Fighters Not For An Empire Growing
Groups of folk, guarded by laws Written to benefit them by their own kind Pillage and plunder, and tear asunder History and …
Let Blaze the Flames of Uisneach
Flames bright burned seven years On the top of Uisneach Hill Bealtaine declared for the world The call it echo’s here still …
Wren Sleeps Soundly This Christmas
Wren no longer hunted, nor Church attended Clergy speak to deaf ears, eyes have seen What all thought could never be, sinners …
Aideens Grave
Raised by hands, set there in perfection The dead honoured, stones perfect placed Ash and bones, placed in affection Of the dead, …
Let Them Lie
Disturb not the bones of the dead! They sleep now, here, for all time to lie… It’s all they ask of those …
Verse to a Praying Druid
Druids prayer – to a god you know And have prayed to through the years That you say has never let you …
The Excommunication of St. Columba
A sinner as is every man Columba for his family had great pride Swift of tongue and hot of temper He challenged …
Ommmmmm!!!
Chanting Ommmmmm! in the Four Knocks in Naul, I though to myself as a Catholic was I breaking the first commandment, false …
Maedb Desires A Bull
All I have, has my husband, and a lot has he As have I, but yet my husband has more than me …
Sleeping They Lie
Sleeping They lie silent And the modern world Ignorant of them Plots and plans To tear through their restplace As a walkway …
They Slept in Peace
War and slaughter disturbed them not For over thousands of years As nation after nation invaded With guns, and swords and spears …
Aftermath of Tara
Chaos all around, word wrecked When you do ill to the dead It comes back on you So it is said Some …
Fence at the Mound of the Hostages
Steel erected to protect Is what they claim Offends all sensitivities Let us explain What others call piseogs We call respect For …
The Death of Knowledge
The scholars cast the four wild winds Only Death the last thing sure And now the Knowledge dwells within And at the …
Did a Spirit Knock On Rossbawn’s Walls?
The story is told that an agent was slain By a tenant called Delaney who on the run did die In caves …
Arans Crossed Pillars – The Standing Stones of the Aran Islands
While holidaying on Inis Mór on the Aran islands off of the west coast of Galway last summer, I passed by the …
The Leprechaun Meets a Developer at the M3
Sitting under the tree, he was fixing shoes I could not believe what I did see, as I was drinking booze But …