All Discussions Tagged 'Ireland' - The Wild Geese2024-03-29T13:21:14Zhttps://thewildgeese.irish/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Ireland&feed=yes&xn_auth=noToo young to flytag:thewildgeese.irish,2015-06-17:6442157:Topic:1627102015-06-17T12:56:46.024ZBrian Nolanhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/BrianNolan
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<p><span>'He had the world before him, fully fledged, full of confidence, ready for the off. He stood on the ledge, the warm breeze ruffling his feathers, lifting his spirit. He looked down, gauging his course, calculating the downdraft, the uplift. Suddenly, without warning, the cat struck, a glancing blow, knocking him off the safety of his perch, sending him…</span></p>
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<p><span>'He had the world before him, fully fledged, full of confidence, ready for the off. He stood on the ledge, the warm breeze ruffling his feathers, lifting his spirit. He looked down, gauging his course, calculating the downdraft, the uplift. Suddenly, without warning, the cat struck, a glancing blow, knocking him off the safety of his perch, sending him careening into the void, helpless. He lay there, stunned, breathless, injured. I picked him up, the first swallow I've ever held, quaking, terrified, his little heart beating madly. He cheeped his protest, the cat fled, I put him safely back in his nest. Tomorrow is a better day to fly.'</span></p>
<p><span>In memory of the six young Irish J1 students who were tragically killed today when a balcony they were standing in, collapsed without warning in San Francisco two days ago. Air dheis De go raibh a h-anamacha. Remembering also their seven friends who have suffered catastrophic injuries in the accident.</span></p> Is Your 'Local' Irish Pub the Best in the Whole World? Which of the 7,000+ Irish Pubs Would You Vote For?tag:thewildgeese.irish,2015-02-09:6442157:Topic:1432812015-02-09T13:51:43.024ZBrian Nolanhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/BrianNolan
<p><span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122500965?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122500965?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></img></a> The Irish pub - now there's a welcome sign! No matter where in the world you are, it brings goose-bumps when you step inside...the endless possibilities, the broadening smile, the all-embracing welcome, 'home'. So, which of the 7,000+ Overseas Irish Pubs would you vote for? Do you know a really special overseas Irish Pub? Well, I know I do, several of them in fact! Now…</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/2.3759" target="_blank"><strong>Pen your entry here.</strong></a></p>
<p>* Closing date 28 February, 2015.</p>
<p></p> Work! -- Tell Us How It Defines You AND Your Irish Ancestorstag:thewildgeese.irish,2014-08-29:6442157:Topic:1153582014-08-29T19:17:37.564ZMicci Pirainohttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/MicciPiraino
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">Beannachtaí! (Greetings!) Lá Oibre Shona! (Happy Labor Day!) On this Labor Day Weekend, as we celebrate the working people of North America, we can also reflect on the struggles, sacrifices and triumphs of our Irish ancestors.…</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">Beannachtaí! (Greetings!) Lá Oibre Shona! (Happy Labor Day!) On this Labor Day Weekend, as we celebrate the working people of North America, we can also reflect on the struggles, sacrifices and triumphs of our Irish ancestors.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2"><em><span>Right, a Time Magazine cover featuring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meany" target="_blank">George Meany</a>, president of the AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1979. Meany was born in 1894 in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, in New York City. His ancestors emigrated to the United States in the 1850s. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meany" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>). </span></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">We invite you to share what your Irish ancestors did for work. What did they do in Ireland? Did they continue to do it when they emigrated to North America? Did they find work easily when they arrived here or did they have struggles? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">Do you do something similar to what they did or something altogether different to make a living? Share your story here. Go raibh maith agat! (Thank You!) The Wild Geese Team</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">By the way, Ireland celebrates <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/ireland/may-day" target="_blank">Labour Day</a> (Lá an Lucht Oibre), aka May Day (Lá Bealtaine), which transpires the first Monday of May.</span></p> Certificate of Irishness - a load of BLAH?tag:thewildgeese.irish,2014-08-12:6442157:Topic:1123312014-08-12T08:56:06.457ZBrian Nolanhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/BrianNolan
<p>Ian O'Doherty makes a fair point in his article in the Irish Independent this week, but misses the real issue. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/makes-you-proud-to-be-irish-30475231.html">http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/makes-you-proud-to-be-irish-30475231.html</a></p>
<p>If we were really serious about engaging with our scattered Irish diaspora, we would allow them to emigrate here and work and contribute to Ireland inc, and…</p>
<p>Ian O'Doherty makes a fair point in his article in the Irish Independent this week, but misses the real issue. </p>
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<p>If we were really serious about engaging with our scattered Irish diaspora, we would allow them to emigrate here and work and contribute to Ireland inc, and take out citizenship. As it stands, most of our 'cousins' who would love to carry an Irish passport (and pay well for it) are prevented from doing so by our citizenship laws which were changed to exclude third generation Irish in the 1990's, and thus very few Americans, or Argentinians, or Australians, or Canadians ever consider coming here to live, retire and work as our residency visa laws are archaic! Ireland's loss surely...and a wee bit of green-tinted paper is a poor substitute for the real thing. Most Irish in those countries trace their Irishness to a man or woman who fled Ireland in the period 1840-1900. Our law on claiming Irish citizenship really only allows 20th century emigrants descendants to claim an Irish passport (you are limited to having had a parent or grand-parent born in Ireland). We have effectively denied all Irish rights to the bulk of our diaspora, the descendants to the poor, desperate and incredibly brave ones who left Ireland in the decades immediately after the Famine. Personally I would offer passports to anyone who can prove their lineage from that period. They after all paved the way for the rest of us, sent monies home and kept the home fires burning, and very many of them got precious little thanks for it! What do you think?</p> Bridge Divide in Northern Ireland With YOUR Flag Concepttag:thewildgeese.irish,2013-12-06:6442157:Topic:666422013-12-06T19:14:05.827ZThe Wild Geesehttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/TheWildGeese
<p class="p1"><strong><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Edinburgh_tattoo_Patrick%27s_Cross_for_N_Ireland_%28crop%29.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Edinburgh_tattoo_Patrick%27s_Cross_for_N_Ireland_%28crop%29.jpg?width=300" style="padding: 2px;" width="300"></img></a> U.S. negotiator Richard Haas</strong> <a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/find-a-neutral-flag-for-all-of-northern-ireland-richard-haass-issues-challenge-to-parties-29803598.html">has asked the parties from both sides of the political divide</a> in Northern Ireland to consider…</p>
<p class="p1"><strong><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Edinburgh_tattoo_Patrick%27s_Cross_for_N_Ireland_%28crop%29.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Edinburgh_tattoo_Patrick%27s_Cross_for_N_Ireland_%28crop%29.jpg?width=300" width="300" class="align-right" style="padding: 2px;"/></a>U.S. negotiator Richard Haas</strong> <a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/find-a-neutral-flag-for-all-of-northern-ireland-richard-haass-issues-challenge-to-parties-29803598.html">has asked the parties from both sides of the political divide</a> in Northern Ireland to consider what many heretofore considered unthinkable -- creation of a new flag for the gerrymandered Northern Ireland state.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="font-size-1"><strong>Right, flags of nations participating in the 2011 . Northern Ireland is represented by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Cross" class="extiw" title="w:Saint Patrick's Cross">Saint Patrick's Cross</a>. Countries in alphabetical order, from left, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, and Norway. Wikipedia Photo</strong></span></p>
<p class="p1">We ask our fellow members to contribute their ideas for such a flag. The 'entry' that in the decidedly subjective opinion of the WG Team seems most engaging will receive an <a href="http://www.wegotirish.com/images/products/detail/0289_Irish_Flag_Stick.jpg" target="_blank">"Irish flag on a stick"</a> from our Heritage Partner <a href="http://WeGotIrish.com" target="_blank">WeGotIrish.com</a>. We'll announce the winner in a week's time, so sharpen your pencils, and your wit! <span style="color: #339966;"><strong>WG</strong></span></p> What Is JFK's Legacy a Half-Century Later?tag:thewildgeese.irish,2013-11-22:6442157:Topic:640222013-11-22T19:04:43.386ZNollaig 2016https://thewildgeese.irish/profile/BelindaEvangelista
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<p>Here we are 50 years on. </p>
<p>What do you think was his bequest to the Irish, to America, and to the world?</p>
<p>And what might be his place in your family's 'Irish' (personal) story?</p>
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<p>Here we are 50 years on. </p>
<p>What do you think was his bequest to the Irish, to America, and to the world?</p>
<p>And what might be his place in your family's 'Irish' (personal) story?</p> 1858: William and Daniel Cormack, for murdering John Ellistag:thewildgeese.irish,2013-05-11:6442157:Topic:213192013-05-11T21:12:54.092ZJoe Gannonhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/JoeGannon
<p><a href="http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/ILN/Evictions/Ejectment.gif" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/ILN/Evictions/Ejectment.gif?width=370" style="padding: 10px;" width="370"></img></a> An interesting article <a href="http://www.executedtoday.com/2013/05/11/1858-william-and-daniel-cormack-for-murdering-john-ellis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ExecutedToday+%28Executed+Today%29" target="_blank">HERE</a> on the execution of two Irishmen for the murder of a hated land agent. It's interesting not just for content about the…</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/ILN/Evictions/Ejectment.gif"><img class="align-right" style="padding: 10px;" src="http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/ILN/Evictions/Ejectment.gif?width=370" width="370"/></a>An interesting article <a href="http://www.executedtoday.com/2013/05/11/1858-william-and-daniel-cormack-for-murdering-john-ellis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ExecutedToday+%28Executed+Today%29" target="_blank">HERE</a> on the execution of two Irishmen for the murder of a hated land agent. It's interesting not just for content about the attitudes of the Irish toward these land agents, but also illustrates just how little "justice" there was for any Irishman who got swept up in the British "justice" system in Ireland.</p>
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<p><em>“Land agents” — the rent-squeezing fist of distant landlords — were not popular people in Ireland. These bill collectors literally ran people out of house and home: one late 19th century land agent in Ireland recalled in <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16450/16450-h/16450-h.htm">his memoirs</a> having received over a hundred threatening letters and, in November 1884, having his house in Kerry dynamited.</em></p>
<p><em>So the 1857 murder of Tipperary land agent John Ellis drew little surprise (his life had been attempted at least twice before, when he evicted people to prospective starvation during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29">the Great Famine</a>), and drew scarcely any mourning.</em></p>
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