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'Moon' Shines
'Moon' Shines
The latest Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's 'Moon for the Misbegotten' offers plenty of laughs to leaven O'Neill's tragedy. WGT Culture Editor Patricia Jameson-Sammartano offers her take.
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New York – It is unusual — not to say oxymoronic — for us to link…
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Cleburne: The Defense of Ringgold Gap
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| Library of Congress |
| Union troops about to overrun the Confederate center on Missionary Ridge. A detail from a Battle of Mission Ridge lithograph by Cosack & Co., 1886. Click on the image to see the full… |
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Countess Markievicz: The Polish Connection Part 2 of 3: Ireland Becomes Her Mistress
| In this, Part 2 of Countess Markievicz: The Polish Connection, we see Constance Markievicz, despite her aristocratic upbringing, transform her burgeoning anger at British rule and social injustice in Ireland into the activism that would soon totally consume her. Sadly, her family is the loser in this competition for her time and focus. WGT's three-part narrative is adapted from WGT Connacht correspondent Joe McGowan's new biography,… |
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A 1631 Raid on West Cork: When Barbary Pirates Came To Prey
By James Doherty
BALTIMORE, COUNTY CORK, Ireland — On the hillside above the town of Baltimore, faint sounds drifted toward William Harris, sleeping soundly in his bed. It was 2 a.m. when Harris awoke to the noises. The date was June 20th, 1631.…
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'To the Shores of Tripoli'
United States Marines have traveled several hundred miles overland, freed American prisoners of war, helped capture a Muslim city, and are now planning a regime change. That sounds like a possible present-day headline, but in this case the date was April 27, 1805, and the exploit was one of the most famous in the long and storied history of the United States Marine…
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'The Fighting 69th' Makes History, Yet Again
By Gerry Regan
| The emblem of the Washington Artillery of the Louisiana National Guard. |
NEW YORK -- More than 150 years after its founding, the 69th Infantry continues to make history, today in conjunction…
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The Naming of the Two Baltimores
MORE ON THE SACK OF BALTIMORE |
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'Gallowglass' at Antietam: The Irish Brigade's Fight PART 6 of 6: THE LOSS OF SO MANY OF HER SONS
THE IRISH AT ANTIETAM
- Introduction
- "The Deadliest Day": The Battle of Antietam
- Dispatches from the 140th
- Antietam Narrative of…
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'Gallowglass' at Antietam: The Irish Brigade's Fight PART 5 of 6: PATRICK FELAN CLOONEY
THE IRISH AT ANTIETAM
- Introduction
- "The Deadliest Day": The Battle of Antietam
- Dispatches from the 140th
- Antietam Narrative of…
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'Gallowglass' at Antietam: The Irish Brigade's Fight PART 4 of 6: CAPTAIN JOHN O'CONNELL JOYCE
THE IRISH AT ANTIETAM
- Introduction
- "The Deadliest Day": The Battle of Antietam
- Dispatches from the 140th
- Antietam Narrative of…
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'Gallowglass' at Antietam: The Irish Brigade's Fight PART 3 of 6: WEDDED TO DEATH
THE IRISH AT ANTIETAM
- Introduction
- "The Deadliest Day": The Battle of Antietam
- Dispatches from the 140th
- Antietam Narrative of…
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United Irish Rising in Newfoundland
| Illustrated London News, May 11, 1844, after a painting by Captain E.P. Brenton St. John's, 1798. By this time, two-thirds of the population of St. John's was Irish, as were most of the soldiers in the British garrison stationed… |
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'Gallowglass' at Antietam: The Irish Brigade's Fight PART 2 of 6: 'NO RETREAT'
THE IRISH AT ANTIETAM
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Tunnel Trench: 16th (Irish) Division Clears the Way at Cambrai
By Kieron Punch
At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun
In the wild purple of the glow'ring sun,
Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud
The menacing scarred slope; and, one by…
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Poet Siegfried Sassoon in Ireland
This controversial war hero finds calm, amid the stirrings
of revolution, in the countryside of Cork and Limerick
By Kieron C. Punch
On April 16, 1917, Siegfried Sassoon,…
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'Gallowglass' at Antietam: The Irish Brigade's Fight PART 1 of 6: OUT OF THE MIST
THE IRISH AT ANTIETAM
- Introduction
- "The Deadliest Day": The Battle of Antietam
- Dispatches from the 140th
- Antietam Narrative of…
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Just 'Doing Their Job' - Remembering 9-11
The 69th is called into action after the World Trade Center attack
PART 1 IN A FOUR-PART SERIES
69th New York veteran Vic Olney, the volunteer manager of the 69th armory's Officers Club, observed the battalion's soldiers last week as they returned from duty in and near "The Pit" created by the collapse of the 110-story twin…
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'Let Your Manhood Be Seen By The Push of Your Pike,' Part 2 of 3 -- Victory at Benburb
MORE ON THE FIGHTING AT BENBURB |
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Bataireacht: The Art of Irish Stick-Fighting
Bataireacht: The Art of Irish Stick-Fighting
By John W. Hurley
Special to The Wild Geese Today
PART 1: THE 'FACTION-FIGHTING'…
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The Wild Geese Dedication
| From an engraving by Jean Sorieul Uniforms of the Irish Brigade of France. Red coats were worn throughout the… |
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