Leitrim of the Legends
“You’d think it was lovely if you didn’t know it” Said John Carty to John Carty one day… Though he loved the …
Drumshambo: July 12th
The dead from the Great Hunger, with no names, lie and are remembered. The Orangemen, for all their pomp, their names are …
Reading the works of the Poets Higgins
I have recently become the happy owner of the book on Cloncoose poet Pat Higgins, a folk poet of the time when …
On The Border Run
The line that Craig the clever chap Carving Ulster in three, drew on a map The maximum area the minority could hold …
Well of Life
Our groundwater is the well we all drink from. Fracking pollutes. We drink from the well in a desert Stagnant the water …
You’d Think It Was A Great Place If You Didn’t Know It
“Jesus, you’d think Leitrim was a great place (listening to the song) if you didnt feckin know it!” ~ John Carty of …