The premiere of our "Crosswords at the Crossroads" at the end of last month was met with exuberant participation among much of the membership here at The Wild Geese. Quite a few informed us that they learned a great deal about Ireland's unofficial county nicknames by completing the…
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It has been said that one of the traits the Irish brought to these shores was that of survival. Heavyweight champion James J. Braddock demonstrated that in life, as well as the boxing ring.…
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Sandy Boyer, co-coordinator of the Free Marian Price Campaign in the U.S. and co-host of the weekly radio program Radio Free Eireann on WBAI in New York City, reports on the victory of the grassroots struggle for Marian --- and on what still lies ahead for…
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In the early morning hours of April 10, 1923, in the Knockmealdown Mountains, County Tipperary, there died a great Irish patriot; a man who had fought with and lead some of the very men who now, tragically, would kill him. The man was General Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff, IRA. Born in the town of Barnagurraha, Co.…
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Edmund Sullivan, painting Croagh Patrick in 1977. |
By Edmund Sullivan
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Landscape artist Edmund Sullivan, whose work since 1976 focused on Ireland, died Friday after a lengthy illness. He was buried Saturday in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, after a funeral mass at Church of the Annunciation, in nearby…
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DOMHNAIGH -- On June 2, 1567, Shane "the Proud" O'Neill (left) was murdered. The eldest son of Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone, Shane became chief of the O'Neills in 1559. Shane alternately fought and negotiated with the English through the years. In 1562, Shane went to London to make peace with Queen Elizabeth again. Returning home, he…
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Father Peter Paul Cooney C.S.C. a priest of the Holy…
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Not all Irish regiments in the Civil War came from the east. From the heartland sprung the hard fighting 35th Indiana. Whether fighting on battlefields from Perryville to Nashville or enduring the horrors of the prison camp in Andersonville, these sons of Erin pressed on to final victory.
(A reproduction of the…
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Outside of Ennis, in County Clare in the west of Ireland, the wind kicks upon the hills under the same gray sky where once starved children, women and old men were buried callously, if not left by the ditches. Where the weakest of the agrarian poor were communally laid…
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The Gaels in one-time British North America never quite understood the revolutionary fervor that gripped their American counterparts.
Today, nearly 400 years since they first arrived, the Irish have been nearly fully and…
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She is home!! Hopefully she can rest and regain her strength. She is gravely ill,according to the family she wouldn't have lasted much longer
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0530/453662-marian-price-northern-ireland/
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My father's uncle, Sgt. Lawrence Condon, died of shrapnel wounds in France two months before the Armistice ending World War I, "The War to End All Wars." His division, the U.S. Army's 27th, was known as "O'Ryan's Roughnecks." He was third generation American. One of his grandfathers was an Irwin, reputedly from Ballyjamesduff,…
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(First published 1/26/12) Waterford-based poet, writer and sociologist Jean Tubridy (left) writes about her Irish experience, often in lyrical, charming terms, in her blog, Social Bridge. In the following excerpt, she describes a recent night in her home town of Tramore: “At about ten o’clock on New Year’s Eve,…
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Ready for a somewhat obscure bit of celebratory news? Did you know the Italian community in Ireland (and especially Dublin) has a long, proud history of operating some of the most established fish & chips restaurants in the country? Yes, indeed! In fact, the involvement of Italian immigrants in this scrumptious niche business dates all the way back to the 1880s in…
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Galway City has historically been among the "most Irish" of all Irish towns/cities -- some would even argue that it would top that list. For evidence of this, one need look no further than Galway's unofficial slogan, Croí Cultúrtha na hÉireann,…
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