You see them or maybe hear them first whatever the case may be in limerick year round especially around paddys day they wear bright coloured clothing and have a couple of cameras hanging around their necks. They want to know such things as why did we build the castles so close to the highway and [...]

The annual summer visit to Limerick this year was marked by the turn of the key in the door of the house that is now the family home without my mother. I wrote about that feeling of absence many years ago, in a poem called Emptynest, on the death of my father, when we children [...]