with this week’s selections. In this, the second day of Imbolc, when we start the annual celebration of Brigid, the ancient Gaelic Goddes...

Fáilte romhat! Welcome to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for Jan. 26th, 2024 I have four short stories and three poems for you today. We have the third and last part of The Heart and Harvest, some beautiful poetry, one of which is read to us by the author, and Robert G. Longpré’s ninth chapter from Sanctuary. The show went overlong due to Jonathon Sawyer ’s last chapter for The Heart and...

Fáilte romhat! is é do bheatha Welcome to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for Jan. 19th, 2024 Your Irish scéalaí is back again with more stories and a poem. Come in, sit down for a wee bit to listen to some more wonderful stories and a beautiful poem. After some major IT technical issues yesterday into today over a new beta version of my audio editing software, I finally managed to save t...

Fáilte romhat! is é do bheatha Welcome to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for Jan. 12th, 2024 I will keep this short this week as I have a houseful of children and grandchldren to take care of. Come in, sit down by the fire and get warm for a wee bit while I read a some stories and poems for you. I have three short stories and a poem for you this week. The poem is about children and how t...

Cead Míle Fáilte Welcome to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for Jan. 5th, 2024 Your Irish scéalaí is back to your digital village again this week. Come in, sit down for a wee bit so I can read a couple of stories and poems for you once again. I have five poems and two short stories for you this week. The poems and one story are about nature are and I have Robert G. Longpré’s sixth chapter...

Fáilte romhat! is é do crann na bheatha (Welcome to The Tree of Life) Welcome to Crann na beatha Short Stories and Poetry for Dec, 29th, 2023 Your Irish scéalaí is back again with more stories and poems for everyone. Come in, grab a chair and sit you down for a wee bit while I read the picks I have for you. I have five short stories and a poem for you this week. All are science fiction and fantasy...

Fáilte romhat! Welcome to Crann na Beatha Short Stories and Poetry for Dec, 22nd, 2023 Come sit with me in a warm chair with a cup of something warm, a handful of Christmas cookies or a candy cane or two while I read you some more fictional stories and poems this week. I have nine short stories and poems for you this week. Some are Christmasy, some not so much, Robert G. Longpré’s fourth chapter f...

Failte romhat! is é do bheatha Welcome to Crann na Beatha Short Stories and Poetry for Dec, 15th, 2023 Your favorite Gaelic scéalaí is back again. Come sit with me in a warm chair with a cup of something warm, maybe with a Christmas cookie to hand while I read you some more fictional stories and a poem this week. I have four short stories and a poem for you this week. A Christmas story but not you...

Fáílte Welcome to Crann na Beatha Short Stories and Poetry for Dec, 8th, 2023 As your favorite scéalaí, I invite you to come sit with me next to a warm fire with a cup of something while I read you some more fictional stories and poetry again this week. Once again, I have seven short stories and poems for you this week. A couple of fantasy and science fiction stories, a couple of poems and Robert...

Fáilte romhat! is é do bheatha Welcome to Crann na Beatha Short Stories and Poetry for Dec, 1st, 2023 Come in and sit down by the fire. Make yourself at home. Have a cup of something warm while I weave you some stories and poetry from Medium this evening. I have seven short stories and poems for you this week. A couple of fantasy and science fiction stories, a couple of poems and Robert G. Longpré...