Courtesy of Kenneth King Seen here in its wartime colors, plying the seas alone, the 142-foot long Kerlogue made an easy target. The EIRE markings… |
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By Joseph E. Gannon
As hundreds of 'embedded' war correspondents traveled across Iraq in 2003, WGT remembered a 19th century Irish-American correspondent whose reports on a Turkish massacre shocked the entire world, compelling world leaders to place humanitarian concerns above geopolitical ones. Ohio native…
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Ah! Why, Patrick Sarsfield, did we let your ship sail
Away to the French Flanders from the green Innisfail.
For far from your country you lie cold and low:
Ah? Why Patrick Sarsfield, ah, why did you go.
We prayed, Patrick Sarsfield, to see you sail home,
Your flag waving victory across the white…
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By Joe Gannon, Managing Editor
("The Storming of the Bastille," by Jean-Pierre Houël, 1735-1813.)
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By Joe Gannon, Managing Editor
(Right: General Thomas Arthur Lally. His heroic image here betokens the restoration of his honor by the "canceling" of his conviction for treason.)…
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By Joe Gannon, Managing Editor
(Right: John Adams Reviews Jones' Marines, 13 May 1779, by Charles Waterhouse.)…
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Patrick Moran, who might have escaped, but didn't want to appear to be guilty. |
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