Airmid's Journal is a biannual journal of Irish foraging, folklore, myth, magic, and remedies. 

Weaving together a multiplicity of expressions, we aim to promote radical ways of relating with the land that is rooted in relationship with our ecological and social ecosystems.

We strive to:

-Highlight folkways/lifeways/culture as living breathing fluid, not archaic and fixed

-Reject and challenge cultural hegemony/dominant cultural norms - classism, racism, ableism, white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia etc. and to highlight points of resistance.

-Explore what shape a decolonial future might take and approach these questions with curiosity, relationality and creativity.

-Amplify and seek out points of inter- and intra- community connection 

-Support and encourage artists, writers, musicians etc with paid work

-Foster solidarity and grow webs of kinship with grassroots community based projects through the redistribution of a portion of funds raised.

-Promote personal stories and research-driven essays

-Cultivate interrelated ways of knowing across species and biomes

-Find joy in resistance and understand this to be a core ingredient in collective liberation from capitalist oppression.

Creators:

Lucy O’Hagan (They/She) is an ancestral skills teacher, wildlife tracker, ethnobotanist and rites of passage guide. Lucy is passionate about rekindling the skills and knowledge we once knew so intimately which connect us to place, each other and to ourselves. Lucy brewed up the dream of Airmid’s Journal in 2018 with the wish to celebrate the diverse and joyous ways of being in relationship with the land, with the plants as connective tissue. Lucy is happiest wandering through the woods, following deer trails and nibbling on whatever medicine nature offers. 

Denise Conroy is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Tipperary, Ireland. With work rooted in and deeply entwined with folklore, mythology, history, and ecology, they seek to explore - through image and word and sound - themes of place, community, interdependence, liminality, rupture, loss, and ultimately - love. 

 

You can discover more about Denise’s work through Votive Illustration.

Airmid’s Journal

We sell wholesale to stockists around the world - just get in touch!
We post all over the world.

Current stockists include:

The Peculiar Parish (USA)

The Fumbally (Dublin, Ireland)

The Library Project, Dublin