Stories/poems

Below you can find a selection of stories and poems written by readers of the Newsletter that have appeared in the newsletter over the last couple of years. Click on the title to view the full piece.

To have everything & Saw

by Anita O'Kearney

Nollaig na mBan

by mgm

Back to School

Willie, it is half past eight ....

Who Takes Care Of You

by Ella Mae Mulhern August 2023

Summer Holidays, 1950's style

by MGM July 2023

“I Was Just Thinking”

There is Heaven in your own back garden

What Spring Can Bring

by David Doyle

A tribute to Pete

Farewell my friend, I miss the craic

Christmas Morning 1952

by Mattie Lennon

Christmas Connects

by M.G.M.

O, MAJESTIC ROBIN REDBREAST

by Gerard Byrne

PLACES (Lucan Village circa.1970's)

by Gerard Byrne

Imagine Summer 2021

by Benny, Hillcrest

Leaning on the Griffeen Wall

by Paddy Mulhern

Reflections

by John Kelly

Tomorrow

by Anita O'Kearney

COVID-19 why are you so mean?

by Grace O'Neill (age 10)

Capt. Keen's Burst Pipe

by John Kelly

Isolation

by Paddy Mulhern

A New Tomorrow

by Ciara Lenihan

Those were the Schooldays

by John Kelly

The Promise of Spring

by Anita O'Kearney

by MGM

by John Kelly

by John Kelly

by Eoin McCarthy

by Keelin Lenihan Murphy

by MGM

by Benny

by MGM

by Paddy Mulhern

by MGM

by Cecilia Murray

April flatters to deceive......

by Denis Torsney

The Gate

The gate that held those feelings in........

A Very Special Girl

Naoife turned on her side and promptly fell asleep knowing that it was all sorted.

Back to School

Another year in school has just begun

The Carer

She stands by the steps of the grey Cathedral

Liffeydance

from the top of the Lucan Bus

The Hollow

by Paddy Mulhern

Christmas at the Murphys

by M.G.M. December 2016

by Michael Slator

by Paddy Mulhern

by John Kelly

In Grove Street I did play....

Where are the Stars?

The headlights of the car.......

What Makes Me Happy as I Grow Older

Bealtaine Award Winner

The Daffodil Tree

by Benny

Who Am I

by MGM

Flooded Liffey Walk 2015

by Benny

Childhood Christmas Memories

by Benny

Slimeballs at Christmas

by Michael Slator

by Benny

by John Kelly

Garda Tony Golden

by Benny

by Benny

A Poem for Robert Drake

by John Kelly

Boy on the Beach

by Michael Fitzpatrick

Said the Land to the Sea

by An Peann

The Ideal Goddaughter

by M.G.M.

The Funeral

Play time in Lucan of old

Cobblestones Clean

By Paddy Mulhern

The best Christmas Present I ever got

By Michael Slator

Escape

By Benjamin Marr

My Lucan Love

by Paddy Mulhern

Farewell to 12a Sarsfield Park

by John Kelly

Santa Claus is on Schedule

by Stephen Byrne

The Flickering Light

by mgm

The case for Christmas

by Michael Slater

by Paddy Mulhern

by Gabrielle Fullam

by John Kelly

by Paddy Mulhern

by Oisin O'Sullivan, age 11

by John Kelly

by Paddy Mulhern

by John Kelly

by Paddy Mulhern

The Re-Union – Crinkle National School 2009

by T. A. Keane

by Paddy Mulhern

by T.A.Keane

by MGM

by Stephen Byrne

by Paddy Mulhern

by Gabrielle Fullam

The Ballad of the Titanic

by Gerald O’Reilly (1866 – 1950)

The Poet

by Paddy Mulhern

When We Christened Julia Rose

by Paddy Mulhern

Joan's Book

The Stories and Poems of Joan O'Flynn

The Rubbish in my Head

by Paddy Mulhern

Thoughts From The Manger

by Paddy Mulhern

A Christmas Memory

by Stephen Byrne

Another Mouth to Feed

by Paddy M.G.M.

The Caboose

by M.G.M.

Samhain

by Mary McCabe

Ireland's Ninth President

by MGM

by Paddy Mulhern

by mgm

by Paddy Mulhern

by Paddy Mulhern

by Stephen Byrne

Behind The Crab Apple Trees

by Paddy McElroy

by Paddy Mulhern

Tar and Cement

by m.g.m.

by m.g.m.

by Stephen Byrne

A Pudding of a Christmas

by M.G.M.

by Paddy Mulhern

by Paddy Mulhern

by Bernie Martin

by Paddy Mulhern

by Jessica Eakins

by Paddy Mulhern

A soulless place yet full of souls

What The Teddy Bears Do

by Hannah Mahony

The Dark Side of the Earth

by Eamonn Lynskey

Where am I

by m.g.m.

Sheep and Lambs

and Katherine Tynan

A Memory of Wicklow in Winter

At the passage of night....

If Things Had Worked Out

If things had worked out the way I'd planned, you'd remember my face

The Moss that Haunts My Lawn

Friends tell me they are worried

Will Ya Tell Him

by Peter Donohue

The Snow Mask

Snow stretches as far as the eye can see

I saw a robin

I saw a robin this morning

Will 2009 be different than Christmas’ past?

Coming down the road I saw that Cunningham’s had their Christmas lights on

Somewhere

Somewhere out of the mess

Scarecrow

Did I beg from you today

Sailing

It's a sure sign summer's drifted

Autumn Break

Yellow flames dancing and rising high

School Tour

“I want to see the Efelent”. A grimy six-year-old hand tugged my skirt and tried to pull me towards the wooden stockade.

Wait for Me?

River winding to the sea

Anyone Seen My Grandma?

The computer swallowed grandma

Scoil Mhuire Days

Children run to find their places

How do I know?

How do I know that clouds chase

Hirsute

I sat and dined with a friend of mine

A lullaby of peace

I want to walk along the cliffs

Growing up

You held the blue umbrella firmly.

Clever Santa

Niks sat at the kitchen table. His brow was furrowed and the pencil was grasped so tightly in his eight-year-old fist that the knuckles showed white through his skin.

Kids!

She came home, carrying it like one of the regal magi bearing a gift for the infant Jesus. Held with seriousness beyond her five years, this tiny green shoot in a yogurt pot.

A sign of the times

“But will he know, Mammy? Will he know?”
“Of course, he’ll know Oran.”
“But how will he know, Mam?”
“Because Santa knows everything, sweetheart.”

Exotic interloper

There’s a sunflower in my garden.
I didn’t plant it, didn’t sow it,
Didn’t even know that it was there.
It dropped into the sodden earth from God knows where.

A great day out

Tommy lay on the mossy patch of grass beside the river. Little flies hovered over the water and the sun danced on the ripples made by fish as they touched the surface.

Shona at the parade

Shona was really excited when she got her first green dancing skirt.