The Music Lives On
The music lives on that Aisling played She lives on in the hearts she touched, the friends she made The children she …
Folk of the Land of the Whin
From where to the world’s four corners spread All desire to, but few manage to return To children tales told, songs sung …
The Workings of Smear Mill
The mills of old dot the North Longford countryside, and some of them are being restored. The most recent being the Smear …
Busker of Longford Town
There he sits as folk pass by His music fills the air around Some walk past fast lost in their own world …
Padraic Colum : Longford Writer and Riot Inciter
Padraic Colum was one of Longfords most famous modern literary figures. The son of a workhouse master, he grew up in the …
Longford during the “Emergency”
Im of Longford extraction and am a Longford man to be when my cottage in Ballinamuck is restored and I move up …
Immagine & Poesia – Volume 1 – Featuring Tomás Ó Cárthaigh launched online
Immagine & Poesia, the Italian – Welsh writers collective, has just published an online collection of poetry, the concept and edited by …
World Poets Quarterly – Vol 71 – Haiku
Today arrived in the post a copy of the World Poets Quarterly, Issue 71, published last August in China, containing a number …
Lettera D’amore
Cara mia, ti voglio bene… “My darling, I love you The words to her I wanted to say But I never did, …
There Came A Man Who Spoke From A Book
There came a man who spoke from a book And spoke of better ways Of Heaven and Hell and Judgement Faced by …
A Kind of Madness
A kind of madness has swept our world: Replaced our love with fear A suspicion of another Based on their voice, or …
Born of Loneliness Are the Arts
I read a quotation that said “creativity is born of loneliness”, and while in times of dark moods indeed creativity can be …