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Columnist with The Anglo Celt #WordSmith. Once described as a, "Minor Cavan Celebrity."
"The street we lived on was ‘mostly’ Irish; yet it was often like a simmering pot of spud soup, which would occasionally boil over, causing fights between English and Irish lads – we lived in troublesome times."
This week's #WordSmith column is online.
www.anglocelt.ie/2026/02/15/e...
Go see it, it’s far removed from Bridgerton!
15.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m just out of ‘#WutheringHeights and to use that uniquely Irish saying, “I’m in bits!”
For me, it was everything ‘Hamnet’ wasn’t: dark, smelly, sexy, quite weird, and oh so passionately and poignantly sad.
The Latchkey-Kids – when home was Manchester, England❤
#WordSmith
I found an old picture of me, it gives this week's #WordSmith in The Anglo Celt another layer of pathos – we were all far too young...❤️
14.02.2026 11:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Valentine’s Day❤️
In next week’s #WordSmith column in The Anglo Celt I write about the only Valentine’s Card I ever received – it’s a somewhat ‘alternative’ Valentine’s story…😱
I’m honoured to have been asked to contribute to the ‘Museum of Childhood Ireland’ project ‘That Wilder Bond.’
Will keep you posted.
A Double-Bill of #WordSmith for all of us who resonate❣️
#IrishLiterature
This week's #WordSmith column – it's all about lies, and more LIES?
#IrishLiterature #IrishLife
EXPLORING MY IRISHNESS IN ENGLAND – "...it was something else about my Irishness that threatened to get me into serious trouble; for it compelled me to do something bad, and as a fateful weekend approached, I forced myself to do a heinous thing."
Tomorrow's #WordSmith column...
Following on from last week's #WordSmith column wherein I wrote about being Irish with an English accent; here's another with a focus on the Anglo/Irish experience – who remembers the summer boat journey from England to Ireland to spend school holidays with our Irish relatives?
09.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Man-alive – that song, the album, made my teenage years fly...
08.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My #WordSmith column in The Anglo Celt has resonated with many readers; it's now online.
www.anglocelt.ie/2026/02/07/f...
I’m in Centra and see a woman pick up The Anglo Celt, rather randomly, intrusively, and cheezily, I say, “Have a read of my column, I’m on Page 43.”
She looked at me earnestly, and replied, “Are ya – I’m still trying to get on Page 3.”
#Cavan people have the quickest humour.
Love the below comment about my column this week, from a man over on X😂
"A Cavan lad, reading a Monaghan man's words in a Manchester accent: Gerard Smith embracing his 'soundings'.
A tale of identity, acceptance - and 'gorgeous underpants'!"
#WordSmith #Soundings #Poetry #IrishLiterature
This week's #WordSmith column is for all of us who found a solace in Soundings at school...
#Soundings #School #Poetry #IrishLiterature
"...in my Leaving Certificate year I met the man who liberated me..."
Look out for my #WordSmith column in tomorrow's Anglo Celt.
Hoping to get my first memoir 'Secrets And Styes' back in print this year. The crime I committed still haunts me❤️
Meanwhile, on to the second😁
#Memoir #SecretsAndStyes #WordSmith
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa😂
31.01.2026 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On you go...😂
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A Famine Soup Pot in Clones, Monaghan – capacity to *serve approximately 800 people (*serve, not nourish).
Famine Soup Recipe:
92 Gallons of water
69lbs of flour
20lbs of parsnips
20lbs of turnips
7lbs of beet
7lbs of onions
14 ounces of pepper
71/2lbs of salt
It sure is.
31.01.2026 10:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A tribute to builders...#WordSmith
31.01.2026 10:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"I vividly recall the day she walked into my universe with the calico-coloured Jack-Russell by her side."
This week's #WordSmith column is extra special ❤️
I felt your terror!
25.01.2026 15:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Gerard, that's a wonderful compliment that's really motivated me. I do meet a lot of dogs on my rambles and this incident has definitely shook me.
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Delighted the young man in this #WordSmith was located and he received the recognition he rightly deserves on this morning's Joe Finnegan show.
www.shannonside.ie/podcasts/the...
“I was in a pub enjoying a Cavan-Cola in the company of family and friends at a celebratory function; when the mystery most notably presented itself.”
This week’s #WordSmith column.
#Cavan #Monaghan
“I was in a pub enjoying a Cavan-Cola in the company of family and friends at a celebratory function; when the mystery most notably presented itself.”
This week’s #WordSmith column.
#Cavan #Monaghan
Just back from Hamnet.
Have to say, I liked it, didn’t love it;
found it all a bit ploddy.
Jessie Buckley’s performance is the film.
#Hamnet
