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The Irish Wedding 2009
Click here to download: THE_IRISH_WEDDING_2009.pdf (748 KB)
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IN PRAISE OF - WITH APOLOGIES TO - PERCY FRENCH
*LIFELINES – a book of favourite poems Of famous people – mostly Irish Three hundred – give or take a few Not one chose William Percy French Poet, Author, Entertainer And Artist Extraordinaire Mathematician, Engineer Above all – a Storyteller Chalk and paintbrush, pen and candle Paintings, sketches by the score Plays, songs, poems and parodies Musician, pianist and much more The humour of his songs and poems And the beauty of his paintings His clever upside...
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 2008
(W.Y.D. – SYD) Before we’d even heard of it We’d arranged a trip across The Ditch Then read about World Youth Day (Week) Seventeenth to the twenty-third. Maria had it all arranged In touch with Rome to make the change. “I rang my friend Bene,” says she “Told him you were coming to Sydney.” “They’re coming to Sydney?” he replied I’ll arrange my trip to coincide!” So four of us (and friend Bene) Landed in Sydney the same day Just us girls – three generations, Joining youth...
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Sydney 2008
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THE OTHER 'SHOES WOMAN'
(on the occasion of Peggy’s significant birthday) With a TOOR-I-A, FOL-DE-DIDDLE AH, TOOR-I, OOR-I, OOR-I AH. With a TOOR-I-A, FOL-DE-DIDDLE AH, TOOR-I, OOR-I, OOR-I AH We’ll sing you the story of Peggy McGennis She’s married to Harry and he loves a Guinness It started seventy years ago In the Donegal Diocese of Raphoe With a TOOR-I-A, FOL-DE-DIDDLE AH, TOOR-I, OOR-I, OOR-I AH. She was born in Carrick on a freezing night Just a year before Hitler started...
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HOW TO SPEAK NUW ZULANDER
...an email currentlt doing the rounds in Nuw Zuland :) (FOR BIST EFFICT, RID THESE OUT LOWD) Ø Milburn ................. Capital of Victoria Ø Peck ......................... to fill a suitcase Ø Pisssed aside ........ chemical which kills insects Ø Pigs ...................... for hanging out washing with Ø ...
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HOLDAY IRELAND 2007
If you ask me friends and rellies Why I’m writing in this rhythm In this very simple meter It’s because it’s just like talking I don’t have to think of rhyming If it rhymes it’s accidental I don’t need an even number – Pairing couplets for a story – Every line stands independent. NOT invented by yours truly It was first done by Longfellow In the Hiawatha sagas With his girlfriend Minihaha. ‘Nuff of Minnie and her High - a! Marathon in Greenwich, London Rachel’s new flat needing storage Pater...
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Carrick Reunion No 5 (2006)
We came from near and far away Some flew from the Antipodes To the Scáthlán rock of olden times Our voices raised in prayers and hymns. And in the Old School later on Official start by Jim Harrison. Reunion Book and Programme launch A concert and a buffet “lunch” Old photos all around the walls Much younger versions of us all. Old school classmates, friends, young lovers A group of children catching bubbles. Breezy Willow – what to expect? All we knew: she was going to cook We’d heard about the “knickers”...
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Has Genealogy Died ?
HTML clipboard(Subtitle: The Cunningham Takeover) For those of us from far away We’ve lost track of genealogy Committee members – twenty-nine And twelve of them are “Cunningham”. When we think back on olden times We hardly mentioned “Cunninghams” Francis Lawrence and Francie Joe Francis Mary Jane and Francie “Go” James Frank, Big Jim, Francie Beag, Jimmy Joe, Wee Jim and Jimmy Beag. And Paddy Jim and Paddy Joe And Paddy Susan Phaddy Óg. John James John Beag and Red House Ann Cathal Emmet and Mícheal Brendan...
