11/25/99 12:15:08

Name: Girls of ICQ	My URL: Visit Me
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Website de Niza. Gracias por dejarme firmar su guestbook

07/23/99 18:23:22

Name: Jim

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Wow!! Let's have more poems please!

Martin Battaliou - 03/12/99 18:28:24
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Merv said i should check out the site My great uncle and aunts and my mothers family came from Newry. Moorheads and Georges New Street(The MILL) and Mountain View terrace Armagh road. I too amm retired teacher(Early) great is'nt it.

12/27/98 15:21:38

Name: Mark N. Taylor	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite novelist: Blyton (Enid)	Favourite music: Wombles	Age: 41

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Dear Brian, I never knew that you had been so busy in recent years, but then perhaps I should have expected it! You should have taken early retirement years ago - then think what more you could have accomplished.

11/24/98 09:13:29

Name: Dian Fogarty	My URL: Visit Me
Age: 16

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I loved your page. The music is great, the selection of poems is excellent and the pictures add a beautiful touch. This page makes me long for Ireland even more... keep it up.

11/22/98 23:44:58

Name: beverly	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: McGough	Favourite novelist: Behan	Favourite music: Wagner
Age: Over 21

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Fantastic Web Site! Love the poetry - esp. Monasterboyce.

10/28/98 13:32:10

Name: David Barnes	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Tennyson	Favourite music: Folk, Blues, classical	Age: 54

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Brian ...I enjoyed the read, great site, so you play Folk as well...small world mate. Regards David / Downunder

10/28/98 13:27:09

Name: David Barnes	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Tennyson	Favourite music: Folk, Blues, classical	Age: 54

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Brian ...I enjoyed the read, great site, so you play Folk as well...small world mate. Regards David / Downunder

10/05/98 13:38:24

Name: Bad Bunny	My URL: Visit Me
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Nice page. Very informative. Keep it up.

09/20/98 15:59:21

Name: giles	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Thomas Hardy	Favourite novelist: Hilary Mantel	Favourite music: Leonard Cohen
Age: Around 50

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I think that your poetry is very good and should be recognised by publication Brian. I am sure that there must be people round about that will see it needs an even larger audience.

09/15/98 03:05:02

Name: Gayle Stowe	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Yeats	Favourite novelist: Edna O'Brien	Favourite music: Classical
Age: 59

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Your web site is a delight. I appreciate all of the work and thought you have put into it. I like your music and your poetry which is all I have had time to explore. I haven't, at this time, been able to delve into all subjects but I feel I am going to e well please. I have my first book coming out at Christmas, so anything to do with poetry, done well, is captivating to me.

09/06/98 02:34:37

Name: Christopher D. Ball	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Tennyson	Favourite novelist: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Ayn Rand (only one who's not from UK!)	Age: 26

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Sites like this make the internet worthwhile, human, civilized.

08/10/98 06:56:32

Name: David Barnes	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: bit hard mate....	Favourite music: Folk & blues as I play Guitar	Age: 55

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Brain.... I enjoyed the read and your site..will bookmark be in touch soon regard poe's mate.... cheers mate David / Downunder / Perth au

06/29/98 00:25:47

Name: Cathy Langan Hughes	My URL: Visit Me	Favourite poet: William Butler Yteats
Favourite novelist: Anne Rice	Favourite music: various	Age: 43

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Looking for poetry of William Butler Yeats, obviously not to be found at this website, very slick-not what I am looking for.

06/28/98 21:49:08

Name: Mick L

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Just looking. Good sight.

06/20/98 16:51:09

Name: Rose Mary A. (McGrath) Lawrence	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Hmmm...	Favourite novelist: Stephen King	Favourite music: All
Age: 47

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I enjoyed your page very much. Thank you : )

05/24/98 06:53:27

Name: Gayle	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Yeats,Wordsworth,Vincent, myself	Favourite novelist: Seamus Deane,Edna O'Brien,Roddy Doyle,	Favourite music: Classical and rythm and blues
Age: 50+

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I love most poetry. It really is difficult for me to point out just one or two. Also, I enjoy reading bios and novels by varied people and authors. I write poetry and have my own web page. The poetry comes from my book. I have never been to Ireland but am half Irish and very attached to anything Irish. Other than reading and writing, I dearly love the symphony, ballet and most opera. Second love is rythm and blues and USA southland jazz.

05/24/98 06:48:25

Name: Gayle	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Yeats,Wordsworth,Vincent, myself	Favourite novelist: Seamus Deane,Edna O'Brien,Roddy Doyle,	Favourite music: Classical and rythm and blues
Age: 50+

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05/06/98 09:33:46

Name: Tom McCarthy	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: ammm...Kavanagh, Yeats etc.	Favourite novelist: Brendan Behan/Brian O' Nolan	Favourite music: The Pogues
Age: 23

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Testament to Sobriety
(to the air of ‘The Limerick Rake’)

Now there is a drink that's stranger than most,
and is often employed for a cheer and a toast.
It comes from the hills, the plains and the bogs
and sponsors the quarest activity.
It inspires the poet & bard who may choose,
to compose such verse as can rightly amuse.
And by making me sing and dance for them all,
it has earned me a grand reputation.


I was often induced after drink in the town,
to chase after maids or what 'ere was around.
I would sire them kids like a randy puck goat,
and not two from the same locality.
I’d drank brandy from France & cognac as well,
juice of the vine from the circles of hell.
But like the gin of the Dutch it doesn’t compare
for they know not of whiskey distillin’.


I drank it with gentlemen and also with rakes,
I drank it at weddings, I drank it at wakes.
Often I woke all cramped up and sore,
yet I never suffered such sweet lacerations.
But now I will say, though I'm loathe to admit,
that all I have left is my humour and wit.
For all that I had I spent or was lost,
while maintaining the poorest of discipline.

05/05/98 08:20:14

Name: Elizabeth Rogers	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite novelist: Edgar Allen Poe	Favourite music: Anything Scandanavian!	Age: 22

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Superb page Brian, I was most impressed with the revolving shamrock! (too much of the black stuff it seems!). P.S. Nice photo (love the hat!)

04/20/98 04:02:40

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04/20/98 03:27:57

Name: Morello Dillon, Rodolfo	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Borges, Jorge Luis	Favourite novelist: Sabato, Ernesto	Favourite music: Tchaikovscky
Age: 32

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I m an argentine citizen with Irish descent. My mother s surname is Dillon Casey and have a strong and deep feeling of belonging to Irish traditions. I m a physician, but also a writer and had published a few poems. I also like writtings assays caring about metaphisical considerations. I want you to receive this:Ireland (Land of poets and soldiers) Please remain here, just in my eyes, Please, Irish greens prairies and meadows: Just stay in the deep green of my inherited eyes The soldier sleeps ‘ is dream while, the ancient poet write a song... Sacred blood flowered in the prairies and in the Celtic land roses became orange... Both live in every soul of every Irish man and women that cry and pray; and again cry and pray, even though they always knew that it was useless, and shall be, forever shall be... But poetry is not going to die while the meadows remain green and also the soldier will fight and die while Ireland remains slave. An amusing and amazing song wishpering hidden celtic and gaelic mysteries, break in tears, break in courage. And in the meanwhile kids are borned, In the mean while parents died... In the mean while harps and drums Uillean pipes and balalaikas do not stop and do not harm... And in the Celtic Land the roses became orange because Irish blood got whitewashed in the mortgage of its sacred souls downfallen. And a wishper is loudly heard; and it says: Erin go braigh,...Erin go braigh. Rodolfo S. Morello Dillon

04/15/98 01:45:33

Name: Mark Hughes	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Pablo Neruda	Favourite novelist: N. Scott Momaday	Favourite music: Celtic
Age: 40

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Always enjoy visiting Irish related sites. Yeats is my second favorite poet. I'm an O'Connor on my Grandmother's side, who immigrated here from the North of Ireland in the 1920s. As a boy, she told me stories of Cu Chulainn. Have you any information?< r>

04/14/98 17:52:35

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04/14/98 17:49:46

Name: Ana Rosa Calleja Rodríguez	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Lorca, Machado, Becker	Favourite novelist: Stephen King, Robin Cook	Favourite music: Revolver
Age: 28

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Sorry for my English, I no it´s not very good, but I´d like to give my congratulations about of the peace signature. I´m writting from Basque Country and we have a similar problem, so I can know how important is for all of you kiss.

03/29/98 02:13:23

Name: Brent K. Lemon	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: William Blake	Age: 21

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A great page, I'm very impressed. I'm a proud Canadian, but it's nice to look back to my ancestry.

03/27/98 12:21:22

Name: Gabri	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Tagore	Favourite novelist: Verga	Favourite music: All kind
Age: 22

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I subscribe the comments of my friend Luca_

03/27/98 12:19:45

Name: Luca	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Dante	Favourite novelist: Hermann Hesse	Favourite music: Pink Floyd, dIRE sTRAITS, R.E.M.
Age: 23 years old

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Wow, it's a very good work :-) Good design and fine poetry luca_

03/17/98 22:06:08

Name: marcus slease	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Yeats/Heaney	Favourite novelist: James Joyce	Favourite music: Celtic
Age: 25

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I really enjoyed your poem "Home Thoughts." I am from Portadown, N. Ireland. Been in the U.S. for about 11 yrs. now. Attending university. drop me a line. let's talk about home!

03/16/98 19:07:47

Name: Mary E. Harris	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: can't choose just one	Favourite novelist: ditto	Favourite music: classical
Age: 50's

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OK--I'm so sorry I kept hitting the wrong keys on this computer--I'm trying to share with you some words I wrote a long time ago, about a winter's day outside of Derry, where I lived then: HOMEGOING Wild and wet, Stormswept, Raw and bonetouching, Horses rough coats whipped inside out by gremlin gusts, Cattle statues bowing close to ground, Dogs barking silently. We need no coaxing heading home this day. (Copyright 1971 by M. E. Harris) There--that's it! Cheerio!

03/16/98 18:51:37

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HOMEGOING

01/30/98 23:21:31

Name: Paul Mobey

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I enjoy your poems and all the associated pages. They bring back a lot of very fond memories and make me determine to return this summer and visit old friends.

01/28/98 00:28:08

Name: ros	My URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me	Favourite music: Edith Piaf
Age: Old enough

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Nice photo.Doesn't do you justice though.

01/24/98 20:26:57

Name: Gary Hopkins	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Roald Dahl	Favourite novelist: Robert Swindells	Favourite music: Any apart from Classical and the Spice Girls.
Age: 13

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I know you from Manor High, you are not my I.T. teacher. I have Mr Shaffie. You are great at: a) Writing Poems b) Producing Internet Pages c) and having a great sense of humour. You win my award for best internet page. See Ya. Gazza (Gary Hopkins from 8 LJI teaching Group 8M)

01/19/98 22:42:14

Name: ian campbell	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: No one above others	Favourite novelist: As above	Favourite music: Folk-Rock
Age: over 40

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Very enjoyable - was Brian Doddsy the driving force ??

01/12/98 21:44:26

Name: Chris Straw

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Brian - I'm very impressed.

01/06/98 18:50:40

Name: frans van Dongen	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: E. Mc Evoy	Favourite music: traditionle Irish	Age: 48

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12/09/97 12:57:08

Name: Riitta Annala	My URL: Visit Me
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Very Merry Christmas to you too!! :)

11/13/97 20:11:12

Name: allison	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: hart crane/john montague	Favourite novelist: bernard maclaverty/kate chopin/too many to name	Favourite music: eclectic
Age: 32 on christmas eve

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i thought your site was dyn-o-mite thanks!

10/31/97 17:37:58

Name: KateAmyDana	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Wallace Stevens	Favourite novelist: James Joyce	Favourite music: bagpipe folk
Age: 17

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We are currently taking a class dealing with Religious Conflicts in Ireland. We would appreciate if someone would consent to giving us a firsthand account of their experiences. We are particularly interested on writing or literature on the conflict. E- ail Klevitt@lick.pvt.k12.ca.us

10/31/97 11:16:05

Name: Zoe Oldhams	My URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me	Favourite novelist: Thomas Hardy or Terry Pratchett
Age: 19

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09/29/97 13:01:20

Name: Andy Merrill	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: ????????	Favourite novelist: Stephen R. Lawhead	Favourite music: Third Day
Age: 18

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I like you page a lot.

09/17/97 11:27:45

Name: Doug Taylor	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Briain Dodds	Favourite novelist: Asimov	Favourite music: 'I have a great catholicity of taste'
Age: not as old as you :-)

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What happened to 'Favourite Playwrite'? Who said 'I have a great catholicity of taste'? Looks great in 1024 x 768 Who taught you all of this?

09/10/97 22:58:13

Name: Shelly Schoenfeldt	My Email: Email Me	Favourite poet: Yeats
Favourite novelist: Morgan Llewelyn	Favourite music: Classical	Age: 28

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Although I am German-American by birth my heart lies with the history and culture of Erin. And on Dec. 13 of this year I will have the privledge of carring an Irish name through a very special and magical marrage.

09/03/97 19:35:14

Name: Miyu	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Pablo Neruda and a few others	Favourite music: any kind except rap	Age: 18

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Great page and great poetry. You should be extrememly proud of yourself for trying to make a difference for your country. I know exactly what it feels like. thanks for the ride, miyu

08/21/97 02:41:49 GMT

Name: Mary	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Many!	Favourite novelist: Many!	Favourite music: Classical
Age: 55

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Your page and your poetry are lovely! I lived just outside Derry between 1970-1972 (the U.S. Navy had a communications base there at that time) and my heart was captured by Ulster and her people--by all of Ireland, in fact. In all my travels, I have nev r encountered the same terrible beauty as exists in that land. If there are words for it, only the Irish poets such as yourself have them. Bless you and yours!

08/18/97 14:30:28 GMT

Name: Renate Sullivan	My URL: Visit Me	Favourite poet: Poe
Favourite novelist: Follett	Favourite music: Cranberries	Age: now now....

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Got you bookmarked. After all, I married an Irishman. :)

07/30/97 20:39:37 GMT

Name: Dany	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: me	Favourite novelist: me	Favourite music: Simple Minds / U2
Age: 32

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Hey, Great Page. I'll come back soon

07/09/97 23:36:04 GMT

Name: Trish
Location:	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Yeats..and you now, I think ;-)	Favourite novelist: Hmmm...don't know!	Favourite music: 80's!
Age: 30	Main interest: Human rights, justice, Ireland

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You have a remarkable talent, these are some of the best poems I have ever seen. I hope you will be adding more soon. Absolutely brilliant. Slan, Trish

07/01/97 17:03:21 GMT

Name: An Laochra	My URL: Visit Me
My Email: Email Me	Age: 20
Main interest: Irish Politics

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Nice Page, keep up the good work!

06/28/97 07:06:03 GMT

Name: Linus van der Birjk	My URL: Visit Me	My Email: Email Me
Favourite poet: Nils Ferlin (dead swede suffering from melancholy)	Favourite music: Celtic	Age: 21
Main interest: Studies in religion and history

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Interesting page, I must say! The size of the frames are just perfect! Good luck!