Soldiers Death Announced By Spirits Unseen
Christmas Eve, House hushed, the lonesome cry echoed through the frosty air It was said to be but an owl by all …
Christmas Eve, House hushed, the lonesome cry echoed through the frosty air It was said to be but an owl by all …
The Bastille stormed, and those who died On the streets for the cause of freedom… Was it worth it when it was …
World War One was a savage conflict, and long before the invention and application of Blitzkrieg the Germans were “masters of shell …
Chicken Little of the modern age “The sky is falling” the media rage They follow him through the darkest wood He knows …
Im of Longford extraction and am a Longford man to be when my cottage in Ballinamuck is restored and I move up …
The line that Craig the clever chap Carving Ulster in three, drew on a map The maximum area the minority could hold …
William Butler Yeats poems in memory of Major William Robert Gregory celebrate him as an Irish airman, not giving the fact that …
Remembering the fallen Irish of both world wars, who were forgotton due to the stigma of being in the British Army Their …
I was at a remembrance service for April 8th, a decade or more ago, – the commemorative day for victims of the …
Was at the Body and Soul festival doing a reading with my fellow Tullamore Rhymers, and this one got a good reception. …
Those little boats Goliath’s faced Commandeered and commanded by brave men Who risked their lives to save others lives So they could …
They fled in terror as from the sky… Rained death, and wondered why And how the world to this had come As …
We got the cat – Saddam – out of the kitchen, but we wrecked it in the process. Was it worth the …
The never ending cycle… Of the madness of man…
Its just another ruined church to some, but St Brendans Old Church in Birr is where a little known Irish saint wrote …
The oak, strong and mighty, as is the warrior, In the face of the storm found, Fighting adversity, the winds, giving shelter …
As Kurds fight to free Korbani I post this old poem of mine in tribute to the Peshmerga and their women fighters! …
Flying over Holland on my way to Prague, I looked down at the view bomber pilots on all sides had on their …
What can one do, so far away? We see the pictures in the papers, on the internet, on the television, baffled as …
“They are buttonhole relations, when the buttonhole breaks, they are nothing” ~ North Longford saying The flames of war streaked the sky …