{"id":393965,"date":"2026-04-11T23:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393965\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T23:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:50:13","slug":"a-brother-aged-seven-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393965\/","title":{"rendered":"A brother, aged seven \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother is known<br \/>\nFor his success<br \/>\nWith the old people<br \/>\nWho talk of his smile<br \/>\nAnd generous nature<br \/>\n\u201ca natural gentleman\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My brother is known<br \/>For his success<br \/>In relaxing conversation<br \/>Into the safe, bright <br \/>Places of an invitation.<br \/>\u201cGod gave him a lovely nature\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My brother is known<br \/>For his success<br \/>In talking with people.<br \/>Not like I, I, now folding<br \/>Love-lies into verses.<br \/>\u201cHe had the natural way of it\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My brother is known<br \/>For his success<br \/>In dying unnaturally<br \/>On his birthday.<br \/>Aged seven. I was five.<br \/>I inherit his nature\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n<p>Poet and arts journalist Hayden Murphy, born in Dublin, now resides in Edinburgh. Today\u2019s poem is from Discovery: Location &amp; Belonging (Roncadora Press), recently launched at the Irish Consulate in Edinburgh <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My brother is known For his success With the old people Who talk of his smile And generous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,49207],"class_list":["post-393965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-poems-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}