3. Saint Patrick’s Night in San Fernando
The great Christy Moore at his almighty best!
3. The Sweeney family: from Cork and Waterford to Cardiff
4. From Mullinavat to Bargoed
5. The wanderer finds some peace at last
6. The Irish who Died on the Rideau Canal in Canada
7. The Tarmac Men
8. ‘Mac’ laid down his pack and died
Love, shipwreck and a long walk got them to Cardiff.
Ben ‘Blow’ Whelan was a seven‑year‑old emigrant from Ireland when he arrived in the
Rhymney Valley towards the end of the 19th century...
An Irish vagrant in 19th century Monmouthshire rediscovers the faith of his lost childhood…
An unlikely and tragic chapter in the history of the Irish in Canada before the Great Famine.
The banks of the Rideau Canal in Canada are strewn with the unmarked graves of workers – most
of them Irish labourers – who, between 1827 and 1832, died building the 200 kilometre waterway between Ottawa and Kingston.
The travelling people came from Mayo every summer to tarmac the drives
of the homes of Wales…
A poem in Welsh with a translation in English.
An old Irishman dies alone on a roadside in Wales…
A poem in Welsh with a translation in English.
Eulogies...
1. Orphaned by a torpedo
Nora’s parents were killed when a German submarine torpedoed a ferry during WW1.
2. A Mayoman dies in Pontypridd
A tribute by his Welsh daughter…
3. From the slopes of Muskerry…
What Gabrielle said at the funeral of her Irish grandmother in Cardiff.
4. The Famine Cross
A tribute in verse to the Wales National Great Famine Memorial in Cardiff’s Cathays Cemetery.
5. Gwyddel
A tribute to Ireland and to its people.
A poem in Welsh with translations in Irish and in English.
“Dóchas linn Naomh Pádraig...”
Saint Patrick and the people of Ireland: in Irish only.
2. St. Patrick in Frederick Street
In Cardiff – where else!
3. St. Patrick’s Day in the Klondike
Maybe there was gold in the hills but the Irish left their digging to wet the shamrock!.
4. Hail Glorious St. Patrick
The hymn that has acquired some of the status of a national anthem. Sung but once a year, it is mawkish and
sentimental but it still manages to bring pride to the heart and a tear to the eye…
5. Saint Patrick in history
A fairly comprehensive overview from County Down.
6.Deus Noster
A medieval Irish lyric in Latin translated into English by James Carney who uses the more familiar and popular title, ‘Saint Patrick’s
Creed’.
7. Saint Patrick Plans a Return Trip!
A humourous approach to this most human of saints.
8. The Saint Patrick’s Battalion
Boston singer David Rovics tells the story of the Irish who fought against the United States in the 1847 war against
Mexico.
9. One Man’s Hero
In this exciting and poignant American film about the St. Patrick’s Battalion, the Mexicans and their heroic Irish volunteers
seem more sinned against than sinning.
10. A Saint Patrick’s Day E-mail and Reply
An impressive reply to an ordinary greeting sent by email on the Eve of Saint Pat’s, Monday 16 March 2009.
O Ddonegal i Gymru fe ddaeth yn grwydryn...
From Donegal to Wales he came, the wanderer of the roads...
2. Gwyddel yn y Dre.
Gan Bob Delyn a’r Ebillion.
Hwyl a sbri a ddaw i’r dafarn yn y dre gyda’r Gwyddel gwyllt...
The wild Irishman brings fun and frolics to the tavern in the town...
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