Sunday, July 31, 2011

Patrick Kavanagh

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A snippet of Patrick Kavanagh talking from 1962, one of my favourite poets and one that has had great influence on my writing: As always,a s...

Wasted Treasures

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The lighthouse at St John’s Point in Donegal Bay in one photograph mimics a wave on the sea, in another a seagull. It’s such a pity that lig...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Alone in the City

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I’m a great fan of Edward Hopper’s art: those images of solitary people in city venues are haunting. There is so much emptiness, sparseness...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

She Leaves.

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She leaves a country of mountain tops, pencil points in nothing and crosses on current arrows to where the sun shines on a space. Angels loo...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

Revisiting Lough Ree

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There is a recollection in Brian Friel’s “Philadelphia, Here I Come” that rings a loud bell in my head: Gar Private recounts a May afternoon...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Southword

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Wonderful to have access to new and high quality Irish writing for free, and if you haven’t found Southword Journal Online yet, that’s what ...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Heightened Vision

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Heightened vision. And seeing everything around you as part of the texture of your life.(Too much texture.) The minutest detail magnified, a...
Sunday, July 3, 2011

Waiting for the New Testament (Scientifically Speaking)

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Homo Sapiens. They were anxious to put as many genera between us and ape as possible; so each new jaw-bone, each different skull, each new f...
Friday, July 1, 2011

Autumn Conversations

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There is something very re-assuring in the congregation of old people in parks or wherever enjoying a hearty conversation.They look so comfo...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Winter Morning Roscommon

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Lost in the city is the sense of seasons changing. Snowdrops, daffodils,stands of primroses,lambs,that early summer oppulent growth in hedge...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

With You

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There is a day in every relationship, a make or break day. If 'break' there is no reclaimation;those days make sore memories. With Y...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Capitalism: The System That Works...(for us)

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Nice to live in Western Europe or Northern America. Capitalism:our system, the clean system that works. Well, as an Irishman, a system that ...
Monday, June 20, 2011

A Moment Certified By Lovers.

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It's a certifiable moment a punch-drunk second a pulse's high tide. A dog eats grass a water drop shivers a barrel fills to its brim...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Life`s Memories

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Trains: straining for that last fleeting glimpse; phonecalls: mis-understandings, badly chosen words; youthful infatuations remembered in am...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

A Taste of Emptiness

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I arrived in Dublin in 1973, having joined the Bank of Ireland, and was training in the Head Office in Baggot Street. Away from home, it was...