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- Santa’s Sleigh Got Taken Down By A Windmill
- Lovers of Valdaro
- Bad Santa
- Tenalach
- I Believe
- Fair Girls at the Horse Fair
- Letter to an Unknown Soldier
- The Donkey and the Thistle
- Culture from a Cigarette Packet
- Saint Fechin was no Feckin Saint
- Saint Theodore of Vrsac
- One Trick Pony
- I Said I’d Make a Voodoo Doll
- King Arthur on the High Seas
- Death of a Fisherman – Mohsin Fikri R.I.P.
- Butterfly – She Flitted And Settled On Another Plant
- The Poor Dead Girl
- Santa XXX
- This Too Shall Pass – #zenquote #zen
- Streets of Shame in 2014 – But Banagher Horse Fair Prevails
- Jumping the Broom
- Salmon of Knowledge
- Babylon’s Tower Fell Down
- Long May Horses Shit the Streets
- Celts Fear Not the Worlds End
- Cupid the Hitman
- There Are Many Roads to Dublin
- A Future Vision When No Future We See
- Rose Among the Weeds
- Poem To A Cow and the Poets Who Wrote About Her
- Jesus in the Synagogue
- Love Letter from a Dandelion to the Butterfly
- Green Lights of Hope in Windows Burn
- Snakes Defense to the Charges About the Garden of Eden
- Heaven Taught Ploughman
- Three Roses In Her Hand
- Our Lady of Clonfert, Bless Both Boston and the World
- Elegy for a Poet I Once Knew
- Unborn Child Drawn by Da Vinci
- Blaggards and Blackguards, Slavery, Civil Rights, the Irish and the Longford Connection
- She Loves Me Not, The Dandelion Said
- A Connemara Girl
- Chicago May – the Mary Ann Duignan Story…
- That Beats Banagher
- Stalking the White Deer
- Fidel Castro Meets a Country Girl
- Walking Deadmans Beach
- We All Walk the Same Road
- Ambush At Dooney Rock
- Another Enemy Less For Enda – Trevor Murtagh Tribute, R.I.P.
- The Death of Betsy Gray
- Give to Me an Angry Sea
- Good Food, Good Meat
- “What We Leave Behind” — R.I.P. Sarah Lundberg of Seven Towers
- Fiddling at Longford
- Enda and Angela and the Apple of Eden
- Lovers of Bazdara
- Fairy Fort at Lough Gowna
- Miracle at Saint St Augustine’s Holy Well
- No More She Roars, But Her People Do, In Pain
- Arrived in the post – 2015 Horse Fairs of Ireland Calender
- Little Green Men
- Dont Curse The Rain
- 2015 Siobhan English Horse Fair Calender, Tara Calling book, and Blackwater Poetry tribute anthology – some projects Hot Off of the Presses
- An Cailín Bocht Marbh
- An Irishman’s Apology (for Our Part In The International Slave Trade)
- Lady of Lough Gowna
- Gambling Is A Losing Game
- Sky is our Ceiling, the Land our Garden
- 66 Days – A Poor Tribute to Bobby Sands
- As If Minstrels Dressed, They Wear Sacred Feathers
- Three Magpies a Wedding Watched
- Video Poetry
- Christmas Card to the Homeless
- Just Doing Our Job
- History of Poetry in Fermoy – Gene Barry and the Fermoy International Poetry Festival
- For Hand In Marraige A Castle Given – The Clononey Castle Story and Anne Boleyn
- The Enchanted Library
- He Lost Her That He Desired
- Elegy – Sweet Afton
- Ogham Kenning
- Offaly’s Answer to Imelda May and Ciaran Lavery in a Ballinagar House Concert
- All Sorts of Accents at Accents Café
- Aughnacliffe Dolmen for the Lovers for One Night is Their Bed
- Covered Nipples Reveal Truth
- Glam Dicenn on Daesh
- Death Comes Calling
- Willie Rimes Wrecks Christmas
- Lianhan Shee
- Take Not Gods Name in Vain
- On Boycotting the Sean Mac Eoin Statue Unveiling
- Fermoy International Poetry Festival 2014 – Gene Barry Defends Festival and Reputation – Decent Poets vs Cute Hoors and the Poetry Cliques – Blog
- Among Friends to Lodge
- Red Path of the Stag
- Tom Moran – Lusmagh Horsetrader Remembered
- Lillith of the Darkness
- Seven Deadly Sins of Donald Trump
- This Is What Death Looks Like
- Don’t Forget the Magic
- Being Easter Sunday, Will the Sun Dance in the Morning?
- The Weaver Poets of Ulster
- The Wrecking of Ballinamuck
- Morning Caw of the Jackdaw
- Verse to a Praying Druid
- The Woodcutter
- Where the Sídhe Dance
- Once Upon A Time in Ballinasloe
- Tá Siad ag Damhsa Anocht
- Willie Rimes and the Crock of Gold
- Plotting a Duel in Merlin Woods
- No Crusaders They
- Quills at Dawn – Poets Piques and Politics
- Faction Fight of Banagher Town
- What Did the Neighbours in Nazareth Say?
- Arvagh
- This Far and No Farther
- Elegy for Fidel Castro
- Monks Who Have Never Loved Will Never Understand
- Raining Cats at Halloween
- Engaging with Art in Longford Providers
- The Last Handshake
- Tom Moran Remembered at 2017 Banagher Horse Fair
- Letter to Santa
- No Dancing Sun This Easter Morning
- The Bodhran and the Goat
- When The Bullets They Were Flying
- Saintjohnstown – So Beautiful A Name
- SLAM in Kilkenny – The All Ireland Poetry Slam in Irelands Quirkiest Pub
- Gurteen Lake and the Curse of the McCarthys
- People Power Wins at 2015 Banagher Horse Fair and I Manage Not to Get Arrested – Drowned Boy Forgotten in Turkey
- More Than Just Another Memory
- Christmas Under COVID Lockdown in Ireland
- Brendan Bowyer Rocks Tullamore with aid of Tullamore Rhymers
- The Circus Animals Liberation
- Listen Not to the Song of the Merrow
- To Carry a Hen When Walking
- Madiba – Farewell Mandela
- Shot Sentry Forgotten, Remembered
- Lady Godiva the Good
- The Pearly Gates
- White Sails on the Claddagh
- My Way Is In The Sand Flowing
- No Laughing Matter – Serious Topics Broached at Accents Café Comedy Night
- Walking by Swans at Lough Sallagh
- Pendulum Swings
- Ar Dheis Dé go Raibh a hanam
- In Paris Town
- Flanagan and the Lampost
- The Famine Cross
- From Galway to the End of the Earth and Beyond
- Vibe of the Tribe: Castlepalooza and Scene of the Rhyme 2015
- Burning Zeal Rekindles the Flame of Faith
- Abduction at Legan Bridge
- Simple Prayer for Complex Times
- Giltraps of Kinnitty and The Fureys in Tullamore – Filming A Weekend with the Tullamore Rhymers Club
- On Sighting Sandy Row
- Struggle with the Self
- Even Bold Children Have Their Uses
- Saved by the Buttonhole
- Breaking the Duck at the Roisin Dubh, some Salsa Dancing and Tai Chi in Galway – Getting through the Bucket List and Early Onset Mid Life Crisis!
- Willie Rimes Gets Married
- Toast to Parting Brethern
- Double Dutch and Gaelic at Tin Jug Reading in Birr and Portrait of the Poet as a Not Young Man
- Death of and at Garristown and its Horse Fair
- Christmas Eve at the Hospital
- Stopped Clocks and All That – The Kildare Street Standoff and Merrion Square Rollover – right2water Dec 10 protests
- Heart Turned To Gold or Stone
- The Lady of Culray
- Pen Mightier than the Sword – Towards a Poetry Revolution – World Poetry Movement
- A Horse Is a Horse
- Birds Sing
- Willie Rimes and the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade
- Its a Fence, Not A Wall
- Sitting There Saying Nothing
- Dark Brown Turf
- Flickering Candles Foretell Death
- Loose Lips
- No Room at the Inn
- Je Suis Ahmed, Charlie, Moi
- Passing Ballybrit Castle
- Forgotten Famine in a Free State
- Big Government makes Banagher a one horse town – Blog
- New Year, New Start, All Folks the Same
- One Faith Under Two Flags
- Padraic Colum : Longford Writer and Riot Inciter
- Farewell the Sun, We Meet on the Morning
- Every Book Has Its Last Page
- Samhain – Celtic New Year
- Double Date for Tullamore Rhymers Club – Mike Denver Support and “Scene of the Rhyme”
- Pretty Smiles and Pigtails – The Mary Boyle Mystery
- The Silent Diner
- Flight of Mad Sweeney
- “The Window Crisis” and “The Miracle of the Porch”
- Reflections on Freedom
- Smyth Sisters of Grousehall
- Longford Folk Speak of the Pashtun
- High Cost of Cheap Beef From Brazil
- Gaza – What Can We Do?
- Buy the Book! “The Day the Mirror Called” from Blackwater Poetry Group and Rebel Poetry
- Worshiping God Among Nature
- King Billy and The Pope
- Scene of the Rhyme Preserved after Tullamore Rhymers Bandits Hijack the Eco Bus Cafe at Valentia Island Festival
- Tae Lane EP Launch – Blog
- Drovers No More Walk These Roads
- 1916 – War and Revolution
- Tinsel, Spiders and Christmas Trees
- Piecing together the JIGSAW for Mental Health in Offaly
- Innocence Died a Thousandth Death
- Blog – Nashville Comes to Galway at Monroes Live
- The Saving of Mankind – Some Vulgar Verse
- Jack and Jill – A Horror Story
- Old Clonbroney
- War Over, Battle Just Begun
- Lovers of Loftus Hall
- Holy Waters of Saint Bridget at Ballycumber
- Walking Past Adamnans Church in Birr
- These Are Not Black Days
- Fixed Bayonets Against Our Own
- Guernica
- Rattling Buckets Cant Be Seen
- Reading the works of the Poets Higgins
- 2013 – What a year for Tullamore Rhymers Club
- Lovers of the Lakes of Tears
- The Headless Horseman Rides At Night
- Coffin Ships of the Modern Age
- Lest a Man Fall Foul of the Midnight Court
- The Pope Rides to Longford, Raving to Leftfield, Becoming a Blacksmith at Body and Soul
- My Ireland
- The Human Behind the Headlines – At the Cinema watching “Amy”
- Let Death Have For You No Fear
- They Took from Us
- 1916 – A Futile Effort Betrayed
- Smiles Can Hide a Million Tears
- From the Womb She Speaks
- Cutting the Yarrow
- Red Sky at Dawn in Ballybrit
- Covfefe – If You Don’t Understand You Don’t Matter
- King Congal’s Grief
- The Muses Café
- Dahlia, Berber Warrior Queen
- Being the Sacrificial Lamb at Amusings, Amazing night at Scene of the Rhyme, Getting our Breath back after Body and Soul
- And That Morning Too Came
- Gerry Adams steps down, what now for Sinn Fein and Irish Unity?
- Ruins of Ballymacool
- The Courtly Lovers
- The Old Bond Store Ghost
- The Bald Man in Bed, The Cat, The Dog and the Flea
- She Walks Not the Paths I Find Familiar
- Catch of the Merrow
- Long Walk in Edenmore Bog
- Amach a Tháinig Siad
- Alchemy in Reverse
- Tears For and Thoughts with Paris Tonight
- Willie Rimes and the Ghost of a Girl
- Gheluvelt
- The Shepherd, the Wolf, The Ewe, and the Lamb
- No Horse Sense in Galway
- Why Im voting YES for Gay Marriage – Thank God for the Gays for reminding us what Marriage and Life is About
- Obituary – Ivor Hogg
- Walk at Lough Annagh Remembered
- Naoise’s People
- Black Irish
- The Fourth Funnel
- Lady Fortune Smiles And Frowns on the Jessops of Moydow
- Cairn Hill – Stanzas from the Summit
- Whats the Story with the Ducks? Luan Parle and Clive Barnes play Hugh Lynch’s
- Bell Book and Candle Stocking chapbook – At the Fringe of Galway Fringe Festival – Drama at Galway Mechanics Institute
- When Man Plays God
- A Tale of Two Wolves
- Memories of Tullamore at Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club – Setting off for Valentia
- Arans Crossed Pillars – The Standing Stones of the Aran Islands
- Truth Kills Kings
- Six Minutes Until Death
- Out Dogs and More Along With You
- Babser
- Hunger for Justice
- Saint Donatus of Fiesole
- Turkeys Ghost Returns to Ruin Christmas Dinner
- Tyler from Beyond the Grave
- Statues Fall
- Sons of Cain Are Told by the Mark
- The Workings of Smear Mill
- Donkey Innovation
- War and Poppies
- Village of the Three Generals
- Wake at Birr
- Wake at Ballinalee
- Two Swans
- Two Magpies at Kilcormac
- Lady of the Sweetest Smile
- A Holy Book Proves No Shield
- Dancing Girl – Chasing Mammon
- From Ballinamuck to Fiji – Odyssey of a Stranger from Clare
- Dawn Breaks as Yeats Goes to Sleep
- How a Poet Can Avoid Divorce
- The Banshee
- Willie Rimes Meets His Valentine
- Battle of Bloody Banks
- Old Crone of Cairn Hill
- I Wish Cows Would Say Hello, And Dogs Quiet Would Keep
- Veil Through Which We All Pass
- Naked Protest at Derrycassin
- Aideens Grave
- Walking the Bog
- Tullamore Rhymers at Mixed Messages
- The Hair Brained Fight the Hair Braiders
- Missing Electric Picnic and Readings At The Pallet – Unexpected Appearance at Amusing – A Little Boy Drowns in Turkey
- World War One Was the Worlds Bloodiest Family Feud
- Kings of the Sun of Sacred Bloodline
- In the Shadow of Cairn Hill
- Fear the Little People
- Salmon Fisherman in River Corrib
- Longford during the “Emergency”
- Flying Over Europe
- Curtain falls on the Final Scene of the Rhyme in Joe Lees in Tullamore
- Two Magpies – Lough Atalia
- Aniar a fhéachann an Bhean Amach
- Myths of Ireland Present
- Egregious Idiot
- No More the Hammer Strikes the Anvil
- Barbados Chest in a Molly Cottage
- Clonmacnoise: The Ancient City
- The Walking People
- The New Politics – much like the old politics – Getting blocked on Facebook by Ken Smollen – Blog
- There Is No Time for Art
- They Are Dancing Tonight
- God Save Us From The Preachers
- Willie Rimes Heads to Moneygall for the 4th of July
- Exile Prepares to Walk to Connaught
- Vampire Killed By Love
- Horsemen Awaited at Bunlahy
- The Talking Drums of the Amina
- Fleeting Shadows Confuse the Walker
- Awaiting the Eclipse
- The Flag
- Blog – Walking into the Light – Darkness In Light in Galway 2016
- Wells of Tara
- The Hungry Grass
- Galway 2020 Plus Ultra
- To Walk in Nature Is to Say A Prayer
- What We Have, We Do Not Value, As Others Value What They Cannot Have – Malala Yousafai Tribute
- The Exodus
- The Camera Steals the Spirit
- Ogmios Warning in Ogham to Lug mac Elathan
- Cupid Shot Down on an Irish Street
- Poets, Principles and Personalities – The Biggins of the Poetry World Spouts Forth
- “A Nightingale Falling” – Film Review
- Good Boys and other Blaggards
- Cursed Crossbreakers of Ballinalee
- Carty’s Last Supper
- The Brave and the Love Flute
- Snowflakes in Another Land
- Miles Plans Expedition to Ireland – Wanderings of the Gael
- She Stood Alone At The Altar
- To One Side I Must Cast My Pen
- Santy’s Christmas Party
- Willie Rimes At the Quare Horse Fair
- Ommmmmm!!!
- Moo Said the Cow – the strange tale of a hitching cow, a helpful driver and a baffled traffic Garda
- Whiff of Scandal – Government, Orgies, Dead Pigs, Talking to Bees and about the Homeless – At the Cinema watching Legend
- Three Men Dead
- Ghost at the Gate at Willie Carty’s
- Busker of Longford Town
- Spinning Yarns and Telling Tales at Moth and Butterfly in Katies Cottage in Claddagh
- Words Written While Listening to Moonlight Sonata
- Laziness Is a Virtue
- Hens Plan a Holiday in Scotland
- George Floyd – A Short Elegy
- The Meadows Through Which My Dancing Heart
- Christ Was Crucified In Dublin
- “Cá bhfuil siad Anois
- Lesson in History for Bob Geldof
- Brionglóideanna de Bhaldraithe
- The Banishment from the Garden
- I Hope When Old to Waste My Time
- Remembering Bernard O’ Reilly, a Soldier of Australia and old Aughagreagh
- Kenavo
- On The Border Run
- Life to His Kind Was a Game of Chance – the story of Tom Reilly, an Irish Soldier of Fortune
- Weekend of Hit and Miss in Banagher and Longford
- Address to my Feathered Friend
- Reading at the Circle Session at the International Bar
- Remembering a Working Man – Vincent Wynter RIP
- Sitting Shoreside by Nabelwy Lake
- Bonfires Blaze Fueled by Hate
- Edgeworthstown exhibition aids Pieta House – Fighting against suicide and depression and for urban horses and horse fairs
- Eve
- I Was the Reluctant Lover
- The Waters Show No Mercy
- The Woman Behind the Veil
- The Ambush at Clonfin
- Betrayal of the Brothers Grimes
- Lady Christmas on the Moor
- Poets Express: A Bar, and Bawdy Bards, Outside Bantry!
- My Father, The Boxer
- As Alone as the Moon
- A War We Do Not See
- Seek the Distant Isle
- Written Beside a Stone to Paul Smith
- War with the Whin
- Summits Reached Before Depths
- Bringing In the Wasted Harvest
- Beauty Passed, and Yet Still Beautiful
- The Curse of a Bride Jilted
- The Novena, some Drama and Midge Ure in Galway
- Reading a take on memory from a fellow North Longford writer
- A Dream Shared Unknowingly
- Price of a Life in the Land of the Free
- Shoulder High Let Them Carry Him – Jim Larkin Tribute
- When They Stood There For That Photo
- To Be, Or Not To Be A Bee
- Blood Spilled for the King of Spain’s Daughter
- She Who I Loved and Never Did
- Those Who Perfection Seek Shall Be Smited for Their Pride
- She Loved Not Him Who Her Father Chose
- Reflections on Orange Day
- Hope is a Horse Fair in Banagher
- Dutch Courage
- Fighting the Black Snake
- She Is Remembered Still, Though Most Forget Her Name – ندا آقا س
- Thinking of Gaza as it Turns Midnight in Tullamore
- Remembering a Country Girl
- Sleeping, I Did Not See the Dancing Sun
- Not Gaza Or Ukraine, But a Conflict Just as Insane
- Saint Patrick and the Plague of the Pubs
- Dervogilla
- Fireside Tales Told at Halloween
- No Knocks on the Door at Halloween
- Let the People Speak – Irish Water Potential Referendum
- Let Them Lie
- Queen Bee and the Drones
- Looking Out at the Skelligs
- Discovering the writings if Betjeman, and the argument over Muses in Poetry
- Out of Tune
- Willie Rimes and the Masons Goat
- Men at the Door
- The New Normal Looks like the Old Normal as Scene of the Rhyme returns to Tullamore
- The Snowflake
- We Reap What We Sow
- Haikus for Iran
- Who Has a Welcome From All At Banagher Horse Fair?
- Basket Across the Boyne
- Magpies
- Outcasts In from the Cold?
- The Harp of King Brian Ború
- At The Age for This
- First Day at School
- The Free State Flag From a Yacht Mast Flew
- Blinded By Pokemon
- Rainbow Gone Red
- Willie Rimes Applies to Be Santa Claus
- 1798 Thinking
- To Bury A Cat
- The Custume of Ukraine
- Swans on the Grand Canal at Tullamore
- The Bright Star of Ireland – The Jealous Queen
- I Surrounded Them Myself
- Poverty Makes All Things Possible
- Wedding Day for a Pashtun Girl
- Consequences of a Drunken Cupid
- The Sad Broken Little Clock
- The Tithe Child of Romsey
- When The Devil Was Beat by Duffy
- The Gathering Rush – Richard Brennan Launches Chapbook
- Ireland – Is It But a Notion?
- Lusmagh and Ireland Remember Those Who Died for Ireland
- Funeral for a Thief
- No Money in Saving Lives
- Ireland Is Not For Sale
- Remembering Mothers Pilgrimage in Modern Times of Pestillance
- Life Is Like A Carpet Weaved
- As If a Pop Star
- Are the Fairies Against the Fair?
- The Cock and the Crock of Gold
- The Plague Paths are Fading Now
- Maedb Desires A Bull
- No Croppies They
- Pride Blinds Men That See
- Not at the Races as Poetry in the Park gets lost in Athlone Triathlon
- All Fair at the Ballinasloe Fair
- Toasting Two Kings
- Some House Party In Heaven
- A Land Worth Fighting For
- Restless Sídhe of Keeraun Hill
- Dead Now, And Their Beliefs With Them
- Willie Rimes Gone on the Run at the Galway Races
- Envelope on the Floor at Christmas During COVID
- God Speed All Bikers and Give them Sense
- This Could Be 1939 Again
- Marching Again for Water – 2016 Banagher Horse Fair a Great Success – Readings from the Pallet postponed – the annual Pilgrimage to Banagher
- Spirit of Peltier
- Rocking the Cradle of Genius
- Abortions for Kittens
- Life is a Treasure Map
- One Crown Murder Among Many
- For Her a Cottage in Heaven
- Chapbook Collected – its off to Body and Soul we go!
- Free Verse in Free Flow
- I Blame It All On TESCO
- Dark Ages Return to Earth
- Give Stonehenge Back to the Irish!
- Same Bus – New Faces
- Sleuthing for the German Reillys
- Sie kamen hervor
- Harps of Granard Had an Echo Far Away
- Guerenica
- Alternative Genesis and What Happened in Eden with the Apple
- An Fear Maith
- Banagher Horse Fair
- Sitting in the Mouth of the Cave of Pan
- Apron and the Veil
- I Have Not Seen What My Father Saw
- May the Lord In His Mercy Save Us From the Worst of Mac Leod
- Last of the Faithful at St Augustine’s Holy Well
- John Darrell Boyd – Elegy on an Deceased Airman
- The Pale Presents: Chaotic, late, intimate and excellent!
- The Long Acre
- The Leprechaun Meets a Developer at the M3
- Whats in a Name
- Snowflakes Awaiting the Storms
- Merlin Woods: Christmas Morning
- Rebel Asleep
- Keep Calm and Tango On
- To Visit A Strangers Grave
- Hell Hath No Fury Like the Friedensborg Mermaid Scorned
- Turning the Big One Hundred – A North Longfordman Remembered
- The Cold Time, Between New Years
- Flocon de Neige
- Bread and Salt – Poetry of the Levant told in the Music of Words
- Vör tuyg keymen sey
- Gaza – a Ghazal
- The Years Creep Up
- It, Not I
- Its Your Move
- Portrait of the Poet as a Not So Young Man
- It is All For Little That We Poets Write
- Strangers Scorn Us For Being What We Are
- Did a Spirit Knock On Rossbawn’s Walls?
- Card Castle of Pride
- Gates to the Gods
- Caliphate of the Heart
- At St. James Tramstop, Dublin
- No Pirates in Alghero
- Snakes All Around Us – The Legend Retold
- Destiny Followed Demands Sacrifice
- From Corn Hill His Spirit Watches
- When Words Fail, Silence Speaks Best
- Let Us Remember This November
- Out They Came
- Honest Hands Build True
- Treasure Sleeps on Chest of All She Needs
- Witch Wendy of the Wood and Grainne of the Geis
- Images of Christmas
- Torn Down, Rebuilt, As All Must Be
- The Web of Linen
- On Evicting a Frog from its Rock Home
- Hungry Gulls Say Hello
- The Dreams of De Valera
- Whisht Held Well
- When Its Bad Manners to Say Thanks
- Clock Ticks on the Wall
- A Postcard to Her Father Sent
- Brethren Who Built This Babylon
- Remembering Ballinamuck and the Rebels Who Died
- Dont Kill the Plants
- Anger of the Water Carriers
- Lei Camminava Nuda la Notte
- Drinking to the Health of a Crazed Genius
- Mother Duck
- Mosque Unseen Until Heard
- The Unusual Suspects – Rhymers Club and Rubberbandits Rock Uisneach
- Death Makes Its Cruel Presence Felt
- No Difference Between Us – Save8Rally in Dublin – Blog
- The Music Lives On
- Elegy for Neda Soltani
- Not Fit To Fly The Red Flag
- Some Man
- Reaction and Reflection on Rebellion Re-enactment in Ballinamuck
- Never Mind the Heartache, Always Get the Verse
- She A Son Bore to the World
- Bitter Sugar
- Civilians Slain – An Empire Saved
- Defense of a Church Mouse
- Drumshambo: July 12th
- Modern Venus
- The Unlikely Rebel
- Ethics, Official Images, Artists Ego’s and the Funding Issue
- Hitting the Stage – Drama in Galway to help the Samaritans
- Lessons Learned from Bog Bodies
- Death Took The Poet While Writing
- The Well Drawing Mother of a Bishop!
- Sailing Neath the Charles Bridge
- Twelve Mourned as Two Thousand are Forgotten
- Last Keepers of the Kasbah
- “Under The Fading Lamp” – Launch Night a Great Success
- Life Flies By
- It’s A Boy
- On Reading the Verse of Hera Linsday Bird
- Shin Rin Yoku
- The Three Wishes of Willie the Wisp
- I As Solomon, Seek My Shulem Maiden
- The Priest and the Playboy Magazine
- Rhyme and Verse at Secret Sounds
- My Heart Will Not Keep Her Warm
- Dignified Silence
- Clouds Write Poetry – Svetlana Marisova Tribute
- Looking Back at 1916 – The Horrors of Today – and a Fearful Future – Blog
- Modern Poetry during Vintage Week in Birr at Tin Jug Studio with Sandra Corrigan Breathanach and James King
- Daddy, Daughter and a Dead Rabbit
- America Finds Its Voice Again
- 911 – A Tribute Poem
- Diur
- Fishermens Tales
- Far from for Kiltartans Poor He Died
- Willie Rimes Builds a Boat
- Stone Angels, Stone Hearts
- CastlePallooza Rocked in the Rain By the Tullamore Rhymers – Failing to Make Fermoy
- Let Death Not Sneak In Our Door
- It Is But Stone
- Cute Hoor Councillors vs Artists Minding their Own Arses – Debating the One Per Cent For the Arts Scheme
- Merlin Woods – Spring Morning
- Creation Follows Destruction Follows Creation
- Vör Tüüg kemen se
- Born of Loneliness Are the Arts
- No Tales Out of School
- Blog – Savita, a Tragedy of Errors and the Abortion Issue
- Walking in Autumn in Banagher
- Year Has Past Like a Decade Gone
- Fiddlers Three
- Communion Shared Between Banagher and Polish Ukraine
- Ferryman and His Fare
- The Wide World Beyond the Door
- Snakes All Around Us
- Just Keep Walking
- Red Roses Owed
- Forests of Concrete Grow Where Nature Made Homes
- God Called Me: “George!”
- Paris Doorway: Red Light
- Gene Barry in Tullamore – Writers Past, and Loved ones past on, remembered at “Scene of the Rhyme”
- Being the Embarrassing Relations
- Little Lake, Big Dreams
- A Cat and I
- Because The Sun Still Shines
- Leitrim of the Legends
- Death on a Traintrack
- Unable to Understand the Anger
- Had She Never Written a Poem
- “Pop Up Poetry” at Culture Night 2013
- Aliens in Edenderry
- The Great Mcgonagall
- Enda Exits – Legacy of Lives Lost
- We Shall Not Be Divided
- Red Wolf Returns from the Mountains
- Culture Night in Cafe 45 – Longford Leads in Literature and Arts
- Away in a Doorway
- The Apple Of Eden
- 2017 – Looking back on the Year that Was
- Divine Struggle – Sylvia Plath.
- Are Both One Blood?
- The Longford Ark
- As They Lay Him Down
- Comrades Stood as Comrades Should
- Snotgreen
- Sun Does Shine
- One Good Man Among The Blueshirts
- Moneenageisha Harbour, Lough Atalia
- Willie Rimes Goes to Belfast to Protest at the Parades
- A Right Pair of Comedians – Seeing Dave McSavage in Galway and Fergus Costello in Tullamore
- The Fall of the Germans of Vrsac
- Black Swan on the Claddagh
- Afghanistan Burning
- Breaching the Veil
- Reboot Banagher Horse Fair…
- Stations of the Cross While Walking Home From Work on Good Friday Morning
- A Goddess of Gluttony
- Windmills and the Don Quixote of the Modern Age
- Willie Rimes Goes to Confession
- Skopje At Night
- Saint Rynagh’s Church Bell
- Bodies and Balls, Both in the Nets
- No Handshakes Offered at the Most Tragic Funerals
- Those Folk in their High Towers
- We Are Not Each Others Enemy
- Every So Often a Book I See
- The Water Gently Flows
- Silver Words from a Mouth of Iron
- An Endangered Species
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- Words Written in Anger and Anguish (Anne Sexton)
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