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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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By Ed Churchill
Wexford native Peter Whelan saw some of the… |
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The National Gallery of Ireland Patrick Sarsfield, by William Mossop |
LUAIN -- On July 29, 1693, units…
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Reproduced by Anna Frances LevinEdward Hand,… |
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WGT Photo/Gerry Regan Thousands take to the streets Saturday to help commemorate the Maryland Regiment's heroic… |
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WGT Photo/Gerry Regan With piper Chris Heinl in the fore, members of the Brooklyn Irish American Parade Committee head off to honor Matilda and William Tone at Green-Wood… |
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WGT Photo/Gerry Regan Minerva, one hand upon the "Altar to Liberty," salutes "Lady Liberty" in New York… |
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We extend our best wishes to all our American Wild Geese on this Independence Day. The contributions of Irish-Americans in the War Between the States is well documented and much discussed. Perhaps less so is the impact some of the earliest Irish immigrants had upon the American revolution of the late 18th century.
Many of these would have been of Scots-Irish…
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Firefighters Killed Battling Arizona Blaze
Courage and devotion to duty seems to be second-nature to many in this Arizona city. More than a century ago, beloved Prescott Mayor 'Bucky' O'Neill set out from the town when his country…
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Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork 'Men of the South' by Sean Keating, depicting the men of an IRA Flying Column during the War of Independence. |
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American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles (Anchor Press, 2012, 416…
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The following is a transcript taken from the LIVE members' chat hosted here at TheWildGeese.com on Monday, June 17th with County Tyrone native (and fellow Wild Geese member),…
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Notre Dame Archives. |
Father Peter Paul Cooney C.S.C. a priest of the Holy…
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Not all Irish regiments in the Civil War came from the east. From the heartland sprung the hard fighting 35th Indiana. Whether fighting on battlefields from Perryville to Nashville or enduring the horrors of the prison camp in Andersonville, these sons of Erin pressed on to final victory.
(A reproduction of the…
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(First published 1/9/12) Kevin Gleeson, a talented guitarist and former portrayer of Keith Richards in Stones’ tribute bands Sticky Fingers and Beggars Banquet, is a graphic artist with the New York Police Department and a native of the borough of Queens, in New York City. Gleeson’s heritage is steeped in both Irish music and the turbulent history of Northern…
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(First published 1/9/12) Patrick Young is a blogger for Long Island Wins, a communications and organizing campaign focused on immigrants’ needs and immigration reform in Long Island, in New York State. In his blogs, he has written extensively on the experiences of immigrants in America, including an…
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(First published 12/14/11) 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the start of America’s Civil War, and in Ireland, a group of historians and writers used the occasion to promote the concept of a Civil War heritage trail. Archaeologist Damian Shiels and writers James Doherty and Robert Doyle [All three…
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