Remembering a Country Girl
Verses pondering the life of May Ann Duignan (Degnan), aka Mrs May Churchill Sharpe, aka Chicago May, as I walked past her …
Child Miner Extracts Precious Metals for My New Mobile Phone
/// For International Children’s Day /// They work on the ore Barely more than four They believe not in Santa Claus Should …
Confusing World For Kids
Reflection in UN Day of Children. One of my few non rhyming ones, as the subject is beyond rhyme. In a world …
Gerry Adams steps down, what now for Sinn Fein and Irish Unity?
34 years after he deposed Ruadhri O Bradaigh (Rory Brady) accusing Brady of a “sop to unionism” when Brady sat down to …
Lusmagh and Ireland Remember Those Who Died for Ireland
Manchester Martyrs Commemoration 26th November 2017, Birr, Co Offaly 150th anniversary That Lusmagh man, brave as they come As are the stock …
From Galway to the End of the Earth and Beyond
In 1477, Galway had a visitor, lauded a navigational hero to some, a tyrant to more due to his treatment of the …
Columbus in Galway
Long before the ocean blue he sailed In a journey history often has told Galways streets were walked by a Gonoan man …
Shannon, Silver Goddess, Flow To Sea
Shannon, silver goddess, flow to sea And life bring you with thee To the oceans loud and proud swell Thy waters come, …
On Deaths Embrace, I Shall Sleep
On deaths embrace, I shall sleep With all my worries o’re And those who liked or not, in memory me they keep …
The Church Of The Quill
Im not a great one for churches, unless visiting ruined ones! But I worship God in my own way… another of the …
Adams Hindsight on the Garden of Eden
They walked serene without any clothes Free and easy, them both She bid, he bit, and it got stuck A bit of …
The Apple Of Eden
Fruit of a tree that begot sin And led poor Adam astray, When misled by a lusty Eve In Edens garden one …
Saint Donatus of Fiesole
At Inishcaltra he learned to write At his mothers knee to pray In Italy he learned to fight In Ireland he was …
The Night Nelson Learned to Fly
Liam Sutcliffe blew up Nelsons Pillar. This poem tells the story. He passed away today. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam …
Ireland – Is It But a Notion?
As the Catalan Independence movement is crushed for now by Spain, we remember the Irish declaration of 1919… the events of the …