The SONGS of A CELTIC POET RING OUT IN THE BUCKET

YES, I CAN HEAR THEM FROM HERE!


The connections between Ardboe in co. Tyrone and Pawtucket are still alive and well.
I am sitting as the snow falls  listening to the recording sent to  me by Jack and Paddy Adair of  the words written by my great-great Uncle John Coleman of Mullinahoe  and set to music and sung by Thomas Davis.

It is melodic and  haunting and quite vivid.  I have listened to it with delight  several times and I want to help spread the word of their website.:
www.theardboepoet.co.uk

You can also purchase the  book of his poems that were published in the Mid-Ulster Mail a local newspaper from Cookstown. 

 I am privileged to have in my possession several  copies of John's poems in his  own hand-writing.  I do treasure them and hope to pass them on to my son and grand daughter.

This is part of our heritage and it continues to flourish.  

Another part of our heritage is our  belief that  mankind deserves a better form of economic system than capitalism.

 Although my mother never embraced socialism in name, in action her fervor for the  benefits of unions showed how much she treasured and encouraged the idea of workers uniting to improve and  to organize their own  work lives.

SHE DREW SOME IMPORTANT LINES OF SOLIDARITY.

 One thing that she often said to me was that she  felt great pity for house slaves.  She always refused domestic work.

She preferred to be a field slave, she often said, because there you have the companionship and  cooperation of other workers.
You do  not have to pretend to like or even love your bosses or to  be grateful for their hand me downs or left overs.