By Brian Toomey Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.Sunshine in my eyes can make me crySunshine on the water looks so lovely.Sunshine almost always makes me high If I had a day that I could give youI’d give to…
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Most celebrated Bushranger in Australia
Was from Dublin. By: Liam Nolan The last lines of an old Australian folk song are these: And as he closed his mournful eyes, he bid the world adieu, “Convicts all, pray for the soul of Bold Jack Donahue…
‘Don’t Fence Me In’ – Brian Toomey
Don’t Fence Me In – Brian Toomey Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above Don’t fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love — Don’t fence me in. Let me…
A Poem – ‘Night’
Night And The Count prowls in the mirror of the lover’s moon. Blood sours in the Arctic urn, spills to the strokes of snow dropping on midnight leaves. This is the cavern club of the Uilleann piper, here a dirge…
Miss Flanagan Stumped By A Clue
Miss Flanagan was stuck on a crossword puzzle. “Without family or friend” … six letters. She sat back in her chair and chewed on the end of her pen, the answer just wouldn’t come. As she rattled her sizeable…
The Strange Judgments of Judge Roy Bean
By Peter Grace The Strange Judgments of Judge Roy Bean In the 1890s in Pecos County in Texas a Paddy O’Rourke killed a Chinaman. He was brought to a hamlet called Langtry and held in the saloon known…
Eiffel’s Amazing Tower
By Gerry Breen Eiffel’s amazing tower By Gerry Breen Gustave Eiffel’s wrought iron tower, which adorns the Champ de Mars in Paris, was built as the entrance to the 1889 World’s Fair. It was intended to be a temporary structure,…
Kitty The Orphan
KITTY THE ORPHAN Tis a quare tale I have for you tonight that’ll make you stop in your tracks and think twice about any hardship you might ever have brought on another poor soul, begannies, and you might think twice…
The Gardener- Mary Oliver
Time -Emily Cullen
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