Fate Finds Frank
Young Frank his mind had set To seek a living on the wild wild sea, His mother was set against it Saying, …
Communion Shared Between Banagher and Polish Ukraine
Background – my mother worked with a Polish man Mikail Jaszczyn from the Polish part of Ukraine, from which they fled during …
The Custume of Ukraine
In memory of Vitaly Volodymyrovych – the Sgt Custume of out times. The Irishman who gave his life in Williamite War in …
Every So Often a Book I See
Every so often a book I see That once I had upon my shelf Opposite the fireplace that would never draw Smoking …
Alternative Genesis and What Happened in Eden with the Apple
Once upon a time in the Garden of Eden God gave Adam and Eve a PC But banned them from the Apple …
The Carnmoney Vicar and the Devil
The vicar of Carnmoney was a greedy sort for money So the histories of the time of him tell The Devil spotted …
Red Wolf Returns from the Mountains
When the wolf gets red, he becomes an ugly customer. ليوه چه سور کيږي ګنده کيږي Bannuchis say this of Wazirs, but …
Out for a Walk at Ballybrit
An old couple of a dateless age,Over sixty, under ninety, somewhere between:Out for their daily walk with their two little dogs,Theirs strolls …
Afghanistan Burning
Afghanistan burning, though most is not,Having surrendered without a shot,Their President is their “Sheamus a Chac”Who fled and flew without looking back,The …
I Surrounded Them Myself
One of the most bizarre – if true – stories from the American War of Independence tells of a Sergent McCarthy on …
Warning to Revolutionaries
Those who see the left as being anti family and of an agenda beyond workers rights see only those who took over …
The Plague Paths are Fading Now
The plague paths are fading now That were worn by feet Of folk who sought to avoid The people that they would …
One Crown Murder Among Many
Remember them and don’t forget, Who in Ninety Eight there died, Murdered by troops of the British Crown, On orders, for which …
Drumshambo: July 12th
The dead from the Great Hunger, with no names, lie and are remembered. The Orangemen, for all their pomp, their names are …
Ruins of Ballymacool
Those ruins stand, charred by fire Not set by a rebels hand Though many of it’s type out to the flame By …
Remembering Ballinamuck and the Rebels Who Died
Remembering the Irish who died at the Battle of Ballinamuck
There They Lie Where They Died
At Drumkeeran there is a mass grave of troops who died on the march with Humbert in 1798. To see how the Irish treat our own, taking homes for banks profits instead of landlords, we often ask, was all the fighting worth it at all?
Wexford Bridge
Verona Murphys comments about terrorists on Wexford Bridge got her shot off the FG ticket. Her faux patriotism was blind to the …
Poor Scholar of Today
What to me is Gael and Gall?– “Poor Scholar of the Forties”, Padraic Columb Little Greek or Latin is taught nowScholars of …
Year of Graves and Waves
2018 was the year for graves and waves – we lost two members of the Tullamore Rhymers, and my little boat brought me from Killaloe to Lanesbo