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In Support of Oklahoma

The team here at The Wild Geese would like to convey our support for the communities in Oklahoma which have been decimated by the recent storms.  We extend our sympathy to all who have lost loved ones.

If you would like to donate to help the victims of this tragedy, you can find a well-compiled list of…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 22, 2013 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

Lusitania, 1915

Lusitania

This is reposted from Eamon Loingsigh's blog, which you can find here: http://artofneed.wordpress.com



The panoramic photo above is actually from 1907 at the Chelsea piers of Manhattan, well before the outbreak of World War I. On this day (actually yesterday) in 1915, it was sunk by a German U-Boat off the coast…

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Added by Eamon Loingsigh on May 22, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

A Chat With Photog and Musician Christy McNamara

A native of Crusheen, County Clare, Christy McNamara has spent a lifetime telling stories of the people of rural Ireland through his photography and his music. He is a true insider, having grown up in a household filled with traditional Irish…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 21, 2013 at 4:00pm — No Comments

SRO Event Launches Irish Commemoration of America’s Civil War

Dublin, Ireland (First published 4/23/11) - April 12, 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter, and with it the onset of America’s long and bloody Civil War. Two days later, the first recorded fatality of the five-year conflict occurred, with the death of…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 20, 2013 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

This Week in the History of the Irish: May 19 - May 25



The arrest and mortal wounding of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who stands to the left.

DOMHNAIGH -- On May 19, 1798,…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 19, 2013 at 12:00pm — No Comments

The faithful recall ‘Manchester Martyrs’

Some died on the glenside, some died near a stranger

And wise men have told us their cause was a failure

But they fought for old Ireland and never feared danger

Glory O, Glory O, to the bold Fenian men

-- From ‘The…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 18, 2013 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Immigrant Dreams Founder Off Long Island

I look where the ship helplessly heads end on,

I hear the burst as she strikes,

I hear the howls of dismay,

They grow fainter and fainter.

– From "The Sleepers" by Walt Whitman

Left, a Currier print…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 18, 2013 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Remembering Dan Kelly of Tir Chonaill

Scarsdale, N.Y. (First publish 11/9/10) -- If there was ever a man who demonstrated that one need not raise one's voice to shrillness to be heard, it was Donegal native Dan Kelly, a successful entrepreneur who spent a good part of his last few decades furthering the heritage of his people, on both sides of the Atlantic. For those efforts, and with great…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 18, 2013 at 4:30pm — No Comments

King Louis and His Irish Confessor

Check this link for an interesting odd bit of Irish history ...…

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Added by Fr. John R. Sheehan, SJ on May 16, 2013 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

The Jackie Clarke Library and Archives, Ballina, Mayo

(First published…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 15, 2013 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

A Graduation Celebration

Last June, Amaris Henry, a young man who interned with us at our shop as part of his graduation requirements for High School, spread his wings and flew into the crazy adult world of "After High School"... Asked by his grandparent what he wanted to do for his Graduation, He replied "I want to go to Ireland"

Fast forward to almost a year later, He and his mother are off on their Ireland adventure... I built their Itinerary for them...He will be blogging as they go...

Follow along…

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Added by Bit Devine on May 15, 2013 at 5:36pm — No Comments

Che Guevara: Father of Revolution, Son of Galway

By Joseph E. Gannon

"Now are you men, or are you kine, ye tillers of the soil? Would you be free, or evermore the rich man's cattle toil? The shadow on the dial hangs that points the fatal hour - Now hold your own! or branded slaves, forever cringe and cower."  Fanny Parnell (1849 - 1882)…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 14, 2013 at 10:00am — 29 Comments

'Father of the American Band' Hailed By Manhattan Parish

New York (first published 9/26/10 Friday, September 24, 2010 was a particularly auspicious day to bear the name Patrick in the grand environs of Chelsea's Church of St. Francis Xavier, despite the fact that it is nearly six months to St. Patrick’s Day.



More than 30 faithful gathered in the…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 13, 2013 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Honoring Father William 'Fair Catch' Corby

(First published on 9/23/10) - On the broiling afternoon of July 2, 1863, just south of Gettysburg, Pa., a Catholic priest in a black frock coat mounted a rock and raised his right hand in the direction of a Union army unit known to history as “The Irish Brigade.” The brigade’s men were moments from marching to a…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 13, 2013 at 8:30pm — 4 Comments

Search for Judge Crater extends to NYU's Ireland House

New York (first published on 9/17/10)-- About 90 people were present for a reading of the latest mystery by novelist Peter Quinn (left) on September 16, 2010, when someone in the audience got a call. The title of Quinn’s novel, his third, and fourth published book, is “…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 13, 2013 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Celebrating 3,000 Facebook Fans



Leagaigí oraibh!  Bring it on! 

To celebrate our impending 3,000th Facebook fan, we are launching a contest to test your knowledge of Irish culture! Each day, until we hit that 3,000-follower mark, we will post a question here, on a range of Irish topics! Stop by each day…

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Added by Tiffany Silverberg on May 13, 2013 at 2:30pm — 13 Comments

Results of Geno 2.0 are in

Branch: M42

Age: About 75,000 Years Ago

Location of Origin: Africa

The common direct paternal ancestor of all men alive today was born in Africa around 140,000 years ago. Dubbed “Y-chromosome Adam” by the popular press, he was neither the first human male nor the only man…

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Added by Riocard Ó Cruimín on May 13, 2013 at 10:30am — No Comments

This Week in the History of the Irish: May 12 - May 18

The Imperial War Museum



A Irish poster from shortly after the Easter Rising shows how Irish attitudes toward the rebels had changed since the…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 12, 2013 at 12:00pm — No Comments


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Century Ireland: 1913 - 1923 from RTÉ & Boston College

Excellent history site website here from RTÉ & Boston College. From their "about" page:

The Century Ireland project is an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago.

(left: John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Parliamentary…

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Added by Joe Gannon on May 11, 2013 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

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