Keep the Beat of Galway Playing
#street #music from @gstreetclub again today… #thisisgalway #wildatlanticway #culture A post shared by Thomas Carty (@tomjcarty) on Apr 21, 2017 at 3:15pm …
#street #music from @gstreetclub again today… #thisisgalway #wildatlanticway #culture A post shared by Thomas Carty (@tomjcarty) on Apr 21, 2017 at 3:15pm …
While out walking near Salthill a few days back, a man cutting roses from a bush outside a derelict house talked to …
World War One was a savage conflict, and long before the invention and application of Blitzkrieg the Germans were “masters of shell …
Willie Carty worked for the Dopping Hepenstal family, and heard stories of their relative who was in the British Army in Waziristan …
Words of form fashioned in beauty Often placed in ordered lines and ranks By those whose order of their desiring Is founded …
Cairns of stone, for our dead Hilltops adorned Prayed to and turned to Communicate with the spirits Crosses of stone and iron, …
Walking the bog in Longford brought this reflection on life to mind – a rare nonrhyming poem from me! Walking the long …
Willie Rimes gave up the drink Not forever as one would think But before in disbelief you blink It was only for …
She a son bore to the world A prophet it would reject Persecute and crucify And show to him no respect… After …
It being Easter Sunday, At the dawn, will the sun dance? Should the clouds chance to be clear This year to see …
A reflection on Good Friday, contrition, the death of Christ, the arrogance and sins of the church, the current hope of lasting …
Dedicated to the Dardis family on the passing of their father Tony, and to all families on that final journey with a …
This was not part of the script The actor ended the play Told the audience its over He is the actor and …
You could break down in a worse place Even if you were not like His Grace There is in it no disgrace …
This verse is dedicated to Ray, a.k.a. Bildoar over at the Jesters Castel at Disqus , who recently passed away. He was …
Needless to say I think the Irish army should have gone across the border in 1969, and was angered at Keelin Shanleys …
The bitter bickering old couple often seen as much as the loving couples… yet they too were lovers once… an old verse …
When the dusk falls on a winters evening Pealing is heard the Angelous bell The old man blesses himself who is leaning …
That Ireland that he dreamed of For which so many died Was to be the nightmare we now think of From which …
They are dancing tonight, the fine women Loud is the music, beyond thinking They are out upon the mountain Vodka, by the …