American artist Edmund Sullivan tells how Ireland came to dominate his work
By Edmund Sullivan
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PART 1 OF A 3-PART SERIES
Life's decisions have a way of testing one's beliefs. My…
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Library of Congress Telegraph Road on Marye's Heights, the position of Cobb's Brigade on December 13, 1862. |
In 1862, the second year of America's Civil War, Meagher's Irish Brigade made two of the most gallant charges…
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Mary Murphy with Edmund Sullivan at Hogs Head, Shepherd's Farm, August 1994. |
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Historical Art Prints The 28th Massachusetts during the attack on Marye's Heights, as painted by artist Don Troiani.… |
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Landscape artist Edmund Sullivan, whose work since 1976 has focused on Ireland, is often mistaken for an Irish native, but the former Marine, in his own words, has "9,000 years of Irish red blood ... flowing through my American veins." He is the first American painter in history to focus his life's work on Ireland, and returns there often. In an exclusive, 3-part series, Sullivan relates how he came to turn his artistry to… |
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By David Kincaid
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Many have heard of "The Wild Geese," those Irish rebels who fled Ireland for many other lands, including France, beginning after the defeat of James II in 1691 and continuing for some hundred plus years after that. Their contributions to the…
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Patrick Moran, who might have escaped, but didn't want to appear to be guilty. |
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"Kelly's Irish Brigade" |
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The Irish played a big part in the Battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg, as the Southerners called it. Here's a look at how, on the occasion of the battle's 140th anniversary.
THE IRISH AT ANTIETAM
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By Joseph E. Gannon
WGT Managing Editor
(Left: Father Corby blesses the Brigade as it steps off, in "Sons of Erin" by artist Don Troiani.)
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By Eddie Whyte
Belfast -- The Belfast Celtic Football Club was the pride of Irish football until it was forced out of competition after the dramatic game…
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The Celts stand out as one of the most daring of all the ancient European people in the history of pre-Roman Europe. They arrived on the European stage in prehistoric times as a "fierce naked warrior class that collected enemy heads as war trophies," and evolved into a singular culture that flourished during the European Iron Age. They laid the foundation of western European civilization; before the Romans came, their influence was felt… |
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