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* Know Thy Place ... Where Your Heritage Comes Alive

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* Derek Warfield and The Young Wolfe Tones: Presenting "George Washington's Irish"

*David Kincaid: Performing Songs of the Irish Volunteers

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Titanic's Bruce Ismay: From Disaster to Irish Refuge
Above The Bar: P.J. Clarke -- From Ireland to Manhattan

The Well-Worn Path to
Dingle's 'Place of Goodbyes'

Photo by Wilfred Judd
The view from "The Place of Goodbyes" out to the Blasket Islands. Click on the image for a larger view.

All over Ireland the places of goodbyes are still remembered. The old and the very young, the sick and the weak turned back. And on foot, or by train, the young and the strong made their way to the coastal ports. Some left their ships in England. Others traveled on across the Atlantic, to Boston, Chicago and New York or, farther still. With immigration now becoming widespread in Ireland again, Felicity Hayes-McCoy reminisces about her own family's emigration experience.


IN CANADA: The Syria, the first ship to arrive during what Quebecois would call the 'Summer of Sorrow,' lands at 'Grosse Ile,' the Canadian quarantine post in the St. Lawrence River, north of Quebec.
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Young men holding up the Anti-Conscription pledge.
IN IRELAND: The British government arrests all the leaders of Sinn Fein that it can as part of the bogus "German Plot." Lord Edward Fitzgerald, military leader of the United Irishmen, is captured by the British in Dublin. More. Key Dates.

Remembering Brian Mór, 'Unrepentant Fenian . . . Swell Guy'

Photo by Daniel Marrin
Brian Mór

Brian Mór O'Baoighaill was a man of as many names as he was talents. Born in the South Bronx, this artist and Irish republican activist had the nickname "Brian," before becoming known as Brian Mór, or "Big Brian" 'as Gaeilge.' He carried so many names, including Bernie O'Boyle, that two people could talk about him using different names and have no idea they were discussing the same man. Daniel Marrin reports on the recent memorial gathering in his honor in New York City.

MacDonagh and MacBride,
And Connolly and Pearse ...
Wherever green is worn, are changed,
changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.
(From W.B. Yeats "Easter 1916")

Easter Heroes
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  • Coming Up:

    Keeping 'The Irish'
    In U.S. Irish Pubs

    Brendan Barry, left, at a pub stateside with the Irish who further the pub's Irish 'brand.'

    The Wild Geese's Gerry Regan interviews Brendan Barry, president of Irish Business Solutions, about the extraordinary power of the Irish brand in restaurants and pubs in the United States and throughout the developed world. Barry's firm, with offices in Wexford and Virginia, helps recruit capable irish staffers for these ventures, to better insure that the Irish flavor, and heritage, remain front and center.

    'Shaw's 'Man and Superman':
    Smart, Relevant

    Photo by James Higgins
    (l-r): The cast of Irish Rep's "Man and Superman."

    New York – George Bernard Shaw is one of the most important Irish playwrights in the last few centuries, so when he talks, people listen. Megan Finnegan Bungeroth finds that Irish Rep's new production of Shaw's "Man and Superman" uncannily reflects society's continued unease with women making their own choices — yet another reason to catch this production. This staging of Shaw's classic embodies all that continues to be vital about Shaw's work — it is smart, endlessly relevant, and funny.

    SITE UPDATED: 05/14/12,
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    SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Honoring the 41 Irish Heroes of The Alamo ... Presented by The Wild Geese Irish Soldiers and Heroes' Irish Whiskey Collection

    From The Wild Geese Heritage Partner
    Mercier Press ...

    Making Art By Ulster’s Sperrins: Q&A With Aine MacAodha

    Aine MacAodha is Irish for Ann Keys, who was born in 1963 in the small town of Omagh, Tyrone County, in Northern Ireland. Aine is a writer, a poet, a photographer and artist, and has been published widely in Ireland, United Kingdom and the United States. The true genius of her work is the timeless quality of it, much like Ireland itself. Aine answered some questions emailed to her by WG Visual Arts Producer Maryann Tracy.

    The history of your homestead. ... Learn how to acquire archaeological charts for places throughout Ireland. Know Thy Place ... where your heritage comes alive
    The 'Kid Shamrock' story
    Toronto Irish Film Festival 2012

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