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1. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Ireland's Last Veteran, WW-I, Thomas SHAW, of Belfast, deceased age 102, March 2002 - Flanders Fields Poetry [1]
SNIPPET: Ireland's last veteran of the Great War, Mr. Thomas SHAW, of Belfast, died at the age of 102 on 2 March 2002. He was buried 7th March at Clandeboye Cemetery, Bangor, Co. Down. More than a quarter of a million Irishmen fought in WW-I (1914-1918). While 35,000 Irish survived, they came home to a country in violent upheaval fiercely fighting its own battle between the north and the south. Many returning soldiers faced unemployment and prejudice - some were murdered for having served in the Briti
2. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Edmund BURKE Observes Plight of Irish Peasantry (1748) [1]
SNIPPET: Not every member of the Ascendancy ignored the plight of the Irish peasantry. Edmund BURKE, the son of an Ascendancy Protestant and Catholic mother, emerged in the mid-18th century as one of the sharpest critics of British policy that drove the Irish into a state of near slavery. In 1748, when he was just nineteen, he published the following harrowing description of Irish rural poverty: "... as you leave the Town, the Scene grows worse, and presents you with the Utmost Penury in the Midst
3. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Recent Visits to Ireland [1]
SNIPPET: Readers shared their thoughts on the Emerald Isle in the Nov-Dec 2008 issue of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine: Susan BEXTON, Portland, OR: My husband and I were in Ireland in September 2007. Like many Irish descendants before us, we made a visit to my ancestors' village, Edgeworthstown in Co. Longford, and saw the church where my great great grandparents were married in 1840. We later visited the Famine Ship replica (Wexford) and Cobh (Cork), coming away with enormous respect for
4. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Clare's Warrior Heroine, Maire "Rua" McMAHON-O'BRIEN - "Red-haired Mary" [1]
SNIPPET: In 1651, General Edmund LUDLOW, a Commander in Oliver CROMWELL's Parliamentarian occupation forces, moved his invading armies into north Co. Clare. On viewing the limestone terraces and stony expanses of the Burren region, he grimly noted, "There is here not wood enough to hang a man, water enough to drown a man nor earth enough to bury a man!" LUDLOW, along with his co-invader, General Henry IRETON, must also have been equally struck by the proliferation of the well-fortified stone castles, hi
5. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Music/Dancing - "Last Night's Fun" (1996) Ciaran CARSON, Belfast Poet, Musician, Novelist/"Rubber Legs" John LOUGHRAN [1]
SNIPPET: Ciaran CARSON, Irish musician, poet and novelist, was born in Belfast (Antrim) No. Ireland in 1948 and has won awards in England and America. In the latter case, his books of poetry are published by the Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. Here are some excerpt from one of his books - "Last Night's Fun ..." pub. 1996 -- including a marvelous poem "Rubber Legs" by John LOUGHRAN. "We are in Garrison on the Fermanagh-Leitrim border. It is a late summer's evening. A gang of us -- flute-players M
6. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Neutral Ireland -- WW-II Warplane Forced Landings, Crashes -- MacCARRON [1]
SNIPPET: Per author Donal MacCARRON, a lifelong military history and aviation enthusiast, modern aviation memorials ("markers") have been increasingly evident in the last 20+ years. These take various forms, often a plaque or tablet on a wall commemorating stories of triumph or tragedy related to the years of the Second World War. Over 200 warplanes - British, American, Canadian and German - force-landed or crashed in neutral Ireland during the years of combat, the majority being Allied aircraft. The reason
7. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Clare's Burren - Wildflowers in Moon-Like Setting, Poulnabrone Dolmen, Caves. [1]
SNIPPET: Munster is the largest province in Ireland. It has a massive diversity of landscape, from the most fertile, the Golden Vale, to the least fertile, the naked limestone plains of north Clare. The 10-square-mile plateau of the burren ("the rocky place") was described by a disappointed Cromwellian surveyor of the 1650s as "a savage land, yielding neither water enough to drown a man, nor a tree to hang him, nor soil enough to bury him." Visitors to the Burren, however, will find the greatest polarity of
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