Category: Poetry
Notes from an Irish Field: Blowin’ In
Blowin’ In: Notes from an Irish Field By Susan Mangan Staring into long shadows cast by the old Rowan tree, I thought so long that my tea went cold. Ruminating […]
Terry From Derry: This Will Be – Terry’s New Book
Terry From Derry: This Will Be By Terry Boyle [email protected] Over the past year, we have all had opportunities to reflect, hope despair and hope again. The world has appeared […]
Out of the Mailbag, Comes Songs & Stories: This Will Be, by Terry Boyle
Out of the Mailbag, Comes Songs & Stories: This Will Be By Terry Boyle 2022. 45 poems, 64 Pages. Review By John O’Brien, Jr. Terry Boyle has long been one […]
Éasca Péasca (Easy Peasy) An Seomra Suí
An Seomra Suí By Margaret Gralinski I wish to stare at the weeping willow out the wide front window with its long, slender branches sweeping the ground as it sighs […]
Blowin’ In: Hidden Still
Blowin’ In: Hidden Still By Susan Mangan “it is gone in a fling of wings off up beyond the ash-tree hedge; you write it down, then in wonder, in words […]
Blowin’ In: Hidden Art
Blowin’ In: Hidden Art By Susan Mangan “Stone Crab on an Irish Table” By Susan Mangan Impenetrable armor, molten red, claws dipped in peat colored […]
Shin Guards and Ponytails / and On This Day in Irish History
The Camogie Association in Ireland ran a competition to encourage young girls to creatively express what they missed about camogie during the recent lockdowns. Catie McAleese, a Year 11 student […]
At Home Abroad: First Blush
At Home Abroad: First Blush By Regina Costello The nights silence breaks with the chorus of morning birds joyfully greeting a new day. I rise to find my Wheaten […]
Terry from Derry: Kindness is Also Infectious
Terry from Derry: Kindness is Also Infectious by Terry Boyle To say that this is a trying time would be banal, if not cliched. We are all having to live […]
Cleveland Irish: Refreshment and Business
Cleveland Irish: Refreshment and Business by Francis McGarry The early Irish in Cleveland did not take long to make their presence felt in a variety of fields and endeavors. Much […]