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From an engraving by Jean Sorieul
Uniforms of the Irish Brigade of France. |
'Are ye mad, or in a trance?
Waken, gentlemen of France!'
(Shout, boys, Erin's the renown!)
'See your lilied flags are flapping,
And your Marshal is caught napping
In Cremona town.'
On the morning of February 1, 1702, during the war of Spanish Secession, Prince Eugene and his allied army sprung a surprise attack on the town of Cremona in northern Italy. The French forces there included the Irish Brigade infantry battalions of Berwick, Galmoy, Burke, and Dillon. Soon, the fate of the entire French army would depend on the courage of these exiled sons of Erin. Managing Editor Joe Gannon recounts their heroic tale.
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| Edme Patrice MacMahon |
IN FRANCE: Edme Patrice de MacMahon, whose ancestors had immigrated to France from Torrodile, County Limerick, in 1691, after the family's support of King James, retires as president of France. IN ENGLAND: 'Kitty' O'Shea, nee Wood, whose affair with Charles Stuart Parnell would cause his political ruin, is born at Bradwell, Essex. IN ITALY: The Irish Brigade of France added to its growing reputation as elements of the Brigade fought at the battle of Cremona during the War of Spanish Succession. IN IRELAND (or possibly in the U.S.) William O. 'Buckey' O'Neill, sheriff, politician, and one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, is born.
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| The green flag of the 9th Massachusetts. Over the eagle it says, "Thy Sons By Adoption – Thy Firm Supporters and Defenders – Duty, Affection and Choice" |
As the afternoon wore on at Gaines Mill, the 9th Massachusetts found itself at the rear of the retreat. As they counterattacked with their green flag flying, Confederate commander "Stonewall" Jackson is fooled into thinking that the vaunted Irish Brigade was on the field. Though wrong, the Irish Brigade soon would arrive to aid their landsman. Robert J. Bateman, the great-grandson of Pvt. Cornelius Deasy and great-grand-nephew of Captain Timothy Deasy, 9th Massachusetts Volunteers, concludes his story of his ancestors' unit.
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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") |
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The Irish Brigade in the Service of France
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The Battle of Fontenoy 1828
- Horace Vernet
King Louis congratulating
the Brigade after Fontenoy. Click on image to see a larger view. |
On May 11th, 1745, near the town of Fontenoy in Belgium, some of the finest soldiers in the British army assaulted the center of the French army of Louis XV. Among those who counterattacked, voices raised in the Irish battle cry: "Cumhnigh ar Luimneach agus ar feall na Sassanach!!," were the men of the Irish Brigade in the service of France. They were about to exact a measure of revenge against the forces of the nation they saw as the oppressors of their people. WGT Managing Editor Joe Gannon relates their storied history.
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Until recently "Angela's Ashes" had been translated into 25 languages, but not the native language of the land of the author. Read our Q&A with Irish actor, performer, writer, television producer and fluent Irish speaker Padraic Breathnach, who recently translated Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" into Irish. We offer the interview, as conducted, 'as Gaeilge,' as well as its translation into English, the first offering of TheWildGeese.com's soon-to-come-online Gaeilge channel.
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In our Irish Family History blog, Susan Kimura returns, this time, to help readers better understand the immense resources available to genealogists at Salt Lake City's LDS Family History Library. In our Family History Channel, we highlight a poignant video from FamilySearch.org presenting the memories of a survivor of the Japanese attack on the U.S naval base at Pearl Harbor, as told to his daughter and granddaughter. In Hell's Kitchen, Waterford-based poet Jean Tubridy talks of the importance of the sea to her muse, and her experience losing her elderly parents. In TheWildGeese.TV, we highlight an excerpt from the 2004 documentary "An Unreliable Witness," on the occasion of this week's 40th anniversary of Derry's 'Bloody Sunday' Massacre. The vid features our multimedia advisor David Tereshchuk recalling his brush with death that day while reporting and his testimony to the panel investigating the British army’s role in the 13 civilian deaths that day. Tereshchuk updates the story with an account in The Huffington Post.
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