Gerry Regan

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Oakland Gardens, NY

United States

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  • Matt Purcell

    Thanks Gerry.  Have newsletter piece for inclusion.  Not sure how that might be done.  Matt Purcell.

  • Donna Hughes

    Thank you Gerry. And yes my family is recovering from Sandy, we were displaced for seven months but are back home now. Many others are not so fortunate and rebuilding is a very slow process but most are committed to returning home. I look forward to exploring this great site.

  • Gerry Regan

    Delighted to hear this, Donna. My godparents, Joe and Helen Lynch, lived in Breezy in their retirement years. Uncle Joe worked for the Board of Ed most of his adult life. Did you happen to know them. I think Joe died about 15 years ago, and Helen may still be alive, but not likely in Breezy.

  • Fr. Martin Hughes

    Hi Gary
    Good to hear from you. Just saw your message and am on way way to bed as it is 23.20 here. I look forward to linking up later. I was a Capuchin but now I am working in the Dublin Diocese as a school chaplain in the Tallaght area of Dublin
  • John Sears

    Thanks Gerry.....as far as my link to Ireland my Grandparents came to the states in 1930's from County Kerry and settled in the Bronx.  Dingle and Lixnaw is where they were from.  Made it back to visit there in mid 90's with my folks. Loved it and wish I could visit again...in the meantime just enjoying sites like this one..thanks again!!

    John

  • Kelly O'Rourke

    Gerry...here's some nice feedback from a visitor to my etsy site:

    I think your items are fascinating.
    I guess my question is this;
    Would your eggs survive shipment to America?I followed your link from a site called the Wild Geese.
    I want to show my wife your items and I am sure I will be in touch.
    Once again, thank you.
    Dan

    :) Kelly

  • Cindy Butler

    Thanks, looking forward to the news about the film!

  • Michael Waugh

    Hi Gerry- thank you for the warm welcome! I just moved to Richmond. I have been living in Sligo half the year and I am originally from the Bronx. My grandfather was Matty Regan from Magherafelt. Maybe we are related. :)

  • Vincent Kennedy

    Thanks Ger for your lovely words on my music. It's lovely being part of this group. I would love to take part in the discussion tomorrow evening on JFK. But I don't know yet if I can. After the performance of my music for JFK there are a number of other events with a lot of officials from the US Embassy here and others. I don't know if I will be back in my hotel in time to connect.

    I wish you every success. I will be honoured to be only a few miles from where the Kennedy forefathers lived and to perform my music from where they emigrated and in honour of JFK. This is my music about the famine ship The Dunbrody that transported to many to the US especially from Wexford, Waterford and Kilkenny.

    https://soundcloud.com/vincentjohnkennedy/the-dunbrody

    The picture was taken with me conducting the music beside the ship and in the place the performance will take place tomorrow.

    Vincent

  • Mary Deady

    Many thanks for the lovely welcome, Gerry, and for posting my review - that was a lovely surprise! Delighted to be a member of the Wild Geese community. I've already connected with another Deady in New Zealand! 

  • Melissa Strobel

    Thank you Gerry!  It's a long, convoluted one.  

  • Matthew Morris

    Gerry, its for all ages and 8 and up definately! It is available in paperback and Kindle and if you buy the paperback you get the Kindle edition for free! A wonderful stocking stuffer.

  • Steve O'Neill

    Hi Gerry,

     

    Just joined the other groups, looking forward to further discussions!

    Don't know if you heard, but my son Mike is in CO A 1 BN 69th. Funny how things turn out!

     

    Happy New Year!

     

    Steve

  • Marian Deady

    Thank you Gerry, I appreciate the welcome. I would never have known about you guys if it wasn't for Patrick Deady from NZ. I was born and raised in Tralee Co Kerry and moved to the USA in the 1980's I love Ireland and the Irish people! I own and operate my own Company in Boston, called The Irish Connection Home Health Care Service! I have almost 50 Irish nurses in our company very caring people! It's great to be part of this group!!
  • Frank Scott

    Hi Gerry , no I am no pilot I got a present of a flying lesson and took the shot then. I work in food sales and for a company called Air View where we shoot video with a drone flying up to 60 meters high.

  • Mary Collins Dolan

    Hi, Gerry -
    No, afraid the only Gibbonses I know are in Leitrim Village and another whose married name is Gibbons in Drumshanbo (I think).  I am a transplanted New Yorker (Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan & The Bronx) who's 'only' been here in Leitrim for 17 years (still a blow-in).  
    Kind regards!
    Mary 
  • Lisa Fortin Jackson

    Thanks, Ger!  For some reason, it seemed as though green was the way to go…:)

  • Kevin Westley T.M.R.F.

    Hopefully.  I finally got to my first IAC reunion this last summer.  There is a Facebook page: Irish Arts Center Memories

  • kathleen glynn

    Hi Gerry!

     I saw Wild Geese in this past week's Irish Echo.I wore the facinatorat my cousin's wedding in Galway in Dec.I borrowed it from another cousin.The dress is American styled.Hope you have a lovely day.

  • Guillermo MacLoughlin

    Hi Gerry. Thank you for getting in touch. Hope I will also be a link to all the members is this southern part of the world, but also an Irish place, many times forgotten of the Irish Diaspora.

    Regards

    Guillermo (William)

  • Guillermo MacLoughlin

    Hi gerry. Were are you based?

  • Bit Devine

    Breithla Shona, a chara!

  • Patrick Thomas Mc Quaid

    Hi Gerry,

    Thanks for the welcome on board.

    From the little I've read of you on this site it sure seems like you have had an intriguing quest on your journey to discover your family roots. Many children given to adoption would have found themselves in exactly your same situation when they came to that age of discovery. I guess most would have chosen not to pursue the genealogy trail. As a smitten follower I imagine that you too are discovering what a vast reservoir of resources there are out there especially on the internet.

    I come from the townland of Knockafubble halfway between the villages of Emyvale and Glaslough in north County Monaghan. I live about a mile as the crow flies from the Blackwater river which divides Co Monaghan from Co Tyrone and also Northern Ireland from Rep of Ireland. Glaslough is unique in that it is home to the Leslies of Castle Leslie where the marriage of Beatle Paul Mc Cartney and Heather Mills took place. Emyvale and Glaslough villages are just 3 miles apart and the Leslie estate stretches to the border as well.

    What makes this neck of the woods so unique is the fact that the Leslie estate is also bordered by Tynan Abbey estate on the Northern Ireland side which is in Co Armagh and by the Caledon estate in in Co Tyrone. Three estates still in the hands of its original owners in three separate Counties, in two separate countries (politically) with two separate currencies, two separate EC member states.

    As for my own family, we have resided for as far back in Knockafubble as I can find in a direct line to 1796.

  • Philip Sheridan

     thank it not my name .. i am here learn .. some blog ... that all ..


  • Founding Member

    Mike Houlihan

    Thanks Gerry,

    Our Irish radio program . podcasts at http://skinnyhouli.com, new book, www.mikehoulihan.com/store, and planning another trip to Ireland . Hoping to see OUR IRISH COUSINS at The Galway Film Fleadh in July, praying we get in!
     God bless The Wild Geese!

  • Robert Tuttle

    Hi Gerry,
    Yes, that is my John Wayne fan site, and I have some pictures of my John Wayne collection on there.
    Bob Tuttle
  • Bianca Gallegly Horkan

    Thank you for the welcome Gerry.

    My mom was not a Stones fan and I'm pretty sure my dad wasn't either. I've asked her where she got my name from but she says she can't remember. :-)

  • John J caffrey

    Thanks for the info -looking forward to enjoying the site and the activities. John

  • Roberta Foran

    Thank you for the welcome, Gerry!

  • Eileen M. ÓDúill, CG

    Hi Gerry,

    Thanks for the welcome to Wild Geese. In yur email you asked me about  my personal Irish history, along with my experience ferreting out the stories of others. 

    I have been a professional genealogist based in Dublin since 1990. My background can be found at: www.heirsireland.com. My main area of practice is probate genealogy, locating rightful heirs in iinternational ntestate estates. I also spend a lot of time in the GRO research room in Dublin so I have extensive experience in civil registration. I have lectured on Irish genealogy in Ireland, the U.S., Canada and  the U.K. My husband and I will be speaking in Waltham, Massachusetts at Celtic Connections conference in August (15th and 16th).

    I'd be happy to answer brief questions as needed.     

  • John J caffrey

    Hi Gerry I have picture of my father with  a Leitrim Pipe band taken about 1922 Also some information about the bandrrom a few years later 1934/35. How can I send these Pics to you John Caffrey

  • Danny Alexander

    Hey Gerry!

    Just wanted to say hello and to also say "Tis good to be back"!. Been away on business trips for several months and traveling the State is now calmed down for me. Finally time to gather my thoughts and catch up on what I have missed on TWG!

    Danny

  • Melissa Martin-Ellis

    Thanks for your friendship, Gerry.

  • james lawrence dore

    Thanks!

  • james lawrence dore

    New title is better!

  • Patricia Louise Hughes

    Thanks Gerry. You're my first friend. 

  • Kelvin Benjamin

    dia duit Gerry. buíochas a ghabháil le haghaidh add dom mar chara. ach níl mé in Éirinn. tá mé anseo a fhoghlaim go léir. go raibh maith agat

  • cheryl dale siegel

    Hi Gerry:  Thanks for Joe's e-mail.  We'll see if he can help.

    I'm enjoying the fact that many members live in Ireland.  When I first joined just recently I thought all the members were strictly from USA.  That's a lovely surprise.

    Just reading your page from 2011.  Damien Shiels was asking about an actor who worked with John Ford, Arthur Shields.  Being a movie buff like my folks.  He was the brother of that adorable Barry Fitzgerald , who along with John Wayne and the still beautiful Maureen O'Hara filmed The Quiet Man.  I believe she lives in Idaho near her Grandson.

  • William J. Donohue

    Gerry,

    I am looking for a mainline publisher who would be willing to review my book with a view to publishing it. Any connections?

    Bill Donohue

  • David Lawlor

    Hi Gerry, I've just joined and am trying to get a feel for The Wild Geese.I saw that you 'liked' my joining so I thought I'd start with you. I'm a journalist - one of my editors was actually a Gerry O'Regan, so it seems like I know you already! I've written four novels set in Ireland (three based around the War of Independence). I see that you gave a talk on the Christmas Truce, which tells me you like your history. I have a blog - historywithatwist.wordpress.com - which you might or might not like. I live in Greystones, Co Wicklow and am married, with four children. That's enough about me. Hope we can stay in touch. All the best, David

  • NancyUSA

         Thank you Gerry for the help you are giving to the people entering the contest. I lost my blog and finely found it.  When I updated it somehow I sent it to 1999. I don't know how I did that but I guess I am out of the contest because I see it twice,although I only put it in once. I can't erase it because it will erase both of them. anyway thank you.  I also read about how you found your mother. My heart goes out to you and I pray she will change her mind. NancyUSA

  • Niamh Ultaigh

    Gerry,

    I have a friend who was brought up in Belfast, and he has experienced "the parades" first hand and reports that the Orange Order parades are a sanctioned opportunity for loyalists to incite mayhem and cause violence and destruction of property. He has had very real, very bad, very visceral experiences. He is very educated, thoughtful and reflective. I find him to be a most credible witness, and I think the parades should be stopped in the furtherance of peace.

    Best,

    Niamh

    Gerry,
    Have you blocked me? The system will not allow me to "reply" or "send a message" on the discussion page for this topic.

    ?
  • Virginia Osgood

    Well, I couldn't go wrong as it was a Ken Loach film...it depicts the heart of Ireland and its people....I grew up in South Boston at a time when I did not know that people other than the Irish existed....those in the film and those I grew up with are one and the same.....the film embraced me....
    Virginia Osgood
  • Suzee McKee Irwin

    Hey Gerry, we are not sure if my husband's people were Scots or Scots-Irish. I have done some work on them and it appears they may have immigrated quite early. There is so much more to learn. My father's people immigrated from Scotland to Ireland in the 1600's. Then from County Down to Pennsylvania in the early 1800's. My mother's people came from Cork and Kerry around 1880. Tell me more about your Irwin if you get the time. You never know...

  • Susan O'Dea Boland

    Gerry
    Thanks so much for featuring the review of twenty years a growing. I am working on another piece now, and will post it in a couple weeks...life needs to slow down to give me more time to write!
    Susan

  • Heritage Partner

    House of Monaghan

    Gerry, thanks for the mention on Facebook today... much appreciated! :)

    Brian

    House of Monaghan

  • Elaine Noonan

    Hi Gerry,

    I read your article on the Irwins of Hells Kitchen and was surprised to learn that they lived near my Irwin relatives. My grandfather was Joseph Irwin (1872-1948). They lived on 10th Ave. between 43rd and 44th st. Just wondering if you came across them in your research?

    Elaine 

  • Jules Sullivan (Jenkins)

    Gerry Regan,

    I wanted to inform you that a member with the name of James Pollard has just tried scamming with an "lost inheritance scam". I just want to urge you to please let folks know. This guy says something about a long lost relative that recently died and has no known heirs and then goes on to say he wants 50% and that I would need to keep it a secret. I have a copy of the email he sent. I do take full responsibility for communicating with someone from this forum with my own personal email on myself, that was stupid on my part.
  • Daniel P Quinn

    "Daniel P Quinn has captured a bygone era with such detailed, loving, bittersweet accuracy.
    Such family memories - and they are rich indeed, considering he hails from two such vibrant, singularly civilized cultures ...
    Irish- and Italian-American; no fooling around! The old Newark comes alive in his poignant, celebrating words ... 
    as does the glory that was Paterson, NJ, birthplace of American industry ... 
    -- Hey, it/they - still is/are, both these wonderful, bustling, BUSY New Jersey cities! eh, all? in their 20th century heydays ...
    Phoenixes now rising from the strong, struggling and WONDERFULLY PERSEVERING "ashes ..."?
     - Nope; the people of Newark since the "White Flight," post-WWII,
     are every bit as validly vibrant as those who came before, let's face it, eh? 
    -- It's just a rapidly e'er changing mixture of eras we are so challenged to be negotiating,
     we Americans and we globally over-populated, fascinating yet always goofy-enough humans ... 
    Bravo to all who appreciate the seemingly boundless energy, spirit and enterprise that is Newark.
    Thank you, Mr. Quinn, for bringing the pre-21st century Newark once again to such sweet, happy life ... a rewarding, compelling, intensely-personally-felt trip down Memory Lane, indeed".
    V. Hammer, Artistic Director
    Midlantic Theatre Company
    Artistic Director's riff on "Newark, Italy & me." (Lulu ) for 2019. 
    Now on sale for $19.99. Prices go up in October.
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  • Alpona Dutta

    Thanks Gerry. Yes I’m studying in Griffith College Dublin. Hope to see you someday!