On the Banks

1. The River Lee'On the Banks of My Own Lovely Lee' - Anonymous 21'The Spreading Lee' - Edmund Spenser 23'My Father Spoke with Swans' - Patrick Galvin 24'After the Storm' - Derek Mahon 26'Lee Song' - John Montague 29'Little Island Reverie' - Gerry Murphy 30'Wet Wet Cork' - Patrick Cotter 31'By the Lough' - John Mee 33'Heron' - Eugene O'Connell 34'In Lee Fields: This and That' - Dean Browne 35'She was not Faithful' - Sean O Riordain 36'An Otter' - Billy Ramsell 38'Drama Queen' - Eugene O'Connell 40'Marsh' - Michael Ray 41'Breath' - Billy Ramsell 43'Frogman' - Matthew Sweeney 47'The Golden Mile' - Augustus Young 49'The Regatta' - John Fitzgerald, The Bard of the Lee 512. Beautiful City - Landmarks of Cork'Beautiful City' - John Fitzgerald, The Bard of the Lee 55'My Cork' - James N. Healy 57'A Cork from out a Bottle' - Dan Hobbs 58'Shandon Steeple' - Anonymous 59'Inscriptions on the Bells of Shandon' - Anonymous 60'The Bells of Shandon' - Francis Sylvester Mahony 61'The Shandon Welcome' - Cliff Wedgbury 63'Blair's Castle' - Anonymous 65'Ballad of Sister Mary' - Patrick Galvin 66'Marsh' - Paul Casey 68'Finbarr and the Serpent of Gougane Barra' - James Harpur 69'A Nocturne for Blackpool' - Theo Dorgan 70'The Monument' - Patrick Cottter 73'The Singing City' - Gerard Smyth 75'On John Butts' A View of Cork' - Graham Allen 76'A Memory of Meat on the Last Day of Lent' - Emily Davis-Fletcher 77'Men of the South' - Rosemary Canavan 79'Harry Clarke's Gobnait' - Catherine Phil MacCarthy 81'The Dying Synagogue at South Terrace' - Thomas McCarthy 82'Balloon over Cork, 1784' - Matthew Geden 85'My Stolen City' (extract) - George Harding 86'On Dunkettle Bridge' - Gerry Murphy 89'Cork is the Eden for You, Love, and Me' - John Fitzgerald, The Bard of the Lee 903. Cork City Characters'The Boys of Fairhill' - Anonymous 95'To Frederick Douglas, The Celebrated Fugitive Slave' - Daniel Casey 97'Father Mathew' - Thomas Condon 99'Mr Thackeray on Cork' (extract) - Augustus Young 102'Lola Montez' - Daniel Casey 103'The Communion of Saints' - George Boole 105'Elegy' - John Fitzgerald, The Bard of the Lee 107'Leaving Lichfield' - George Harding 108'The Madwoman of Cork' - Patrick Galvin 110'Shandon Bridge' - Derek Mahon 113'The Lady with the Dog' - Robert Nye 115'Meals on Wheels, Hollyhill' - Doireann Ni Ghriofa 116'The View' - Patrick Cotter 117'A Million Tanks in Cork' - Adam Wyeth 119'Tap Tap' - Chuck Kruger 120'The Habit' - Catherine Phil McCarthy 122'Seamus Murphy' - Sean Lucy 123'Seamus Murphy, Died 2 October, 1975' - Eilean Ni Chuilleanain 125'For Daniel Corkery' - Sean O Riordain 126'Shadow Play' - Gregory O'Donoghue 128'The Two Seans' - John Montague 130'Sean O Riordain's Photograph' - George Harding 133'Sean O Riada' - Tomas O Canainn 134'John O'Donoghue, 1932-1995' - Gregory O'Donoghue 135'Last Words in the Hi-B' - Liz O'Donoghue 137'Farewell to a Pagan' - Gerry Murphy 138'The Poem You've Been Waiting For' - Matthew Sweeney 140'The Langer Song' - Tim O'Riordan 1424. Courting in Cork'The Banks of the Lee' - Anonymous 147'Amoretti LXXV: One Day I wrote her Name' - Edmund Spenser 149'Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman' - Edmund Spenser 150from 'Epithalamion' - Edmund Spenser 151from 'Sonnets to a Tudor Poet' 5 - Sean Lysaght 154'Edmund Spenser's Amoretti' - Gregory O'Donoghue 155'A Cork Prothalamium' - Greg Delanty 156'He Thinks of the Meaning of Constant Happiness, 1807' - Thomas McCarthy 158'The Sheltered Nest' - Sean Dunne 159'Bessboro' - Eilean Ni Chuilleanain 161'My Flirtation with International Socialism' - Gerry Murphy 163'Sullivan's Quay' - Michele Vassal 164'Toast' - Thomas McCarthy 165'December, Cork City' - Roisin Kelly 167'Heatwave' - Catherine Phil McCarthy 169'Summer '89- - Liz O'Donoghue 170'Clarke's Bridge Vignette' - Gerry Murphy 171'New Year's Day' - Mary Noonan 172'Passage West' - John Spillane 1745. Sporting and Playing'Bold Thady Quill' - Johnny Tom Gleeson 179'The Boys of Fair Hill' - Anonymous 182'A Song for Christy Ring' - Bryan MacMahon 184'The Armoured Car' - Sean O'Callaghan 186'The Match Down the Park' - Theo Dorgan 188'St Patrick's Purgatory' - Bernard O'Donoghue 191'The Town of Passage' - Francis Sylvester Mahony 192'Cissy Young's' - Paul Durcan 195'Passing the Evergreen Bar' - Greg Delanty 197'AWOL' - Aidan Murphy 198'I Remember a Night in the Long Valley' - Theo Dorgan 199'Long Valley Revisited' - Gerry Murphy 200'Sir Henry's Nightclub: Wednesday Nights' - Victoria Kennefick 201'Temples' - Margaret Galvin 202'On the Demolition of the Arcadia Ballroom' - Aidan Murphy 203'The Silver Screen' - Aidan Murphy 204'Trailer' - Greg Delanty 205'Usherette' - Liam O Muirthile 206'October Jazz' - Mary Noonan 207'Midnight Tombstone Cathedral' - Liz O'Donoghue 209'Johnny Jump Up' - Traditional 2106. Cork City at Work - Streets and Markets'The Corkonians' - John Fitzgerald, The Bard of the Lee 215'Chant of the Quay Called Coal' - Anonymous 216'The Beautiful City' - Anonymous 218from 'Mr Thackeray on Cork' - Augustus Young 219'Blackpool' - Anonymous 222'bullocks' - Cliff Wedgbury 223'Ballintemple 1847' - George Harding 225'The Evening Echo, Cork' - John Wakeman 227'The Orange Girls of Cork' - Bernard O'Donoghue 228'Choirmaster' - Colm Breathnach 229'Supervising Examinations' - Sean Lucy 230'Birds on the Quadrangle' - John Fitzgerald 232'office hour' - Judy Kravis 233'Singer's Corner' - Seamus Harrington 234'The Cranes are Up' - George Harding 236'Patrick's Hill' - Roisin Kelly 237'Cork Style' - Rosalin Blue 238'Drinking Hot Chocolate in the Rain' - Robert Nye 240'English Market' - Rosemary Canavan 241'A Calf in the English Market' - Matthew Sweeney 242'Different Kinds of Life' - James O'Sullivan 244'Ode to a Wooden Boat' - Seamus Harrington 246'The Night the Goat Broke Loose on Grand Parade' - Anonymous 2507. Cork City at Home - Family Life'Salonika' - Anonymous 255'Self-Portrait' - J. J. Callanan 258'Advice to a Poet' - Patrick Galvin 260'On his deathbed my grandfather warns meagainst literature' - Gerry Murphy 262'Learning My Father's Memories' - Theo Dorgan 263'The Emigrant's Apology' - Greg Delanty 265'By My Mother's Bedside' - Greg Delanty 266'My Mother's Burial' - Sean O Riordain 268'Night in the Cottage' - Frank O'Connor 271'Theocritus on Sunday' - Frank O'Connor 273'New Shoes' - Colm Breathnach 274'Frank O'Connor' - Thomas McCarthy 275'Lipstick' - Liam O Muirthile 276'Aceldama' - Greg Delanty 277'A History Lesson' - Augustus Young 279'Elders on the Skehard' - George Harding 281'The Polio Epidemic' - Eilean Ni Chuilleanain 282'Bacon and Cabbage' - Martina Evans 283'"Windfall" 8 Parnell Hill, Cork' (extract) - Paul Durcan 285'Grand Parade' - Doireann Ni Ghriofa 287'Ghost Estate' - William Wall 2898. Cork City Ghosts and Other Enigmas'What News, Centurions?' - Colm Scully 293'The Elysian' - Graham Allen 295'Homeland Security' - Patrick Cotter 297'The Late Mr Charles Lynch Digresses' - Paul Durcan 299'Lauriston' - John Fitzgerald 300'Saturday Night' - John Mee 301'Unfinished Sequence for Sean O Riada' (extract) -Sean Lucy 302'From Mushera' - John Fitzgerald 304'Talking to Stones' - Liz O'Donoghue 305'Haruspex on Western Road' - Victoria Kennfick 307'Dead Cat in Winthrop Street' - Gerry Murphy 308'The Yellow Golf Ball on the Lawn' - Matthew Sweeney 309'Ghost in the Jack Lynch Tunnel' - Bernadette McCarthy 311'The Stolen Coat' - Lane Ashfeldt 312'While Bleeding' - Doireann Ni Ghriofa 314'Gated Community' - Billy Ramsell 316'The Back of the House' - Sean O Riordain 318'Full Coverage' - John Fitzgerald 320'Shandon' - Gerard Smyth 321'[Now Then / Now Then]' - Doireann Ni Ghriofa 3229. Cork City Blues - Exile and Return'Carrigdhoun' - Denny Lane 327'Liberty' - Sean O Riordain 329'Refugees at Cobh' - Sean Dunne 332'Sisters in Exile' - Aidan Murphy 334'Casualty' - Sean Lucy 336'The Hellbox' (extract) - Greg Delanty 337'A Prayer' - Graham Allen 339'Journeys' - Tomas O Canainn 340'On the probability of moving to Dublin' - Bernadette McCarthy 342'Westering Home' - Bernard O'Donoghue 343'The Bodhisattvas That We Were Are Still On The Road' - Theo Dorgan 344'Culture Night' - Colm Scully 346'My Hometown' - Rory Gallagher 350'Farewell!' - John Fitzgerald, The Bard of the Lee 352Acknowledgements 355