Dead Children: No Longer the News that Sells
I knew it would happen, borders would be closed, media would turn again on the refugees, and the dead boy on the …
It’s A Boy
The cynical switching of the media on the refugee crisis from keep them out to let them in after the photogenic image …
There Is No Time for Art
Was at the Body and Soul festival doing a reading with my fellow Tullamore Rhymers, and this one got a good reception. …
Putting the Cat Out of the Kitchen
We got the cat – Saddam – out of the kitchen, but we wrecked it in the process. Was it worth the …
A Maud Gonne of the Kurds
As Kurds fight to free Korbani I post this old poem of mine in tribute to the Peshmerga and their women fighters! …
Maud Gonne: Yeats Inspiration
The second verse refers to the Lady of the Sweetest Smile, the authors own Maud Gonne, though not of the military kind, …