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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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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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Professor, with an eye on the 18th century, gets coveted full-time post at NYU's Irish Studies

(First published…

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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

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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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

'Catholic Game,' 'Duffy's Cut,' The Celtics, Galway 'Ghost': What's New Among The Wild Geese . . . Today

Dinning Finishing Documentary

Writer and producer, David Dinning (right) is preparing for his next trip to Northern Ireland later this month.  David is finishing up a documentary he has been working on for the past four…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 11, 2013 at 11:00am — No Comments

Corca Dhuibhne's 'Place of Goodbyes'

Photo by Wilfred Judd

Window of an abandoned cottage.

By …

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 9, 2013 at 8:00pm — 9 Comments

Unspoken Tales of the Women In Ireland's Freedom Struggle

Irish Civil War: The Four Courts burning during the Battle of Dublin.

By Felicity Hayes-McCoy

When I was a child in Dublin in the 1950s and 60s,…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 9, 2013 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Bodhrán Roll Please ... The Winners of 'Galway Stories'

One day after a superb live members' chat with Connemara-based authors and publishers, John Walsh and Lisa Frank (which you may read here), the winners of the complimentary…

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 9, 2013 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Talking 'Galway Stories' With Readers Across the Globe

The following is a transcript taken from the LIVE members' chat hosted here at TheNewWildGeese.com on Wednesday, May 8th, with Connemara-based author, poet, and publisher (and fellow Wild Geese member) …

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'Speranza' -- Another Irish Heroine Reclaimed From the Shadows

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 8, 2013 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments

Teresa Deevy, deaf, very talented, draws spotlight after Abbey rebuff

New York (first published 9/14/10) -- Playwright Teresa Deevy, left, would likely be well pleased with the renewed focus her work is receiving these days. The Waterford-born auteur has been dead for 47 years, but one of her plays is on an extended run off-Broadway and Thursday mere talk of Deevy drew more than enough people to fill all 90 seats at a presentation at…

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

'Battles for the Three Kingdoms': A Review by John Bruton

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Added by The Wild Geese on May 7, 2013 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments

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