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 …
Had She Never Written a Poem
Oh that as they lay there On the floor of the family home Taken by gas like to many of their folk …
Away in a Doorway
Just this week, homeless activists tied 56 black baloons outside Dail Eireann to highlight those who died while homeless in 2020 alone. …
John Darrell Boyd – Elegy on an Deceased Airman
One of the few of your clan, you died… Who fought in so many wars over the years – Your young bride, …
There Wont Be A Word About Us
Mam and Dad had a wistful saying: “Forty years from now, there wont be a word about us…” rueing the passing of life and death… We always think it wont be so, but maybe it is truer than we care to admit and is true of us all…
For Her a Cottage in Heaven
Helen lived in England, her fathers family were from Longford. They were trying to find a nice cottage to come home to. She loved chatting about cottages and unraveling family trees. She never got the cottage of her dreams before she died.
Connections
For the late John Ratcliffe, to help give peace and comfort to David Ratcliffe, freinds and family. A rambling verse written …
Funeral for a Thief
Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships… Chicago May and her wild red hair sent many men to their deaths, or to kill…
One Dublin Mother Acknowledged
Working class communities are ravaged by those who seek to profit through temptation. When those fall foul of temptation, the families behind …
Tom Moran – Lusmagh Horsetrader Remembered
From youth, from Lusmagh with his stock Among the traders there From far and near, home and abroad All met at Banagher …
Lady Christmas on the Moor
You have heard of Father Christmas, even Mrs Christmas his alleged wife… but you will not have heard of Lady Christmas… for …
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 …
Flickering Candles Foretell Death
A tradition of foretelling a death from North Longford… From the Irish Folklore Commission In days gone by a tradition old Of …
Unborn Child Drawn by Da Vinci
We are never as pure as when before we are born, when we truly are faultless, but again, he who walks through …
Those Folk in their High Towers
They look down on those below: Who look up at them Who live in their high towers… Blight to the eye Seen …
Fifteen Minutes of Sunshine
Dedicated to the Dardis family on the passing of their father Tony, and to all families on that final journey with a …
The Actor Quits The Stage
This was not part of the script The actor ended the play Told the audience its over He is the actor and …
Edgeworthstown exhibition aids Pieta House – Fighting against suicide and depression and for urban horses and horse fairs
The fight against depression and suicide has many armies, one of the most prominent of late being PIETA House, and at a …
Some Man
“Your some man” ~ Joe “Your some man!”, that was his phrase A catch all that could mean anything: Be it that …
The Last Handshake
Closed as begun in brotherly love In harmony home our ways we make Little think regarless of each others age This just …