On An Image On The Millstreet Town Website

Ryan Tarrant on a cart pulled by Dan Joe Murphy's donkey Bessie in Knocknakilla Bring back memories of an old Irish cultural history I thought nowadays such things not to be seen in Ireland But thought again has made a fool out of me It is good to think that such a thing not completely extinct In modern Ireland in the early twenty first century A twentieth century thing that has not been lost forever Though we cannot go back to what once used to be Though much credit must go to the likes of Dan Joe Murphy To his kind of person recognition is overdue For trying to preserve a dying age old tradition I only say of his kind what is true The donkey pulled cart was endangered in Ireland When i was a boy more than fifty years ago But in changing times there is no return to what was And modern technology is now conservation's foe Ryan Tarrant on a cart pulled by Dan Joe Murphy's Donkey Bessie A recently taken photograph that has links to the past It is a changing World that we live in And in changing times few things do seem to last.