Liverpool born poet and writer Michael Walsh traces his Liverpool roots back to 1865. This was the year his Irish great-grandmother arrived in the Second City of Empire. His parents were born at the turn of what was to become the most tumultuous century in history. Michael's father, Patrick, fought in three major conflicts before reaching his fortieth birthday. His mother, Kathleen, was a former nun turned gun-running renegade.
On leaving school at 15 years of age, Michael spent 12 weeks at the Merchant Navy School for Sailors in Sharpness, Gloucestershire. During his years at sea, he was to visit and work in over 60 countries.
The journalist and broadcaster since provided articles and columns for numerous magazines and international news media. In 2011 he was awarded Writer of the Year by the publishers of Euro Weekly News, Europe's highest-circulation newspaper of its kind. He has authored, edited and ghosted over 70 book titles.
At the cost of hundreds of lives, luckless Spain alone has removed more barriers (108) in 2021 than all the other European countries combined in 2020 (101). Three countries (Portugal, Montenegro, and Slovakia) recorded their first-ever removals.
Ballad of the Old Sailor . Oh, the salt and the sting of the wide open sea,Where the waves are wild, and the heart is free.With a creak of the mast, and a slap of the sail,I’d ride with the storm, or drift with the gale..I was young […]
The painting depicts an exhausted German soldier returning from war, resting his weary head in the lap of a young woman. She is portrayed as young, beautiful, and pure, symbolizing the personification of Germany.
Or are you simply in the process of resting and recovering from all that you have been through? Are you truly procrastinating? Or are you simply prioritizing what your soul finds more valuable, enriching and uplifting? Are you truly sad? Or are you simply purging and releasing your […]
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ (L. P Hartley: The Go-Between) A generation that walked to school every day and we walked back home just as easily. We were a generation that did our homework by ourselves, eager to finish and rush outside […]
Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn’t really hurt anyone. We’ll be growing it for ourselves and trading it with the other people in the commune for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want. In the meantime, we’ll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so that Stacy can get better. She sure deserves it!
MAKE READING COMPASSIONATE AGAIN My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through. If I repeat the same thing a thousand times when we talk, don’t interrupt to say: […]
5. Dublin’s Temple Bar district is renowned for its vibrant nightlife, with numerous pubs, restaurants, and cultural venues.
‘We enjoyed a celebrity status.’ His verse captures the soul of Liverpool as it was before the city was transformed. 3,000 copies of A Sea Veneer of Merseyside and Believing of Liverpool were sold out in weeks.
A SHILLING FROM HIS PAY . When poppy seeds and sweetheart’s tears, Are falling till the May; Then who’ll replace the young men, Who have fallen in the fray? Will young men’s eyes be passion filled? Bright lit by lies absurd, Oh, what’s a young man left to […]
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