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, Father …
The Foundered Farmer
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 …
Poem – To the Old Year
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 …
Request – The Wedding Party
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 …
Cecil Frances Alexander Poem – Lost for Gold
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 newspaper …
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William Butler Yeats Poem – The Second Coming
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, …
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