❖ "I'm coming back to Ireland in the morning." — Moira O'Neill There are poems that find a man wherever he's got to, and put the miles he's travelled in plain sight. Moira O'Neill's "Back …
The Moneymore Ghost
Moneymore is a village of some 1900 people, situated in County Londonderry. The plantation village was built by the Drapers' Company of London, who also had land in nearby Draperstown (hence the name …
The Old Year Sinks in Time’s Ocean
In recent years (the tropical chapter), the week before Christmas each year, my next door neighbour, Carol, would play festive tunes. Classics from a bygone era, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean …
Christmas Day
I would like to wish all the readers of the website, a very Merry Christmas. We have people browsing from such countries as Ireland, England, Scotland, Germany, France, Holland, Italy, Asia, Canada, …
Ireland’s Ghost Ship
In the autumn of 1934, reports started appearing in the local Irish media of sightings of a ghost ship off the East coast of Ulster. The Belfast media picked up the story, and their headlines …
WB Yeats – An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
At the end of last year, I was trying to enhance an old photo of Joseph Bamford's store, at the Arcade, in Kilrea. The photograph was taken over a hundred years ago. It was of very poor quality, and …
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