Monday, November 2, 2015

Save The Planet

We must save our world now.I believe it is everyone's primary responsibility to become actively involved in any way we can to halt,and then reverse,the wanton destruction of this beatiful world we call home.The evidence is clear,even to the most sceptical,that us humans are primarily guilty of causing global warming.Please, let's all write the history of how we saved OUR PLANET! It has been suggested that if we planted forests all up the west coast of Ireland they could absorb some of the rain from the atlantic and provide timber and fuel as well.We must demand more intelligence,imagination and patriotism from politicians of all parties and none.They get paid enough.The assets which belong to us Irish people are being plundered and sold by our very own troika of the biggest political parties in Ireland. A good site to visit might be- www.mnn.com
mother nature news, covering various and interesting topics and issues.We are all sovereign,with sovereign rights and responsibilities,no matter who think they have power over us.

Ballad for our Planet

A Ballad for Our Planet

We've had several Global Warnings about now undisputed warming

Since Rachel Carson felt the silence of a birdless barren spring.

Did we listen to the scientist who predicted gloomy dawnings.

As the world got much faster and politicians had their fling?

Some say we've reached the tipping point, the point of no return, 

As the icecaps turn to water and raise up the salty seas, 

And forest fires are fiercer and we're helpless as they burn,

And G-M mortified food production increase modern disease.

We should save our current currencies for the saving the Earth. 

'Cause we cannot eat the money when all the chips are down.

All wars will have to cease making way for new rebirth.

Where it's Eco over Ego and democracy wears the crown.

Let's have harmony of religions then everyone is right,

We don't want politicians messaging punters and their votes,

Powerful Nature's fighting back and she's angry in her might,

So give a chance to save us now to the singers and the poets.

Individually we feel powerless under waffles, lies and spin,

And authorities want control of all our minds and souls,

They've taken our few pleasures and spin they are a sin,

The real sin we must deal with now is the melting of the poles.

The tall trees shudder at the chainsaw to make way for lowly grass,

That will fatten up the cattle and the banks of profiteers.

The tribes of their own counties, they will hassle and harass,

And trick them with selfish greedy laws and sin guilt and fears.

The power is in the sun and in the wave and in the wind 

In the trees and in the ground, in free crops and vegetation,

And in the minds of humans if we all joined up to find

The solutions to our planet with more caring conservation.

Are we humans getting fatter, taking comfort from our food

Where it all goes oh nobody knows it's a mystery of life,

The more we visit, the more we eat, to refuse it might be rude,

Half of us food packing and the others half struggle and strife.

And all the trips on aeroplanes do we really need?

Carbonising the air of once healthy atmosphere

They may be cheap in money, but feed corporation greed,

All rushing off to distant lands and their citizens rushing here.

Let's not forget the damaging nets in all our world's seas

Catching all both big and small despite conservation pleas.

They'll be bereft with nothing left though people be on their knees,

As we pray with a wish for a bit of fish, we'll need a Barrister's legal fees.

The broad sheet and the handy spew forth the daily news

And  propaganda to the masses scattered on the coloured page.

How many trees must die for this, a million different views, 

And polite correctness takes the place of an Eco Warrior rage.

Let us be active, caring people, and let us take back our lovely Earth

And for the beautiful species on it, encourage a magical rebirth!

Together we can Save Our World

& Rescue Environment, Animation and People.

By Tom Donovan, Tarbert, Co. Kerry

This poem was inspired by the opening to a book written by Camille Flammarion, one of the earliest environmentalists.
Here is the opening:

Preface

In ea vivimus, movemur et sumus.
Of all the various subjects which invite a studious examination, it is impossible to select one possessing a more direct, a more permanent, or a more real interest than that which forms the subject of this work. The atmosphere gives life to earth, ocean, lakes, rivers, streams forests, plants, animals, and men; in and by the Atmosphere every thing has its being. It is an ethereal sea reaching over the whole world; its waves wash the mountains and valleys, and we live beneath it and are penetrated by it. It is the Atmosphere which makes its way as a life-giving fluid into our lungs, which gives an impulse to the frail existence of the new-born babe, and receives the last gasp of the dying man upon his bed of pain. It is the Atmosphere which imparts verdure to the fertile fields, nourishing at once the tiny flower and the mighty tree; which stores up the solar rays in order to give us the benefit of them in the future. It is the Atmosphere which adorns with an azure vault the planet in which we move, and makes us an abode in the midst of which we act as if we were the sole tenants of the infinite - the masters of the universe. It is the Atmosphere which illuminates this vault with the soft glitter of twilight, with the waving splendours of the aurora borealis, with the quivering of the lightening and the multiform phenomena of the heavens. At one moment it inundates us with light and warmth, at another it causes the rain to pour down in torrents upon the thirsty land. It is the channel by which the sweet perfumes descend from the hills, and the vehicle of the sound which permits human beings to communicate with each other, of the song of the birds, of the sighting of the wind among the trees, of the moaning of the waves. Without it, our planet would be inert and arid, silent and lifeless. By it the globe is peopled with inhabitants of every kind. Its indestructible atoms incorporate themselves in the various living organisms; the particle which escapes with our breath takes refuge in a plant, and after a long journey, returns to other human bodies; that which we breathe, eat, and drink has already been inhaled, eaten, and drunk millions of times; dead and living, we are all formed of the same substances..... what study can possess a vaster or more direct interest than that of the vital fluid to which we owe the manner of our being and the maintenance of our life?
The study of the Atmosphere, of its physical condition, of its movements, of its functions, and of the laws which regulate its phenomena, forms a special branch of human research. This science, which since the days of Aristotle has been designated Meteorology, belongs in part to Astronomy, which shows the movements of our planet around the sun - movements to which we owe day and night, season, climates, solar action, or, in a word, the basis of the subject. On the other hand, it appertains to Natural Philosophy and Mechanics, which explain and measure the forces brought into play. As it exists in the present day, Meteorology is a new science, of recent establishment, scarcely as yet fixed in its elementary principles.
We are assisting as its elaboration, at its struggling into life. The present generation has seen the establishment of meteorological societies throughout the different nations of Europe, and of special observatories for the exclusive study of the problems relating to the Atmosphere. The analysis of climates, seasons, currents, and periodical phenomena is scarcely terminated. The examination of the atmospheric disturbances, of tempestuous movements, and of storms, has been made, so to speak, before our own eyes. The science of the Atmosphere is the question of the day. We are just now, in regard to this study, in an analogous situation to that of modern Astronomy in the days of Kepler. Astronomy was founded in the seventeenth century. Meteorology will be the work of the nineteenth.
I have endeavoured to collect in this work all that is at present positively known about the important subject, to represent as completely as possible the actual state of our knowledge about the Atmosphere and its work - that is, about the air, the seasons, the climates, the winds, the clouds, the rain, the hurricanes, the storms the lightening, the meteors - in a word, the phenomena of time, and above all, the general upholding of terrestrial life. It is, in fact, a synthesis of the research effected during the last half century (especially during the latter portion of it) as to the great phenomena of terrestrial nature, and the forces which produce them. The great majority of us, inhabitants of the earth, no matter to what nation we belong, pass our lives without attempting to form an idea of our actual position, without asking ourselves what is the force which prepares us for our daily bread, ripens for us the grapes that give the wine, presides over the change in the seasons, and alternates the exhilarating blue sky with the rains and cold of inhospitable winter. Yet, why should we live in such a state of ignorance? I venture to hope that after perusing this work there will be no difficulty in understanding the life and movements of the globe. Everything which takes place around us is interesting when, instead of remaining as one born blind, a man has learned to appreciate external things and to keep himself in intelligent communication with Nature.
I could have wished to keep this work, destined as it is for the public, free from scientific terms and figure which constitute its basis. I have done so as far as possible, but without in any point sacrificing accuracy and precision in respect to observed facts. It seems to me, too, that what is termed the public (that is, every one) has become somewhat scientific itself, since so many excellent works have popularised ideas previously reserved for a small circle of the elect.

Camille Flammarion.

Paris

November 1871

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Monday, February 2, 2015

A Song for our Water

Air: The valley of Knockanure

Oh how great and glorious to be alive on that momentous day-

When us Irish people found our feet and decided not to pay.

We shouted stop to metering and EM Radiation.

let's take back our power in this our hour and still marching to frustrate them.

From the rebel Cork to Donegal the message was loud and clear-

Not a penny for Enda Kenny, our revolt without a fear.

Our success is strong and with us belong when all of us stay together,

And we’ll never retreat while on our feet in our summer or wintry weather.

So when Irish Water is wound-down we will not shed a tear.

When all is said in every shed we could find a souvenir.

There will be no checks or bonuses for Joan or Enda’s cronies-

They’ll have to seek some honest work or a bet upon the ponies.

The watery sun is sinking now on Enda and Joan B.

Their race is run they’ve had their fun but still they cannot see

that we’re awake and will not take any more austerity.

We’ve had enough of their oul’ guff so our water will flow free.

We’ve had enough of their oul’ guff and our water will be free!

By Tom O Donovan.

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Those in power write the history – Those who suffer write the songs

Posted on January 22nd, 2015

Balladeer, Tom O'Donovan from Tarbert (right) pictured with Joe Harrington, Lyreacrompane (left) at the Right2Water protest march in Castleisland on Saturday. ©Photograph: John Reidy

Balladeer, Tom O’Donovan from Tarbert (right) pictured with Joe Harrington, Lyreacrompane at the Right2Water protest march in Castleisland on Saturday. ©Photograph: John Reidy

Those in power write the history. Those who suffer write the songs and, given our history, we have an awful lot of songs.

That’s an oft quoted line when discussions on the history of the Irish ballad or balladeer arise. There are examples of its historical accuracy in every town and village in the country. Take our own finest example: The Eviction of Dick Johnny Walsh of Kilmurry in 1909.

All take Notice: A meeting of the week-old Right2Water Castleisland Committee will be held at Fagin’s / Hartnett’s Bar on this Friday night, January 23rd at 7.30pm. New members and concerned citizens all welcome to attend. See more here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Right2Water-Castleisland/1569363026642113?fref=ts
Official versions of great and traumatic events like these were never believed. People often held their tongues until the local balladeer had his say. Have things changed or improved ?

The ballad was the verdict of the people who felt the brunt of the action. It was the vox populi – if you like. Oh, there was agitation too of course and blood spilled as well. There were no tribunals then.
Imagine if a panel of balladeers was appointed and given over all the papers that would make up our imaginary tribunal of enquiry and that the ballad which ensued was binding – the final word.
On the basis of what we know of ballads and on the basis of what we know of tribunals the distilled lines would be fairly withering. No ambiguity and only the whiteness of the paper between those damning lines.
There would be murder of course. But artistic license would be enshrined in the constitution of the Balladeers’ Court and its participants would be protected by every law known to man and woman and they’d be provided with enough beer and bread for the rest of their days.
I’d put Tom O’Donovan on the panel; he’s good at the ballads. He must have three bags full by now. Tom is a resident of Tarbert and has been involved in every protest about anything that was ever wrong in North Kerry over the past decade or more. O’Donovan, most of the time except when he’s going for election – which he does from time-to-time.
It was Tom O’Donovan who wound up last Saturday’s Right2Water Kerry march here in Castleisland by singing his latest creation. He promised to send it to me for publication and he was as good as his word.

The Ballad of the Water Charges (Air: The Valley of Knockanure)
Oh how great and glorious to be alive on that momentous day-
When us Irish people found our feet and decided not to pay.
We shouted stop to metering and EM Radiation.
let’s take back our power in this our hour and still marching to frustrate them.

From the rebel Cork to Donegal the message was loud and clear-
Not a penny for Enda Kenny, our revolt without a fear.
Our success is strong and with us belong when all of us stay together,
And we’ll never retreat while on our feet in our summer or wintry weather.

So when Irish Water is wound-down we will not shed a tear.
When all is said in every shed we could find a souvenir.
There will be no checks or bonuses for Joan or Enda’s cronies-
They’ll have to seek some honest work or a bet upon the ponies.

The watery sun is sinking now on Enda and Joan B.
Their race is run they’ve had their fun but still they cannot see
that we’re awake and will not take any more austerity.
We’ve had enough of their oul’ guff so our water will flow free.
We’ve had enough of their oul’ guff and our water will be free!
- Tom O’Donovan, Tarbert.

Below is the Eugene O’Mara penned ballad on the events at Dick Johnny Walsh’s in Kilmurry in 1909 – which I mentioned above. . The author is referred to locally as Eugie Mara and the event as: The Last Eviction. It was the last recorded eviction in Ireland under British Rule.

Dick Johnny’s Eviction
1
Ye brave Boys of Cordal who made a brave stand,
ye worked night and day to keep Walsh on his land.
Ye stood in the gap before baliffs and police,
and ye drove them away like a pack of wild geese.
2
Police came from Kerry, from Cork and from Clare.
from Caherciveen and a place called Kenmare.
From Killorglin and Dingle, Tralee, Gortalea,
Limerick, Newcastle and around Abbeyfeale.
3
When they got to Kilmurry they were srtuck with surprise,
When they saw there before them the tough Cordal boys.
The county cried halt to the cops in the grove,
Seeing the road blocked with trees which no peeler could move.
4
The Battering Ram, boys, had no room to pass,
With the large crowd of people who stood ‘round the cross.
The Peelers insisted we’d all go to jail,
It was Simon and Florry who gave us light bail.
5
They went through Miss Kate’s place and Down through the green,
Carroll, McCarthy, Matt and Coiteen,
Their photos were taken coming down through the lawn,
Without shirts but old mufflers they bought in the pawn.
6
Fifty defenders in handcuffs were bound,
Coupled together they marched into town.
I’ll never forget that day ‘round The Green,
when they showed them the way up Tom Craig’s bohereen.
7
And now to conclude, boys, I’ll finish my song,
Hoping Walsh is reinstated and that before long,
I am no baliff in England’s employ,
Nor a poet of great learning – but a labouring boy.

- Eugene O’Mara, Ardmona, Cordal

Friday, January 9, 2015

Why You Should Oppose Water Charges

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