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The Wild Geese's Blog Posts Tagged 'History of Ireland' (221)
Your Home’s ‘Family Tree’: Q&A With Know Thy Place’s Colm Moloney
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This Week in the History of the Irish: July 7 - July 13
| Linen Hall Library Mary McCracken's ill-fated United Irishman brother, Henry Joy. |
MÁIRT -- On July 8,…
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An Excess of Abominations – Ireland’s Three ‘Bloody Sundays'
by Neil Cosgrove (First publish 1/11/12)
(Left:'Black and Tans' on the streets of Dublin, 1920)
A recent post on TheWildGeese.com’s Facebook page discussed Irish revolutionary Michael Collins’ role in the event of Bloody Sunday, November 21, 1920. On that day, under Collin’s…
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This Week in the History of the Irish: May 26 - June 1
DOMHNAIGH -- On May 26, 1706, Col. Charles O'Brien, 5th Viscount Clare, died from wounds suffered at the battle of Ramillies
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Biography on the extraordinary life of John Boyle O’Reilly becomes an event
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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…
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
Continue"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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This Week in the History of the Irish: May 12 - May 18
The Imperial War Museum |
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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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'Speranza' -- Another Irish Heroine Reclaimed From the Shadows
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'Battles for the Three Kingdoms': A Review by John Bruton
Added by The Wild Geese on May 7, 2013 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments
Making Films That Afflict the Comfortable: A Chat With Director Ken Loach - Part One
(First published in 2007) British filmmaker Ken Loach took time out from editing his latest film, about the exploitation of immigrants in Britain, to chat with WGT. He spoke on a range of subjects, including "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (his second film set against the Irish War for Independence, now on screens in the U.S.), British policies in Ireland, his unusual…
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Filmmaker Loach's 'Route Irish' Indicts Privatization of Iraq War
Review By Kieron C. Punch / Associate Editor
Coventry, England -- Veteran British director, Ken Loach, doesn't make movies for the popcorn munching, mainstream, cinema-going public, weaned on mindless blockbusters.
Instead he makes thought provoking, abrasive films that frequently challenge the political establishment and serve as a social…
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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…
Added by The Wild Geese on April 29, 2013 at 3:00am — 5 Comments
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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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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This Week in Irish History - Apil 7 - April 13
DOMHNAIGH -- On April 7, 1865, Brig. Gen. Tom Smyth
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The Mysterious Provenance of Kylemore’s Battle Flag
From 1702 to 1714, western Europe was engaged in a war involving, on the one side Spain and France, on the other a coalition of states headed by the Holy Roman Empire, and including Portugal, the Dutch Republic, England,…
Added by The Wild Geese on March 20, 2013 at 3:00pm — 14 Comments
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