Warning to Politicians
Where fear drove comfort out; straw on the floor Was price of conquering security. “A Warning to Conquerors” – Donagh MacDonagh We …
Christmas Card to the Homeless
Every homeless person is something to somebody. This was the Jonathan Corrie story >>> More than a face, you have a name, …
Jumping the Broom
Men of cloth forbidden to love Have of love between others much to say Only a girl and a boy, they think, …
Walking Tara
Where druids walked, I walked it too The footsteps of history Walked by soldiers, rebels, peasants and kings Walked by my poet …
Christ Was Crucified In Dublin
As if once more nailed to a cross In Dublin, Christ was crucified Where on a street beside the Dáil The least …
Piecing together the JIGSAW for Mental Health in Offaly
Death walks among us. In every town and village in Ireland, in all communities, even the Irish Traveller community in which it …
Diur
The oak, strong and mighty, as is the warrior, In the face of the storm found, Fighting adversity, the winds, giving shelter …
Loose Lips
Oh those fools of no schools, all swords and big mouths Who stand as not planned and boast and drunkenly shout It …
Let the People Speak – Irish Water Potential Referendum
Why not also a vote on the property tax issue? I proposed same on Boards.ie some years back to a muted response …
All That Jazz
A video posted by Thomas Carty (@tomjcarty) on Feb 23, 2015 at 5:30pm PST Notes drift to the Dublin night air Soul …
Marching for Water in Tullamore
Rain falls from where some denied it falls Washed the streets over which protesters calls Echos to where the water falls from: …
There Is a Cottage in the Country
Sometimes, Irish Americans whose ancestors left the country generations before can be too nostalgic…
Lake In All Its Splendor Spoiled
A lake in all its splendor spoiled By a group of babbling chavs It was the opinion on being observed As “have …
Behind Hedges, Forbidden Activity
Once upon a time, and the back of a hedge… Or in a country cottage in Ballinalee Or a tap on the …
2015 Siobhan English Horse Fair Calender, Tara Calling book, and Blackwater Poetry tribute anthology – some projects Hot Off of the Presses
From a calender of horses, to an anthology on the passing of a writer, and a book to save Tara, the writings …
All Fair at the Ballinasloe Fair
There was auld wans and young wans and all sorts of wild ones Piebalds and ponys, and big horses, small ones hands …
More Than Just Another Memory
To ride a horse is to ride the sky, Someone once said somewhere… Well I was not with horses raised, But I …
Marching Past Trinity College
Written after the “Right to Work” march on June 1, 2010 —oOo— We marched there, chanting slogans Past the gates of Trinity …
I Said I’d Make a Voodoo Doll
This is an old verse I found on my computer, from when the economy first crashed in 2008 and the extent of …
I Heard Not
Knowth Passage tomb is a site of history, not alone of prehistoric times, but of the Normans who held a fort here …