Posts by Niall Connolly
Playing Rory Gallagher’s Guitar in Cork
Rockaway, NY – Tuesday Jan, 7th, 2025 I think I was in second year in school when I say Rory Gallagher play Lark by the Lee in Cork. Later…
Read MoreThe Frank and Walters and Me
Sporting my 1993 Frank and Walters t-shirt in 2024 Rockaway Park, Nov 27, 2024 Ceasefire in Lebanon. Trump appointees. Irish Elections Friday. Thanksgiving tomorrow. I had a lovely WhattsApp…
Read MoreListening to the news with Yeats after the Circus Fire
Rockaway, Nov 7th, 2024 Yeats, calling out from the grave, through a battered copy of ‘Soundings’, a memory scratching its way to the surface, 1990 something and teenage me wondering…
Read MorePhotos from the Edge of America
Rockaway Park, NY – November 4th, 2024 I vote because I have a little girl. I want her to live in a sane and sustainable society. A society where our…
Read MoreDo you have a voting plan?
October 23rd, 2024 – Anywhere, USA Four outraged citizens sitting on a bench opposite a pile of horse shit. Their dogs, their doggie bags and doggie accessories at hand.”I called…
Read MoreDolphins and Butterflies – Highways and Fishing Knives
Photo by Patrick Glennon, Scratcher Sessions, NYC, Oct 6th, 2024 Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 Hurricane Milton bearing down on Florida. Israeli attacks on Northern Gaza/ Lebanon. Speculation of further…
Read MorePeople and Places: Grief, Sister Michael, Buses, Family and Friends
Photo: Michael John McCarthy, Siobhan McSweeney and myself outside Green Note, London Cork to Dublin train, September 30th, 2024 Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Yemen and Gaza. Hurricane Helene. Harris and…
Read MoreCosmonauts also walk their Dogs
Train from Prague to Olomouc, September 23rd, 2024 Israel and Hezbollah. Election polls. Gaza. Sudan. Climate change. There’s so much news. Reading it from Central Europe, itself so rich in…
Read MoreA German stilt walker, a Kuwaiti investment banker and a Swiss wood carver walk into a bar…
Train from St. Gallen, Switzerland to Munich, Germany September 19th, 2024 There are many ways to live. I left off wishing that magic was real. I pick up again believing…
Read MoreHello from Switzerland
Somewhere between JFK and Zurich, September 11th, 2024 “I’m on a plane, I can’t complain” Nirvana ( name the song without checking for bonus respect) On my airplane seat screen…
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