Poet and writer, Tomás Ó Cárthaigh writes from an often wry slant at the issues of the time, or of history...
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- Tullamore, Ireland
"The Fields That I Once Knew"
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In keeping with the Haloween spirit, this poem tells of an appartition of a famine family at my fathers cousins farm that he inherited. He swore he actually saw the woman and kids dressed in rags, sitting on a wall at the gate, he opened the gate spoke to them, one of the children smiled at him, both none said anythin...g to him. As he turned to slide the bolt home on the gate, he turned round... and no one was there... He looked up and doen the road, into neighbouring feilds, and into the farmyard... to no avail... It is one of many spooky tales from Willie Carty's of Aughagreagh!Read More
Length:1:24
A poem made up of haiku/senryu based on old pictures from Vrsac, Serbia during the German occupation. Fundamentally, Nazism / Rascism / Imperialism is a manifestation of pride, and offends God, and leads to murder and pillage and war. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins, and comes before a fall. The Banat German w...ere proud, comitted the excesses of prode, and suffered the excesses of revenge when the inevitable fall came.Read More
Length:4:14
The story of my granduncle Tom Reilly, who faught in the American Cavalry in WWI, married a German, his wife dying in childbirth. He gave the twins to her parents, Rhineland shopkeepers to be raised, possibly them fighting for Germany in WWII. He went back to America, and was in Ireland at the outbreak of WWII. Being... a soldier of fortune he joined the British Army, and lost his legs and arms in Dunkirk. Paraplegic, he died in British military hospital in 1953 or so. We never managed to find his war grave, or trace what happened to his sons. An article on them is below. http://lowlands-l.net/history/carty_reilly-en.phpRead More
Length:3:24
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Tale of a native american and a Gaerman legend that says man has in his heart two wolves... one good and one bad... which one dominates us?
============================= "Is trom Cearc i bhfad." (Irish Proverb) Translation: "A hen is heavy over a long distance." Meaning: Something apparently easy may become difficult over a long period of time...
On seeing the photo of the barbed wire entitled "Caress", I thought of how it protects from pain the beast in the field as much as it causes pain if the beast comes in contact with it.
Length:0:33
Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
Those who know me from writing websites know of my poems on the Roma in Europe and their experience. Here I turn my pen to our own nomadic peoples. the Travellers.
Often portrayed negativly, as they keep themselves to themselves, the only ones we hear about are the troublemakers. Years ago, they were a welcome addition ...to farms and towns, meding utensils and tools and doing casual agricultural labour.
They in fact were the first hit by industrialisation and mechanisation, and their skills of old find it hard to find a place in this ever changing world.Read More
Often portrayed negativly, as they keep themselves to themselves, the only ones we hear about are the troublemakers. Years ago, they were a welcome addition ...to farms and towns, meding utensils and tools and doing casual agricultural labour.
They in fact were the first hit by industrialisation and mechanisation, and their skills of old find it hard to find a place in this ever changing world.Read More
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The last of the Warsaw Urising veterans passed away recently.
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Some say we are descendent from Monkey, some say no... no one asked the monkey... until now!
Another video animation from the Romany series of poems I wrote some time back, this foucses on dancers and the villager who listen and enjoy their music and dancing... as always, from a distance...
Length:1:07
Inspired by the biblical line: "And the multitude shall be lifted up, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail." - Daniel 11:12
Length:3:18
