The Ambush at Clonfin
Man for man, and gun for gun, Mere peasants stood to the test, With faith in God and their fellow man, They …
Man for man, and gun for gun, Mere peasants stood to the test, With faith in God and their fellow man, They …
One of the most bizarre – if true – stories from the American War of Independence tells of a Sergent McCarthy on …
Remember them and don’t forget, Who in Ninety Eight there died, Murdered by troops of the British Crown, On orders, for which …
Grey skies over Aughrim: Fields peaceful and green, That knew terror and bloodshed Where battle had been. But now only cows graze …
The royal visit to Galway brought mixed feelings – they are a nice couple, but is it too early to welcome British Royals where their forces killed our heroes?
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?
The bloody story of the defeat of the Vikings at Limerick
Pondering the sleeping rebels who fled after defeat at Ballinamuck in 1798 who sought refuge in Edenmore Bog
Dermots passion, in stealing Teirnans wife, would have an effect on #Ireland that would last longer than the better known wars of Troy …
The strange and true tale of a man who survived the 1798 rebellion, only to end up with eight wives in Fiji – a place farther from his native County Clare than even the remote Ballinamuck of North Longford…
The legend of the Cock and the Crock of Gold in Kilcormac, in the times of the Wars of the Molloys… The …
Baby’s birth remembered: The snow falls on the ground. Lights are lit: bells peal, I listen to the sound. Belfast of the …
In the wake of the 1798 Rebellion, the brothers Grimes, all of whom were executed by the British, were betrayed by a …
34 years after he deposed Ruadhri O Bradaigh (Rory Brady) accusing Brady of a “sop to unionism” when Brady sat down to …
Manchester Martyrs Commemoration 26th November 2017, Birr, Co Offaly 150th anniversary That Lusmagh man, brave as they come As are the stock …
Liam Sutcliffe blew up Nelsons Pillar. This poem tells the story. He passed away today. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam …
As the Catalan Independence movement is crushed for now by Spain, we remember the Irish declaration of 1919… the events of the …
The death of Mahon, the King, who set a little too much faith in the Bible for protection! An old verse of …
Republishing this old verse of mine, part of a series. When Niall the Third was of Ireland High King There came underneath …
When Oliver Cromwell took over Ireland, his infamous decree of “to hell or to Connaught” was enacted. Popularly thought to be all …