No Horse Sense in Galway
The furore being kicked up over urban horses by supporters of Mike Cubbard a city council member rumbles on. Something of a …
The Hair Brained Fight the Hair Braiders
One arm of Galway City Council commissioned a derelict wall to be painted by a professional graffiti artist as the 2020 City …
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 …
Let Death Have For You No Fear
Master Greene was a Ballinalee schoolteacher who learned the Irish Traveller cant and ended up teaching it to the grandchildren of the …
Girl in Black, Child on a Swing
Shes young herself, not yet twenty Or at least she looks so to me And swings her child upon a swing And …
The Walking People
In times past they were craftsmen skilled But today they have no skill That has a value in the modern world As …
Lianhan Shee
Man, turn your face from the Lianhan Shee Fall not for her, though fair be her charms It will bring you death, …
A Dream Shared Unknowingly
Picture: Athlone refugee centre, scene of some of the fighting in the Sieges of Athlone in the Wiliamite Wars 1689-1692 A dream …
A Postcard to Her Father Sent
The Maria Lazum story, recounted to me by the poet Paul Polansky who knew the family. He was the author of Black …