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Custer's Last Irishmen: The Irish Who Fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn Part 4: 'Big Village. Be Quick. Bring Packs'
| Giovanni Martini prepares to depart with Custer's last message to Benteen in "PS, Bring Pacs" by Michael Schreck. |
By Robert Doyle…
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Custer's Last Irishmen: The Irish Who Fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn Part 2: For 'Garryowen' and Glory
By Robert Doyle
As the men of the 7th Cavalry rode toward their destiny in June 1876 and into the pages of history, the regiment's muster rolls listed Irishmen from 30 of…
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Custer's Last Irishmen: The Irish who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
(Above: F. Otto Becker's colorful 1896 lithograph of "Custer's Last Fight.")
Part 1: The 'Greening' of the 7th Cavalry
By Robert Doyle…
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The Anglo-Irish Treaty: Seed of 'The Troubles'
By Joseph Gannon
My country men awake! arise! our work begins anew!
Your mingled voices rend the skies, your hearts are firm and true,
You've bravely marched and nobly met, our little green isle through;
But, oh! my friends, there's something yet for Irishmen to…
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Saluting Ireland's Tommies
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Tom Sweeny: He Wasn't Called "Fighting Tom" For Nothing
The dust of some is Irish earth;
Among their own the rest;
and the same land that gave them birth
Has caught them to her…
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Bloody Sunday films: Both 'agonizingly faithful'
| 'BLOODY SUNDAY -- THE MOVIE" |
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St. Patrick's Day's Powerful Tug - Part 2
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St. Patrick's Day's Powerful Tug
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St. Patrick's Day's Powerful Tug - Part 3
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McCourt: Cheers for Book, Boos for Parade
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Buckey O'Neill: Sheriff, Mayor, Rough Rider, American Hero
By Joseph Gannon
The Minstrel boy to the war is gone,
in the ranks of death you will find him.
His father's sword he hath girded on,
and his wild harp slung behind him.
It would be hard to find a life that more perfectly illustrates the grit, determination, and pure courage of the Irish in America in the 19th…
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Scrappy Phil Sheridan - The U.S. Army's Little Big Man
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Review: 'Shalom Ireland' A Lively Look at Ireland's Jews
Shalom Ireland," director Valerie Lapin Ganley's documentary about Ireland's small but vibrant Jewish community, manages to convey a huge amount of information about the past, present, and future of Ireland's Jewry, a community whose existence takes many by surprise. The film, showing in festivals around the U.S. in the coming months, creates a memorable, lyrical…
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Director Fetes Two Cultures in 'Shalom Ireland'
| CBS News Archives Wearing the official chain of office, Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, visits New York City as seen in "Shalom Ireland," a documentary about Ireland’s remarkable, yet… |
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Hundreds Gather on Battlefield to Mourn Historian's Death
Photo by Kevin J. Kennedy, 1994
Brian C. Pohanka |
By Gerry Regan, Producer / TheWildGeese.com
MANASSAS, Va. — Laughter and sorrow commingled over the sun-drenched…
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Sheridan Rides to Lincoln's Rescue in 1864 Election - Part 2 OF 2: 'THIS RETREAT MUST BE STOPPED'
| Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library Sheridan portrayed inspiring his troops in "Sheridan's Ride" by Thure de Thulstrup.… |
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How St. Patrick's Day Was Celebrated by The Irish Brigade in the Year 1863
| Green Flag Productions This limited edition art print by Bradley Schmehl, part of the artist's Irish Brigade series, depicts Lt. O'Connor on QM… |
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For Erin and America - James McKay Rorty
AN IRISH HERO OF THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
We dug him a grave near his own shining cannon,
And laid him therein with his sword by his side,
Far away from his home by the fair flowing Shannon,
In the strength of his years and the flush of his pride ...
-- From "Captain O'Hay" a poem dedicated to
James McKay Rorty by Michael Scanlan, June, 1887
One of the many…
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Sheridan Rides to Lincoln's Rescue in 1864 Election - Part 1 OF 2: A RUDE AWAKENING
| United States Army Military History Institute A confident looking Phil Sheridan, taken in late 1863. |
By Joseph E. Gannon…
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