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Derek Warfield's Music -- Right for Aer Lingus?

This article was first produced on TheWildGeese.com in April 2003.

POINT / COUNTERPOINT

Roy Beggs Jr. responds to our Derek Warfield interview.

Editor's Note: Before publishing our…

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Derek Warfield on His Aer Lingus Disappearing Act

Derekwarfield.com.

Derek's latest musical focus has been the music of the Irish in the American Civil War. Here (standing left), he dresses the part.…
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Derek Warfield on His Aer Lingus Disappearing Act

This article was first produced on TheWildGeese.com in April 2003.

WGT's Tom Madigan speaks with legendary folk singer Derek Warfield about his differences with Ulster Unionist politican Roy Beggs Jr., and Aer Lingus' decision in March to…

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Added by The Wild Geese on September 5, 2013 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

LIVE Community Chat with Mike Harrington - Sunday, Sep. 8

Sunday, September 8th is the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Sabine Pass. The occasion is being celebrated as "Dick Dowling Days."



Though a relatively small engagement, Sabine Pass represented perhaps the finest single day's work of any Irish unit, North or South, in the American Civil War. At Sabine Pass, on the Texas coast near the Louisiana…

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Added by The Wild Geese on September 5, 2013 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments

Che Mural

Hey Gerry and everyone, this silly season the Che Mural story has gone viral, and I'm swamped on my Facebook page and Facebook Gallery page.

Two simple points:

1. I really doubt the 'American Tourist' story. It's the local council trying to divert attention from a dumb decision. The Che Festival has given a huge boost to Kilkee, and I'm proud to help a town I…

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Added by JIM FITZPATRICK on September 5, 2013 at 3:00pm — 8 Comments

Slan Abhaile, Seamus

(The remains of Seamus Heaney at the Church of Sacred Heart Donnybrook. Photograph: Cyril Byrne)

And so it comes time....the funeral rites...the stories to be told...the memories to be shared...…

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Added by Bit Devine on September 3, 2013 at 1:00am — No Comments


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Ogham Alphabet article

An article on the Ogham Alphabet appears in the current issue of the Hedgemaster, the newsletter of the Irish Cultural Society.  The article can be found on the Society's web site under Archives: irish-society.org. 

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Irish Cultural Society Meeting (September 11, 2013)

The September 11 meeting of the Irish Cultural Society will feature Colin Broderick speaking about his experiences growing up in The North during the Troubles.  He will read from his memoir That's That and take questions from…

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'Roses from the Heart' Exhibitions and Events Throughout the Island of Ireland, 2013

Australian artist Christina Henri is visiting Ireland with her cloth bonnet memorial that remembers the lives of the women exiled to Australia as convicts 1788-1853. For many their crime was simply that of poverty. These women and their children are paid tribute in Christina's memorials, 'Roses from the Heart' and ' Cherished Babies'.

You are…

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Added by Dr Christina Janette HENRI on September 2, 2013 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

'Honorably Arrested': The Irish Behind the National Maritime Union

By Joe Doyle / Special to The Wild Geese

(Left: Seamen in hiring hall, National Maritime Union. New York City, New York - December 1941, from Archives of Irish America, Tamiment Library, New York…

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Added by The Wild Geese on September 2, 2013 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

Condolence Page for Seamus Heaney: Sign and Add Your Comments

The friends and members of The Wild Geese wish to extend our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Seamus Heaney.

Please add your signature and comments below.

Added by The Wild Geese on September 2, 2013 at 8:43am — 13 Comments

This Week in the History of the Irish: September 1 - September 7

Hulton Deutsch

Roger Casement being led out of Pentonville Prison, where he would later be hanged.

DOMHNAIGH -- On September 1,…

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~ Gabriel James Byrne & Hannah Beth King ~ Fanvideos ~

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~ Randomness ~ R.I.P. Seamus Heaney ~

Err....umm, well it was something I posted on The Irish Times commenting on one of 

the articles there.

I came late to his poems 

A lil young foundling I think I could and would be 

To such a wise and magical sage; such as he 

He whose poems spoke of the Irish truth; 

Of le Irish way of living then; 

Days of yore that…

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Added by Sarah R on August 31, 2013 at 4:23am — No Comments

'Fadó' Book Cover

My book project is moving along and the publisher has just sent me the cover (Donegal Castle, ancestral home of the O'Donnell clan). Its publication date is set for 1 October. At the moment I am proofreading the proofs to make sure there are no typos or other silly…

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Added by Rónán Gearóid Ó Domhnaill on August 31, 2013 at 2:00am — No Comments

From the Frontier of Writing - Seamus Heaney

From the Frontier Of Writing



The tightness and the nilness round that space

when the car stops in the road, the troops inspect

its make and number and, as one bends his face

towards your window, you catch sight of more

on a hill beyond, eyeing with intent

down cradled guns that hold you under cover

and everything is pure interrogation

until a rifle motions and you move

with guarded unconcerned…

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Added by Bit Devine on August 30, 2013 at 4:00pm — No Comments

The Follower - Seamus Heaney

I identified strongly with this poem from the first time I heard it spoken. Much like the follower that was Seamus in his childhood, I followed behind my father and grandfather as they worked cattle and handled ranch duties ... mimicking, getting under foot and learning, growing, as I did.

And now ... in the silver times, my father is slowing, jabbering on, following my lead ... sometimes: 

Follower



My father worked with a…

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Added by Bit Devine on August 30, 2013 at 4:00pm — No Comments

The Recess Boycott

This summer, driving through Connemara, I pulled into Sraith Salach, (Willow Stream) as Recess is now officially called, on the N59 Galway Clifden Road. All Gaeltacht villages throughout Ireland now only have the Irish name, though it caused such a furore in Dingle/ Daingean that they made an exception. The village consists of a shop, pub and marble shop. My friends were…

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Added by Rónán Gearóid Ó Domhnaill on August 30, 2013 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

'Longing Eyebrows' for Seamus Heaney

I, for one, can’t wait. When the time longs into my soul and the creak in my knees cause gentle steps, I’ll grow long my eyebrows. I’ll let them loose on my face as I chase away the last days of my living.…

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Added by Eamon Loingsigh on August 30, 2013 at 9:30am — 7 Comments

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