"Here's to the three birds! May you always have a bird on the table, a bird in your glass and an eagle in your pocket."
I first heard that toast when I was very young from an elderly neighbor. It was a toast from her childhood in the early 1920s. The toast her mother and uncles always used. Already something of an antique in Jazz Age America.…
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Messines - I had the privilege to travel to Messines with the Island of Ireland Peace Choir last weekend. This is our story.
Don Mullan, author, humanitarian and Christmas Truce ambassador, stood in front of two graves in Messines, Belgium. On the left was Private T Delaney of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who died on Christmas Eve 1914 and on the right,…
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My dad, Guard John Murphy (Killimor, Ballinasloe) died in Our Lady’s Hospice (Harold’s Cross, Dublin) aged forty-four, leaving my mother, aged thirty-nine, with ten children aged two and a half to eighteen years old.
On Christmas Eve of 1945, we spent most…
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On this day 23rd December,1920-
The Government of Ireland Act enforces Partition-26 Counties become The Irish Free State while Britain splits the northern 6 Counties from the rest of Ireland.…
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Part 3 of 3 of the Series 'We Will Probably Land Christmas Day’: At War in the Atlantic, 1942
This…
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Dear Wild Geese,
"An Irish Father" is an Irish independent co production being made by Rose Finn Films & MooreForLess Productions. IFTA winning Irish Actor Gerard McSorley will lead the cast. The film looks at mental health and the relationship between an estranged Father and Son who meet for the first time in nearly a decade. It's based on the real life…
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I have just made a wonderful connection via The Wild Geese Irish Social Network and thanks to my Wild Geese Irish Heritage Partnership that I wanted to share with…
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Linen Hall Library A 17th century portrait of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. |
CÉADAOIN -- On December 24, 1601,…
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My mother, Ellen Brennan (O'Connor.) passed on Friday, December 20th, 2014 at her home in Crossmaglen, County Armagh.
"She is not dead, she doth sleep.
'tis death is dead. Weep not for Ellen."
(Apologies to PB Shelley for the name change.)
Ellen.
"Sure, God help them, the poor crathurs." was her oft used expression.
Ellen was a…
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In January 2015, Fordham University Press released "The Sons of Molly Maguire." Mark Bulik’s upcoming work is the latest in a line that characterizes Pennsylvania’s alleged “Molly Maguires” as Roman Catholic…
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Oh the town, it climbs the mountain and looks upon the sea
At sleeping time or waking, 'tis there I'd long to be
To walk again that kindly street, the place where life began
And the Boys of Barr na Sráide went hunting for the wren
With cudgels stout they roamed about to hunt the dreólín
We searched…
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William Paterson (December 24, 1745 – September 9, 1806) was born in County Antrim to William Paterson and Unknown named mother. (How about it, Ireland – who is she?) He immigrated to the U.S. at the age of two, and entered the College of New Jersey (now Princeton…
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On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac
by W.B. Yeats
Your hooves have stamped at the black margins of the wood,
Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.
My works are all stamped down in the sultry mud.
I knew that horse-play, knew it for a murderous thing.
What wholesome sun has ripened is wholesome…
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Ó am go ham, feicimid sna hAnnála tagairt do mhná céile agus d'iníonacha na cléire oidhreachtúla, mar sna samplaí thíos.
From time to…
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I awoke this morning to the sound of rain beating down on a tin roof. I was hoping that somehow, in my dream time hours, the faeries had come and carried me home.
Sadly, I opened my eyes, looked out my window and saw ... cactus. It's a soft day here in the Old…
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Good morning,
Irish Genealogy just posted on their website that there are new items added to the Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives since the beginning of December. They've all been submitted by volunteers and they're free to view. -
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On Thursday, December 18th, 2014,…
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