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Joe Gannon's Blog – April 2016 Archive (6)
Ireland's Tithe War: Income for Protestant Clergy With Steep Price
"There are many noble traits in the Irish character, mixed with failings which have always raised obstacles to their own well-being; but an innate love of justice, and an indomitable hatred of oppression, is like a gem upon the front of our nation which no darkness can obscure. To this fine quality I trace their hatred of…
Added by Joe Gannon on April 27, 2016 at 9:00pm — 5 Comments
Remembering the Great Hunger Commemoration at Grosse île
In 1997, during the 150th anniversary of "Black '47," the worst year of the Great Hunger, many commemorations were held all around Ireland and the Irish Diaspora. I attended one of them on Grosse île and wrote the following about that experience.…
ContinueAdded by Joe Gannon on April 17, 2016 at 9:00pm — 5 Comments
On April 17, 1949, the Irish Republic Declared
Added by Joe Gannon on April 17, 2016 at 9:30am — 1 Comment
How a 22-Year-Old Firebrand Became 'Meagher of the Sword'
The very subtlest eloquence
That injured men can show,
Is the pathos of a pike-head,
And the logic of a blow.
Hopes built upon fine talking
Are like castles built on sand
But the pleading of cold iron
Not a tyrant can withstand.
In antebellum America, many former…
ContinueAdded by Joe Gannon on April 12, 2016 at 8:00am — 1 Comment
Nellie Bly: Circling the World and Changing It - Part Two
Nellie was able to fool the doctors at Bellevue into believing she was mentally incompetent and was transported out to Blackwell’s Island (in a 19th century illustration, above). After ten harrowing days there, the paper managed to get her out, but she admitted to feeling a lot of anxiety waiting for it to happen.…
ContinueAdded by Joe Gannon on April 3, 2016 at 10:00am — 2 Comments
Nellie Bly: Circling the World and Changing It - Part One
"I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall." -- Nellie Bly - The Evening-Journal (8 January 1922)
The world of media today, be it print, radio, television or online, includes a very large percentage of female reporters, but it was not…
ContinueAdded by Joe Gannon on April 2, 2016 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments
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