Fair Girls at the Horse Fair
They walk the streets, young, wild at heart Among horses the men admire Free of sprit and fast with word To the …
Bell Book and Candle Stocking chapbook – At the Fringe of Galway Fringe Festival – Drama at Galway Mechanics Institute
Chapbook hits Bookshelf in Galway The chapbook is formally on a bookshelf… for sale… at €5 – the sole stockist in Galway …
Ill Go Where Im Sent
Invitation received: all were excited Again their friends where they are twinned they would meet Its not a junket: this, this is …
Burning Zeal Rekindles the Flame of Faith
Every so often as a writer I get asked to write a tribute piece for someone about someone who is important to them. …
Strangers Scorn Us For Being What We Are
For the strangers came and tried to teach us their way. They scorned us just for bein’ what we are. But they …
Two Swans
Two swans swimming in the river cold Meet beak to beak together In love for life it is said These birds are …
Dead Now, And Their Beliefs With Them
Inspired by a story of my fathers about a person who could not find their way into the house one night at …
Cooking up a Poem
Playing with language he tosses the words And stirs them with his pen In the saucepan of the page Which he heats …
A Poets Lament
This is an old verse of mine, found on a previous draft of the website. Poetry has got me free into a …
Gambling Is A Losing Game
Love is a losing game. ~ Amy Winehouse God and the Devil opened casinos To see who would win God promised honest …
The Human Behind the Headlines – At the Cinema watching “Amy”
Amy – the human behind the headlines After the furore of her death, and the frenzy of her life, I wrote one …
Wake at Birr
The true and humorous tale, though shocking at the time, of the fiasco of my mothers coffin, at her wake in Birr… …
Wake at Ballinalee
My mother told of attending a wake when a child in her native village Ballinalee, where the pipes that were smoked cermonially …
Toasting Two Kings
I was at the Aughrim Horse Fair last Sunday, and while viewing all of the horses – and the women! – there, …
We Are Spectators on Another Greek Tragedy
As Alexis Tsipras capitulates to the EU/IMF,we remember one of austerities victims… The death of Dimitirs Christaupolos shows the callous effect that …
Scene of the Rhyme Preserved after Tullamore Rhymers Bandits Hijack the Eco Bus Cafe at Valentia Island Festival
It was a right Scene of the Rhyme – two days in a row, a captive audience were held at rhymepoint on …
Looking Out at the Skelligs
From clifftop in morning mist A view I would have missed If weather was finer, or I had slept This murky view …
Kenavo
One New Years Eve, a strange noise was heard in the small Kerry village of Portmagee… a strange procession of sailors from …
Memories of Tullamore at Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club – Setting off for Valentia
I was down tonight at Irelands Smallest Comedy Club, where fellow Tullamore man (Im not Longford now that its cool to be …
Ar Dheis Dé go Raibh a hanam
Remembering the fallen Irish of both world wars, who were forgotton due to the stigma of being in the British Army Their …