I do not know anywhere in the world more beautiful than Donegal in general and Teelin in particular. View this slideshow and judge for yourself!
John McCullagh
The Hobbies in town
Long ago and for many years in Newry we had the pleasure and indeed excitement of an annual visit of a Travelling Fair that was more popularly referred to by locals as ‘The Hobbies’ or ‘The Hobby Horses’.
The allocated site was the Market in
Hello and Cheerio
Hellos, Cheerios…………. and in between – a myriad of salutations, warmest of welcomes, generosity of hospitality, people, weather and scenery.
Henry Curran, Shopkeeper King
Everyone remembers the shop at the corner of childhood– the mullioned window within which all manner of sweets clamoured for our penniless attention: sherbet dips, flying saucers, liquorice pipes, lucky mines and white chocolate mice.
The scar
There’s not a chance now that I might recover
one syllable of what that sick man said,
tapping upon my great-grandmother’s shutter,
and begging, I was told, a piece of bread;
Fairy Thresher
That winter night round the blazing turf,
The children on the hobs, the talk ran on
Most from the farmer and his sister Kitty
His wife not holding much with superstitions,
To rhyme and ramble through familiar stories
Of ghosts and fairies, witches, blinks and spells.
On Slieve Mor Hill
I sat aloft on Slieve Mor hill
Watched in silence the valley round
Slieve Gullion rising to the sky
The Cowans sweeping to the ground.
Rose Watters: set dancer
Our regular contributor Carmel Goodwin offers this synopsis of the life of her mother, the famous Rose Watters, who taught Irish dancing to among others, our own Arthur Burns and his brother Tommy.
Diagonal Steam Trap [end]
When they found out that it was a cod, like
They wouldn’t admit they’d been had!
They built a big plant outside of
Turnin’ out Steam Traps like mad!