CONTENTS Introduction Patrick (Patsy) Barry C.1926 Map of Fermoy, Rathcormac, Middleton Originally published as The Banks of the Bride The Banks of the Bride Poem On Returning to an Old Haunt, Agherne Cross. Poem Hurling, Hostings and Heroes. Poem The Maids of Kaime. Poem The School by the Brook. Poem To the Young Men of Bartlemy. Poem A May-Sunday in Glenbower Wood. Poem "The Green" in Rathcormac. Poem The Ancient Kingdoms of Fermoy and Glanworth. Article Bartlemy Holy Well. Poem A Great Faction Fight of a Hundred Years Ago. Article Cotter of Melifontstown. Article Bartlemy Fair-field Revisited. Poem Lisfinny Castle. Poem In Boyhood. Poem A" Croppy" Tombstone in Rathcormac. Poem Mr. Mac Phane`s Increment. Story The Walshes of Garryantaggart. Poem Barrymore Castle, Castlelyons. Article Musings by the Christmas Firelight. Poem The Queen of the May. Poem Corrin, A Storied Hill Near Fermoy. Article The Murder of Gortroe. Poem An Intrusive Yank at Bartlemy Fair. Poem The Penal Days in Rathcormac and Roundabout. Article A Winter Night in a Country Forge Half-a-Century AgoPoem Shawn Walle and the Donkey. Story Fugitive Christmas Thoughts. Poem Douglas Pyne in Lisfinny Castle. Poem With Trust, Dear Lord. Poem Some Bride Valley Athletes Earlier Years. Article Originally published as By Bride and Blackwater Fermoy and the Upper Blackwater. Article In Memoriam, Jim Kelleher. Poem A Draghunt of Other Days . Story Castlelyons by the Bride. Poem A Sinn Fein Raid. Story Selling a Kidskin. Poem The "Bald Barrys" of Kildinan. Article A Point-to Point Race Meeting. Poem The Mellifontstown Money-hole. Story A Vetern Hurler`s Reverie. Poem The Munster Geraldines. Article iii v vi 1 2 4 6 7 8 10 12 13 16 18 21 22 24 25 26 27 31 33 36 37 38 42 43 44 46 48 55 56 59 60 67 77 78 81 83 90 93 96 100 105 107 Tears and Prayers. A Great Cork Priest in the Early GAA. Oldtime Bride valley Athletes. St. Philomena. Cork and "The Troubles". Sweet Silvery Bride. Oh, Mary Blest Originally published as The Green Flag Our National Flag. The Fair Avondhu In Bethlehem`s Shed Meagher`s Brigade, at the Battle of Fredricksburg. That Damn Green Flag. Fermoy in Gaelic Football. Blarney Castle. Liam de Barra A Piper of the Past. The Ghost of Gortnakilla Well. The Apple Pickers. Meagher of the Sword. An Old Man`s Reveries. Thomas Davis Poet and Patriot. Thomas Davis, Centenary Lines. Corcaig na Laoi. Liam de Barra The Tithe War and the Murder at Gortroe. Poem Article Poem Poem Article Poem Poem Article Poem Poem Article Poem Poem Article Poem Story Poem Article Poem Article Poem Poem Narrative and Poems The Castle of Sheela Wee. Poem Feargus O`Connor M.P. Article A Christmas Night Re-union. Poem Reminiscences, A Mitchelstown Sports Meeting Etc. Article Oh, Mary, Hear Our Prayers. Poem Originally published as The Cork Accent The Cork Accent. Poem The Old Time Country Dancing Master. Sketch The Mountain Bar. Poem The Path to Mass . Poem The Quarrel at the Country Dance. Story The Cross-roads of Carraig-a-Kaime. Poem The Athlete----Then and Now. Poem Peace on Earth. Poem Petticoat Loose-A Malicious Ghost. Story The Legend of Tobareen Donal. Poem Spies, Informers and Felonsetters-An Incident of 98. Article The Old Bohreen. Poem The Fenians in East Cork. Article An Old Fenian. Poem The Church on the Hill. Poem Mick Murphy`s Twin Heifers. Story On Youghal Sea-Wall. Poem Could Men Their Lives Re-Live. Poem 124 125 147 149 151 170 171 172 175 176 177 179 185 188 196 197 201 203 218 220 228 229 230 253 256 259 260 266 267 268 269 273 274 282 283 284 285 287 290 295 296 307 309 310 319 320 Paddy Ryan of Bartlemy. A Hillside School. The Dread Penal Days. My Own Native Vale ever Dear. Hung on the Cross. Story Poem Poem Poem Poem 321 326 327 328 329 The Disappearance of the Bawneen from the South. The Evicted Tenants of Mullintaggart. Our Martyred Motherland. Carraig an Aifrinn. The Meads of Melleray. The Tragedy of a Village Maiden. A Notable Fermoy Fenian, John McCarthy East Cork in Gaelic Athletics. Vanished Days. Making Croppy Pikes in 1798. When we were Sweethearts Once. Bonfire Night. Sketch Story Poem Poem Poem Poem Sketch Article Poem Article Poem Poem 330 330 340 341 342 343 344 345 358 359 361 363 Originally published as Through Desmond and Decies Through Desmond and Decies. Poem The Lost Art of Walking. Poem Recabin Castle, and the Gobbawn Saor. Article Croiceann `sa Luach. Poem Shadowing a North Cork Fenian. Poem A New Year Nights Ball. Article The Young Plantation. Poem The Fidelity of Some Old-time Retainers. Poem The Dear Old Beech Tree. Poem A Short Trek for the Key. Poem Ballycotton Bay Re-visited. . Poem An Excursion Sunday in Youghal. Poem Farm Work Sixty Years Ago---- and Earlier. Poem Castlelyons Abbey Ruin. Poem In Sixty Seven. . Story A Brideside Romance. Poem A Carpenter`s Worries. Yarn The Piper of Shanakeil. Story The South in Ninety -Eight. Liam de Barra Article 364 365 366 368 369 373 380 381 385 386 387 388 390 397 398 409 418 418 419 The Principality of the Decies. Liam de Barra A Normans Attonement The Fall of Shanbally Castle. Small for it`s Age. The New Cuckoo`s Coming. APPENDIX 1 Notes by Liam de Barra APPENDIX 2 Previously Unpublished Poems INDEX 425 428 429 431 432 433 451 456 Article Article Poem Yarn Poem