So Shatter has pardoned the men,
Who went overseas with a Bren,
Submachine gun,
To take on the hun,
They can hold their heads high once again.
John Moynes
Pic via GombeenNation
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You may think John Moynes is away
He’s not but he’s doing a stage play
Today’s ‘rick had a glitch
Which WE couldn’t stitch
So we dreamt this one up over tay
Chompsky/Bodger
Above: John Moynes (mustard pants) freestyle ‘ricking alongside Phantom’s Joe Donnelly at the buke launch in Hodges Figgis in March.
Pic: Ciaran le Cool
Five Limericks in one
A poem.
Let’s worship the men of the Lockout,
And praise the things that Larkin said,
The tramworkers all are now heroes,
They’re heroes because they are dead.
Spare a thought for those men on that brave day,
When they stood before Murphy’s dread rage,
Then shut up and bring me my latté,
Or I’ll lower your minimum wage.
It baffles me now that mere workers,
Once could purchase a house or a car,
It’s time to clamp down on those shirkers,
We have to, we are where we are.
We’ll have no more talk of progressing,
To this one truth we’ll always hold fast,
That union men are a blessing,
As long as they stay in the past.
John Moynes
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
In a cup fashioned out of an old cassette (if you don’t have your wits about you).
The legendary Brownbread Mixtape Sessions tomorrow night in the Stag’s Head, Dame Court, Dublin.
Pinching the cheeks of austerity with oven-ready satire.
AND featuring John Moynes, off the back of a surge in quality Limerick-coining, LIVE.
Sez Brownbread:
For an absolute bargain of 5 EURO you will get to hear some of the very best musicians and writers working in Ireland today! And, as if that wasn’t enough, our resident sketch comedy troupe will have some fresh, new radio style sketches for your pleasure. Plus you will receive a delicious complimentary Jameson & Ginger Ale in return for walking in the door and parting with that fiver. Or just a Ginger Ale if you are of the non-alcohol drinking persuasion. Hell yeah!
Mmm.
Complimentary.
Not as good, obviously.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
Mid 20th century rhyming greeting cards from the publishing company of former Sinn Fein TD and political wordsmith Brian O’Higgins. In December 1938, O’Higgins [who had been in the GPO in 1916] was one of the group of seven TDs, elected to the Second Dail in 1921, who signed over what they believed was the authority of the Government of Dáil Éireann to the Army Council; an authority which formed the basis of the IRA and Sinn Féin’s rejection of the the states of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and their political abstentionism. Nothing rhymed.
Pics via Ebay
This is the worst time of the year,
When Irishmen panic and fear,
They’ll run out of supplies,
As if it’s a surprise,
That tomorrow they can’t purchase beer.
John Moynes
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
The parish pump down in Meath East,
Has recently been nicely greased,
As FF and FG,
Go all out to see,
Whose popular vote has increased.
John Moynes
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
This Sunday is St Patrick’s Day,
You can go out and march, or just pray,
For the man who blessed lakes,
And got rid of our snakes,
Just stay out of New York if you’re gay.
John Moynes
Pic: Stephen Farrell on Fifth Avenue, March 17, 2012.
The mayor of Ballinasloe,
Was burgled not so long ago,
But to my relief,
She went for the thief,
And dealt him one hell of a blow.
John Moynes
(Independent.ie)