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Free Book for Anybody Lonely or Broke this Christmas
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Merry Christmas to everybody.It’s been a great year for me but I’m thinking of the people who are doing it tough, as getting through the day last year was a struggle.If you’re stuck on your own or…Continue
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Zombie and the Republic of Memory How a Rock Song Became One of the World's Most Enduring Memories of the Troubles
Posted on October 10, 2026 at 6:35pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
By Tim Flynn (T.S. Flynn)
More than thirty years after its release, millions of people can sing the chorus of "Zombie" despite knowing little about the Warrington bombing that inspired it. The Cranberries' most famous song raises an intriguing question: how does a society remember a conflict after it has forgotten many…
ContinueBelonging What the Albanian-Australian Experience Reveals About Faith, Trust, and Integration
Posted on October 10, 2026 at 12:52pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
By Tim Flynn (T.S. Flynn)
For more than a century, Albanian Muslims have been part of the Australian story. From the tobacco farms of Mareeba to the orchards of Shepparton, their experience raises an uncomfortable question for modern populists: if Islam is fundamentally incompatible with…
ContinueYesterday It Was the Irish: The Long History of Immigration Panics
Posted on October 9, 2026 at 11:23pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Irish migrants were once accused of taking jobs, refusing to integrate and threatening national identity. Two centuries later, the targets have changed, but the language of fear remains remarkably familiar. In a twist of history, Ireland now finds itself debating immigration much as Britain and America once debated the…
History Did Not End in 1998: Why Blue Lights Is Essential Viewing
Posted on October 9, 2026 at 9:54pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
The Good Friday Agreement transformed Northern Ireland, but it did not freeze history in place. BBC's Blue Lights offers one of the most compelling portraits yet of a society still negotiating the long aftermath of conflict. For the Irish diaspora, it is essential viewing, not because it revisits the Troubles, but because it…
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- At 7:09am on July 22, 2013,
Ryan O'Rourke said…
Hi, Tim.
Just wanted to extend a bit of a belated welcome here to The Wild Geese. Hope you've had the opportunity to look around the site to see what's on offer. Of course, there is even more to come. It's a great little burgeoning community with loads of interesting folks enjoying the discussion of all-things-Irish.
Hope to hear more about your own Irish connections here in the days ahead.
Thanks, Tim ... and welcome aboard!
~ Ryan
- At 8:12am on March 25, 2016,
Michael H.J. Kane said…
Theo:
Anything like that happen in Perth, or other cities. Where is the largest enclave of IRISH IN AUSTRALIA? Up here New York and Boston get a lot of ink but Chicago and Philly (counties around) have the most.Irish.
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