I haven't been around much of late. It's nice to get back online and have a chance to post some new material. By the way, I note there appears to have been an issue, during the past month, for …
The Ploughman Alone is King
Several hours last Saturday were spent, rather than writing up a weekend post, brushing out the flood in my house. I had turned on the bath and forgotten about it. I stepped off the sofa, to …
Poem – County Antrim
I hope that you are all keeping well. If you are struggling, please turn off the fear box. Don't let the tyrants, that rule this world, grind you down. Re One Irish Rover. Many thanks for all …
The Legend of Lisnahuncheon
❖Yet still the water lingers there,Defying Nature's laws.— A local poet Last year, I covered a story, from the early summer of 1909, which involved two folk from Belfast going on a walk around …
Castledawson Stray Calves, Cousin Murders Cousin
❖ It started with a few calves strayed through a gap, one Good Friday evening. By dark, two cousins lay dead in the one townland. Tubberhead is a small townland a couple of miles out from …
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Sweethearts Always
Every now and again — usually a glass of red into the evening, when the sensible jobs have been abandoned for the night — I take out mum and dad's old photographs. They met in the late 1950s, at a …