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DON’T STEP IN THE POEMS! - by Christy Parker
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Contents
Poems beginning with the word the
The Knock
The Smokers Cough
The Squats
The Redneck
The Terrible Fate of the Fifth Teletubby
The Encounter
The Miracle
The Morning After
The Man on the Slab
The Bottle Bank Blues
The Clock is Closed
Love, pain, relationships and such matters
The Friendship Cake
You
I Hate You
The Hand I Held in Mine
Me and Myself A Love Story–
Friday Night
I was Married to a Dart Player from Hell
He Goes to Tescos at Night When Hes Lonely
She Wore Blue
Christmas Eve
Riann
Poems not beginning with the word the
A Garda Dilemna
A Sick Man
As I was Tending my Window Box
I Wanna
At Number
A Textual Relationship
Poison Town
Only Take a Jiff
You Can Put Anything in a Curry
Cacas Driving Test
Im an Eavesdropper
A Fellow from South Tallow
A Farewell Flush
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An A to Z of Youghal
An A to Z of Youghal
The history and people of Eochaill.
Saints and Scoundrels • Duellists, Sailors, Soldiers, Spies • Pirates, Rebels and Witches
The Déisi Mumhain and the Druids • the Norwegians under Sigtrygg • the raid by Torlough O’Connor, father of the last High King of Ireland • the Black Death • the river Blackwater • Marc Isambard Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Youghal • Saint Budoc • Isaac Butt, MP for Youghal • cinema pioneers the Horgan Brothers • cinema pioneer Liam O’Leary • the making of Moby Dick • the making of Barry Lyndon • Civil War in Youghal (including exclusive photographs) • the Clock Gate • Dominic Collins – hanged, drawn and quartered • Saint Coran and the fate of his monastery • County Youghal • Oliver Cromwell • Abraham Dowdney, US Congressman • Duellists – “the gentlemen of Youghal are so quarrelsome that they never walk the streets without a case of pistols” • Eloping • Famine “death by starvation”• FitzGerald – the Desmond dynasty and rebellions • Garrison – Lord Edward FitzGerald, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and James Connolly in Youghal • Groynes – the breakwaters built by Shaik Rahmatullah al-Farooq • Anna Haslam and the birth of feminism • the story of Capel Island • Knights Templar • David Lewis – swindler extraordinaire • the story of the Lighthouse • Molana Abbey, its founder and its fate • Séamus Murphy and his work in Youghal • Florence Newton – the “witch” of Youghal, the last witch-trial in Ireland • Peter O’Neill, transportation survivor • Pirates – centuries of buccaneers based in Youghal • Punishment – mutilation and humiliation • Sherlock Holmes and Youghal of the CID • James Joyce in Youghal • Walter Raleigh • Sampson Towgood Roche • Skullduggery – the fate of Saint Declan’s skull • Smithereens – the fate of the frigate Duncannon • Train – the Cork and Youghal Railway “a model of mismanagement” • Yew – the disappearance of the woods • Value, vice and virginity • Mike Walsh, US Congressman • Treasure trove • Youghal in song • Zombie – raising the dead.
Illustrated throughout with more than fifty illustrations and exclusive photographs.
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