Images Of Ireland

Stories Poems, Speeches & Such

Stories

I ask you to treasure the tales of Ireland. If you were told stories or poems as a child Please write them down and pass them on in your own family. It only takes a story to slip between the fingers of one generation to be lost forever...

• Childhood Memories in White Park Bay from Sheelagh McKay
  Special memories from beautiful days in a piece of Irish heaven

• The Emigrants by Jack Scoltock from Derry 
  A very moving account of the curse or the salvation of emigration.          

• The Killybegs Experience by Sara McClintick
  beautifully detailed story of a trip to Killybegs, complete with recipe

• The Presbyterian Cow by Hazel McIntyre

• 1811 the British warship HMS Saldanha was shipwrecked in Donegal
  True story of a Donegal Banshee

• Saint Patrick's Story

• The Love of Naisi (told by Suzanne Neeley)

• Uncle Ned, our Christmas Turkey. from myself Owen Brennan
  Childhood memory of an unforgettable Christmas. This true story came second in a Derry short story competition.

• Enchanted Ireland (Banshee's , Fairies, Superstitions, Curses, Blessings)
  

Extracts from Great Writers

• James Joyce
• Jack B. Yeats
• Joseph Tomelty
• Bran Stoker

Poems & Recitations

• The Ballad of the Lost Children of Tara  by Suzanne Neeley
  Haunting poem 
  

• Browe's Puckan by Mattie Lennon
  

• The Diagonal Steam Trap by by Crawford Howard
  Very funny tale from the shipyard that built the Titanic
  

• I Don't See Annie Anymore by myself Owen Brennan about childhood holidays in Donegal and a special person, My godmother.
  

• Eire In The Family by Betty Hufford
  

• The Elf Man by Theresa Amies
  

• Galway Rain by Declan Green
  Takes you back to hard times in Ireland
  

• The Grass Widow of the North by Margarita Vallazza explores the universal theme of a woman being left behind with the children while her husband seeks work to send money home.
  

• He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven (W.B. Yeats)
  

• Let Erin Remember By Dr. R. Emmet Kane written around the mid to late 1800's in St. Louis  about the Irish residents in a poor neighborhood known as the "Kerry Patch"
  

• In The Glade by Caitlin Mansell
  

• Kilkelly, Ireland
  A sad but true tale told in a series of letters between a father in Ireland
  and his son John who has emigrated to America
  

• A little bit of Ireland & I will bury you by from Elizabeth Gallagher
  Two poems  about her parents.
  

• Little Pub in London
  The touching tale of an Irishman a long way from home
  

• The Mark Of The Bard by Caitlin Mansell
  

• Me An' Me Da (Livin' in Drumlister) by The Reverend William Marshall.
  The Irish are never in much of a hurry so many Irish men never actually got around to proposing marriage. A touching but funny poem By "The Bard of Tyrone"
  

• Omagh August 1998
  The day that changed us all, forever!
  

• Omagh  by Declan Green
  Poignant poem about that day in August 1998
  

• This Place Called Ireland by Chantal O'Connor
  

• The Poetry of Patrick MacGill
  The Navvy Poet from Donegal

• The Sick Note Comedy tale of woe

• Spare Me The Lecture, Father by Kevin Taylor, one of those lovely wee poems ye'd  j'st love ta' hear Kevin say himsel'.

• The Time I've Lost in Wooing (Thomas Moore)

• Titanic Excellent poem from County Armagh poet Peter Makem

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Plays

Hummin'  by Tony Guerin
The Red Kettle Theatre Company

Speeches

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy's speech to the Irish Parliament
  

At the End of the Day

• The last Word
  
• Epitaph's
  
• Insults
  
• Blessings & Toasts

• Quotations

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