From The Balladeer of Ireland
Comrade To A Fickle Deity
Comrade to a Fickle Deity Mottled jowls adorn his life, softened hands and harried wife staring at her feet. A booming voice resonant with greed, bigotry and obstinate idiocy indicates the insecurity that bubbles beneath. That troublesome tongue seldom held behind tainted teeth, for long, has launched imbeciles upon voyages laden with infected product. The […]
Eurovision Entry For The Socialist Nation
Hats off to the person in the following cartoon who had to sing their way through this list of the nations of the world (with the exception of Israel which is a colonial state and NOT a nation). It does give us a blatant truth in that Capitalism has, and will, always fail. It operates […]
March Of The Bigots On Its Way
The video clip attached gives an insight into the issue of Orange Order marches in the Occupied Six Counties (OSC) of Ireland, and the conflict that follows them. It centres around a demand by a quasi-political, quasi-religious, anachronistic Protestant fraternity to march through a Catholic area where local residents did not want them. The Orange […]
World’s Oldest Family Live Long In Ireland
Meet the world’s oldest family (listed in the Guinness World Records as such), who are from the Occupied Six Counties of Ireland. It should be noted, that the area that they live in is known far and wide as the Orchard County as it is somewhere abundant in apples. Can it be said, then, that […]
Palestinian Recognition In Ireland
This is a petition that was started last year in an effort to encourage the Irish government to adopt a position whereby the state of Palestine is officially recognized. Both Houses of the Irish Parliament passed motions calling for such official recognition. Yet today that call has gone unheeded. It is thought that the Israeli […]
Temple, Gods and Sacrifice on Slieve Gullion
It’s colder and wetter now. The climate has cooled. The crops are failing. To appease their fickle deities the tribesmen must make a powerful sacrifice. They stand nervously huddled within the shadowy chamber and restrain their drugged victim as outside the steadily weakening sun falls ominously to mark the end of the year. It’s 3000 […]
Concealed In Death
Concealed In Death by J.D. Robb Can reading J.D. Robb be described as a guilty pleasure for an adult male? I feel no guilt for the joy that I receive when I read the adventures of Robb’s Lieutenant Eve Dallas. It’s a great series. Eve Dallas is a beautiful, feisty, ass-kicking New York cop in […]
A Savage Hunger
A Savage Hunger by Claire McGowan I won’t spend too much time on this book as it’s not worth it. It’s cac (that’s Gaelic for shit). Claire McGowan is really Eva Woods. She was born in the Occupied Six Counties of Ireland but currently resides in London. I watched a video clip of the author, […]
Dun Day
Dun Day I sat upon an Autumn day, where brown envelops green and thought on clouds, both white and grey that reflected then my dreams. But answers, still elusive, swayed in secret through my mind, with hollow sound in echoes played to cast a beat behind. So stranded then, in mottled glar ‘neath […]
Bay Of Pigs Remembered
If only we had 10 men like Fidel Castro in Ireland, we would be free from colonial rule in the morning.
Thin Lizzy – Whiskey In The Jar
A rock version of a traditional Irish ballad.