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mullagh hill | saints, scenery, & sonnets

Mullagh is the home of St Kilian, but what draws me to Mullagh Hill above and beyond the solitude, the serenity, and the scenery, is poetry.

Reflections on the Pursuit of Knowledge: A Poem

Ali Isaac

Dec 10, 2017
2 min

Reflections on the Pursuit of Knowledge: A Poem

This morning I woke to a few flakes of snow, a sore throat, & a poem in my head. I did not dream it, it was just there, an incredible gift.

Ali Isaac

Feb 22, 2017
1 min

Teenage Angst Poem for Sarah

A teenage angst poetry challenge by Sarah Brentyn. I genuinely wrote this when I was a teenager... oh dear!

Ali Isaac

Oct 27, 2015
1 min

A Poem for Samhain| a Witches Lament

A poem for Samhain, about a witch looking back at her life, and what became of her sisters.

A Samhain Poem | The Princess on the Hill

Ali Isaac

Oct 12, 2015
1 min

A Samhain Poem | The Princess on the Hill

A Samhain poem about the Goddess, Tlachtga and her three sons born of rape, and their desire to avenge the wrong committed upon their mother

Ali Isaac

Sep 29, 2015
1 min

Poem | Missing the Point

A poem about bored tourists being frog-marched by harried guides around ancient sites and bombarded with facts that fall on deaf ears.

Ali Isaac

Apr 30, 2015
1 min

A Bealtaine Poem | The Old Ways

A poem about the festivities of the Bealtaine celebration in ancient Ireland. Bealtaine represented the beginning of summer.

Ali Isaac

Jan 29, 2015
1 min

Winter Willows | A Poem

A poem about deep mid-winter, and the soft, silent fall of snow.

Ali Isaac

Nov 15, 2014
1 min

For Our Lost Children | A Poem

A poem about the pain of losing a child.

Ali Isaac

Oct 1, 2014
1 min

Carrion | A Poem

A poem about a dying man on a battlefield watching a crow that is waiting for him to die.

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Ali Isaac is an author and blogger specialising in Irish mythology. Through word and image, she tries to draw the human story from Ireland's landscape and tumbled stones, with a particular focus on the women history has abandoned, and legend only half remembers.

mullagh hill | saints, scenery, & sonnets

Reflections on the Pursuit of Knowledge: A Poem

Teenage Angst Poem for Sarah

A Poem for Samhain| a Witches Lament

A Samhain Poem | The Princess on the Hill

Poem | Missing the Point

A Bealtaine Poem | The Old Ways

Winter Willows | A Poem

For Our Lost Children | A Poem

Carrion | A Poem

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