Outcasts In from the Cold?
Its heartening to hear suddenly everybody wanting to look after our own Coming out of the closet of carers now the migrant …
Shoulder High Let Them Carry Him – Jim Larkin Tribute
What would Jim Larkin make of the corruption in the Labour Party today? Or the roll over and take a piece actions …
Flight of Mad Sweeney
He flies over where the Devil could not walk Singing his mournful song of despair The places he has been and all …
Dark Brown Turf
In solidarity with the turf cutters. The latest of the poems restored to the website, this one was written a few years …
As If Minstrels Dressed, They Wear Sacred Feathers
Once upon a time in Ireland Not all that long ago When I was a young boy, a younger man People dressed …
Fair Girls at the Horse Fair
They walk the streets, young, wild at heart Among horses the men admire Free of sprit and fast with word To the …
Ill Go Where Im Sent
Invitation received: all were excited Again their friends where they are twinned they would meet Its not a junket: this, this is …
Wake at Ballinalee
My mother told of attending a wake when a child in her native village Ballinalee, where the pipes that were smoked cermonially …
Toasting Two Kings
I was at the Aughrim Horse Fair last Sunday, and while viewing all of the horses – and the women! – there, …
We Are Spectators on Another Greek Tragedy
As Alexis Tsipras capitulates to the EU/IMF,we remember one of austerities victims… The death of Dimitirs Christaupolos shows the callous effect that …
Kenavo
One New Years Eve, a strange noise was heard in the small Kerry village of Portmagee… a strange procession of sailors from …
Torn Down, Rebuilt, As All Must Be
Longford’s St. Mel’s Cathedral burned down one Christmas morning. The rebuild, the challenge to attempt it, has many correlations to real life, …
That Beats Banagher
They want the horse fair banished from the streets to a field Where they believe all horses should be Their spirit contained, …
What Truth Lies Behind Irelands Tales?
The telling of each story on the listener casts a spell, They silent open mouthed listen to the tales the old folks …
The Cold Time, Between New Years
” Between the New Years, of the Druid, and of Rome, Evergreen garlands decorate the homes still, The spirit of the faith …
How the Clan Eoghanacht Got Their Name
From the sea they came open, not sneaking by stealth And they came for to parley, fosterage for wealth As silver was …
Cavaliers To Ride Again At Banagher Fair
They will tumble down as Dick did before them To one side will be their self important laws will be thrown We …
Honest Hands Build True
Honest hands build walls true: Work plain for all to see – Stands the test of time, Passed by walkers like me …
Magpies
In times of trial once upon a time When lost for direction myself did find While walking away the woes of life …
Seek the Distant Isle
Of which was spoken the sailed to seek Many ships, families and fighting men, As generations had sailed before, They take to …