Connections
For the late John Ratcliffe, to help give peace and comfort to David Ratcliffe, freinds and family. A rambling verse written …
She Loved Not Him Who Her Father Chose
A poem I wrote some years back, on love, a disapproving family, and a tragedy of murder and suicide! which I now …
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… …
Jumping the Broom
Men of cloth forbidden to love Have of love between others much to say Only a girl and a boy, they think, …
Irish Family Funerals
Last Patricks Day, everyone else went to the parade dressed in green. Not us. We are Cartys We are from Longford. We …
I Have Not Seen What My Father Saw
I have seen not what my father saw I have not ploughed the land Or made a ruin into a home With …