Writings in Rhyme

Poems of and from North Longford

Ballinalee

Poems from North Longford, telling the storys and legends of the Carty and Donoghue families, as well as stories from the village of Ballinalee and the people in it.

Ghost Stories

The Hungry Grass

Old Clonbroney

Sitting There Saying Nothing

Rattling Buckets Cant Be Seen

Dead Now and their Beliefs With Them

Dead Souls And Black Dogs

The Carty & Donoghue Families

When They Stood There For That Photo

May We Never Have A Love For or Want of Turnips

This Land a Piece of Our Souls Holds

War of Independence

Elegy for One of the Enemy

No More The Hammer Strikes The Anvil

General Poems

Let Death For You Have No Fear

I Have Not Seen What My Father Saw

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North Longford Poems

Poems about people and places, events, stories, legends and lies originating in Ballinalee and surrounding areas of North Longford, from where my family hail.