Three Wasps and A Skylark: Return of the Nature Poets

They love each other’s company, whatever place they meet, Though captive in the glass, the three, each knew their life was sweet. – from The Three Wasps, unpublished poetry of M J Reidy   In an age dominated by technology, with so many – including toddlers and children – perched unnaturally immobile in front of […]

Monumental: Honouring Kerry’s Regional Poets

In the cemetery of Kilmakilloge, Tuosist, stands a handsome monument inscribed as follows:   Leac é seo a tógadh i mí Iúil, 1930, Diarmuid Ó Seaghdha (na bolgaighe) agus an Mortaí Ó Súilleabháin (Learai), beirt Filí Thuaith Ó Siosta atá curtha sa Reilig seo. “A Thighearna ghléigil soar leo comacta suin/Iosa agus Aoin-Mic eist le […]