Angels Cry for Gaza
Poets record history As only they could: Armed with pencils History written in their blood The bombs rain down All are guilty …
Communion Shared Between Banagher and Polish Ukraine
Background – my mother worked with a Polish man Mikail Jaszczyn from the Polish part of Ukraine, from which they fled during …
Remembering Bernard O’ Reilly, a Soldier of Australia and old Aughagreagh
Its a long way to Australia from old Aughagreagh, Where his family left from decades before And the ladies he laughed with …
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 …
Dream, Rebellion, Reality, Dream
The Bastille stormed, and those who died On the streets for the cause of freedom… Was it worth it when it was …
This Far and No Farther
World War One was a savage conflict, and long before the invention and application of Blitzkrieg the Germans were “masters of shell …
Death Comes Calling
Chicken Little of the modern age “The sky is falling” the media rage They follow him through the darkest wood He knows …
Longford during the “Emergency”
Im of Longford extraction and am a Longford man to be when my cottage in Ballinamuck is restored and I move up …
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 …
Far from for Kiltartans Poor He Died
William Butler Yeats poems in memory of Major William Robert Gregory celebrate him as an Irish airman, not giving the fact that …
Ar Dheis Dé go Raibh a hanam
Remembering the fallen Irish of both world wars, who were forgotton due to the stigma of being in the British Army Their …
Bones in the Sun
I was at a remembrance service for April 8th, a decade or more ago, – the commemorative day for victims of the …
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. …
Those Little Boats Goliaths Faced
Those little boats Goliath’s faced Commandeered and commanded by brave men Who risked their lives to save others lives So they could …
Guerenica
They fled in terror as from the sky… Rained death, and wondered why And how the world to this had come As …
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 …
Creation Follows Destruction Follows Creation
The never ending cycle… Of the madness of man…
Walking Past Adamnans Church in Birr
Its just another ruined church to some, but St Brendans Old Church in Birr is where a little known Irish saint wrote …
Diur
The oak, strong and mighty, as is the warrior, In the face of the storm found, Fighting adversity, the winds, giving shelter …
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! …