We have a dynamic collection of members' own special Irish Christmas recipes building…
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Hulton Deutsch Erskine Childers in his British army uniform, c. 1900 |
LUAIN -- On November 24, 1922, during the Irish Civil War,…
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The following is a transcript taken from the LIVE Community Chat chat hosted here at TheWildGeese.com on Friday, November 22, 2013 -- the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Some editing has been applied for clarity.
The Wild Geese: Céad míle fáilte, a chairde! So glad to see…
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In 1963, when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy visited Ireland, I was 15 years of age.
To understand the impact of President Kennedy, one has to understand that the Ireland of 1960 was a very different place, even to the…
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ContinueI am glad to be here. It took 115 years to make this trip,
and 6,000 miles, and three generations. But I…
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November 11th, marks both Remembrance Day in Ireland and the “Commonwealth Countries,” and Veteran’s Day in the United States of America. Although no official holiday is observed on the 11th of November in the Republic of Ireland,…
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Enjoy this video of Derek Warfield and The Young Wolfe Tones performing one of the quintessential Wolfe Tones songs, "The Streets of New York." Derek Warfield and one of his Young Wolfe Tones, banjo player Damaris Woods, will be joining us for a LIVE hangout in The Wild Geese Virtual Síbín in November.
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The Battle of Perryville from a contemporary illustration. |
MÁIRT -- On October 8, 1862, Irish-born…
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MÁIRT -- On Sept. 17, 1860, units of the Irish Battalion of St. Patrick of the Papal army fought a Piedmontese army allied with Garibaldi at Spoleto. Spoleto was a walled city south of Florence with the fortress of Rocca on the side…
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The following is a transcript of the LIVE Wild Geese Community Chat hosted here at TheWildGeese.com on Sunday, September 8, 2013 with historian C. Michael (Mike) Harrington. Some editing has…
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Sunday, September 8th is the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Sabine Pass. The occasion is being celebrated as "Dick Dowling Days."
Though a relatively small engagement, Sabine Pass represented perhaps the finest single day's work of any Irish unit, North or South, in the American Civil War. At Sabine Pass, on the Texas coast near the Louisiana…
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Hulton Deutsch Roger Casement being led out of Pentonville Prison, where he would later be hanged. |
DOMHNAIGH -- On September 1,…
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The following is a transcript of the LIVE community chat hosted here at TheWildGeese.com on Monday, August 12, 2013 with author, Brian O'Sullivan (left). Some editing has been applied for clarity.
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By James Francis Smith (First published 2/25/12)
As February’s Black History Month fades into memory and March Madness for the Irish begins its ascendancy, there’s a brief moment where the black takes on a tinge of green.
(A…
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(First published on 2/10/12) Seattle-based author James Francis Smith, 78, found his current calling after he retired from a career in industry and finance. He has been writing historical fiction for the past 10 years, starting with “Western…
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