{"id":406155,"date":"2026-04-19T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406155\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:00:16","slug":"tir-na-nog-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406155\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00edr na n\u00d3g \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shaft of light between clouds<br \/>\nand a glimpse of distant blue<br \/>\nremembered hills, last year\u2019s hopes<br \/>\ncast now in a cave of shadows.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t have the stomach to cross<br \/>\nsuch distance these days, ride for love<br \/>\ninto the oncoming tide, surf<br \/>\nthe rollers, live with the youth.<br \/>\nFor old times sake I stop here,<br \/>\nDrunk on promises from the night<br \/>\nbefore, the pain breaks upon the shore,<br \/>\nShatters seashells, cracks open the land.<br \/>\nBut the daylight briefly breaks so I run,<br \/>\nout of the storybooks and into the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Geden is a poet, teacher and translator living in Kinsale. His most recent collection is The Cloud Architect (Doire Press, 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shaft of light between clouds and a glimpse of distant blue remembered hills, last year\u2019s hopes cast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6202,49207,979],"class_list":{"0":"post-406155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kinsale","12":"tag-poems-of-the-week","13":"tag-poetry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406155","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=406155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}