Bantry Bay, Co Cork

21/09/2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The very name conjures up an image of romance of the sea. This magnificent inlet has been the object of poem and song by many a fair waiting maiden and her lonely longing sailor boy. Likewise, it played host to more than one historical occasion. A French fleet set sail in 1796 with Wolfe Tone […]

Bantry Bay, Co Cork

21/09/2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Bantry Bay, Co Cork

08/10/2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

‘I Dream of Sleepy Valleys’ © Joe Canning 2020. All Rights Reserved.

16/03/2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

‘I Dream of Sleepy Valleys’ © Joe Canning 2020. All Rights Reserved.I yearn for you my country, To be be back on your soil, To walk again thy hills and vales, I wandered as a boy. To climb again thy chestnut trees, And leap thy grey stone walls; That old folk built long long ago, […]

Bantry Bay, Co Cork

09/10/2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

‘The Ballad of Bella Brooks’ © Joe Canning 2019. All Rights Reserved.

21/09/2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

[Local history | ‘The Ballad of Bella Brooks’ | Purportedly murdered in 1876 and found drowned in the Finn near Castlefin, Co Donegal | No one was convicted of the crime tho’ rumours abounded at the time] Joe Canning ‘ A look at Ireland in verse’ ‘The Ballad of Bella Brooks’© Joe Canning 2019. All […]

‘Auntie Lizzie’s Bucket’ © Joe Canning 2019. All Rights Reserved.

01/07/2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Auntie Lizzie’s bucket sat on Auntie Lizzie’s table,On a tablecloth of painted garden flowers.Auntie Lizzie’s bucket had a wire handle on it,Connected to the bucket’s upright ears.Semi circled like a rainbow it reached from end to end,With a little wooden handle on the top,Auntie Lizzie’s bucket cost my uncle two and sixpence,When he bought it […]

14/12/2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

‘Untitled For Christmas’ © Joe Canning 2018. All Rights Reserved. Warm is my breath as it comforts my hands, Soft plays the hymn from ‘The Salvation Band’, My thoughts they do stray to my friends far away, They, that left this old country behind. For want of a penny and a fortune to […]

Bantry Bay, Co Cork

08/10/2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

19/09/2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

‘On Yonder Hillside Sloping’ © Joe Canning 2018. All Rights Reserved. On yonder hillside sloping, A fallen house I see, Where boiled the blackened saucepan, To peasant family feed. Where once was baked the oaten scone, All dressed with fresh churned butter, Where once they prayed in grateful thanks For the tatties on […]

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