Miracle at Saint St Augustine’s Holy Well
All hope gone bar blind faith The child to the well he was brought In desperation and pure belief was bathed A …
Keeping Time Throughout The Ages
The Prague Clock… words to be posted! Finally got this old one of mine back online!
Some House Party In Heaven
They are having some house party in Heaven All of the greats they were playing The Devil enjoyed the music drifting through …
The Great Mcgonagall
William “Topaz” Mc Gonnagle was poet from Dundee, who discovered he could make a rhyme at the grand old age of 52 …
Fidel Castro Meets a Country Girl
The dust was only settling The blood bare dry on the Cuban streets America gauging the new regime Brought him over their …
When The Bullets They Were Flying
When the bullets they were flying When the hunger strikers were dying Every one of them were trying To break down the …
Catch of the Merrow
The Merrow (Moruadh or Murrúghach, from muir, sea, and oigh, a maid) was a sea spirit thought to lure people to their …
What Did the Neighbours in Nazareth Say?
When the body in the tomb was laid News of the crucifixion to Nazareth reached What did the neighbours in Nazareth say …
King Arthur on the High Seas
Among the sickness and slaughter as they sailed the wild water There was fun and frivolous games played by the sailors of …
Far from for Kiltartans Poor He Died
William Butler Yeats poems in memory of Major William Robert Gregory celebrate him as an Irish airman, not giving the fact that …
Men at the Door
The men came to the door, Some in uniform More not. The children crying, the mother too What could anybody do? The …
Celtic Tiger was Not By Poets Built
You cant build a house with words, you know – Chris McCormack Houses are not by words built They are by developers …
Abortions for Kittens
Verse needs rounding off better as I was unaware of “speying while pregnant”, which literally is abortions for kittens… I appended a …
Naked Protest at Derrycassin
April 20th 1847 Men, children and women with clothes cast away Came to Derrycassin door To protest and plunder for want of …
Lesson in History for Bob Geldof
I have a lot of time for Bob Geldolf, but his recent comments comparing the 1916 leaders to jihadis was insulting to …
Willie Rimes and the Crock of Gold
The morning after St Patricks Day the bould Willie awoke, “Jesus Mary and Joseph” where the first words he spoke, All thoughts …