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'Born a Soldier': Myles Walter Keogh - Part 2 of 3: Conquering The South and The Plains
By Brian C. Pohanka
All the bright aspirations of a soldier's glory, all my enthusiasm for the pomp and circumstance of glorious war, fell coldly upon my heart; and I looked upon the chivalry of a soldier's life as the empty pageantry of a dream.
-- From Charles Lever's 'Charles…
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Marching the Queen's Highway: Battling 'The Pagans,' Part 1 of 2
Being on the twelfth day of July, eighteen and forty-nine,
The pagans of this country did together combine,
To…
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A Soldier's Story: Sgt. Lawrence F. Condon
Company L, 106th Infantry, U.S. Army
| Gerry Regan photo The grave of Sgt. Lawrence F. Condon, St. Raymond's Cemetery, Bronx, New… |
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'Born a Soldier': Myles Walter Keogh - Part 1 of 3: From Carlow to America's Civil War
By Brian C. Pohanka
ContinueNow I like Garryowen,
When I hear it at home,
But it's not half so sweet …
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Irish 'Pirate Queen' Struts Stuff on Broadway
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Irish 'Pirate Queen' Struts Stuff on Broadway
Two strong-willed women, one Irish, one English, and spirited choreography and music dominate new musical
By Patricia Jameson-Sammartano
Culture Editor /TheWildGeese.com
(First published in 2007) Enticing and energetic only begin to describe "The Pirate Queen," now on…
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Dublin, Easter Monday, 1916: 1,700 Take On the British Empire
By Joseph E. Gannon
| AND I say to my people's masters: Beware, Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people, Who shall take what ye would not give. Did ye think to conquer the people, Or that Law is stronger than life and than men's… |
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Irish Dominate Medal of Honor List
By John J. Concannon
By a stroke of good fortune, I became involved in an Irish/Irish American book writing project that is dear to my heart.
(Left: "Brothers of Ireland" by Don Troiani depicts the 69th New York and 9th Massachusetts Infantry regiments in battle at Gaines Mill,…
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The Irish Gentleman Convict Who Nearly Won Wimbledon
| Library of Congress Lawn tennis in the United States, an 1887 print. Click on the image to see a larger view. |
MORE ON TENNIS IN IRELAND… Continue
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Marching the Queen's Highway: Dolly's Brae to Drumcree (1849 to Today), Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2: Dolly's Brae to Drumcree (1849 to Today)
By Christine Kinealy (First produced in 2003)
By 1849, the nationalist threat had passed, but the Orange…
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Tennis in Ireland: Once World-Class
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The First Republican President in Ireland, Part 2 of 3: A Rebuff From Cork
Dublin City Council Dublin City Hall
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Ulysses S. Grant spent five days in Ireland, the 21st…
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The First Republican President in Ireland, Part 1: Ulysses S. Grant Tests the Emerald Waters
Candace Scott, Ulysses S. Grant Homepage Ulysses Grant, taken in 1879
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Ulysses S. Grant spent five days in Ireland, the 21st country in a world tour he launched after his…
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The Irish at Gettysburg
By Kevin O'Beirne, Kevin P. Gorman, and Joseph E. Gannon
(Right: Historical Art Prints - The 69 PA withstands Pickett's onslaught in "Rock of Erin" by…
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A Monument for Haslet's Delaware Regiment
Its 500 men 'stood against the cream of the British army'
By Gerry Regan
For The Wild Geese
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U.S. Grant's Ancestral Homestead in Tyrone
Tourism Office, Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council The hearth of the Simpson family home. |
The relationship between Ulster and the United States of America originated in days of…
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The O'Brien Chronicle
Over the next several months, THE WILD GEESE TODAY will be presenting a most unusual and fascinating document: The story of an Irishman in colonial South America in the 1600s, written by the man himself, and hidden away in an archive in Brazil for several hundred years. It was translated from the original Old Spanish and…
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The New York St. Patrick's Day Parade: Still going strong at 245
The New York St. Patrick's Day Parade:
Still going strong at 245
By Joseph E. Gannon, Managing Editor, The Wild Geese Today
| "Monday last being the Day of St. Patrick, tutelary Saint of Ireland, was ushered in at dawn, with fifes and drums, which produced a very agreeable harmony before the doors of many gentlemen of that nation and others." --- A report on the 1766 New York St. Patrick's Day procession… |
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'Undaunted Courage': The Irish at Fredericksburg
In 1862, the second year of America's Civil War, Meagher's Irish Brigade made two of the most gallant charges in American history, crashing bloodily against a Confederate strongpoint at Antietam's "Bloody Lane" and, 87 days later, attacking Confederates, many Irish, behind Fredericksburg's "Stone Wall." WGT is proud to present the story of the Irish at…
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'Remember, They're With Us'
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The Irish Brigade's Heroic Stand for 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'
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| Map of the Battle of Culloden by "Celtus" on Wikipedia. Click on photo to see larger version.… |
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