fiction, john chadbon, experience behind him, people, crowd, youth, mouth curl, face, expression, life, age,
poem, john paul nash, god and the indream machine, the world poetry conspiracy, truth, beauty, imagination, angel, humanity, human, reality, zero, dream,
poem, pc frog from tipperary, raid, police, police officer, humour, investigation,
poem, johnny hopkins, skyscraper, britain, cliche, ze old water sleep,
poem, johnny hopkins, brite nite,
poem, johnny hopkins, lips tick, lipstick,
poem, johnny hopkins, rove, rover, over,
poem, johnny hopkins, tap water,
poem, poems, m. wilkin, leaves, lake, old man, nature, image, images, pub, girls, walk, moment, night, city,
poem, tom matthews, happy birthday miss templeton, occasion, celebration, letter, confusion, time, past, confession,
poem, tom matthews, gustav the great explorer, adventure, travel, explore, lost, snow, past, return, celebrity,
poem, andrea finn, children, train, attention, silence, sound, irritation, childhood, adulthood, sensation, travel,
fiction, maurice blease, bowboy, children, childhood, school, bullying, boy, boys, fear, bully, name, hiding, private, privacy, play, game, cruel, cruelty, behaviour, mischief, shy, timid, abuse, trauma, violence, revenge, teacher, education,
poem, james simmons, for jan betley, polish, war, nature, silence, waiting, wait, hidden, hiding,
poem, jack holland, one remembrance day 1968, death, cold, november, autumn, charity, red, poppies, collecting, past, history, occasion,
poem, g magee, advice to a friend on growing up, irritate, irritation, youth, mature, maturity, friendship, behaviour,
poem, j. w. featherstone, angus, suicide, saltburn, death, life, beginning, ending, eternity, elegy, choice,
poem, j. w. featherstone, the happiest holidaymaker, holiday, photograph, record, picture, performance, fame, expression, emotion, smile,
poem, kathleen gilbert, long way from marathon, movement, running, runner, exercise, park people, body, olympics,
poem, kathleen gilbert, moulingon (for fictional marcus), youth, age, men, old, man, young, food, eat, drink, death, sea,
poem, kathleen gilbert, mouse, life, death, dead, animal, corpse, kill, image, horsemen,
poem, terry brindley, bridges 2, nature, weather, image, colour, movement, weather, hazel, catkin, birch,
poem, colin mcateer, flowers, flora, flower, spring, growth, cheer, burgeon, bloom, regeneration,
poem, tom matthews, the thin air of sunset, sky, sun, evening, gull, seagull, gulls, sea, shore, waves, beach, bird, birds, flight, fly, animals, nature, age, nourishment, ending, life, end, old, ]]> poem, translation, arthur terry, nocturnal dialogue, spanish, luis cernuda, devil, god, man, deam, sleep, morning, life, death, age, aging, temptation, words, legacy,
poem, translation, arthur terry, the date, spanish, luis cernuda, foreign, bird, dawn, morning, autumn, journey, travel,
poem, translation, limbo, spanish, luis cernuda, empty, furniture, age, old, poet, poetry, death,
essay, donal o’kane, festival ‘69, a mild exercise in spleen, guiness book of records, 1968, 1969, theatre, performance, drama,
poem, robert devine, faith-healer, god, sin, healer, health, religion, spirit,
poem, seamus heaney, in an airport coach, travel, road, traffic, new jersey, usa, america, spring, city, urban, waste, manhattan, new york, subway, transport,
poem, gavin ewart, ella mi fu rapita! die liebe dauert oder dauert nicht - brecht, relationship, relationships, love, break-up, romance, boredom, lover, end, ending,
fiction, john mcgahern, hearts of oak and bellies of brass, work, labour, construction, building, concrete, dig, literature, education, shakespeare, money, irish, identity, name, names, prostitute,
poem, james simmons, artist’s wives, wife, marriage, relationship, support, write, writer, blake, william blake, duty,
poem, james simmons, what will you do love, ambition, artist, writer, wife, support, marriage, love, relationship, relationships,
poem, tom mclaughlin, a married sister speaks, children, family, garden, weeds, growth, time, marriage, nature,
poem, tom mclaughlin, to begin again, to myself, poetry, poet, writing, writer, time, summer, past, memory, experience, imagination,
fiction, the revolutionaries, michael foley, revolution, revolutionary, rebellion, anarchy, socialism, socialist, police, students, student, worker, worker’s rights, politics,
poem, paul muldoon, january, winter, beginning, birth, child, existence, life, norway, snow,
poem, paul muldoon, easter island, stonehenge, ancient, monument, history, island, building, build, stone, rock, sculpture, art,
poem, bruce berlind, watching radar, snow, landscape, observation, movement, stillness, still, war, anticipation, fear, attention, waiting,
poem, patrick stevenson, to “the honest ulsterman”, journal, writing, poetry, magazine, paper, meta, ulster, criticism, review, honesty, truth, lent, heaney, hewitt, bert rogers, satire,
poem, johnston kirkpatrick, my father’s car, motor, vehicle, money, work, shipyard, labour, parent, parents,
poem, michael foley, seeing is not believing, purpose, life, marriage, religion, money, blind,
blindness, see, sight, direction,
review, michael stephens, black rage, william h. grier, price m. cobbs,
essay, tom mclaughlin, patrick kavanagh and the “ireland” myth, nationalism, nationalist, poetry, poet, cathleen ni houlihan, mother ireland, parochial, provincial, truth, sincerity, ]]> fiction, andrei platnov, semyon, michael pursglove, alexander pavlov, Russia, Russian, translation, family, parents, pregnancy, pregnancy, child, children, life, death, brother, sibling, bread, work, labour, poverty, hunger, food, imagination, stories, poor, pain, domestic, home, mother, gender, transition, change,
poem, michael brophy, where are my people, now?, belfast, city, urban, street, falls road, nationalism, education, history, work, community, violence, heritage, fighting, conflict, troubles, identity, protestant, catholic,
poem, michael brophy, office party, work, death, life,
essay, james simmons, the barbaric age, contemporary, barbarism, civilization, culture, confusion, boredom, zeitgeist, brian bourke, civil rights, new university, coleraine, magee, politics, democracy, bernadette devlin, socialism, primitive, essentials, folk, lena horne, song, popular music, hollywood, individualism, establishment, theatre in ulster, circle theatre, play, drama, criticism, critic, review, schaeffer, royal hunt of the sun, philadelphia here i come, the iron harp, brian friel, john b. keane, tyrone guthrie, george shiels, macook’s corner, loves of cass maguire,
poem, tony harrison, the pocket wars of peanuts joe, war, conflict, trauma, genitals, genitalia, veteran, army,
poem, heinrich heine, the guillotine, hamish henderson, translated, translation, deutschland ein wintermarch, germany a winter’s tale, german, war, france, history, execution, class, elite, aristocracy,
poem, philip hobsbaum, monkey’s puzzle, wire, cloth, protection, comfort, fear, nourishment, need, parent, child, childhood,
poem, michael friel, i am a bus, travel, vehicle, movement, journey, life, tunnel,
poem, michael friel, fishermen, morning, dawn, fish, labour, work, sea, home, return, boat,
review, leo d’agostino, portnoy’s complaint, philip roth,
review, r. t. chapman, ratman’s notebooks, stewart gilbert,
record review, james simmons, austin clark, beyond the pale,
record review, james simmons, dolly macmahon, dolly,
review, james simmons, henry james, what maisie knew,
poem, new song, james simmons, lovely molly, love, sex, romance, marriage, ]]> poem, tom matthews, the dead saviour, death, body, genitals, smell, respect,
poem, tom matthews, diffuse, larne, scatter, disperse,
poem, finbar crowley, on visiting o’neill’s tomb in rome, hugh o’neill, burial, grave, monument, shrine, pilgrimage, tribute, death, dead, leader, war, italy, history, exile, lord mountjoy, battle, kinsale, queen elizabeth, tudor, ireland, england, nation, nationalism, tyrone,
poem, libby selman, after seeing the film “kapy selan alla” at the stoll cinema newcastle, nudity, naked, sex, Finland, finnish, movie, holiday, camp, nature,
poem, norman dugdale, sea change, sea, salt, tide, travel, penelope, family, seafarer,
poem, w. pryce turner, hard lines, stag party, men, man, money, leeds,
poem, walter allen, flaubert, writer, writing, travel, word, letter, words, isolation, separation, illness,
poem, 5 poems from a cycle, muiris o’keeffe, 3. sweeney loves the world, man, lust, individual, wandering, walking, walk, 4. sweeney growing cold, experience, life, snow, cold, ice, boredom, winter, 5. sweeney turns sideways to god, religion, ennui, purpose, prayer, tired, 6. sweeney in the wilderness, crow, death, funeral, burial, sadness, grief, life, 7. sweeney disappears into the sunset, wandering, travel, journey, ramble, solitude, alone, road, disappearing, loss, cork,
essay, john p. moulden, folk singer at work, song, oral, music, singing, folksinger, performer, performance, work, interpretation, love, art, profession,
poem, johnston kirkpatrick, concerning gardens, nature, growth, autumn, regeneration, gardening, plants, labour, green, earth, neighbour, neighbours, community, domestic, home, season,
poem, peter finch, incidentally, this is a love poem, poet, poetry, relationship, relationships, feeling, emotion, writing, writer, flower, nature, detstruction, love, cardiff,
poem, mike featherstone, contempt of court, law, justice, crime, conviction, violence, life, choice, decision, t. w. featherstone, the thin air of sunset,
poem, w. i. holland, mansize resurrection, morning, beginning, rising, spring, return, religion, christianity, dublin,
poem, william peskett, whistling, kettle, domestic, home, food, cooking, life, lobster, animal, animals, empathy,
poem, alan perry, poetry reading, routine, words, book, read, sensation, words, words, language, swansea,
poem, caryl cromie, weekend, home, alienation, strange,
poem, caryl cromie, parting, relationship, relationships, love, leaving, break-up, speaking, communication, belfast,
review, james simmons, door into the dark, seamus heaney,
review, james simmons, coming out fighting, philip hobsbaum, the sick lion, watching and waiting, lake scene,
review, james simmons, poems on theatre, bertolt brecht, translation, translated, john berger, anna bostock,
review, michael stephens, nothing personal, richard avedon, james baldwin,
review, michael stephens, hymns to st geryom and other poems, michael mcclure, ]]> editorial, james simmons, revolutionary advise, individual morality, james hemming, literature, individuality, sex, adolescence, masturbation, maturity, marriage, freedom, love, relationships, poem, gavin ewart, the poem of our time, relationships, marriage, abuse, politics, minorities, suffering,
poem, gavin ewart, the clarissa harlowe poem, samuel richardson, heroine, virtue, sin, history of a young woman, Lovelace, sex, rape,
poem, ruth adams, the rains, weather, rain, animals, watching, growth, nature, nourishment, urban, city, cassius, storm, quixote,
poem, ruth adams, the god of child, childhood, imagination, religion, sunflower, nature, light, growing up, belief, sun,
poem, three views, michael stephens, one, senses, observation, ekphrasis, art, painting, looking, listening, sea, grass,
two, morning, milk, milkman, cold, freezing, ice, mist, weather, observation, sense, moment,
three, memory, remembering, instant, moment, mother,
poem, andrew waterman, outsider, bar, pub, public house, pint, watching, movement, objects, isolation,
poem, andrew waterman, room for living, grave, cemetery, flowers, mourning, dead, graveyard, life,
fiction, michael j. murphy, down the glen, extract from a novel, the green book, dundalk, liverpool, south armagh, childhood, glen dhu, stone-breaker, slieve gullion,
poem, paul muldoon, rodgers at loughgall, armagh, place, neighbour, poem, ownership,
poem, francis mulhern, curriculum vitae revealed, women, woman, body, bodies, labour, life, bowls, bowling,
poem, frank ormsby, epitaph for a parochial worker, work, st vincent de paul, chapel, legacy, death, charity,
poem, brendan kennelly, design, humanity, human behaviour, violence, crime, anger, legacy, logic, innovation, Cain, Christ, wrath, treachery,
poem, philip jenkins, first poem for jennifer, sex, sensation, senses, movement, bodies, love, romance, metaphor, moment, heartbeat,
dedication, jean coleman,
poem, brian n. topping, in a dead factory, industry, machine, machinery, emptiness, empty, silence, history, death,
poem, gerard smyth, slowdance, bodies, body, dance, music hall, relationship, connection, sensation, romance,
poem, norman dugdale, poor fitz, death, funeral, grief, mourning, life, alone, solitude,
review, james simmons, patrick kavanagh, almost everything,
review, james simmons, patrick boyle, all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye,
review, leo d’agostino, the bridge in the jungle, ben traven,
poem, james simmons, new song, the new ulster, bann, northern ireland, burntollet bray, fahan strand, work, ]]> poem, michael friel, derry 12-8-69, 12th August 1969, twelfth, grouse, bird, flight, riots, troubles, civil rights, politics, nature,
poem, iain crichton smith, on a summer’s day, summer, season, death, body, francis bacon, alexander pope, beach, sand, sea, time, ancient,
poem, iain crichton smith, the idiot, ball, game, body, human,
poem, iain crichton smith, arrivals and departure, journey, travel, life,
fiction, short story, maurice blease, the ticket, bus, children, childhood, england, english, fortune telling, transport, play, games, death, accident, injury,
poem, james simmons, in memoriam judy garland, frances gumm, song, singing, music, death, overdose, drugs, over the rainbow,
poem, wes magee, radishcal, radish, vegetable, left wing, poverty, growth, food, eating, kitchen, bite, revenge,
review, folksong a and m, john moulden, song,, folk music, belfast, pat’s bar, the fiddle house, the old house,
poem, jim burns, first love, sex, virginity, youth, pain,
poem, jim burns, mr england, work routine, daily express, right wing, zeitgeist, normal,
review, theatre, michael richards, fiddling while rome burns, sean o’casey, juno and the paycock,
poem, frank ormsby, bonfire pile, belfast, unionism, ritual, destruction, loyalist,
poem, d. j. o’sullivan, time change, spring, april, dawn, nature, burgeoning, blossom, growth, insects, life,
poem, frank ormsby, squatters, july 1969, house, housing, survival, war, emptiness, suffering,
poem, jack mccoy, night-fall at the pier, boat, shore, ruin, water, pollution, sea, night, antrim lighthouse,
poem, peter finch, imagination, love, beauty, girls, women, romance, war, nuclear, writing, poetry,
review, frank ormsby, somerville and ross: a symposium,
review, frank ormsby, beginning, dinah livingstone, tohu bohu, dinah livingstone,
review, derek mahon, love on the moor, glyn hughes, poems from prison, wole soyinka, ]]> poem, libby selman, wasps swatted in remedial reading class, childhood, children, school, death, insect, life,
fiction, john chadbon, the balancing trick, insect, cats, cat, animals, incarceration, cruelty, abuse, freedom, fault, death, money, trade,
poem, terry brindley, bridges, clifton gorge, ike khaki, nature, sensation, relationship, love, romance, news, connection, privacy,
poem, terry brindley, eliotesque, t. s. eliot, possum, dante, bradley, burke, poet, poetry, culture,
poem, terry brindley, a painting in the dutch school, art, ekphrasis, home, domestic, domesticity, colonial, light, still,
poem, wes magee, in a glacial valley, nature, animal, animals, dolphin, bodies, body, sensation, energy, water, life,
essay, michael longley, in defence of billie holiday, jazz, music, song, singing,
essay, john morrow, folk grope-in, ireland, pill, tradition, culture, fiddle, fiddling, music, tourism,
poem, w. j. kelly, kate, love, romance, drunk, alcohol,
review, theatre, michael richards, the anatomy of intimidation, john b. keane, the field,
poem, john jeffs, mormons, religion, god, american, irish, spirit, feeling, anger,
poem, john jeffs, tacha, mexican, sweetheart, ireland, illness, cancer, death, family, cemetery, america, cousin,
poem, mike featherstone, don’t ask me, fishing, fisherman, sea, time, moment,
review, michael pursglove, anna akhmatova, selected poems,
review, james simmons, the great famine, 1845-1852,]]> fiction, michael stephens, a recit, the mystery of the blind lorry driver, thought, mind, consciousness, life, death, injury,
poem, seamus heaney, offerings, in memoriam patrick rooney,
1, turnip man, children, halloween, my aunt jean, darkness, apple tart, childhood, children autumn,
2, high street, 1786, tricorn, linen hall, cornmarket, belfast, afternoon, lagan,
3, from cave hill, evening, city, view, smoke,
4, september song, tele early, hallelujah, curse the pope and fire away, childhood, children, autumn,
essay, michael foley, the comedy of flann o’brien, comic, the third policeman, at swim-two-birds, encounter, the best of myles,
poem, gavin ewart, to the students to make the most of time, youth, age, freedom, education, jobs, job, work, career, profession, adulthood,
poem, michael foley, morning stroll, after patrick kavanagh, canterbury street, ignorance, joy, dustbins, rubbish, stroll, walk,
poem, trio, frank ormsby, mcquade, football, tackle, play, cancer, illness, death, ball,
high wind, weather, chaos, crazed,
defence of poesie, poetry, poems, poet, bullying, bully,
poem, paul muldoon, hedgehog, animals, snail, hovercraft, secret, secrets, body, bodies, protection, god, christ, trust, fear, vulnerability, human, humanity, questions,
poem, michael friel, for a medieval stone cutter, art, sculpture, history, dragon, dragons, past, middle ages, belief,
review, theatre, michael richards, in praise of rep, ben jonson, the alchemist, john osbourne, luther,
review, michael richards, gambit, international theatre review,
poem, r. brown, tramp…, homeless, homelessness, home, responsibility, charity, shelter,
poem, una lavery, it rained steadily all day…, noah’s ark, weather, rain, pregnancy, women, woman, journey, wife, mother,
poem, augustus young, climacterics, on reading rinuccini’s account of a visit to ireland, catholic, pope, papal, celtic, chastity, religion,
poem, kenneth a. duffin, he could do better than this, war, battle, fighting, soldier, death, god, suffering, religion,
review, james simmons, new numbers, christopher logue, watchwords, roger mcgough,
review, frank ormsby, circus, banquet and revolution, terry brindley,
letter, letters, peter brooke,
review, michael stephens, small mages, second aeon, fresh salad, phalanx, motus,
review, frank ormsby,secret marriages, michael longley,
poem, w. b. yeats, 1923…, bees, honey-bees, come build in the empty house of the stare, destruction, ruin, nature,]]> poem, catherine hanson, country bird, city, hot, heat, weather, flirt, girls,
poem, paul muldoon, centre piece, ass, relationship, emotions, ear, bite,
poem, paul muldoon, taking the rust, horse, turnip, work, daddy, father, word, traces,
fiction, john morrow, a heart and a half, wedding, violence, family, story, belfast, fighting, fight,
poem, james simmons, nigeria 1967, africa, native, beauty,
poem, james simmons, the bonfire, africa, straw man, fire, flames, guy fawkes, apartheid, tradition, culture, mob, gunpowder plot,
review, frank ormsby, the short stories of james plunket,
poem, michael foley, autumn leaves, work, university, travel, routine, boredom, science, tedium,
poem, tom mclaughlin, infinite striptease, writing, drinking, drunk, alcohol, soul, expression, poetry, reader, writer,
fiction, michael jamieson, the experts, army, soldier, sergeant, men, masculinity, song, singing, sex, mocking, mockery, initiation ceremony, humiliation,
poem, translation, arthur terry, luis cernuda, spanish, christmas eve, 1951, human, isolation, cold, winter, love, religion, kings, shepherds, christ, god,
poem, frank ormsby, marriage, letter, romance, relationship, age, irish, mate, love,
poem, frank ormsby, stock car, motor, vehicle, damage, crash, race,
essay, michael foley, education, school, poetry, literature, teaching, university, teacher,
poem, john cassidy, the last of the…, age, old, past, memory, stories,
poem, john cassidy, not in so many words, love, gesture, affection, romance, connection, relationship, moment, bar,
essay, geoffrey squires, saner than thou?, politics, literature, catholic, protestant, republican, unionist, irish, british, conflict, U.S.A., identity, north, south,]]> poem, john montague, honey and gold, 1, a dream of july, summer, ceres, sensation, smell, woman, body, moon,
2, the same gesture, love, light, intimacy, sex,
3, love, a greeting, love, sex, body, cunt, smell, honey,
poem, gavin ewart, the boss is thinking, work, office, women, men, misogyny,
fiction, translation, yurii kazakov, the plain girl, alexander pavlov, michael pursglove, wedding, marriage, soviet, russian, russia, dance, love, courting, confidence,
poem, tony harrison, doodlebugs, drawing, penis, vagina, genitals, vicar, sex, adolescence, imagination,
poem, michael foley, appeal for the class of ‘69, war, nostalgia, adolescence, youth, school, photograph, past, time,
poem, michael foley, noble savages, native american, natives, indigenous, colonialism, post-colonial, race, culture, conflict, reservation,
poem, edwin morgan, letters of mr. lonelyhearts : 2, letter, nathanael west, monkey, marshmallow, love, heart, romance, problem, writing, column,
essay, ray duncan, art, arts council, gallery, society, culture, engagement, arts management, ormeau baths,
poem, norman dugdale, a self portrait, ugo foscolo, 1778-1827, reflection, mirror, face, appearance, body, melancholy, death, fame,
william conor, art,
essay, alastair minnis, an aspect of edna o’brien, love, the love object, the country girls, girl with green eyes, girls in their married bliss, august is a wicked month, casualties of peace,
review, theatre, michael richards, drama in festival ‘69 - acme or acne?, wherehosue la mama,
review, kevin o’malley, frank marcus, the killing of sister george, harold pinter, the homecoming,
review, robert shanks, arrabal, oration, ionesco, the lesson, european theatre group,
introduction, two poems by george mcwhirter, spain, spanish, irish, catalan, canada, british columbia,
poem, george mcwhirter, siesta, sleep, spain, sun, dark, aragon, landscape, mountains, bed, place,
poem, george mcwhirter, eduardo’s elegy, body, illness, cold, landscape, nature, sickness, death, place,
fiction, maurice blease, end of term, childhood, school, noah’s ark, animals, elephant, craft, children,
poem, frank ormsby, wet day, nature, weather, fermanagh, rain,
poem, frank ormsby, loughside, lough, water, nature, landscape,
poem, wes magee, junior junkies, collecting, collection, rubbish, junk, school, children, childhood, tradition, season, bonfire, fire, burning,
review, paul muldoon, michael longley, no continuing city, ]]> essay, michael foley, labour pains, youth, work, education, job, capitalism, money, profession, career, purpose, writing, writer,
poem, tom mclaughlin, lady-in-waiting, relationship, waiting, poetry, poet,
poem, tom mclaughlin, letter to the editor, poetry, poet, writing, foley,
essay, james simmons, brian moore and the fallacy of realism, ulster writers, lonely passion of judith hearne, the feast of lupercal, the emperor of ice cream, the luck of ginger coffey, an answer from limbo, i am mary dunne,
poem, paul muldoon, the man without a name, to clint eastwood, self, man, solitude, scarecrow, alone,
poem, seamus heaney, the last mummer, ireland, culture, mime, entertainment, dispossession, change,
poem, john hewitt, remembering itzik manger and a conversation in edinburgh years ago, poetry, jew, jewish, yiddish, marc chagall,
fiction, john morrow, balubu, bar, pub, drinking, drink, wine, alcohol, biddy,
poem, michael foley, last moments of the bed-sitter king, bed-sit, survival, death,
poem, gavin ewart, peacetime, death, life, war, burial,
ulster artists,
brian ballard, release,
george mccann, the meeting,
ian lawrenson, two typists looking out of window,
brian ferran, colmcille’s bird,
fiction, michael stephens, the long weekend, conversation, relationship, body, intimacy, sleep,
poem, peter fallon, “where he is,” weather, forecast, sun, prediction, faith, belief, death,
poem, anthony weir, when blind men weep, ailment, disability, sensation, poetry, senses,
poem, brendan kennelly, the swimmer, shannon, water, river, swimming, body, exercise,
poem, brendan kennelly, old poet’s late-night story, erotic, rural, gander, sex, woman,
poem, frank ormsby, regional, nature, landscape, mountain, rural, city, secret, home, place,
review, michael richards, the strange world of belfast theatre, o’casey, the plough and the stars, synge, the playboy of the western world, shakespeare, romeo and juliet,
poem, robert greacen, witness, trial, court, law, domestic abuse,
poem, patric stevenson, irish fleas, a verse letter to dr james fairley of galway university, flea-shy, flea, animal, science, ulster, pest,
essay, ray duncan, art, arts council gallery, Michael baird, john berry, mauro runst, brian yale,
poem, edwin morgan, columba, brude, nature, animals,
poem, joan newmann, wesley, individual, people, home, family, funeral,
poem, augustus young, the advice of an efficiency expert, execution, practical, efficient, death, hanging,
poem, eamon carr, you and i, relationship, love, romance, desire,
review, james simmons, john hewitt, the day of the corncrake,
review, frank ormsby, stories of old and new, seamus o’kelly, mary lavin, happiness and other stories,]]> Poem, Gavin Ewart, Broadstairs, summer, children, writer
Poem, Gavin Ewart, A Vision, Virgin, religion, winter, Mary, writer, writing, Greek, poetry
Poem, Gavin Ewart, The Dickens Wife, family, wife, husband, relationships, old, aging, body, fat, love, marriage,
Poem, Gavin Ewart, The Seven Stages, love, sex, guilt, god, age, prayer, death, life,
Letter, John Hearsum,
Story, John Hearsum, The Umbrella, umbrella, theft, stealing, kleptomania, confession, sex, lust, artist,
Poem, Michael Brophy, Death in the Glen, Collin Glen 1968, nature, past, death
Poem, Michael Brophy, Flowers, nature, flowers, blooming, night, dream, Geranium,
Poem, Michael Brophy, Dance Little Man, psalms, oppressor, love, loss, happy, song, singing, performance, sad,
Poem, Hazel Martin, Folk Song, nature, tree, love, song, past, tradition, repetition, land
Poem, Hazel Martin, Magilligan, war, child, mother, memory, hurt, nature, land, shore,
Story, H. N. Glancy, Irish Medical Lore, Celts, medicine, Ireland, ancient history, doctors, pre-christian, monastic, patient, money, myth, disease, cure, Cavan, saoirse,
Introduction, W. Price Turner
Poem, W. Price Turner, Rose Harem, cat, rose, colour, black, red, beauty, sensual,
Poem, W. Price Turner, A Northern Tragedy, death, husband, wife, widow, travel, burial, dying, grief, mourning, postman, funeral, dog, past, woman, irony
Poem, W. Price Turner, The Queer Spleen Face, writer, family, publishing, money, irony
Poem, W. Price Turner, Prop and Prodder, emotion, death, husband, wife, wooden leg, mourning, grief, life,
Poem, W. Price Turner, The Moral Rocking-Horse, morality, horse, riding, age, old, riding
Essay, Walter Allen, Reasons for Reading Joyce Cary, childhood, anglo-irish, novels, boyhood, Charley is my Darling, novelists,
Poem, Padraic Fiacc, Morning Dark, For John McGahern, nature, death, life, father, mother, sea, future, past, morning, day
Poem, Stanley Cromie, reflections on a traitor, law, money, crime, traitor, politics, democracy, pornography, porn, Moscow, Philby
Poem, Stanley Cromie, Specialization, darts, poetry, hobby, occupation, ambition, best, sport, man, masculinity, achievement
Poem, John Cassity, Love Seen, love, romance, lovers, Autumn, weather, body, bodies,
Letter, This Ulster, N. Lendrum, Bangor,
Review, Underneath the water, Charles Causley,
Poem, Laura Simmons, Across the river and up the creek, man,men, masculinity, urination, mounting, fishing, gun, power, physicality,
Poem, James Greer, Awakening, for stephen gwynne, indians, native american, fenimore cooper, child, boy, boyhood, Ulster, pride, America, nation, land, lore, legend, dreams, donegal, fantasy
Poem, James Simmons, New Song, The Ulster Soldier Boy, high germany, war, soldier, army, ulster, nation, duty, propaganda, glory, love, family, germany, death, hunger, hero, pride,
]]> poem, michael foley, tina, home, relationship, travel, performer,
poem, john montague, the fault, dr patrick mccartan, winston churchill, monument for a northern republican, tyrone, war, trauma, country, ireland, conflict, father,
ii, the fault, injury, heritage, family, violence,
iii, the sound of a wound, injury, pain, place, history,
iv, the cage, brooklyn, car accident, memory, loss,
fiction, extract from a novel, oh, oh, stewart parker, children, lust, desire, poor things,
poem, geoffrey squires, a poem for protestants, border, king, irony, allegory,
poem, michael stephens, railway to the river, journey, travel, landscape, loss, nature, train,
poem, michael stephens, the dream king, relationship, change, intimacy, love, loss, dreaming, sleep, bed,
poem, tom mclaughlin, a poetry circular, poet, poetry, life, ambition, age, career, youth, adolescence, aspiration, adult, adulthood, growing up,
review, theatre, stewart parker, it’s a bad scene, mrs worthington, ross alexander, little mother, wherehouse la mama, the living theatre,
john vallely, four paintings, the sligo musicians, young girl playing a flageolet, banish misfortune, the four musicians.
essay, michael foley, getting off, sex, men, women, pride, dance, party, woman, intelligence, gender,
poem, frank ormsby, hairy horseworm, horse-worm, insect, animal, life, size, nature,
poem, gavin ewart, ‘woodland walk’, richmond park, sunday, 15th february, 1970, snow, weather, walk, russia, chekhov, cold, freezing, frozen, ice,
poem, gavin ewart, the short essay on style, stephen spender, valley of the dolls, writing, writer, conversation,
poem, gavin ewart, food, eating, animal, nature, flesh, death,
essay, frank ormsby, the plays of brian friel, philadelphia, here I come, the loves of cass mcguire, lovers,
poem, translation, anthony weir, irish, king suibine’s oratory, house, home, tree, forest, woods, nature,
poem, translation, anthony weir, irish, king suibine’s solitude, nature, moira, lonely, alone, derry, prayer, praying,
poem, translation, anthony weir, irish, the ex-poet, cuirithir, poetry, love, loss, liadan, prayer, religion,
poem, translation, anthony weir, irish, winter, cold, weather, ice, seasons, season,
poem, translation, anthony weir, swedish, lars hulden, 1, author, writer, writing, poet,
poem, translation, anthony weir, swedish, lars hulden, 2, respect, paradise, greeting,
poem, translation, anthony weir, swedish, lars hulden, 3, death, jesus, christianity,
poem, translation, anthony weir, icelandic, anonymous, genitals, sex, penis, illness, age, old, body,
poem, tom matthews, happy arabia, knowledge, poet, poetry,
review, james simmons, thomas kilroy, the death and resurrection of mr roche,
review, james simmons, james j. mcauley, draft balance sheet,
]]> poem, bruton connors, corporal’s farewell, leaving, depart, departure,
poem, jane wilson, swan, swans, body, animal, animals, swim,
poem, jane wilson, mill moor, landscape, weather, season, nature,
poem, jane wilson, spider, hunt, predator, man, animals, nature, animal,
poem, gavin ewart, a bachelor gay, marriage, family, relationship, sex, desire, fear,
poem, james simmons, antigone’s hour, ramore, relationship, walking,
poem, david burleigh, mental patient’s regret, solitude, health, restoration,
poem, tony harrison, the death of the pwd man, graveyard, grave, yorkshire, bathurst, travel, journey, train, leeds, anxiety, health, british isles, britain, railway, empire, dying, death, public works department,
poem, brian lee, dog, animal, stray, lost, fear, domestic, home, dogs,
fiction, extract from a novel, stewart parker, a touch of hell, health, pain, medicine, death, danger, nurse, hospital, wound, injury,
poem, d. c. carr, on a tombstone, death, grave,
review, theatre, kate ireland, much ado about nothing, lovers,
poem, ciaran carson, spring fancies, weather, walk, conversation,
poem, ciaran carson, wenceslas, for my mother, family, love, journey, snow, winter,
george maccann, art, st columba, 1951, portrait of mercy hunter, 1937, still life, 1931, crucifixion, 1934, corpus christi procession at birr, 1938,
poem, liam murphy, ginsberg jettison, allen ginsberg, beats, beat poetry, poet, writer, writing, whitman, howl,
poem, liam murphy, touchnose, attention, sky, time, poetry, presence, poet,
essay, the poetry of w. r. rodgers, awake! and other poems, europa and the bull, on writing a poem, balloons and maggots,
poem, michael foley, the poetry circus, poets, writers, writing, ulster, heaney, muldoon, ormsby, simmons, longley,
poem, robert flanagan, passing the day, in memory of loretta borer, family, illness, cancer, sickness, death, denial,
poem, robert flanagan, the fiction reading, a self-portrait, portrait, writer, prose, performance,
poem, translation, anthony weir, rimbaud, french, the lice seekers, care, attention, family, sister, childhood, comfort, nurture,
poem, translation, anthony weir, rimbaud, french, from squattings, scatological, faeces, illness, sickness, body, old, age, monk,
poem, wes magee, road runner, running, exercise, family, escape, home, loneliness, lonely,
poem, wes magee, girl with scabies, illness, pest, parasite, childhood, poverty, mite,
poem, wes magee, maybe i’d do well in tibet, travel, poet, city, solitude, place, urban,
poem, wes magee, the ritual of digging the pond, nature, digging, lime, dig, labour, water, animals,
poem, wes magee, the newlands, travel, landscape, rural, holiday,
review, theatre, robert shanks, european theatre club, three plays, franz kafka, a lecture to the academy, samuel beckett, krapp’s last tape, harold pinter, the dumb waiter,
review, sean clerkin, owen dudley edwards, the sins of our fathers, ]]> poem, tony curtis, landscape north wales, nature, tree, view, farmhouse, sheep,
poem, w. f. marshall, sarah ann, home, dialect, domestic, work, women, tyrone, romance, farm,
poem, w. f. marshall, the runaway, a sequel to “sarah ann”, money, marriage, domesticity, wife, dialect, domestic, work, women, tyrone, farm,
poem, w. f. marshall, ma an’ me da, drumlister, tyrone, family, carmin, women, wife, father, dad, parent, cullentra, age, old, dialect,
poem, w. f. marshall, john the liar, tyrone, dialect, farming, farm, pigs, pig,
poem, w. f. marshall, the hills of home, portadown, strabane, creation, land, creation, landscape, tyrone, mountain, mountains, cooley sweep, bessy bell, shelter, region, nature,
fiction, john morrow, what a pixture, conversation, local, war, religion, history, sectarianism, catholic, protestant, money, story, yarn, storytelling, taig, business,
poem, tom matthews, travellers, journey, destiny,
poem, eamon carr, short hero-poem, dracula, joke, blood, heart,
colin middleton, painting, wall, tullybrannagan, 1964,
colin middleton, painting, sea wall,
poem, tom matthews, poem to edward lear, bird, fly, flight, family of psittacidae, drawing, illustration, freedom, escape, illustrator,
poem, tom matthews, robert, church, family, tradition, religion, canada, emigration,
review, essay, james simmons, national geographic poetry, t. w. harrison, tony, the loiners,
poem, ken smith, age, nostalgia, age, aging, death, waiting, dying, family, guilt, responsibility, memory,
poem, tony harrison, poems from the greek anthology, statyllios, cock, drag, zeus, mythology, classical world, korinna, metamorphoses, destruction, creation,
poem, gavin ewart, jubilee, betjeman, hardy, the ring of bells, youth, memory, age, sex. old, the age of gold, love, lust,
poem, augustus young, female form / for three-part choir, women, woman, gender, season, seasons, year,
drama, sam thompson, the long back street, an extract, school, childhood, new year, coal and gas fund, heat, poverty, drink, drinking, drunk, alcohol, biddy, play, victoria park, ship, shipyard, sectarianism, catholic, protestant, game, football,
review, frank ormsby, two macmillan poets, george macbeth, the burning cone, glyn hughes, neighbours, ]]>