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Vibe of the Tribe: Castlepalooza and Scene of the Rhyme 2015
The Scene of the Rhyme featuring Tullamore Rhymers Club featured both in Joe Lees as its own monthly night, and as the spoken word stage at the 2015 Castle Palooza. MC’d by David Mallaghan on the...
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The Old Bond Store Ghost
ghost tale from Tullamore retold in verse, first told by Walter Burke, former leasee of the bar in the Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre. There are many tales of tragic deaths in the building when it was...
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Civilians Slain – An Empire Saved
The sight of the Dillon family emerging from their house waving a white flag in Moore Street being shot down by snipers / machine gunners of the British Army on the roof of the Rotunda is what...
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Memories of Tullamore at Ireland’s Smallest Comedy Club – Setting off for...
I was down tonight at Irelands Smallest Comedy Club, where fellow Tullamore man (Im not Longford now that its cool to be from Tullamore!!!) John Sheehan done a brilliant set, and am packing the bag for...
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The Last Handshake
The Last Handshake: Tullamore lost another Past Master today: heaven is all the richer! Closed as begun in brotherly love In harmony home our ways we make Little think regarless of each others age This...
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Final Whistle Blown
Bertie Auld with Tomás and Tommy Gemmell at a fundraiser for Motor Neuron Disease held in Tullamore by the Jimmy Johnstone CSC The match is over, over early, the final whistle has blown Its back to the...
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Scene of the Rhyme perform spoken word @ F-15, The Foundation Arts festival held yearly in Tullamore, Co Offaly. Featuring Richard Brennan, Paul Curran and others… in it I read “There Is No Time for...
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Remembering a Working Man – Vincent Wynter RIP
The late Vincent Wynter – of Tullamore Poetry Group and Irish Labour Party. Image from OHS obituary. The love of the literature of the people, The politics of the worker to be what he can The history...
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Paul Polansky Sat In My Kitchen
Meeting Paul Polansky in Nis The Serbian resident US poet and human rights activist Paul Polansky visited my humble flat some years back. As usual, my place was in a tip, but Paul passed no remarks. He...
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The Music Lives On
Grand Canal in Offaly 0 farther along the canal from here a girl was jogging last week, before being brutally murdered. She was going for a run. Her name was Ashling. A suspect is facing trial having...
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