This little video was picked from a charity concert I did for the ‘White Ribbon’ organization.
This video was kindly taken by James and Josephine Polmeer (Thank you so much for giving me this video).
I wrote this for my youngest son Joey. He had just flown into Iraq with his fellow Australian army mates. While I was chilling at the Woodford Folk Festival, sharing my poems of peace and love, he was gearing up for war. It has won all sorts of poetry competitions although I never wrote it for that reason.
ABC Interview
ABC Interview with Michael Cathcart of Radio National’s ‘Books and Arts Daily’. I got to share this interview with the wonderful Singer/Songwriter Damien Dempsey from Dublin.
Irish Joe Lynch
A beautiful old poem written by William Butler Yeats as a young man when he was away in London heartbroken and homesick for Ireland.