Fr Jacques Hamel – Martyr – RIP
He knelt in his parish church this morning The world knew not his name But God knew him – as strangers On …
Pretty Smiles and Pigtails – The Mary Boyle Mystery
Watching Gemma O’Doherty’s documentary on the missing child Mary Boyle nearly forty years ago is chilling, with interference at a political level …
Her Voice Silenced, Her Song in Chorus Louder We Will Sing – Jo Cox tribute
“These children have been exposed to things no child should ever witness and I know I personally would risk life and limb …
Rainbow Gone Red
In memory of and in solidarity with the victims of the PULSE nightclub shooting in Orlando. While its probably a lone wolf …
Fight Over, Match Won
People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my …
Some House Party In Heaven
They are having some house party in Heaven All of the greats they were playing The Devil enjoyed the music drifting through …
Far from for Kiltartans Poor He Died
William Butler Yeats poems in memory of Major William Robert Gregory celebrate him as an Irish airman, not giving the fact that …
Birds Sing
The birds sing among the boughs The wind blows soft upon the face Life is hard on the best of days Hard …
Memories of Your Mother
For Liam O’ Roirdan of the Blackwater Poetry Group on the passing of his mother. The group does a day of verse …
Phonecalls Never Made
I meant to ring but never did He normally did but never did The unspoken though that silent hid Told the truth, …
Carol for Christmas for Our Times
It was the greatest love for earth that God has ever shown It was the greatest love unknowing that mankind has ever …
Every Book Has Its Last Page
Dedicated to the memory of the late writer, artist and musician Ingrid Andrew… Every book has its last page When turned, signifies …
Veil Through Which We All Pass
Recently a friend of mine passed, Victor Mather, who I knew from a world beyond politics, in which he was very active …
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 …
Breaching the Veil
Death creeps like a shadow and darkens our lives… In time the truth we see The shadow is cast by the unseen …
Obituary – Ivor Hogg
The passing has happened lately of writer Ivor Hogg. Under the name of “Poeticpiers”, he wrote on WritersCafe.org and also on Arcanum …
Another Enemy Less For Enda – Trevor Murtagh Tribute, R.I.P.
Enda’s taking them down, one by one, on behalf of the EU and the Banks His cronies get commissioners jobs: Merkels way …
“What We Leave Behind” — R.I.P. Sarah Lundberg of Seven Towers
Just heard of the passing of the Dublin writer and publisher Sarah Lundberg. She ran the Seven Towers publishing house and ran …
No Room at the Inn
She died alone, like a cow in a field, the papers wrote Nothing new there, comment passed as true as it was …
A Persistent Commoner – The Late Tony Benn
“I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner” “I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing” – Tony …