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The Games We Once Played
The Games We Once Played By Paul McCann In another time around the streets of Ardoyne there was always games of one kind or another being played ...
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The Ardoyne Lifeline
The Ardoyne Lifeline By Paul McCann In Ardoyne there was a time that once existed and in my memory I remember the faces of the people in the place...
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The Heart Of Ardoyne
The Heart Of Ardoyne By Paul McCann I grew up in a little village in North Belfast called Ardoyne . It would be impossible to sum up the amount of...
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The Golden Fleece (Part One of Two)
The Golden Fleece (Part One of Two) She who must be obeyed - that’s the phrase that sprang to mind as we meandered through Primark’s burnt offerings...
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The Road to Erehwon
You'll work it out, don't worry. Image is Peter Breughel the Elder's The Land of Cockaigne, it is in the public domain and the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, where I've seen it.
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The Parallel Journey
{The Parallel Journey} An American portrait: The harsh reality of stop and frisk, confiscate, and book; for being racially profiled, to keep you In...
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Rest In Peace, Mom - Part VII
Wednesday was your least favorite day and you died on a Wednesday. After living for sixty-four years, you became sick and you passed away. The...
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Moving country in February
The streetlight casts rainbows on my window And our neighbour irritated me yesterday The daffodils, my soul's winter knights, pierce the grey Blades...
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India travelogue 1996 part 2
Then to Lucknow to see the old British residency. Beginning place of the 'Indian Revolution' a spooky ruin. The cannon ball shelled gateway and all...
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India travelogue 1996 part 1
This covers my second visit to India 1995/6 (6 months over Xmas) the first visit was 1994/5 over Xmas. You can read about that visit on me website...
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hog plum and lobster
hog plum and lobster as the sun gears itself up for another day, young lives teeter toward ending bedrooms lit by greedy screens desperation, silent...
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Blind Faith
Pic thanks to Dreamtime free stock images
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8.3 State Identity
On his timeline, Adams obtained a translation of the Népszava Page 9, dated 11 th October 1964, and called a home number in Budapest to reach a...
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Rousing Spring
Beneath swollen drifting clouds, Swift new season breathes creation; Energies balanced – feathers quivering, Springs growing throng of tiny beaks...
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stars over kennet
stars over kennet star lit stones wrap around me and i am held rapt for a pitch-black procession the memory of daylight sleeping beneath frosted ice...
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This Sort of Thing - February 2024 - Last Orders
Written at the rate of 100 words per day, this is the second part of my account of an arduous journey through February via the middle of nowhere.
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8.2 State Identity
Meanwhile, Samvel Salazar summoned Cherry to his brightly lit orange office room, brighter than daylight on hydroelectric power generated in the...
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The Grace
The Grace Oh, for grace, to save face; OH, for grace, that stood in our place. Brought low by a trip on the road: Seems easier to go it alone...
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Spring Release
In between the rain we can sense Spring arriving (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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The Gathering: Part One
The crowd walked, shoulder-to-shoulder along the narrow road. The elderly folk struggled on the incline, and a child moaned and complained to her...
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