Ballymacdermot –
In the evening sun,
Where jigsaw fields and confidential cottages
Are illustrated pages of local history.
Ballymacdermott May evening
Short Stories
Rainbow Girl
A crisp autumn morning echoes loudly
As young voices celebrate mid-term release
Heaps of leaves capture every corner
Every nook and cranny of the
Frugality
At the bottom of
“Buried alive” : In the Coffin
Now this was bad. I knew that I had no chance of raising the lid, as he was the heavier of the two of us. Besides if he turned the screws home, that was it for me!
The Coffin
During the Sixties we had a range of local businesses with a dual aspect to them; like, a grocery shop and a pub; or maybe, a hardware shop with petrol pumps outside on the pavement.
Mad Old Men
Yeats had specific people in his own life in mind when he wrote the following poem. Students of the man, and of his life and times have little difficulty in putting names to the persons alluded to.
Calm .. penultimate
Our parents were never happy; they fought constantly like politicians exchanging insults to the bitter end. For the greater part of our childhood their relationship was marked by angry verbal encounters in a daily war of attrition.