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Irish Custer Writer Discovers 7th Cavalry Ancestor!
The Curragh, County Kildare - It’s who you are. Your blood, your genes and, some would say, your personality, can be influenced by your ancestors, the family members that came before you. It should be essential knowledge for anyone to have and yet there is hesitancy by many to undertake what seems an onerous…
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Come With Us to Cúirt
Established in 1985 and quickly becoming one of the premier literature festivals in all of Europe (and beyond), the Cúirt International Festival of Literature launched its 2013 programme on the 23rd of April. This annual festival based in Galway continues to…
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The Sweet Taste of an Ancient Celtic Festival
Beltane (“Bealtaine” in Irish) is a festival with ancient origins traditionally celebrated on May 1st, a spring time festival of optimism. Most commonly it is held on the first day of May, or about halfway…
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This Week in the History of the Irish: April 28-May 4
DOMHNAIGH -- On April 28, 1916, as the rebels in Dublin were being squeezed harder and harder by the British and nearing the end of…
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S African Rose Maurer: Irish Culture in KwaZulu-Natal
Most of South Africa is more than 8,000 miles (14,000 km) from Tipperary, a truly “long, long way,” but still, as in Ireland, another former British colony, the tramping of British army boots once was a familiar sound to that nation’s natives and immigrants. …
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Black 47's Larry Kirwan: At 'Sixteen' Still a Voice for Underdog
Whether singing about James Connolly or Bobby Sands or quoting Federico García Lorca, Wexford-born rocker and writer Larry Kirwan casts a discerning, empathetic and sometimes angry eye on the world. With "…
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Free Kindle Book Exclusively for Members of The Wild Geese
To thank The Wild Geese for recent a recent piece in which he was featured, author James Francis Smith is offering a copy of his Kindle book,…
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The Wild Geese at Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Established in 1986 and quickly becoming one of the premier literature festivals in all of Europe (and beyond), the Cúirt International Festival of Literature launches its 2013 program in Galway today. The festival will run through Sunday, April 28th, and will feature some of the very best in what modern Irish literature has to offer (as well as literature…
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This Week in the History of the Irish: April 21-April 27
Roger Casement (without cap) approaches Ireland aboard the U-19. |
DOMHNAIGH -- On April 21, 1916,…
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Q&A with 'Lockout' Playwright, Historian Ann Matthews
Historian Ann Matthews, author of “Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922,” understands intimately the kind of…
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How Megan Traced Barack Obama's Irish Family History to Ireland
By Megan Smolenyak, Genealogy Expert & Author of "…
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Irish Family History Sources in India
By Kieron Punch
Although many Irish people may be reluctant to acknowledge that our countrymen played a significant role in extending and administering British colonial rule in…
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Ireland's Women 'Dissidents': Q&A With Ann Matthews
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Léightheoirí Nua Ag 'Angela´s Ashes' as Gaeilge
Baile Átha Cliath – Is minicí a aistrítear leabhra ó Ghaeilge go Béarla, ná a mhalairt.
Ocáid neamhghnáthach, dá bhrí sin, a bhí ann nuair a iarradh ar an scríobhnóir agus údar as Gaeilge, Pádraig Breathnach, leabhar Frank McCourt as Béarla, “Angela’s Ashes,” a aistriú go Gaeilge.
Cé gurb as Maigh Cuilinn i gCuntae na…
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The WG Team Is Expanding -- Seeking PT Coordinators
Nearly 16 years in the making, The (New) Wild Geese is now seeking a part-time Projects Associate to help keep WG on track in the weeks ahead, coordinating our marketing, editorial, advertising and community-building efforts. We are also looking for a part-time Editorial…
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The Silent History of the Irish
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Megan Smolenyak's New Book, Website, and YouTube Channel
We interviewed the "Indiana Jones of Genealogy," Megan Smolenyak, for this genealogy blog in a two-part post, ‘Connecting Across Oceans and Time’: Q&A With Celebrity Genealogist Megan Smolenyak…
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‘Angela’s Ashes’ Gains Admirers ‘As Gaeilge’
DUBLIN -- It is more common for books in the Irish Language to be translated occasionally into English, than vice versa.
It was an unusual occurrence, therefore, when Irish language writer and author Pádraig Breathnach was commissioned to translate Frank McCourt’s best seller, “Angela’s Ashes,” into the Irish language.
Originally from Maigh…
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This Week in the History of the Irish: April 14-April 20
| The original color scheme of the Irish tricolor, with the orange near the staff. |
LUAIN -- On April 15, 1848, in Dublin, Thomas Francis Meagher presented…
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Researching In Salt Lake City's LDS Family History Library
By Susan Kimura
Salt Lake City — I conduct family-history research every day as finding my ancestors and learning about them is an important part of my life. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints (LDS), also known as Mormons.
The LDS website states: "FamilySearch is a service provided by…
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