The South Shore Irish Heritage Trail is holding an INTERNATIONAL photo contest. Scituate is full of wonderful artists and photographers. Please send your photos to www.ssirishtrail.org. The entry fee is only $25 and cash and feature in an exhibit will be awarded. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 12/15/24

ABOUT THE THEME

The exhibition title, Trasna, is the Irish word for “across” and is often used in reference to crossing the Atlantic. Ireland’s poorest sons and daughters, of course, did once find themselves huddled on sailing ships and steamers bound for America in an earlier century, fleeing one homeland in the hope of finding another across that threatening and foreboding sea.

Today, we know that the Irish have crossed other—and even greater—divides. Through the years, we have found the way across from conflict to peace; across from peril to calm; across from contempt to welcome; across from stranger to friend. Trasna.

Surely, The South Shore Irish Heritage Trail celebrates the contributions made by Irish-Americans in nearly all aspects of our culture—literary, musical, economic, educational and political— and that history enlivens and enriches the Trail. But while it is the history which speaks to us, it is the scenic grandeur which inspires us. Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coastal Route and Boston’s South Shore beckon us across the sea again to once more discover and to thrill at the whisper of an ocean breeze, the color of a coastal sky and the rhythm of a crashing wave.

And so we invite your artistry and your imagination and your creativity to find in the faces and the landscapes which surround us what it is that will cause our eyes to delight, our hearts to stir and our kinship to flourish.