All Discussions Tagged 'News' - The Wild Geese2024-03-29T09:41:17Zhttps://thewildgeese.irish/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=News&feed=yes&xn_auth=noNYC Push for School Holiday for Chinese New Year. How About St. Patrick's Day?tag:thewildgeese.irish,2014-02-04:6442157:Topic:760402014-02-04T22:56:54.281ZGerry Reganhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/ger_regan
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122486914?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122486914?profile=RESIZE_320x320" style="padding: 2px;" width="300"></img></a> <strong><span class="font-size-5">I</span>'ve watched with great interest</strong> <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140130/chinatown/politicians-push-for-lunar-new-year-be-school-holiday" target="_blank">the push that's recently emerged</a> to declare the Lunar New Year and the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitre school holidays in New York City, The former, marking the…</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122486914?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122486914?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-left" style="padding: 2px;"/></a><strong><span class="font-size-5">I</span>'ve watched with great interest</strong> <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140130/chinatown/politicians-push-for-lunar-new-year-be-school-holiday" target="_blank">the push that's recently emerged</a> to declare the Lunar New Year and the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitre school holidays in New York City, The former, marking the launch of a new year according to the Chinese calendar, is a major celebration in Chinese communities worldwide.</p>
<p><strong>Left, photo of then-Mayor Mike Bloomburg courtesy New York City Mayor's Office</strong></p>
<p>The bill, which was approved by the State Assembly yesterday, if it passes the State Senate and gains the Governor's signature, would require the city's Department of Education to determine whether to allow individual schools or districts to shut down during cultural or religious celebrations, if student attendance previously flagged on that occasion in earlier years.</p>
<p>"Tomorrow [Lunar New Year] will be a day of empty classrooms in Chinatown because many families have made the understandable decision to honor this holiday by keeping their children home and enjoying celebrations throughout the community," State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the bill's co-sponsor, reportedly said at a recent press conference.</p>
<p>"There is no reason these children should be marked absent for observing a holiday that is of deep importance to them."</p>
<p>No surprise that I am all in favor of encouraging the diasporas that so enrich the fabric of the city to celebrate their heritage on their special holidays. But I'm dismayed by the sponsors' failure to highlight St. Patrick's Day as an occasion for the city's Irish-American youth to take time to explore and celebrate the epic heritage of their Irish forebears, as we do everyday here on The Wild Geese.</p>
<p><em>That said, I'd like your view -- what do you think of this measure?</em></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> President Down: Where Were You When the Shots Rang Out?tag:thewildgeese.irish,2013-11-19:6442157:Topic:634292013-11-19T22:41:20.130ZRyan O'Rourkehttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/RyanORourke
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122484304?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122484304?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="539"></img></a></p>
<p>What are your recollections of November 22, 1963, when news emerged of President John F. Kennedy's assassination?</p>
<p><span><span>I'm of a younger generation, born more than a decade after JFK's death, but I'm always enthralled by the vivid memories of people who were around on that day and their abilities to recall exactly where they were and what they were…</span></span></p>
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<p>What are your recollections of November 22, 1963, when news emerged of President John F. Kennedy's assassination?</p>
<p><span><span>I'm of a younger generation, born more than a decade after JFK's death, but I'm always enthralled by the vivid memories of people who were around on that day and their abilities to recall exactly where they were and what they were doing.</span></span></p>
<p></p> 'In Flanders Fields the Poppies Blow' But Will They Grace Your Lapel?tag:thewildgeese.irish,2013-11-08:6442157:Topic:614192013-11-08T22:48:23.885ZGerry Reganhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/ger_regan
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122484106?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122484106?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></img></a> <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Poppies_by_Benoit_Aubry_of_Ottawa.JPG" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><br></br></a> In Flanders fields the poppies blow<br></br> Between the crosses, row on row,<br></br> That mark our place; and in the sky<br></br> The larks, still bravely singing, fly<br></br> Scarce heard amid the guns below.<br></br> <br></br> We are the Dead.…</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122484106?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122484106?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-full"/></a><a target="_blank" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Poppies_by_Benoit_Aubry_of_Ottawa.JPG" rel="noopener"><br/></a> In Flanders fields the poppies blow<br/> Between the crosses, row on row,<br/> That mark our place; and in the sky<br/> The larks, still bravely singing, fly<br/> Scarce heard amid the guns below.<br/> <br/> We are the Dead. Short days ago<br/> We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br/> Loved and were loved, and now we lie<br/> In Flanders fields.<br/> <br/> Take up our quarrel with the foe:<br/> To you from failing hands we throw<br/> The torch; be yours to hold it high.<br/> If ye break faith with us who die<br/> We shall not sleep, though poppies grow<br/> In Flanders fields.<br/> -- Canadian John McRae, May 3, 1915</p>
<p><strong><span class="font-size-5">T</span>he poppy has become a lightning rod for nationalist politics i</strong>n Ireland through the decades after the Armistice ended 'The Great War' -- at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Emblematic of mourning for those who died in the war, poppies -- everpresent in British ceremonies marking the war -- were typically eschewed in Ireland. They were, in many minds, a display of solidarity with those countrymen who served Ireland's oppressor. That view was far from universal, though fear of criiticism undoubtedly kept many Irish from displaying the poppy emblem. So we ask, will you be wearing a poppy this Remembrance Day weekend?</p>
<p><a href="http://thenewwildgeese.com/profiles/blogs/remembering-the-irish-who-fell-in-the-great-war" target="_self"><strong>Check out The Wild Geese's coverage of Remembrance Day / Veteran's Day</strong></a></p>
<p> </p> What Shattered Within You on 9/11?tag:thewildgeese.irish,2013-09-11:6442157:Topic:474122013-09-11T11:40:47.697ZGerry Reganhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/ger_regan
<p><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/September_11_Photo_Montage.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/September_11_Photo_Montage.jpg?width=250" style="padding: 2px;" width="250"></img></a> What were you doing on 9/11 when the Twin Towers were struck, and how did you first hear the news? Whom did you know that died? How do you mark the anniversary? Let's explore those dark days together.</p>
<p><strong>Photo collage from Wikimedia Commons</strong></p>
<p><span class="int-own-work">D</span>erivative work of the following:…</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/September_11_Photo_Montage.jpg"><img class="align-left" style="padding: 2px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/September_11_Photo_Montage.jpg?width=250" width="250"/></a>What were you doing on 9/11 when the Twin Towers were struck, and how did you first hear the news? Whom did you know that died? How do you mark the anniversary? Let's explore those dark days together.</p>
<p><strong>Photo collage from Wikimedia Commons</strong></p>
<p><span class="int-own-work">D</span>erivative work of the following:</p>
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<li><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WTC_smoking_on_9-11.jpeg" title="File:WTC smoking on 9-11.jpeg">File:WTC smoking on 9-11.jpeg</a> by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixorama/">Michael Foran</a> on Flickr</li>
<li><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DN-SD-03-11451.JPEG" title="File:DN-SD-03-11451.JPEG">File:DN-SD-03-11451.JPEG</a> by the United State Navy</li>
<li><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UA_Flight_175_hits_WTC_south_tower_9-11_edit.jpeg" title="File:UA Flight 175 hits WTC south tower 9-11 edit.jpeg">File:UA Flight 175 hits WTC south tower 9-11 edit.jpeg</a> by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/themachinestops/">TheMachineStops</a> on Flickr</li>
<li><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WTC-Fireman_requests_10_more_colleagesa.jpg" title="File:WTC-Fireman requests 10 more colleagesa.jpg">File:WTC-Fireman requests 10 more colleagesa.jpg</a> by the US Government</li>
<li><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flight93Engine.jpg" title="File:Flight93Engine.jpg">File:Flight93Engine.jpg</a> by the US Government</li>
<li><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Video2_flight77_pentagon.png" title="File:Video2 flight77 pentagon.png">File:Video2 flight77 pentagon.png</a> by the United States Department of Defense</li>
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