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Posted by The Wild Geese on May 11, 2024 at 8:38pm 0 Comments 1 Like
DOMHNAIGH -- On May 12, 1916, the British army executed Sean Mac Diarmada and James Connolly, the last of the Rising leaders they would kill in Dublin. The treatment accorded to Connolly, a hero among…
ContinuePosted by Margaret M. Johnson on April 28, 2024 at 7:43am 0 Comments 0 Likes
(Clockwise, from top): RUSH, Co. Fingal, Margaret M. Johnson; MINI POTATO CAKES, Sribaz/Dreamstime; TEMPLE BAR MARKET, Dublin, Margaret M. Johnson; MIDLETON FARMERS MARKET, Co. Cork, Margaret M. Johnson; GALWAY FARMERS MARKET, Galway,…
ContinuePosted by Gerry Regan on April 20, 2019 at 10:30pm 0 Comments 7 Likes
I see his blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of his eyes,
His body gleams amid eternal snows,
His tears fall from the skies.…
Posted by Susan McWilliams Lev-Yadun on February 7, 2014 at 3:00am 4 Comments 2 Likes
Of all the great men and women of that era, was there a more gallant figure than Joseph Mary Plunkett, or a more hopeless love than that of Plunkett and Grace Gifford? They were to be married in a church on St Stephen’s Green on April 23, Easter Sunday, 1916, but history…
ContinuePosted by Daniel P. McLaughlin on March 28, 2024 at 1:30pm 3 Comments 2 Likes
To bear His heir, perfection
No stain or fault, detection
This House of David's promised place
Her conception full of grace
Original sin, suspended
Eden's triumph, upended
I AM's ark of flesh and blood.
Whose prophecy withstood
Herod's…
Posted by Margaret M. Johnson on March 25, 2024 at 3:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
It’s a safe bet that you’ll find slices of this cake offered in tea rooms, coffee shops, home kitchens, and take-aways throughout the Emerald Isle. It’s a “standard” to which bakers often add a personal touch — think extra lemon (or orange) zest in the cake or fresh herbs in the drizzle — and it would be…
ContinuePosted by Daniel P. McLaughlin on March 28, 2022 at 9:30am 0 Comments 3 Likes
Praise to the Lord in all His glory.
(Note: This was originally posted April 9th, 2020)
Last week,…
ContinuePosted by Joe Gannon on March 15, 2024 at 8:30pm 5 Comments 1 Like
It was two days before Christmas 1917, as James McCudden pulled gently back on the control stick of his British S.E. 5 biplane. He had spotted what appeared to be a German two-seat scout flying slightly higher, a little over 18,000 ft, to the west of him, over Peronne, about 90 miles north of Paris. As he got closer, he recognized it as a Rumpler.…
ContinuePosted by The Wild Geese on January 20, 2014 at 9:30pm 4 Comments 6 Likes
Waterford City, Ireland - From his perch as rector of the Irish College of St. Isidore in Rome, Waterford-born Franciscan Friar Luke Wadding welcomed a steady stream of refugees from the land of his birth - men forced to leave Ireland to pursue their vocations. He came to understand then,…
ContinuePosted by Joe Gannon on February 1, 2024 at 12:00am 3 Comments 2 Likes
Seán Hales, a TD (member of the Dáil Éireann) from County Cork, and Padraig Ó Maile, a TD from County Mayo, emerged from the Ormond Hotel along the north bank of the Liffey River in Dublin at about 2:30 PM on December 7, 1922. Just the day before, the Free State had been formally established by…
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