To really understand Gáirdín an Ghorta, and its pathways, please go to our Facebook page and click on pictures and then click on our albums and then click on the album, "A Walk Through the Famine Garden," and you…
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Hi all at The Wild Geese,
Please check out our Facebook link above about our Famine Garden in Newmarket, County Kilkenny and let us know what you think of it:…
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Long Island City, N.Y. – How we try, and often fail to communicate, and how we ultimately and triumphantly can bridge that chasm came across as the focus of two extraordinary and allegorical films that screened Saturday night in Queens at New York Irish Center's…
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DOMHAIGH -- On July 20, 1866, at the battle of Lissa (depicted left by Eduard Nezbeda, 1911) in the Adriatic, an Austrian fleet defeated a numerically superior Italian fleet. Commanding one of the…
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If your great grandfather listed his occupation as a hostler – what did he do?
The word is spelled "hostler" in American English, but "ostler" in British English. It traces to c.1386, meaning "one who tends to horses at an inn"—and also, occasionally, "innkeeper." It is…
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Sometimes you go in circles with a career before it feels right. I had owned an ad agency for eleven years before changing careers in 2001 and going into fundraising. I can now say that I feel like I have come full-circle careerwise and I am making a difference for something I have…
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From "The Wicklow Mountains High" by Jim McGonigle.
One of the things I'm always on the alert for while driving along the roads of Ireland is any sort of roadside historical marker. The Irish have populated their cities…
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Mary Eileen "Mims" Murphy Walsh was born in County Longford in 1881. She was college educated and worked in Dublin. She married Patrick "Paddy" Walsh on July 29, 1913. They immigrated to the United States in 1915. To Mims, it was an exile that she…
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After fellow Wild Geese member Oisen O'Connell had generously taken me on my last Wexford tour via Ballyhack Castle,…
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It takes less than two hours to drive from Nenagh to the Burren in Co. Clare. At a recent launch for the Cliffs of Moher Geopark (www.burrengeopark.ie) in Lisdoonvarna, I was reminded just how much this region has to…
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The undefeated Light- Heavyweight Champion before he stepped up in class.
This post from The O’Donnells of Philadelphia, Chapter 5, “A typical Year in the Life of the O’Donnells,” takes the reader back to a time when we listened to sports on the radio and used our imagination. It’s a time to be savored. The…
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DOMHNAIGH to CÉADAOIN -- From July 13 to 16, 1863, one of the more regrettable incidents related to Irish-American history occurred --the…
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New genie class started and participant is descended from a McSweeney. Have looked into this and found they come from a Gallowglas Sept. First I have heard Gallowglas. Article on Wikipedia very informative. Anyone want to blog on this and in 1800 where would the McSweeney Clan be living?
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Brigadier General Richard Montgomery – died during the
campaign for Quebec - County Donegal.
He was the 2nd of eight Brigadier Generals appointed by the Continental Congress
An Excerpt from James Francis Smith’s Irish in the American Revolution
Brigadier General Richard Montgomery
As he gazed at Fortress Quebec,…
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Dunmore Cave
Ballyfoyle, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
History and geology blend at Dunmore Cave to give an interesting and unique situation. Consisting of a series of chambers formed over millions of years, the cave contains some of the finest calcite formations found in any Irish cave. The case has been known to man for many centuries…
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...and not a battle at all? Was the area of Brù-na-Bóinne where the survivors of 'Noah's' flood emerged? What about the
strange report from Charles O'Kelly, a Colonel in James’ army, who said the whole thing was a conspiracy to hand Ireland to William?…
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