Forgotten Famine in a Free State
1916 – A Broken Dream by 1926 The forgotten famine, the Spailpin Fanach decimated, never in the history books, the forgotten declaration …
Guerenica
They fled in terror as from the sky… Rained death, and wondered why And how the world to this had come As …
The Weaver Poets of Ulster
Tribute to the Ulster Weavers…
A Future Vision When No Future We See
The Old Folks parties will be great craic when we are of age!!! Geriatric ravers… what can possibly go wrong? A youth, …
Where Man Is No Master
Where man has not touched, is in its own way today a corner of Eden…
Putting the Cat Out of the Kitchen
We got the cat – Saddam – out of the kitchen, but we wrecked it in the process. Was it worth the …
Creation Follows Destruction Follows Creation
The never ending cycle… Of the madness of man…
Was Your Dad a Metre Man?
Did he install the meters Or did he stand in the way Of the men who installed the metres But were sent …
Comrades Stood as Comrades Should
Comrades stood as comrades should For each other, for cause to fight Man to man, as heros can To fall is noble …
May Day Mayhem, Maypoles and Marches
Arvas streets saw chaos, fights and blood Men of anger settling fueds, scores and slights Moscows streets saw tanks and missiles Televisions …
Shaggers Guide to Scotland – at the Cúirt lecture meeting Irvine Welsh
Meeting Irvine Welsh at the book signing after his lecture at the Cuirt Festival here in Galway was quite an experience. I …
Reboot Banagher Horse Fair…
We will see you, as a sure thing, in September On the Main Street among the proud horses there We’ll walk among …
Coffin Ships of the Modern Age
Its just news, another raft or ship Upended, people struggling drowning Bodies, lined up on the shore Other unknown, uncared, unaccounted for. …
Struggle with the Self
Def: “nafs” the ego; Arabic History repeats itself again: In another land, blood is spilled In the name of purity By soldiers …
Two Magpies – Lough Atalia
Before me from the railtrack a magpie few Alone over the lake to trees Another for sorrow, of the piseog I thought: …
Summits Reached Before Depths
I climbed Cairn Hills summit step by step On a day when all was well The depths to which I was about …
Laziness Is a Virtue
Based on a quote of Lech Walelsa
Clonmacnoise: The Ancient City
Reflection on visiting the monastic site at Clonmacnois…
I Hope When Old to Waste My Time
From a GB Shaw quote, who was no fan off chess, unlike me, who is!
Merlin Woods – Spring Morning
The castle watches over landscape changed By mans creation, not the acts of war like before As in former times, this land …