Bitter Sugar
The island of St. Croix has a Granard, Annally, Longford, Corn Hill, Cartys, Cartys Point, and Madame Cartys placenames. All very quant …
Arvagh
Provinces three by waters banks By war and history defined Men with quill drawing maps Each side to each outlined. Breiffne split …
Shoulder High Let Them Carry Him – Jim Larkin Tribute
What would Jim Larkin make of the corruption in the Labour Party today? Or the roll over and take a piece actions …
Puff of Smoke and All Is Well
Everyone knows smoking is bad, and causes cancer. However, the blanket blame for all lung cancers on it ignores other possible reasons, …
Blaggards and Blackguards, Slavery, Civil Rights, the Irish and the Longford Connection
When I was a child, I collected stamps. Sad, I know, but I loved it. One of the counties I got stamps …
#freethenipple
#freethenipple hashtag is getting a lot of coverage across Europe at the moment, and is a movement to support. At its root …
Double Dutch and Gaelic at Tin Jug Reading in Birr and Portrait of the Poet as a Not Young Man
It is not often you get to listen to verse in both Dutch and Gaelic, and the Fannings poetry night in The …
Flight of Mad Sweeney
He flies over where the Devil could not walk Singing his mournful song of despair The places he has been and all …
Mankind and His Pets Are the Same
The cat wanders where it will The time and its prey to fill When of it and you its had it fill …
Portrait of the Poet as a Not So Young Man
In slow distaste I fold my towel with what grace I can, Not young, and not renewable, but man ~ Thomas Kinsella …
No Money in Saving Lives
The world in places a desert Where water does not flow, Water flows down so deep Where no mere well drilling rig …
1916 – A Futile Effort Betrayed
Was it for this that Theobald Wolf Tone Across his own throat drew the blade, His high ideals for which were fought …
Dark Brown Turf
In solidarity with the turf cutters. The latest of the poems restored to the website, this one was written a few years …
As If Minstrels Dressed, They Wear Sacred Feathers
Once upon a time in Ireland Not all that long ago When I was a young boy, a younger man People dressed …
Vibe of the Tribe: Castlepalooza and Scene of the Rhyme 2015
The Scene of the Rhyme featuring Tullamore Rhymers Club featured both in Joe Lees as its own monthly night, and as the …
Snakes Defense to the Charges About the Garden of Eden
My dad used to wind up preachers from the Jehovahs Witnesses by denying the Eden story, and using the last line of …