Stories & Poems
| Mum (Iris McCall nee Collins) | Timothy McCall |
| A fitting memorial | Letter home from WW1 - Cpl. J, Comar, 7. Platoon B. Coy, 3.9.1916 |
| Remember Them: The rifle shot that echoes in my mind | Chris Jones, Chippenham, Wiltshire. |
| Reflection | Patsy Burns |
| Senior Citizens | By Pat's Cousin |
| Up the Boreen in Co. Claire | by Eithne Hamill |
| Grandad, we do really love you | Len Langley submitted to Daily Mail by his brother |
| An Early Memory | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| A slice of toast | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| WILLIE and the pigeons | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| Curry's Glen | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| Just another memory | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| In Memoriam | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| A Little Grave In Lisburn | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| The Little Mother | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| Real Love | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| My Love Of Lisburn Town | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| Old Lisburn | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| Childhood Days | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| A Lisburn Exiles Goodbye to his brother | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| By Lagan banks | By the Dabbler(Joe Reid) |
| Can you write the tune? | By the Dabbler(Joe Reid) |
| Christmas On My Mind | By the Dabbler(Joe Reid) |
| Golden Days | By the Dabbler(Joe Reid) |
| The Castle Gardens | By the Dabbler (Joe Reid) |
| By The Lagan, Near The Pier | By the Dabbler(Joe Reid) |
| Memories of Gold | By the Dabbler(Joe Reid) |
| After Xmas | By the Dabbler(Joe Reid) |
| Down the Line | By the Dabbler(Joe Reid) |
| See Joe Reid's football poems click here New | By the Dabbler(Joe Reid) |
| My Country | Dorothea MacKellar Submitted by Tom McCabe |
| Winter time in Canada | Submitted by Jimmy McClean and Sally Cordner |
| Computer Geeks Prayer TO: God.com | Submitted by Bob Finlay |
| Could there not have been another way? | By Tommy Gibb March 8 2006. |
| A story of Belfast past. | Submitted by Jimmy McClean and Sally Cordner |
| "The Town I love so well" | Beano (Bill Hanna) |
| 1st Lisburn Co. Volunteers. | A Lisburn Volunteer - Lisburn, March 6, 1780. |
| My grannies apron | By Liz Brandon |
| A Poem From The Pastor | By Liz Brandon's Husband |
| A poem for Poppy Day | Don Crawford (Canada) |
| A Sate in the Park | By Don Savage |
| Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas | Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1748-1828) |
| An Appreciation To Diana Princess Of Wales | By Mary Woods |
| An ode to Letitia | Lowroader |
| Anahilt Primary pupil Sarah wins a Puskin Prize | By Sarah Loan |
| Beautiful true story | |
| Home thoughts from ----- Belfast... | Submitted by John Dunlop |
| Calling me home: A VERSE that many an Exile has had. New | Submitted by John Dunlop |
| Belfast | Patsy Burns |
| Can I Not Have An Off Day Too? | Shane McClurg |
| Charming Warts | Shane McClurg |
| Childhood | Joan Morrison 1991 |
| Christmas Poem for Our Soldiers | Unknown Soldier |
| Christmas Fairy |
Submitted by Beano: Written by Frances Dunlop 1993 |
| Church of the Dwarf | Shane McClurg |
| Dear Little Cottage | By Jack Ellis (written around 1940) |
| Death is nothing at all | by Canon Scott Holland |
| Do not stand at my grave and weep | Mary Frye (1932) |
| Do you remember | Unknown |
| Do you remember when Lisburn was young? | Mavis Heaney (author 'Life in the Co. Down') |
| Down Memory Lane | By Angus Houston |
| Down the forty ones. | by Eithne Hamill |
| Enough | Submitted by Robert S. Owens |
| Exiles Prayer | Billy Hanna |
| Fare thee well Lisburn | Donald Watters |
| Another ode to Letitia | Donald Watters |
| A Christmas Story for people having a bad day | Donald Watters. |
| Death of a Mill Village ( Hilden ) | Donald Watters. |
| The Doffer and the Weaver | Donald Watters |
| The Language of Love ( borrowed and changed a little ) | Donald Watters. |
| The Mill Workers | Donald Watters. |
| The Tramp | This piece was written by a Lisburn man Bill Brownlee around 1957, he went to live in Grangemouth, Scotland |
| The Attic | Thel Pryce, November, 1996 |
| Footprints | |
| Friends are God's way of taking care of us" | Submitted by Tommy Gibb |
| Golden Telephone | Robert Owens |
| Growing Up On A Farm | L. D. (John Dunlop) |
| Plenty of cheer as hundreds begin to 'grow their own beer' | Submitted by Tom McKay |
| Harmony | Shane McClurg |
| Hello dear old Lisburn | By a soldier from the 160th Welsh Field Ambulance |
| Hilden Mill & On Peace | by Eithne Hamill |
| Lagan Poems 1 | Noel McMaster and others |
| Lagan Poems 2 | Noel McMaster and others |
| Lisburn Town | Noel McMaster |
| Old Fart Pride | Beano (Billy Hanna) |
| Walking with Grandma New | Beano (Billy Hanna) |
| Old Lisburn Town | Submitted by B. Woods |
| Once in a lifetime experience | Patsy Burns |
| Lisburn Long Ago | Patsy Burns |
| Leaving ....................... | Patsy Burns |
| 'World Best Friends Week' | Patsy Burns |
| Look Closer | By Phyllis McCormack |
| Love for my mother dear | Daphne Tkachuk (nee Martin) |
| Memories | Joan English, Canvey Island, Essex. |
| Mother's Elbow On My Bed | Author Unknown |
| My Aunts | by Eithne Hamill |
| My First Christmas in Heaven | By Ben |
| My Mother | by Eithne Hamill |
| On the celebration of the Twelfth of July at Lisburn, in the year 1823 | Unknown |
| Pump Lane | By Mary Woods |
| Shopping in Lisburn | Mavis Heaney (author 'Life in the Co. Down') |
| Step over the years | Mavis Heaney (author 'Life in the Co. Down') |
| A Story of Lisburn Long Ago, and the Death of a Citizen Henry Munro | Mavis Heaney (author 'Life in the Co. Down') |
| Sunday Post Bride | |
| The Candle Light In The Window | |
| The Clothes Line | Submitted by Barney |
| The City of Dromore | |
| The Days I Went To School | Written in 1987 by Aline Hanna (nee Matthews), a pupil in Drumbo Primary School from 1940 to 1944. |
| The Difference | |
| The Dressmaker | by Eithne Hamill |
| The Flag | by Aaron R. Orr |
| The Final Inspection | Author unknown |
| The Arab Orange Order | Author unknown |
| The Ode of a Crabby Old Woman, Nurses reply and Crabby old man, Australian version added | By Phyllis McCormack |
| The Poetry Of Youth | Joan Farr |
| The Railway Bar | James McKinley |
| The Rambling Man from Ballypitmave | Shane McClurg |
| The shooting of Dan McGrew | Robert Service |
| The Sights And Delights Of Lisburn | By Mary Woods |
| They'll Never Get Their Man (The Weavers Trad) | Submitted by B. Woods |
| Thoughts in verse of Lisburn years ago | |
| Time gets better with age | Robert Owens 30/05/2002 |
| Titanic 1912 | |
| Touched by New York atrocity | Trevor C. Quinn |
| Twenty Past Seven | Shane McClurg |
| Valentine/Humorous verses | By Jennie Turley |
| Wandering Willie | Submitted By the Dabbler(Joe Reid) |
| Wappitti | Submitted by B. Woods |
| Remembrance Day (Lest we Forget) | Mauri |
| Watering Holes | Mauri |
| Senior's L ament | Mauri |
| Life's Wish New | Mauri |
| William | By Anna Buckingham |
| THE BEATLES" Every Song they ever wrote... | Submitted by Frazer Wilson |
| Coach O'Leary | Submitted Brendan Woods |
| Sayings/Adages | Submitted by Jean Turk |
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