Category: Poems

These cold wintry days of mid January, with endless grey skies, made me think of my memories of being cold. I reflected back on my father and his use of the word, founder. Anyway, to set the...

I came across an old poem (see below) entitled To the Old Year, written on December 27th, 1884, by Susie Troland, a Coleraine lady.  She was inspired by the year just ended, namely 1884. In...

I recently received a message.  A reader of this website wonders if anyone recognises a poem that his father used to recite, called The Wedding Party.  I had a look through my resources and came up...

Here's a beautiful poem that I stumbled upon recently in an old Christmas Day 1866 edition of the Cork Constitution.  It's from the pen of the famous Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander, who, as the...

UPDATE - Apologies.  Still a little behind in my emails. When time permits, I am working currently on several very interesting articles.  Among them are areas and names, such as McKeown, Irwin,...

On discovering an old 1909 poem by a Portrush man, a few months ago, I needed a sandhills photograph (to suit the theme of the poem).  I knew that there was one somewhere, taken in the 1960s,...