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FOLLOW Erin's Flag To Subscribe To Receive WGT's FREE E-Mail Newsletter Welcome to The Wild Geese Today Archives. Listed below you will find most of the feature stories that we've produced over our nearly five years of existence. Our archives, like Irish history, is a work in progress, so keep checking back. If you would like to support or efforts, you can do so by buy of our great new line of products from our Wild Geese Today Shops (linked here or directly below). That way you can help us keep producing the best Irish history information on the web while you proclaim to the world that you are one of THE WILD GEESE. -- Joe Gannon and Gerry Regan (The House) Buy a hat, shirt, mug or other great "WGT" item at Show the world you are one of "The Wild Geese" Ireland, pre-1750 A 1631 Raid on West Cork: When Barbary Pirates Came To Prey Victory at Benburb: Owen Roe's Finest Hour Sarsfield: 'Would It Were for Ireland' A Short History of the Celts The Pope Who Gave Ireland to the English The Battle of Moyry Pass Ireland, 1750-1800 1798: Year of Liberty! Edmund Burke: The Conscience of a Nation Catherine McAuley: The first 'Sister of Mercy' An Ghorta Mor -- Crossroads of A People          Great Hunger Monuments and Memorial Worldwide          New York Dedicates Its Famine Memorial          Grosse Ile: Island of Death Ireland: 1900-1982 Constance Markievicz: The Countess of Irish Freedom Countess Markievicz: The Polish Connection 1,700 take on the British Empire Maud Gonne: Ireland's Joan of Arc The Irish War of Independence's Forgotten 10 (6-part series)          Part 1: 'Just a Lad of 18 Summers'          Part 2: 'An Example Has To Be Made'          Part 3: 'Proud To Die for the Republic'          Part 4: 'Down Into the Mire'          Part 5: 'England Executes Prisoners of War'          Part 6: 'Death With No Tremblings' The Devil's Own Mutineers Terence MacSwiney: Irish Martyr Liam Lynch: Victim of the Irish Civil war The Anglo-Irish Treaty: Seed of 'The Troubles' 'Bloody Sunday': 30 Years Later, Still Seeking Answers Through the Looking Glass: Remembering the Dublin/Monaghan Bombings, May 17, 1974 Ireland Today Bypassing History - Zipping along Ireland's M1 The American Revolution View From Battle Hill Is Green: Brooklyn Irish show the flag throughout battle's commemorations A Monument for Haslet's 'Delawares' Brooklyn Holds a Bash for 'The Maryland 400' Those Who Saved Washington's Army Brigadier on 'The Resurrection of Edward Hand' John Paul Jones and the Irish Marines The New Republic 'To the Shores of Tripoli': An Irish-American gives the Marine Corps one of its first heroes, and an enduring part of its heritage. The War of 1812 Winfield Scott: Defender of Irish rights Salisbury Mills Honors Its Adopted Son The United States, The Antebellum Years The Life and Times of Matilda and William Tone Raphael Semmes and the San Patricios: "Dishonored and Dishonorable?" The American Civil War "The Deadliest Day": The Battle of Antietam The Irish at Antietam         Introduction         Dispatches from the 140th         Antietam Narrative of "Gallowglass," The Irish American, October 1862 (6 Parts)         The Irish Brigade Monument Unveiling (WGT Archives), October 1997         Selection of Books and Videos About Antietam         Call To Arms: Battlefield Preservation Zouaves, FDNY: WTC Tragedy Renews Bond The 5th New York's Daniel J. Meagher: Tipperary native among the earliest heroes of the FDNY We Take You There: The Irish at First Manassas Tom Sweeny: He Wasn't "Fighting Tom" For Nothing Undaunted Courage - The Irish at Fredericksburg          Marching Into the Cross-Hairs, part 1 of a 3-Part Series          'Give It to Them Now, Boys!', part 2 of a 3-Part Series          'I Am Wounded All Over' part 3 of a 3-Part Series          Did Meagher Lose His Nerve at Fredericksburg? Remembering the Irish Who Fell at Fredericksburg The 155th New York Infantry, Buffalo's Fighting Irishmen Special Report: The Irish Brigade Monument at Antietam Remembering Willie Mitchel, An Irish Confederate Boy Colonel Patrick Guiney of the Irish Ninth Call to Arms and Bull Run -- from The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns, by Capt. D.P. Conyngham A Legend Is Born -- 'Stonewall' Jackson 'Speaks' The 69th New York at 150 -- From Manassas to Makin James McKay Rorty: From Donegal To Cemetery Ridge Thomas Francis Meagher -- "Meagher of the Sword" John Henry Coppinger — Defender of the Faith and the Union Michael Corcoran -- Colorful and Gallant, A 5-Part Series          Michael Corcoran -- Colorful and Gallant, part 1 of a 5-Part Series          Michael Corcoran -- Making a stand, part 2 of a 5-Part Series          Michael Corcoran -- Winning the Death Lottery, part 3 of a 5-Part Series          Michael Corcoran -- The Prisoner, part 4 of a 5-Part Series          Michael Corcoran -- Your likes we will never see again, part 5 of a 5-Part Series Patrick Cleburne         A Confederate 'Meteor'         Cleburne's proposal         Cleburne's ancestry         Cleburne: The Defense of Ringgold Gap Special Report: The Irish Battle at Gettysburg Christmas in the Union's Irish Brigades:          Part 1 of 2: Early War in the Irish Brigade          Part 2 of 2: Christmas in Corcoran's Legion And After 1862 Timothy O'Meara : An Unknown Hero of the Great Civil War          Part 1 of 3: From Mexico to Ball's Bluff          Part 2 of 3: Commanding the Irish Legion          Part 3 of 3: The Death of O'Meara Ulysses S. Grant and the Irish          Grant in Ireland, Part 1: 'Wild Irishman' Hits Dublin          Grant in Ireland, Part 2: A Rebuff From Cork          Grant in Ireland, Part 3: Farewell to Ireland, Forever          Grant and Bush in Ireland: Contrasts and Parallels          'Never Seen the Blarney Stone': Grant's Dublin Speech          Freeman's Journal's Take on Grant          Grant's Cork Controversy: The Issues Still Resound          The Irish Fight for Grant at Cold Harbor          Grant's Grandfather Called Tyrone Home          Assessing Grant's Place in History The Irish Brigade's Fifth Regiment: The 116th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry The 35th Indiana: Hoosier State's '1st Irish' Wexford's Father Peter Whelan: Serving the Blue and the Gray St. Patrick's Day's powerful tug St. Patrick's Day 1863 - John Ryan SHIELDS VS. REAGAN          Long-dead James J. Shields faces GOP in new tussle          How Shields Beat Stonewall          James J. Shields - a short bio          Women, Politics Lay Behind Shields-Lincoln Duel Sheridan Rides to Lincoln's Rescue in 1864 Election Are Remains in Famed Warship Irish? US Navy Seeks Sailors' Descendants The Plains Wars Scrappy Phil Sheridan: The U.S. Army's Little Big Man 'Born a Soldier': Myles Walter Keogh Custer's Last Irishmen: The Irish who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn The Spanish-American War Buckey O'Neill: Sheriff, Mayor, Rough Rider, American Hero. World War I Poet Siegfried Sassoon in Ireland A Brief History of the 16th "Irish" Division Tunnel Trench: 16th (Irish) Division Clears the Way at Cambrai Saluting Ireland's Tommies The Fighting 69th and Father Duffy World War II MV Kerlogue at War The United States: Korean War Through Vietnam War 'A Monument of Their Own': Hundreds gather in Brooklyn cemetery to honor Irish GIs slain in Korean War GI Who Survived War Emigrated With Cork Neighbor Who Didn't Maj. Aloysius P. McGonigal: A Hero Without a Gun War on Terror The "Fighting 69th" in OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM III (2004-2005) 'Saint of 9/11': Cleric's Message of Love Rises From the Twin Towers' Rubble Dying Together: From Bull Run to Baghdad - 69th NY and LA National Guard in Iraq. Month's Mind for 9/11: A Tribute to Father Mychal Judge Just 'Doing Their Job' The 69th is called into action after the World Trade Center attack (4-Part Series) 'Today We Stand Our Ground': New York's Legendary 69th Regiment Marks Its 150th Anniversary Zouaves, FDNY: WTC Tragedy Renews Bond The 5th New York's Daniel J. Meagher: Tipperary native among the earliest heroes of the FDNY 'Remember, They're With Us': A New Song to an Old Tune Fetes, Mourns, the FDNY's Fallen The Labor Movement Mary Harris Jones: One Tough 'Mother' Australia 'As Game as Ned Kelly': The Rise and Fall - and Rise - of the Irish in Australia Australia: How Did the Irish Get There? Canada Gross Ile - Journey of hope; Island of death United Irish Rising in Newfoundland Europe 'For Faith and Fame and Honour': The Irish Brigade in the Service of France The Irish Brigade's Stand for 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' Remember Cremona: The Irish Brigade of France Januarius A. MacGahan: Father of Bulgarian freedom Thomas Francis Meagher: The Sword Speech The Pope's Irish Battalion The Americas The O'Brien Chronicle: An Irishman's Odyssey in Old Brazil 'One Love': The Black Irish of Jamaica Che Guevara: Father of Revolution, Son of Galway Asia Irish Soldiers in Iraq: Past and Present Irish heritage Remote and beautiful, West Cork's Baltimore has much to offer Keeping the faith: America reacts to the Hunger Strike 'Celebrating 250 Years' Brings Parade to Life The man behind the long green lines (and it's not Patrick) Donegal Annual's 60th Issue Focuses on The Flight of the Earls A St. Patrick's Day Push for 'Wind That Shakes the Barley' Black 47's Larry Kirwan: At 'Sixteen' Still a Voice for the Underdog In Music, Plays, Kirwan Grapples With Legacy of Anglo-Irish Strife 'The Fighting 69th' Film Unites 'Dixie,' 'Irishers' Did Ratzinger Pick Befuddle Malachy?         More than once, a Pope sold out the Irish Review: The Jeanie Johnston Experience Saving Private John Ryan: Q&A with author Sandy Barnard The "Fighting" 69th at 150: A brief history Irish Medal of Honor winners St. Patrick's Day 2002 St. Patrick's Day 2003 A short history of the NY St. Patrick's Day Parade Bataireacht: The Art of Irish Stick-Fighting Marching Down the Queen's Highway: The Orange Order's Road to Drumcree The Case for the Easter Lily Suspense in Derry at Foyle Film Festival         For the Ireland of Ages Past, Go to the Far North Sports The Irish Gentleman Convict Who Nearly Won Wimbledon Irish 'Family' Feud: Rafuse Versus Ward 100 Years On, A Firmer Understanding of GAA Founder Michael Cusack Michael Cusack & James Joyce: Pair May Have Reshaped Modern Ireland The Belfast Celtic Football Club James Braddock: The Real 'Cinderella' Story Music Reviews Black 47's Child Comes of Age Irish Green and Bonnie Blue: Derek Warfield looks at the music of the Southern Irish in America's Civil War Derek Warfield's "Sons of Erin": Emerald History Packed in Two Jewel Cases Review of David Kincaid's album, "The Irish Volunteer." Kincaid's 'The Irish-American's Song' Worth the Wait Review: 'Rock of Erin' Album: A Noble Cause, A Mixed Result "No Irish Need Apply": a stand-out in the Civil War music genre How the Irish rock the world: Top ten Irish rock 'n rollers Derek Warfield on His Aer Lingus Disappearing Act - Interview          Right for Aer Lingus? - Roy Beggs respounds to Warfield "The Irish-American's Song" - The Stories Behind the Songs, by David Kincaid:          'The Irish Sixty-Ninth'          'Kelly's Irish Brigade'          'Camp Song of the Chicago Irish Brigade' Movie, Documentary, and Play Reviews Filmmaker Loach's 'Route Irish' Indicts Privatization of Iraq War 'Prisoner 1082' a Taut Narrative of IRA Man's Escape in 1960 'The Fighter' Takes Big Stride Toward Oscar Irish 'Pirate Queen' Struts Stuff on Broadway An IRA Family Unravels In 'Defender of the Faith' 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' Poses Questions That Haunt Us Still          Q & A with director Ken Loach 'Translations': A Stirring Look At How Words Failed the Irish Gabriel Byrne Leads Gifted Castin O'Neill's 'A Touch of the Poet' 'Moon' Shines' - "A Moon for the Misbegotten" 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' Irish Heritage Co-Stars in 'Million Dollar Baby' 'The Magdalene Sisters' Hits America's Shores 'The Gangs of New York' by Herbert Asbury Five Points -- The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood 'Gods and Generals' - Book - Movie - Music         Book Casts Meagher as Bumpkin         'Stonewalling' the Civil War - movie review         Historian: New Film Also Has Trouble With Meagher         "Gods and Generals" Music: AWOL 'Observe the Sons of Ulster' - WWI drama 'Gangs of New York' Murders History Bloody Sunday films: Both 'agonizingly faithful' 'The Wearing of the Green': The Irish Hit Manchester's Mean Streets 'Shalom Ireland': A Lively Look at Ireland's Jews         Director Fetes Two Cultures in 'Shalom Ireland' Book Reviews 'My American Struggle': A Priest's Bold Bid To Put Injustice in Ulster on U.S. Agenda Niece's Biography Brings Pathos To 'Patrick Moran Story' 'The Civil War of 1812': How Madison (and His Irish Allies) Nearly Squandered the Gains of 1776 McCourt: Cheers for Book, Boos for Parade 'The Harp and the Eagle': Earning a Foothold 'Making the Irish American' a Welcome, and Needed, Reflection 'The Far Side of the World': Kildare Author James Durney's Latest Narrates Travails of Irish in Korea Gordon Banks: A Hero Who Could Fly After The Rising … 'Fron-goch and the Birth of the IRA' "Union Jacks" a gritty look at the Civil War's Union sailors. 'Courage and Country: James Shields, More Than Irish Luck' 'The Irish in the South 1815-1877' 'Empire Rising' Author Explores 'High Noon' for City's Irish         In his own words: Writer Thomas Kelly Beneath the Christian Veneer, 'Echoes of a Savage Land' Al Smith Bio Chronicles New York's 'Happy Warrior' Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom 'Danny Boy' Explores an Enduring Irish Mystery 'Ireland's Banner County': New History of Clare In Memoriam Civil War historian Brian C. Pohanka, who explored the lives of Irish soldiers, dies at 50 Hundreds gather on battlefield to mourn historian's death Are you one of The Wild Geese? Show the world with a hat, shirt, or other item displaying one of these Wild Geese graphics. Wild Geese Today Logo Irish America: The Fenian Tradition Wild Geese Harp Flag E-mail us for more information about The Wild Geese Today Click to return to The Wild Geese Today's Home Page Search WWW Search WGT © 1997-2007 GAR Media LLC. 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