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Chat With Doire Press' John Walsh, Get a Shot at a Book
We're excited to be launching our next members' giveaway today. We will be sending five members of The Wild Geese a complimentary copy of…
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Making Films That Afflict the Comfortable: A Chat With Director Ken Loach, Part 2 of 2
| Sixteen Films Ken Loach, right, with "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" Producer Rebecca O'Brien. |
The Irish 'Troubles' have proved a powerful draw to filmmakers through the decades, and Ken Loach visits the conflict for a…
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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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Morning Star's Mary Courtney on Her Influences, Musical and Otherwise
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This Week in the History of the Irish: May 5 - May 11
DOMHNAIGH -- On May 5, 1981, Bobby Sands…
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Connecting the Past and Present: Chatting With Genealogist and Author Megan Smolenyak, Part 2 of 2
We continue and complete our interview with genealogist, author, producer and speaker Megan Smolenyak, wherein we discuss her work with Unclaimed Persons, finding the family of a World War I…
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'My American Struggle': A Priest's Bold Bid To Put Injustice in Ulster on U.S. Agenda
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Seán McManus' Brother a Hero of IRA Border Campaign
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‘Connecting Across Oceans and Time’: Q&A With Celebrity Genealogist Megan Smolenyak
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Irish Family History of the Pims: 1st Irish Quakers From England To Pennsylvania
Susan Potts Kimura read an article in TheWildGeese.com on Tennis In Ireland by James Doherty. Her famous Waterford relative Tennis Player Joshua Pim (Right: nicknamed The Ghost) was featured with a photo. Susan had never seen a likeness of him and…
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Irish Custer Writer Discovers 7th Cavalry Ancestor!
The Curragh, County Kildare - It’s who you are. Your blood, your genes and, some would say, your personality, can be influenced by your ancestors, the family members that came before you. It should be essential knowledge for anyone to have and yet there is hesitancy by many to undertake what seems an onerous…
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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
This Week in the History of the Irish: April 28-May 4
DOMHNAIGH -- On April 28, 1916, as the rebels in Dublin were being squeezed harder and harder by the British and nearing the end of…
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S African Rose Maurer: Irish Culture in KwaZulu-Natal
Most of South Africa is more than 8,000 miles (14,000 km) from Tipperary, a truly “long, long way,” but still, as in Ireland, another former British colony, the tramping of British army boots once was a familiar sound to that nation’s natives and immigrants. …
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Black 47's Larry Kirwan: At 'Sixteen' Still a Voice for Underdog
Whether singing about James Connolly or Bobby Sands or quoting Federico García Lorca, Wexford-born rocker and writer Larry Kirwan casts a discerning, empathetic and sometimes angry eye on the world. With "…
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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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The Wild Geese at Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Established in 1986 and quickly becoming one of the premier literature festivals in all of Europe (and beyond), the Cúirt International Festival of Literature launches its 2013 program in Galway today. The festival will run through Sunday, April 28th, and will feature some of the very best in what modern Irish literature has to offer (as well as literature…
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This Week in the History of the Irish: April 21-April 27
Roger Casement (without cap) approaches Ireland aboard the U-19. |
DOMHNAIGH -- On April 21, 1916,…
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