Don’t Seek Favours from the Good Folk
Some folk are brave and more are not To ask the good folk for what they seek Those spirit folk we called …
Some folk are brave and more are not To ask the good folk for what they seek Those spirit folk we called …
While out for a walk I thought Id catch the Moth & Butterfly event in Katies Cottage in Claddagh… a newly built …
Written on hearing a talk about doing the Camino, when heading out the walker told us his favourite part was looking at …
When Oliver Cromwell took over Ireland, his infamous decree of “to hell or to Connaught” was enacted. Popularly thought to be all …
Words to be posted.
When they stood there, for that photo Before my father was even born then Who is now but in a picture a …
Its spoke no more on boggy field By peasants who live under roofs of thatch Who smoke piped tobacco and drink buttermilk …
The Bastille stormed, and those who died On the streets for the cause of freedom… Was it worth it when it was …
As we reflect on the last century, we look with apprehension to the future as Donald Trump shows a lot of the …
As the Orange Day celebrations passed off without much incident in the North of Ireland, an unprecedented event happened “in Connaught” as …
The victory of the Jobstown protesters against the false imprisonment of Joan Burton gives hope that there still is justice for the …
They look down on those below: Who look up at them Who live in their high towers… Blight to the eye Seen …
The black swan still swims on the Claddagh, showing example to our people as times of heightened tensions have seen attacks on …
Not since Spike Milligans nonsense verse, or James Joyce idiosyncratic language in Finnegans wake, has one persons twist on the English language …
Background – Sean Mac Eoin told of a Tracey family related to him that had two brothers in the fight at Granard, …
The war hawks screamed “Where are your words Now that ours have fallen?” But silence spoke loudest A simple prayer Of grief …
And all at once I saw a crowd / A host of dark yellow wilted daffodils… With apologies to #wordsworth #loughatalia seen …
Enda Kenny is set to retire as I speak as Fine Gael leader, and as prime minister when a replacement is found, …
A work in progress reflecting on the death of the Sun King, its relationship to the modern Sangreal legends, and the connections …
One of the quirks behind Gheluvelt was not alone was our Donegal freind of Longford extraction in the field, but it was …