This is the end, my friend...

#PeakyBlinders #TheImmortalMan #Lankum #HuntingTheWren

Once more for the day that’s in it - Lá an Dreoilín - The Boys of Barr na Sráide...
#LáAnDreoilín #AnDreoilín #huntingthewren #wren #thewren #WrenDay #wrenboys #StStephensDay
10/11
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyh9...

Beannachtaí #LáAnDreoilín daoibh go leir!!
9/11
#wrenboys #thewren #wrenday #huntingthewren #LáFheileStiofáin #AnDreoilín #siannollaigí #wren #ststephensday #geimhreadh #Stephenses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-bd...

The wren’s lost his crown
In the thorns and the fern.
Now redbreast is king,
And spring will return!
8/11
#thewren #wrenday #utterslevmose #huntingthewren #LáFheileStiofáin #AnDreoilín #siannollaigí #wren #LáAnDreoilín #winter #robin #ststephensday #geimhreadh

But where is the wren?
Where is Dreoilín?
He flies through the bushes,
Doesn’t want to be seen.
7/11
#wrenboys #thewren #wrenday #huntingthewren #LáFheileStiofáin #AnDreoilín #siannollaigí #wren #LáAnDreoilín #winter #ststephensday #geimhreadh

A pigeon looks on at
A blue-tit in branches,
The ducks and the swans,
Sail past in huge tranches.
6/11
#thewren #wrenday #utterslevmose #huntingthewren #LáFheileStiofáin #AnDreoilín #siannollaigí #wren #LáAnDreoilí #pigeon #bluetit #ducks #swans #bog #winter #ststephensday

A goose looks me over,
With a dubious glare,
And then a grey heron
Takes off in the air.
5/11
#thewren #wrenday #utterslevmose #huntingthewren #LáFheileStiofáin #AnDreoilín #siannollaigí #wren #LáAnDreoilí #goose #heron #bog #winter #ststephensday

A moorhen steps bravely
Alone on the ice,
Some seagulls do likewise
But can launch in a thrice.
4/11
#thewren #wrenday #utterslevmose #huntingthewren #LáFheileStiofáin #AnDreoilín #siannollaigí #wren #LáAnDreoilí #moorhen #seagulls #bog #winter #ststephensday

A seagull soars high
As a sparrow looks on,
The blue-jay sings loudly
His intricate song.
3/11
#thewren #wrenday #huntingthewren #LáFheileStiofáin #AnDreoilín #siannollaigí #wren #LáAnDreoilín #seagull #sparrow #bluejay #bog #winter #ststephensday

A magpie, a blackbird,
A tit in a tree,
But nowhere I look
That wee wren can I see.
2/11
#wrenboys #thewren #wrenday #huntingthewren #LáFheileStiofáin #AnDreoilín #LáAnDreoilín #siannollaigí #wren #bog #rain #fog #winter #ststephensday #geimhreadh #Stephenses #magpie #blackbird

On #LáAnDreoilín,
By the moor and the bog,
I went to hunt the wren,
In wind and rain and fog.
1/11
#wrenboys #thewren #wrenday #huntingthewren #LáFheileStiofáin #AnDreoilín #siannollaigí #wren #bog #rain #fog #winter #ststephensday #geimhreadh #Stephenses

#LANKUM - #HuntingTheWren (Live in #Dublin )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lURe...
#IrishFolkMusic #Irish #OtherVoices

Beannachtaí #LáAnDreoilín daoibh go leir!!
6/6
#WrenDay #AnDreoilín #WrenBoys #huntingthewren #LáFhéileStiofáin
#síannollaigí #wren #ststephensday #geimhreadh #Stephenses

youtu.be/Fov5HTEJDdk

Ah, there’s that rascal Dreoilín,
The flighty little wren!
And in his wake the red robin,
So spring will come again.
5/6
#LáAnDreoilín #WrenDay #AnDreoilín #WrenBoys #huntingthewren #LáFhéileStiofáin

Wood pigeons aloft are squawking,
As grey geese wet their feet.
A Parliament of Fowls is talking
More sense than Kildare Street.
4/6
#LáAnDreoilín #WrenDay #AnDreoilín #WrenBoys #huntingthewren #LáFhéileStiofáin

Two swans abreast, a magpie broadcasts,
A heron stands watch by the stream.
High in a tree, a pigeon at last
Stirs and awakes from its dream.
3/6
#LáAnDreoilín #WrenDay #AnDreoilín #WrenBoys #huntingthewren #LáFhéileStiofáin

The jay in his tree, a crow on the grass,
A blackbird rakes in the leaves,
A tit in the branches high above,
But not one wren can I see.
2/6
#LáAnDreoilín #WrenDay #AnDreoilín #WrenBoys #huntingthewren #LáFhéileStiofáin

One winter’s day, my course was set,
To tramp the grey, the cold, the wet,
All through the bog, and o’er the fen,
To hunt #AnDreoilín, the wren.
1/6
#LáAnDreoilín #WrenDay #WrenBoys #huntingthewren #LáFhéileStiofáin

Inniu Lá an Dreoilín.
For the day that’s in it...
“The wren, the wren, the king of all birds...”
#LáAnDreoilín #WrenDay #WrenBoys #huntingthewren #LáFhéileStiofáin #AnDreoilín
youtu.be/Fov5HTEJDdk

Just saw a wren on St Stephen's Day. #HuntingTheWren