A good favour done for me I readily can recall

To grow to river Lee as it flow to the oceanHis musical verse is sheer poetry in motion.For health reasons his ties with his Homeland he was forced to severAnd in Portugal his bones at rest for foreverHe was a great poet and a marvellous translatorAnd few were his equal if any were greater.A hedge…

Yet some people to break their word seem to think that’s okayPeople who don’t have honour it would be true to say.Those who do not lack in honour to their own selves cannot be trueAnd those who never break their word great credit only dueYour word your bond as it is said and that to…

By all accounts he was a noble manAnd he is one still honoured by his clan.In a shoot out with the Crown Forces he diedCaught in the open and with nowhere to hideAnd though outnumbered thirty five to oneHe would not surrender nor did he try to run.His mother told him how her mother was…

And his so called war on terrorism one might say has been wonAnd the Taliban have been routed and El Qaeda on the run.George W and Osama in many ways the sameFor the christian god and the muslim allah they’ve committed acts of shameThey’ve taken the lives of thousands of human beings two wrongs don’t…

I felled pine trees there years ago when snow was on the groundIt surely was a hard old way for to earn one’s living poundBut Spring brought joy to Mushera the birds sang all the dayAnd the hawthorn trees looked lovely in their white blooms of the MayAnd the cooing of the woodpigeons a pleasant…

And with pride and distinction the green and gold he woreAmbrose from Gneeveguilla in Sliabh Luachra near Rathmore.He won All Ireland medals though how many I cannot sayAnd against the best in Ireland Ambrose lined up to playAnd though he is in his forties now he can look back with prideOf when he played for…