Poems

Feeling —-ed Up Lord she’s gone done left me done packed / up and split and I with no way to make her come back and […]

Hard Rock Returns To Prison… Hard Rock was “known not to take no shit From nobody,” and he had the scars to prove it: Split purple […]

Handsome Brian O’Gallagher Handsome Brian O’Gallagher, you took my heart away When you set your foot upon the ship and sailed that bitter day, And in […]

In Tír-Na N-Og In Tír-na’n-Og, In Tír-na’n-Og, The sagans sway this way and that; the twisted fern uncloses, The quicken-berry hides its red above the tender […]

Mary of Carrick Mary of Carrick has gone away From our pleasant places, down to the sea, She has put a loss on our mountain gray, […]

Mo Chraoibhín Cno A Sword of Light hath pierced the dark, our eyes have seen the Star: Oh Eire, leave the ways of sleep now days […]

Niamh Oh, who is she, and what is she? A beauty born eternally Of shimmering moonshine, sunset flame, And rose-red heart of dawn; None knows the […]

Páistín Fionn O, Páistín Fionn, but it vexed her sore, The day you turned from your mother’s door For the wide gray sea, and the strife […]

Shiela Ní Gara SHIELA NÍ GARA, it is lonesome where you bide, With the plover circling over and the sagans spreading wide, With an empty sea […]

The Cold Sleep of Brighidín There’s a sweet sleep for my love by yon glimmering blue wave, But alas! it is a cold sleep in a […]