Future English King on Galway’s Streets
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?
There They Lie Where They Died
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 Burning of Limerick
The bloody story of the defeat of the Vikings at Limerick
Rebel Asleep
Pondering the sleeping rebels who fled after defeat at Ballinamuck in 1798 who sought refuge in Edenmore Bog
Dervogilla
Dermots passion, in stealing Teirnans wife, would have an effect on #Ireland that would last longer than the better known wars of Troy …
From Ballinamuck to Fiji – Odyssey of a Stranger from Clare
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 Cock and the Crock of Gold
The legend of the Cock and the Crock of Gold in Kilcormac, in the times of the Wars of the Molloys… The …
Babys Birth Remembered
Baby’s birth remembered: The snow falls on the ground. Lights are lit: bells peal, I listen to the sound. Belfast of the …
Betrayal of the Brothers Grimes
In the wake of the 1798 Rebellion, the brothers Grimes, all of whom were executed by the British, were betrayed by a …
Gerry Adams steps down, what now for Sinn Fein and Irish Unity?
34 years after he deposed Ruadhri O Bradaigh (Rory Brady) accusing Brady of a “sop to unionism” when Brady sat down to …
Lusmagh and Ireland Remember Those Who Died for Ireland
Manchester Martyrs Commemoration 26th November 2017, Birr, Co Offaly 150th anniversary That Lusmagh man, brave as they come As are the stock …
The Night Nelson Learned to Fly
Liam Sutcliffe blew up Nelsons Pillar. This poem tells the story. He passed away today. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam …
Ireland – Is It But a Notion?
As the Catalan Independence movement is crushed for now by Spain, we remember the Irish declaration of 1919… the events of the …
A Holy Book Proves No Shield
The death of Mahon, the King, who set a little too much faith in the Bible for protection! An old verse of …
The Death of Niall the Third of Ireland
Republishing this old verse of mine, part of a series. When Niall the Third was of Ireland High King There came underneath …
Exile Prepares to Walk to Connaught
When Oliver Cromwell took over Ireland, his infamous decree of “to hell or to Connaught” was enacted. Popularly thought to be all …
Reflections on Orange Day
As the Orange Day celebrations passed off without much incident in the North of Ireland, an unprecedented event happened “in Connaught” as …
Horsemen Awaited at Bunlahy
Background – Sean Mac Eoin told of a Tracey family related to him that had two brothers in the fight at Granard, …
Fixed Bayonets Against Our Own
Needless to say I think the Irish army should have gone across the border in 1969, and was angered at Keelin Shanleys …
The Turn Oot Remembered By Both Sides
Men of Eireann, forbidden oaths swearing Blood to shed for freedoms cause Bards songs sung of brave rebels from cart handles hung …