1 A length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.
1.1 (the Channel) The English Channel.
1.2 A navigable passage in a stretch of water otherwise unsafe for vessels.
1.3 A hollow bed for a natural or artificial waterway.
2 A band of frequencies used in radio and television transmission, especially as used by a particular station.
2.1 A service or station using a channel of frequencies.
3 A method or system for communication or distribution.
4 An electric circuit which acts as a path for a signal.
4.1 Electronics: The semiconductor region in a field-effect transistor that forms the main current path between the source and the drain.
5 Biology: A tubular passage or duct for liquid. Definitions of “channel” from oxforddictionaries.com
Channel is a literary magazine born out of the climate crisis, publishing poetry and prose with an environmentalist perspective.
Issue 9 is now available through our online store and through stockists around Ireland.
We believe that humanity’s disengagement from the natural world is one of the great losses of our time, and in the onslaught of climate change we see that disengagement reaching its inevitable conclusion. If Ireland’s history of myths and stories woven from the landscape shows anything, though, it’s that the literary arts have a part to play in rebuilding our relationship with nature.
Our goal at Channel is to provide a space for literary work that fosters re-connection with the natural world. We publish work from Ireland and abroad that displays and celebrates the relationships between plant and animal life, landscape and humanity.
We want words that act as a path, a safe passage wide enough for ideas to flow through. We want words that join human beings and our habitats together.
About the editors
Managing Editor:
Cassia Gaden Gilmartin is a writer and editor interested in exploring personal and collective relationships with place through publishing. She is a 2019 graduate of the MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College, Dublin. Her short fiction has been published by Catatonic Daughters, Banshee, Transnational Queer Underground and Eunoia Review. She works as Production Manager at New Island Books and programmes events and supports for Ireland’s publishing community as a Director of Publishing Ireland, with a particular focus on bringing the strategies and work processes of corporate publishers into conversation with those of small, artist-led projects.
Eagarthóir Gaeilge (Irish Language Editor):
Is file agus aistritheoir Gaeilge Simon Ó Faoláin. Bíonn tionchar láidir ag cúrsaí dúlra agus a chúlra sa tseandálaíocht ar a shaothar. Tá ceithre chnuasach filíochta foilsithe aige go dtí seo, ina measc a chéad cheann Anam Mhadra, a bhuaigh Duais Glen Dimplex agus Duais Strong araon nuair a foilsíodh é in 2008, agus a chnuasach is déanaí Iasachtaigh (2022). Tá trí leabhar aistriúcháin foilsithe aige leis, an ceann is déanaí Meidéa le Eoiripidéas, leagan Gaeilge den tragóid chlúiteach Ghréigeach. Tá go leor coimisiún agus sparánacht bronnta air ag leithéidí Roinn Ghnóthaí Eachtracha na hÉireann, Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann agus An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Tá sé ina eagarthóir Gaeilge ar an iris liteartha Gaeilge Aneas agus Eagarthóir Gaeilge do Channel.
Simon Ó Faoláin is a poet and literary translator in Irish. His work is heavily influenced by ecology and his background in archaeology. He has published four collections of poetry to date, including his debut Anam Mhadra, which won both the Glen Dimplex Prize and the Strong Prize on publication in 2008, and his latest collection Iasachtaigh, released in 2022. He has also published three books of literary translation, the most recent Meidéa le Eoiripidéas, a version of the classic Greek tragedy. He has received commissions and bursaries from various bodies including the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Arts Council. He is editor of the Irish-language literary journal Aneas and Irish Language Editor of Channel.
2025 Publishing Intern:
Lauren Boland is a journalist at The Journal with a particular focus on climate reporting. She is the author of The Journal’s monthly climate newsletter Temperature Check. She was selected as a Journalist-in-Residence at University College Dublin’s Earth Institute in 2024 on the inaugural year of the residency programme. Lauren recently completed a master’s degree in climate change at Dublin City University and contributes regularly to radio and television programmes to discuss climate and other current affairs. She was awarded a Merit Certificate for Environmental Law/Climate Justice Reporting at the Law Society of Ireland’s Justice Media Awards in 2024. During her undergraduate studies in English and sociology, she was the chair of the Trinity Publications committee, the editor of Trinity News and the deputy editor of TN2 magazine, among other roles.