In a World where many have ulcers due to worry and stress

That a truthful person will look you in the faceWhich seems a ‘load of bull’ in any case.And that every liar eye contact will avoidAs if the soul has secrets for to hideBut if by the cover you can’t judge the bookThen how can you judge people by how they look.It’s been said that conceit…

But that does not stop him of talking of Millstreet the Millstreet he loved and he knewTo the green white and gold of old Ireland Phil Cronin will always be true.His wife Kitty a Kildare woman so likeable clever and kindShe is such a beautiful person one blessed with a beautiful mindShe and Phil have…

And gold billed blackbird whistling on sunlit wattle treeAnd whoever coined the phrase was right ‘the best things in life are free’.The best things in life are always free and we don’t have to payFor the air we breathe and the water we drink and the sun that warms the dayAnd most of us do…

John Joe Sullivan or the Yank as some called him since he lived for awhile in the U S of AHe is gone from his old home in Coolinarne and with the dead of Millstreet he now lay.In Corkery’s Corner House in Millstreet he often drunk the darkened stuff of cheerGuinness stout the drink of…

The young girl in the river fell the water flowed bank highHe swam in and he dragged her out he could have watched her die.The only child of wealthy man that Pete had grown to hateWhich goes to prove the well known quote ‘your foe could be your mate’He could have stood and watched her…

And thinking of the coming mondayMade me feel more lonely still.Then my eyes beheld a ladyFairer than a rose in bloomThomas Regan’s daughter SadieHumming to herself a tune.When she saw me she stopped hummingAnd her face blushed ruddy redSays I to her Summer’s coming‘Tis a lovely day she said.As she passed me she was glancingFrom…