Tag: writing

• The Bullaun

  Final week in July but inside the church a chill winters the air. Father Herlihy’s sermon always runs long on Sundays. Never less than four but sometimes five hours long. He would write all night of a Saturday, crafting righteous tracts of comical dimension, designed to forestall what it was that his congregation got up…

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  29th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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• The Liffey Thing

  From April 23 1983 Irish Independent article by Peter Cowan Archaeologists have described the largest Viking graveyard ever to be excavated in Europe outside Scandinavia as a “significant find”. Pottery, stirrups, and locks were found during preliminary trenching at Dublin’s Phoenix Tunnel. ACI were notified when workmen found high numbers of topsoil artifacts. Foreman K…

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  28th Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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• Deep Assignments Run Through All Our Lives

  Old Troy of the DMP  Old Troy a ruin, a heap  Middens where stood temples, among motionless flagless priapic poles Ropes pulled down the stone sword of Aries Broken on the broken flags  A millennium of shards Stone flood spreading outward across the floor  Across the world a milipedinous avatar of concrete twists itself Bookbinder…

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  21st Aug 2023

  Filí my pockets, wyrd mythology

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• Fragments from the broken wheel

  Dublionysus, Mangan’s lurid epic penned in an absinthopium haze. The poet’s correspondence highlights a mysterious redheaded bedmate who tended his fleshly pangs during the tract’s 23 day construction period but her name, like Mangan’s manuscript, is lost.  Themes of national and personal confination abound in Mangan’s work and seem to reify thematically as assignments in…

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  21st Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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• 90 most haunted angle 90

  Magic is like a mushroom  One head before thine eye  Scarce belies abundant bloom Subterranes, fearful sky One million unique crafts Cults of infinite variety Masterplan master’s laughs Engulfed flames the piety Piles of hewn noses  Cleft to spite faces  Red paint reed raised Moses Death these vile places  Erase thereof traces Multitudinous as the…

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  21st Aug 2023

  Filí my pockets

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