Fidel Castro Meets a Country Girl
The dust was only settling The blood bare dry on the Cuban streets America gauging the new regime Brought him over their …
Out Dogs and More Along With You
In our home in Aughagreagh we used to have our share of the local sessions, where neighbours met up to party, tonight …
As They Lay Him Down
As they lay him down… Madiba… Let them not forget, Forgiveness, what he though them, For hatred, now subdued, can yet, Tear …
Old Clonbroney
This is a ghost story told to me by my mother, from her grandparents, either Kiernans Mill or Treacys. The roadway mentioned …
The Wrecking of Ballinamuck
In the years before the Famine, Greedy Lord Lorton, God damn the nyeuck* For the love of money and hatred of man …
No More the Hammer Strikes the Anvil
No more the hammer strikes the anvil As the blacksmith discussed the news With the clients from the country As he hammered …
The Long Acre
A trains stopped, a dead cow on the trackway And children crying herding more And I woken from my reverie I enjoyed …