Hello!

Hi, my name is James and I just thought I would start this whole blogging thing for the heck of it. I am almost 22 and I am from East Galway in Ireland. I am going to America in August and i have never been there before so it would be cool to write about that, and hopefully post some stuff up about the Irish midlands and west where I live too, just like this monologue that I heard on the radio the other day. Its called An Old Man's Wish and its about County Laois:

An Old Man’s Wish

I was walking to the airport with my suitcase and my bags

When an old man approached me and his clothes were all in rags

Every footstep seemed an effort, there was anguish in his speech,

he said son forgive me asking do you come from County Laois?



Well I could not help but wonder as he did his best to talk,

how he ended up so broken in the subways of New York.

Then I heard my flight announcement but before I went my Way,

he said son do me a favour when you get back home today.



Will you give my love to Emo and the tears rolled down his face,

will you make a wish for me beside the Rock of Dunnamaise,

Will you smile on Ballybrittas and just tell her it’s from me,

and will you light a little candle in the Church in Clonaslee.



As the jet plane soared to Ireland he kept coming to my mind,

I could see his tragic features as I left him far behind.

I just could not bare to tell him that I’m not from Laois at all,

That I come from near Bundoran in the County Donegal.


Well I suppose you’ll say I’m foolish and who knows perhaps I am ,

but I know I had to grant that wish to that old old broken man.

As the sun set over Ireland I was on my way to Laois ,

I could see his troubled features , I could hear his voice beseech.


So I gave his love to Emo as I thought of his sad face

and I made a wish for him beside the Rock of Dunnamaise,

And I smiled on Ballybrittas just the way he asked of me,

and the I lit his little candle in the Church in Clonaslee.


Well three years have passed or maybe four I soon forgot it all

I settled down and married in my native Donegal.

Then one night as I was walking home this brilliant light appeared,

and in it stood The old old man, he smiled and said don’t fear,

he said I’ve come to thank you and his face was all aglow,

and then my mind flew back to Laois, it seemed so long ago.

And suddenly he disappeared, But AHH! That strangest peace

for I knew that God has called Him home to Heaven and to Laois.


He said give my love to Emo and the light shone round his face

and make a wish for me beside the Rock of Dunnamaise,

please smile on Ballybrittas and just tell her its from me

and will you light a little Candle in the church in Clonaslee.