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Posted on January 8, 2018 January 9, 2018

Photoessay: 100 Paces of Roadside Rubbish

It’s early January, and 2018 is still shiny and new and cold, and I pull in 5 miles from Clifden to get a photo of some mounds of gravel that have been piled up by the N59.

I’m hoping to …

Posted on October 30, 2017 October 31, 2017

Port Na bPúcaí: Macnas Parade, Galway 2017

old man from island, macnas parade 2017, Donal Kelly

The Dark Half. If you were to cut a year down the middle, right through the belly, it would make sense (in the northern hemisphere at least), to choose the time of Halloween.

This is when Daylight Savings Time is …

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    I will go to the cafe, pull up the chair at the table by the window, and become at once both swallowed by the world as if sucked into the gob of a passing fish, and a poster of this little stub of universe hung up to make newcomers feel at home. I […]
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    ( -- after hearing the Rumi story from Matin B. on the London Underground -- ) A poor snake charmer, feeling that he was passing his prime, went to the mountain to pray for a better life. "God, I have served you well," he prayed. "I have paid my […]
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    Thump thump thump of stiff hull on salty mound. Gannet gull tern rising and falling in and out of sight. View pulled apart to its original full width, in the broad hiss and hum of ocean passage. Three constables crouch in the lee of the short […]
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    demo memo recorded in Baurisheen. Crows scratching the air in the back garden. Early September 2019. Look at where the time has gone, how is this possible? See the line, it's far away but Getting closer all the time I turn my back, try to run, but […]
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    Mucky June weather and the bottom fallen out of the stretch in May but this, this Saturday evening in the little park hidden away in a west city estate, is aglow with generous light. It throws muddy shadows from bikes as they swing round the […]
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    There's an elephant in the room. Isn’t there always?. Hiding quietly behind a narrow strip of curtain folds. It’s this morning and I answer the phone to my Aunt and a minute later we're arguing. Somebody mentioned politics. I don't think the 'green […]
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