Boluisce I root my fingers, burying them back and down. A twist into black, acidic soil, deeper than anything man-made....
Lyrics: Night Shopping Best thing that happened to mom Was Hy-Vee opening all night long So she could use food...
Last days in August The tarmac heats the rubber soles of my boots. It’s hotter here than I had expected...
TOBY’S SOLILOQUY To think what stands against me still is not the harm of falling off a ladder at two-storey...
The Irish are renowned storytellers. From Nobel prize winning literature to pub talk we are saturated in stories. We listen...
Ryan Dennis is the author of The Beasts They Turned Away, a novel set on an Irish dairy farm. He shares...
That works of draining are most ancient and of divine institution we have the testimony of Holy Scripture … That...
The dog had been missing since morning. It was getting late in the day, but I still wasn’t too keen...
When planted, potatoes are laid out in a particular pattern, like the 5 side of a die. Four corners of...
Steven. Steven, is loose. Loose, so I had to go looking for him. I’d been meaning to fix the gate....
The following is an excerpt from Irish writer Maura McElhone’s book Falling for a Farmer (2018), published by Mercier Press. * It...
Finding a role in my family’s small dairy operation is quite literally the oldest goal I can recall from my...