Gurteen Lake and the Curse of the McCarthys
Verse from another legend from Longford recorded by the Irish Folklore Commission From Clonbroney the priest was travelling Was making his weary …
Verse from another legend from Longford recorded by the Irish Folklore Commission From Clonbroney the priest was travelling Was making his weary …
An eerie cry echos the evening air The mermaids plaintive song The saying among the folk that know Is there will be …
This is a story I heard as a child about a gate at Willie Cartys in Aughagreagh. My own father often could …
The line that Craig the clever chap Carving Ulster in three, drew on a map The maximum area the minority could hold …
A bed hard of stone neath the sky starry above Is good enough, soft enough, for a couple in love He who …
“Whin” is the word for furze in Hiberno English and Ulster Scots in the northern half of Ireland (North Leinster and Connacht, …
The dust was only settling The blood bare dry on the Cuban streets America gauging the new regime Brought him over their …
April 20th 1847 Men, children and women with clothes cast away Came to Derrycassin door To protest and plunder for want of …
No dancing sun the Easter morning As the birds sing in the sky I sleepy look out at the dawn As the …
Not for her the toil of the cold hard soil The neighbours angry word, the calling agent of the landlord The …
The Jessops later married into the Bomfords, who themselves were married through the Dopping – Hempestal family. Descendants in both the Church …
A boy, an errand, and a bucket of beer … A drain, a death, and now a ghost does appear … A …
Bucks and nyeucks read books in nooks Of history, language and culture told Lewd jokes, vetted new comrades in diviment For adventures …
Walking in to the village of Ballinamuck last year, I saw a lone plastic bag blowing in the street. A once more …
My mother grew up outside the Longford village of Ballinalee. She always said she preferred the English name on it, St. Johnstown… …
The island of St. Croix has a Granard, Annally, Longford, Corn Hill, Cartys, Cartys Point, and Madame Cartys placenames. All very quant …
When I was a child, I collected stamps. Sad, I know, but I loved it. One of the counties I got stamps …
Every so often as a writer I get asked to write a tribute piece for someone about someone who is important to them. …
Inspired by a story of my fathers about a person who could not find their way into the house one night at …
My mother told of attending a wake when a child in her native village Ballinalee, where the pipes that were smoked cermonially …