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  • perhaps simply poetry... evening tráthnóna The rain finally broke and we climbed out of the tent, first I, then she. There are few things as intimate as sharing a tiny cloth shelter in a downpour with not another hum…

  • another slight re-write... but slowly things are getting done, and I can get back to new words again... The Sea cois farraige Sitting on the beach at Enniscrone, a few of us on towels, most just on the chill, damp s…

  • random thinking on a hurried morning... division deighilt The two sides of Lough Foyle are different colours. The County Donegal side is a deeper green, the hills hold more visible rock, the moss grows more thickl…

  • barbara wrote about walls today, and then I thought of this... the border an teorainn We are walking the ridge the long way, crossing the field of tall grasses. It rained this morning, pouring down from a deep g…

  • I wrote this three months ago, posted a version, wasn't really happy, asked for thoughts, and re-wrote... The Last King of Ulster rí deiridh ar Uladh The telephones rang in the night and the men were told that they m…

  • stumbling around, I found royr9444 whose answer to angi1972's challenge got me thinking, and then I reached OwenHiggins thoughts on complaining, and I did not want anyone to imagine that I grew up in a place that was any…

  • a very rough attempt... just thinking of something that I wanted to say... storm stoirm The ferry left from Rosslare amidst fog and a hard rain and having made the turn to starboard beyond the breakwate…

  • does our language alter how we see the world? I always wonder about this... basic grammar gramadach bunúsach In Irish, and especially in the deeply antiquated Ulster form, you are not "sick" or "well" or "happy" or…

  • a couple of xanga conversations, on liberation, on memory, lead to this story... night and fog oíche agús ceo I have spent this moonless night sleepless, walking on the Embankment and along the quaysides from t…

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