Long After I’m Gone 

Long After I’m Gone Screenplay adapted from the novel The Fisher Child Rights available Long After I’m Gone Synopsis In a minor battle of the 1798 Rebellion in Wexford, HUGH Byrne kills the black drummer of the Ancient Briton regiment. Sickened by the carnage, he leaves it and his belovéd CATHLEEN behind, but is captured, [...]

The Tins 

The Tins

Photo owned by Boocal (cc) The Tins and The Pale Lady Rights available. They looked up to see Miolmór, with his peaceful eyes, and Niamh, who was almost as big as the whale, floated up to kiss him. Then they sang to each other. Miolmór was too brave to complain, but they understood that all [...]

Those Distant Summers 

Those Distant Summers

Those Distant Summers Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980 (No ISBN given) Cover illustration Liam O’Connor author photo Paddy Doyle with praise and thanks to my family acknowledgements are due to The Gorey Detail, The Funge Broadsheets, The Pleiades, The Cracked Lookingglass, The Stony Thursday Book, Cyphers, The Wexford Art Centre Broadsheet, Icarus, TCD, Aishling (San [...]

The Year of the Knife 

The Year of the Knife

The Year of the Knife Poems 1980-1990 was published by Raven Arts Press, 1991. ISBN 1 85186 086 X The Raven Collection cover photo: Tony O’Shea for James Liddy Cover Endorsements Things that please me in poetry are precision, compassion and images that surpass the common run of language; also that the poet must have [...]