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Keogh Boy
Thanks to Theo Dorgan for including my poem in the new issue of Poetry Ireland Review.
January 7, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Even better than I remembered.
January 7, 2026 at 2:18 PM
The Mountain Bar near Termon.
January 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
A photograph I took appropriately enough in the townland of Ballyboe.
January 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Bobby Tambling in one of my favourite football shirts of all time- and I'm not a Palace supporter.
January 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Looking toward Errigal from Carrickfin.
January 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Growing up in North Belfast I remember the ships in the lough sounding their horns at midnight on New Year's Eve.
December 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
New Year's Eve, 1989 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
December 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reposted by John Hughes
"Besides after a while one begins to feel, if the man can hold his liquor as well as that why shouldn't he drink?"
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Karen Solie
December 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Karen Solie's 'Wellwater' is my poetry book of the year.
December 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The misery of the long distance runner.
December 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I've heard great things about this film. Looking forward to seeing it in 2026.
Watch the trailer for Ebony and Ivory, written and directed by Jim Hosking

Add to watchlist ➡️  boxd.it/LLLm
December 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Champagne Charlie Club in the Rotterdam.
December 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This crumbling ruin was once the Rotterdam Bar in Belfast's docks. I had many good nights there in the 80s.
December 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reposted by John Hughes
Zeiss Ikon Movikon 8
Double 8 camera
It’s a (hidden) art itself how the film is threaded 😍
Photo credit and more details about this masterpiece of cine technology:
fotobox.over-blog.fr/2015/08/zeis...
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
From Tom Paulin's book "Namanlagh". The Lough Swilly railway didn't run between Derry and Glenties. And it's Lough Finn not Finn Lough.
December 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Presents.
December 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The club Christmas morning run.
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A friend brought me Northern supplies for Christmas morning: beef sausages, vegetable roll and potato bread.
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Glenveagh.
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Dorothy Molloy.
December 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Fantastic music. youtu.be/g3XYl7hdGPQ?...
Gloria Estefan: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM