By WGT Managing Editor Joe Gannon
The locals would come to call Grosse Ile "L'Ile des Irlandais." The Canadian island would be the first and final resting place in the New World for thousands of Irish emigrants.
During "Black '47," the worst year of the Great Famine, the coffin ships arrived at the…
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By Joseph Gannon
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false…
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Patrick Moran, who might have escaped, but didn't want to appear to be guilty. |
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In this, Part 2 of Countess Markievicz: The Polish Connection, we see Constance Markievicz, despite her aristocratic upbringing, transform her burgeoning anger at British rule and social injustice in Ireland into the activism that would soon totally consume her. Sadly, her family is the loser in this competition for her time and focus. WGT's three-part narrative is adapted from WGT Connacht correspondent Joe McGowan's new biography,… |
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MORE ON THE SACK OF BALTIMORE |
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MORE ON THE FIGHTING AT BENBURB |
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Italian writer and editor Massimiliano Roveri is driven, and, in a sense, adrift, as a storyteller who has found himself 1,300 miles from Ireland, the country that inspires him most. Roveri, 43, based in the central Italian province of Tuscany, has…
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