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An Evening in June
05/11/2019
The Scotch Pines kept sentry by the hilltop where the St. John’s Eve fire blazed. We feasted on Mi – Wadi and ...
The Photograph
05/11/2019
I walk in the clear waters of my childhood, again curious to undo the strings of the old clutch bag and live ...
Lance Corporal Anthony Naughton
31/10/2019
An Exemplary Soldier Naughton recovered from injuries sustained to return to his campaign in his short Military career. Anthony Naughton was born ...
Slievemore: The Abandoned Village
31/10/2019
You park your car on a low slope under the graveyard wall. Always there is a mound of fresh-turned earth, flowers in pottery ...
Book of Kells
28/10/2019
Ireland’s Treasured Manuscript This manuscript’s date or place of production has been the subject of considerable debate, yet it is acknowledged ...
Titanic 2012
27/10/2019
Fog across waters That are now silent Tears shed are but no more Memories of 1912 awakened By the sound of peeling bell Voices calling ...
Emily’s Butterfly
25/10/2019
A Nation Once Again: The Irish Chapbook
25/10/2019
‘Valkyrie’ Kerry Kelly is a multi-graduate, wife and mum of five. She lives in Mayo, Ireland and writing is her ...
Red Admiral by Emily Land
25/10/2019
The Robe
25/10/2019
Ballinrobe Twilight
25/10/2019
Best of the Robe
25/10/2019
Lacken and Killala
25/10/2019
Museum of Country Life Turlough, Castlebar, Co Mayo
24/10/2019
On the hither bank of the dark river, Methuselah-Heron stood, the flow of minute, nor day, nor season bothering him; this side ...
Winter Visitor
24/10/2019
The dog lay at the end of the kitchen having been evicted from under the table by the feet and legs of ...
Perspective from the 21st Century
22/10/2019
Interviewer: Mary O’Reilly Interviewee: Maura McGuinness Date: 12th December 2016 Location: Castlebar, Co. Mayo
The Return
22/10/2019
In her dream she was always walking towards or into: the sea, the road, the lane, the haggard, gate and yard, old ...
The Light of Heaven
18/10/2019
Title: The Light of Heaven Interviewer: Sorcha O’Brien Interviewee: Eileen Aylward Location: Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny Date: 26th June 2017
Mother Morrogh – Bernard
17/10/2019
Religious This Catholic Nun ensured a town would prosper with her work ethic. Agnes Morrogh was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England on ...
Garrarus Beach: a short journey on the last boat
16/10/2019
They are all gone now, passed away, the small group of men who had fished their small boats off the ...
Rev. Fr. John Heneghan
15/10/2019
Columban Missionary / Editor / Author This Mayo priest of the Colomban Fathers was an interesting man as an author plus ...
Famine
10/10/2019
In famine, the dead were never far from us. Parents and children lay strewn on doorsteps or along roadsides and they were so far ...
Tadhg Dall Ó ‘hÚigínn
05/10/2019
Bard Known as The Matchstick Man of Straide Tadhg Dall Ó ‘hÚigínn was one of the Country’s greatest poets. Lineage Tadhg Dall Ó ...
Charles Bianconi's Coaches
30/09/2019
This Italian immigrant revolutionized Ireland’s Transport during the early nineteenth Century. Carlo Bianconi (later angelized to Charles) was born in the ...
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