Tag: poetry

UPDATE - getting very slowly caught up with old emails.   Doing lots of photoshop and research work most evenings.  Works in progress on Warwick, Gilmore, Kearney, O'Reilly, Bamford, Thompson,...

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,...