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 Errew, a cousin of ours commenting on Larry Cunninghams song to my father, also John...
View ArticleWell of Life
Our groundwater is the well we all drink from. Fracking pollutes. We drink from the well in a desert Stagnant the water is impure But we must drink, be ill or die Our fate, from our location, is sure....
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On The Border Run
Tea was traded for coffee… turf for coal… sugar for chocolate for sale on the black market either side of the border between Eire (now known as the Republic of Ireland) and Northern Ireland… The line...
View ArticleReading 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 people wrote poetry for the joy of it as opposed to making a career out of it or a...
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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 largely forgotten. I walk where Orangemen don’t do now Who walked this day so...
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Leitrim of the Legends
What has a mythical Celtic God figure, a river monster and two Larry Cunningham fans have in common: Leitrim ! It i=indeed is lovely to spite what the two John Cartys said about it “You’d think it was...
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