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My Humble Abode, Part 1

We have stories and poems from the heart and the hearth.   

Peter Martin seeks tongue in cheek forgiveness for suppling contra-band fuel for the ‘Hearth of the Home’. 

Anne Deroe paints a picture of a bustling family home brim-full of creativity in her ‘Humble Abode’.   

Mary Pooley ‘On Hearing the News’ considers those displaced and Patricia Donnellan’s poem ‘Under the Eaves’ is for the departing swallows and humanity at large. 

Arthur Watson’s poignant poem brings us full circle to ‘Home’.  

With music from Sam n’ Ash, Seamus and Caoimhe Uí Fhlatharta,  Ger O’Donnell and Maria Ryan and Ryan Sheridan

For part two, we have stories and poems of communion, connection and setting down roots.  

Arthur Watson tests the water and feels transformed in ‘Transubstantiation’.

Eileen Donnellan tells of deep connection and heartbreak  in ‘Home is Where the Heart Is’

A message delivered from the leafy heights of a horse chestnut tree still resonates years later and Anthony Lenihnan wonders ‘Who is Blessing Who’?

Róisín Bugler gives thanks for the opportunity to set down permanent family roots in ‘Spring Day’.

Ruth Marshall yields the rich reward of a mortgage milestone at Lughnasa in ‘Harvest Home’.

With music from Jack O Rourke, Lyra, Peter Byrne and Niamh Dunne