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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Heritage; Heredity; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


ADVENT, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's advent, and the woods renounce %your name
Last Line: To kick the days ahead %and lets them burn
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


AFTERNOON OF THE SWIMMING PARTY, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tidal wave, two old guys
Last Line: Glitter without clothes
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


AT EASE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When she died he married her sister
Last Line: And a ghost
Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Ghosts; Marriage; Supernatural


AUNT DYMPNA, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She had blue hair, a kerry blue dog
Last Line: Not even the name of the next cat
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


BEYOND HIS REACH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He looked at his children, all nine
Last Line: And loved his children like he loved question-marks.
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Love


BLUE AMBITION, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She'd start novenas, %when you went off to barter
Last Line: Granda, standing in your dream
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


BLUEBERRIES, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Driving north, the haze
Last Line: In the blue cups of our hands
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


BOG MAGIC, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Granda cut turf with old gael grace
Last Line: A wizard willing deadweights into fuel
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


BUILDING WATCH AT COURTHOUSE, VIRGINIA, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As little sonnets labor to be wired
Last Line: While hard-hats whistling dixie take a leak
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


CHRISTMAS IN DUBLIN, by NUALA ARCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the cat within us
Last Line: And to gather the guarded crumbs
Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners And Dining; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Holidays; Travel


CIRCLES, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She seems to go round %in circles as narrow
Last Line: In hot air, like a child's %circle on a steamy pane
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


CLEARING FOR A NEW HOUSE, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long before the front-end loader
Last Line: And the ones we will keep
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


COWS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Knee deep in may with grassy june before them
Last Line: Pleasure: led dimly off, their only madness, flies
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


CRICKETS WENT ON SINGING, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the night you told me
Last Line: Your smile half-crazed before you forgot
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses


DAD'S ACCORDION, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dad, no matter how you played it to your daughter
Last Line: Because it frightened you,' was all you said
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


DAFFODIL DAYS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bought the daffodils
Last Line: Do not bloom for me, I ask, %do not bloom
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses


DARKEST LEAVES, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I recall the morning crying awake
Last Line: In & out of rooms, & dreams, %through the darkest leaves
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


ECLIPSE ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above us the table of night
Last Line: On the night of your thirtieth year
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FATHER, by PAUL CARROLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: How sick I get %of your ghost
Last Line: This underpass is endless
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers; Ireland; St. Patrick's Day


FATHER, WHEN I WAS SIX, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind flung down the firs that stood on tiptoe
Last Line: The moonlight anchored in your grasp
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FATHERS, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We talked to our jamesons at closing time
Last Line: To somebody else two or three blocks over %who yelled back once. It got quiet after that
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Fathers


FEAR OF IRISH SONS, by PAUL T. HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have this notion of you: irish
Last Line: I fear of my first son
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons


FINGER LAKES, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We stand in the shower
Last Line: And towel each other before it gets cold
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We had never grasped hands
Last Line: (which after all, was thicker than water)
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FIRST HOUR, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This will never happen to me
Last Line: My shaky, learning hands
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses


FLYING TO IRELAND, AGAIN, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's like looking down on a quilt
Last Line: And left it behind in belclare
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FOG, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our hospital sits on a rise
Last Line: On the perfect white-out of a morning
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


FROM MY B&B LIGHTHOUSE ON CLARE ISLAND, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mostly when I think of grainne uaile
Last Line: Looking lonely as one graffito
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


GAELIC LEGACY, by ANN RUSSELL DARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trying to ignore the only thing
Last Line: His civilized socks. %peace
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents; Irish Language


GROWING UP, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I no longer had to stand on chairs
Last Line: Everything grew up but me
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


HANDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Close to boiling water spilled
Last Line: Burning now
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fire; Hands


HANGOVER MASS, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the sins of the flesh, that reprobate
Last Line: Over sidewalk cracks' imaginary snakes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Family Life - Ireland; Sin


HAWK, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He might have been carved, except I saw him
Last Line: As evening spread its red tail on the water
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


HORSE'S GRAVE, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember bob-horse pulling
Last Line: And a gap where the whins grew high
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


HOSPITAL FLOWERS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their pollen cleansed the air
Last Line: That wove such a spell
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Nurses


JACK RUSSELL, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When uncle peter %went abroad
Last Line: No kinder eyes, %the whitest coat of bones
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING WHO YOU ARE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am your little grandmother
Last Line: And fields to liverpool
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents


LATE WINTER ON CAPE COD, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blackbirds this evening, %so many of them massing
Last Line: A thousandfold and black-leafed, %the red-wings pause
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


LOVE IN THE WESTERN WORLD, by KATHY CALLAWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think of family, ulster irish
Last Line: The old fishline unreeling again
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Ulster, Ireland


MAMMOGRAPHY: A WORD WITH GRANDMA'S GHOST, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They tell me I'm high-risk too
Last Line: The land raised like an irish fist
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses


MEET ME AT THE ELEPHANT, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Buffered by his cap and coat
Last Line: On the way to natural history
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


MICHELANGELO, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father climbed ladders
Last Line: All he knew was a towel- %he could mend the skies
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


MOVING: 1, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dream up wan excuses like dumb fate
Last Line: I leave four walls, loud echoes, and my tub
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


MOVING: 2, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To move to greener pastures by this shore
Last Line: What we just sold away: fat chance of that
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


MY LAST UNCLE, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He appeared at union station
Last Line: With his suitcase and dreams
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


NANCY CHURNING, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mute, homely, that was our
Last Line: Where she rubs herself with the soot
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


NIGHT OFF THE MATERNITY WARD, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was always night's barter up on ilkley moor
Last Line: For the starbloom I carried to the basket dark in my room
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Hospitals; Nurses


OF, OR FROM, by PAUL T. HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These sons %become me
Last Line: Become me they %become me
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Fathers And Sons


OUR LADY OF KNOCK, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say our lady shone there once
Last Line: Dreams travel back to where I can't
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


PICKING SHAMROCK IN IRELAND, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three leaves define the trinity
Last Line: Satan to wash away our sins
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


PLANTING SNOWDROPS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We cut through tangles in october
Last Line: The wish that still returns
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


QUIET MENTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He bullied her for years
Last Line: She didn't win and yet she won
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Solitude; Women - Abused


ROADS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stonewalls, not knowing how to go
Last Line: And scarecrows line his field
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


RUNOFF, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Watchful mildred, blind eye
Last Line: I was hunched against february
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SACRED HEART PROCESSION, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One corpus christi you recall
Last Line: And my heart, beating, beating %under all that lace
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SAINT BRIGID'S DAY, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pintails rising in straight line
Last Line: Is alive again and drinking
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SCHOOL NURSE'S JOURNAL, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Must I open the paint-stuck windows
Last Line: I count fifty sprites in the dell
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SEWING LESSONS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can still feel the dig
Last Line: As he blessed us from the top %of the class
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SLEEPING IN THE AUTUMN, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perhaps after so many years
Last Line: I'd hug your empty pillow like a back
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SPINK MOUNTAIN, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All I know is that a red lamp gleamed on the delft
Last Line: At last what was left of all I remember
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


SWALLOWS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine the journey they make
Last Line: And rise like one over water
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


THE DEATH OF SUALTEM, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the brown bull passed from cooley's fields
Last Line: And all about him waves the heavy gorse.
Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Love; War; Dead, The


THELMA, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She walks with me in search of bargains
Last Line: The summer still racing ahead of us, frisky
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


THREAT OF FLOWERS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nobody spoke of the second war
Last Line: Was the toll of the angelus
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


TINKER WOMAN, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking in the january light
Last Line: She carried the bottle home
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


TULIP FIELDS, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It could be the netherlands here
Last Line: That follow the tractor-plough, %like odd white tulips %in seas of red
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


VERNAL EQUINOX, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: While all the while I anguish
Last Line: Birth was like that, a blue beginning
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


WAY WEST, by MICHAEL HERRERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hitched a ride to cork from cappoquin
Last Line: Toward patrick street, the thirtieth of may
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Friendship; Hitchhikers; St. Patrick's Day; Travel


WEST OF BLUE, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone said you just got tired
Last Line: Full of all your empty things
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


WHEN GRANDA LEFT, by CELIA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had never seen him like that before
Last Line: As if granda himself had come back
Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland


WOMAN FROM CONNAUGHT, by ROBERT KELLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My great-great-great-great-grandmother
Last Line: Quiet women and their heavy gods
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Connaught, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Grandparents