Lambay Poetry

Rupert Baring, the fourth Lord Revelstoke, who died in 1994, was quite a colourful character. He lived on Lambay Island for six decades and passed the time there by writing doggerel, his devotion for the island is reflected in his own poetry below:

(Courtesy of Malahide Historical Society)

Lambay is the wind passing by
Lambay is the goose flying high
Flying to the West Wind crying
As the light is dying
In the Celtic sky
The Kittiwake lives
On the Isle of Lambay,
Close by the goose
And Razorbill,

Basking seal,
Curlew and teal
Have a share in my life
And always will.
Lambay is the sound of the sea
Calling, ever calling to me.
My land,
Sweet enchanted Island
Magic sea and sky land
Where my heart is free.