34 poems
Contents
Advice by the Ocean
After Hours Jam
The Boy Killers
Cáit, Between the Lines
A Christmas Star
Complaint Against Acceptance
diamond
Eyes Alone
Facets
Fourth Level Education
Fraction
The Harpmaker’s Jig
Hummingbird
the laming
And the Milk Producers Are on Strike
The Ocean Blesses the Betrothal
Only My Love
Over the Wall to the Trinity Ball
Pegasus
A poem without words
The Race
Reverence
Rowanberry Wine
Snáth Mara
Sunset
Tomorrow
Twinkling
Unfairest Cut
untitled
Why Are You Waiting?
The Wheel
When Grasp Exceeds Reach
Why Birds?
Zenez
Cover drawing by Neal Ryan, coloured by Richard Marsh
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See Trinity News March 28, 2011, page 25, for an article on various attempts to go over the wall.
English Like It Is: Right, Wrong and Changing Usage
Richard Marsh, Bardic Storyteller
The Key Bearer Saga, Book One: Earn Fire
The Key Bearer Saga, Book Two: The Shore of Two Worlds
Part of my second novel is set on the Trinity campus and, in making a toast to his classmates, I’d like one character to quote a stanza from Richard Marsh’s poem “Over the Wall to the Trinity Ball.” I’d like to discuss this with Mr. Marsh’s family but do not know how to reach them. Bill Ried fiveferriesnovel@gmail.com
Hi, Bill. No need to contact my family. I’m very much alive. You may have been misled by the internet’s priority attention given to my namesake, Richard Bernard Heldmann, author of The Beetle, who used the pen name Richard Marsh. He died in 1915.
“Over the Wall to the Trinity Ball” was first published in New Executive Magazine, Dublin, in 1981. It was reprinted with my permission in the 24 April 2007 issue of the college’s student newspaper, Trinity News, whose editor has his own Over the Wall tales. John Engle used it with permission in his 2013 book Trinity Student Pranks: A History of Mischief & Mayhem, The History Press Ireland, 2013.
Which stanza do you wish to quote and in what context?