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    		IN THIS ISSUE
    ~~~ Foreword
    ~~~ Keep us Free!
    ~~~ News Snaps from Ireland 
    ~~~ New free resources at the site
    ~~~ Cara Irish Penpals news
    ~~~ A Letter from America - a story
    ~~~ An Irish Dirge of Battle and King - a poem
    ~~~ The Irish at Gettysburg
    ~~~ Isle of Mist - a poem
    ~~~ Gaelic phrases of the month
    ~~~ Shamrock site of the month
    ~~~ Monthly free competition result
    
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    FOREWORD
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    NEWS SNAPS FROM IRELAND
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    WELFARE FRAUD BY ASYLUM SEEKERS TO BE TACKLED
    
    Welfare and housing claims made by asylum seekers 
    are to be curtailed in new legislation to be 
    introduced by the Government. Fraud on a massive 
    scale has been uncovered by the Garda National 
    Immigration Bureau (GNIB) who have seized dozens 
    of forged documents and passports. The head of the 
    GNIB has called for fingerprinting of all 
    non-nationals in Ireland, of which there are over 
    200,000, or 5% of the overall population.
    
    Asylum seekers currently receive lodgings, food 
    and a weekly allowance of EURO 19.
    
    FALL IN THE DOLLAR IS GOOD FOR IRISH TOURISTS
    
    While the fall in the value of the US dollar is 
    very bad for Irish tourism, the consequent 
    strength of the EURO is excellent news for Irish 
    visitors to America. Holidays  
    
    The cost of some US package tours have been 
    slashed by as much as one third with bookings on 
    the increase, despite the SARS epidemic and the 
    Iraq war. Many Irish holiday-makers now feel it 
    is cheaper to travel abroad than it is to holiday 
    at home.
    
    IRISH HEALTH SYSTEM TO BE HUGELY REORGANISED
    
    The well documented accounts of patients waiting 
    on hospital trolleys for days and waiting lists 
    for operations growing at an alarming rate have 
    prompted the Government into action.
    
    The Health system in Ireland is to be completely 
    overhauled. A new Health Service Executive is to 
    be established which will oversee the day-to-day 
    running of the service. A new National Hospitals 
    Office will also be set up to manage the 
    hospitals.
    
    The Health Boards will be replaced by four health 
    executives. This is an attempt to reduce the 
    massive duplication of work that currently exists 
    and to reduce the administration costs  of 
    running local health services which has spiralled 
    in recent years.
    
    More than 32 of the existing health agencies will 
    be wither abolished or amalgamated. Hospital 
    consultants will be held financially responsible 
    for decisions which affect hospital costs.
    
    The bold plan will take years to implement and is 
    already under fire from several vested interests 
    in the Health Service.
    
    NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE PROCESS AT A STANDSTILL
    
    A date for new Elections in Northern Ireland has 
    still not been set and the Assembly remains 
    suspended.
    
    Ulster Unionist leader saw off another challenge 
    to his leadership from rebels led by Jefferey 
    Donaldson and will now seek to have them expelled 
    from the party.
    
    INTRODUCTION OF THE EURO IS PROFITABLE 
    
    The introduction of the EURO has resulted in a 2 
    Billion Euro windfall fore the Government. The 
    Central Bank has contributed this amount over the 
    last 2 years with over 300 Million Irish Punts 
    not being converted into the new currency.
    
    The economic growth forecast from the bank has 
    been reduced to 1.5% down from the previous 
    estimate of 1.75%. Irish prices in some 12% above 
    the Eurozone average and inflation in Ireland is 
    nearly double the European average.
    
    Recent reports of an imminent fall in house prices 
    have been dismissed by economists in Ireland who 
    have  cited the fact that since the supply of 
    housing lags behind the demand then prices will 
    remain buoyant.
    
    EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE POLICY IS REFORMED
    
    The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which decrees 
    the amount of aid to be given to Europe's farmers 
    has been reformed. No longer will farmers be paid 
    to produce good s which are stored in warehouses, 
    never to be used,
    
    The reforms are expected to cause an overall 
    reduction in the price of food. Dairy farmers 
    claim that their livelihoods will be ruined and 
    that they will see their income reduced by one 
    third.
    
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARE HAILED A SUCCESS
    
    The largest sporting event in the world this year, 
    The Special Olympics, have been hailed as a 
    success by organisers and spectators alike. the 
    opening ceremony that was held in Croke Park has 
    been mooted as one of the most spectacular displays 
    in the history of the country. Over 7000 athletes 
    from 160 countries participated in the various 
    events. Over 30,000 volunteers helped to make the 
    games a great success.
    
    IRISH SCIENTIST JOINS NASA
    
    An Irish scientist is to join the NASA team that 
    is seeking to colonise Mars. Michelle McKeon is 
    an environmental lecturer from Limerick Institute 
    of technology and has been studying hydroponics, 
    the growing of plants without soil. She hopes to 
    become Ireland's first ever astronaut.
    
    IRISH REALITY SHOW SINKS
    
    The Irish television take on the phenomenon that 
    is 'reality TV' hit the headlines recently for all 
    the wrong reasons. The unique format of the Irish 
    offering saw nine contestants aboard a boat, with 
    cameras recording their every move and with the 
    contestants to be whittled down to an eventual 
    winner in the usual way.
    
    All seemed well with the 'Cabin Fever' show in the 
    beginning with good interest from sponsors and 
    promising viewing figures for the launch of the 
    programme.
    
    Production soon had to be halted however, as the 
    boat sank!
    
    Thankfully no loss of life was incurred and RTE 
    are hoping they can yet raise the venture from 
    its watery grave.
    
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    A LETTER FROM AMERICA
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    by John B.Mc Cabe
    Readuff
    Loughmourne
    Castleblayney
    Co. Monaghan.
    
    One day the postman brought a letter from America. 
    This was not an unusual event since my uncle Pat 
    lived there, twice married and had two families 
    with whom we ritually corresponded at Christmas 
    and Patrick's day. This day the letter was 
    different as it announced that one of our cousins, 
    Mary Jane and her husband John would call to visit 
    us for a day in August of that year. It was 1959 
    and my parents were struggling with bad health, 
    bills and the crushing bondage of small farming 
    life, not counting the liability of two children 
    aged seven and nine.
    
    I was very excited. I thought it was wonderful to 
    have 'Yankees' come to see us. There was a sense 
    of romance in those far off places where people 
    acquired fancy accents, drove big cars and seemed 
    to have no end of money to spend when they came 
    home.
    
    For my parents the letter brought a mixture of 
    excitement and panic. Panic was the dominant 
    feeling and it rose, slowly at first, until it 
    became a huge wave that engulfed the whole 
    household. It washed away the every-day disguises 
    of living and revealed the family, the house and 
    the farm in their most tattered rags of inadequacy.
    My mother looked at her pale face in the mirror, 
    at daddy's patched corduroys, at the bare cement 
    floor, the blackened range, the shortage of proper 
    cups and saucers. She felt the shame of the 
    enamelled chamber pot and the lack of running 
    water.
    
    In desperation she sighed and said: 'What are we 
    going to do?' My father muttered to himself and 
    began mixing paint.
    
    Our house was not a bad home. It was just never 
    finished. 
    
    The kitchen walls were layered with great coats 
    of whitewash - frantically applied by my mother 
    for the annual visit of the priest for the 
    'Oats Collection'.
    
    The room off the kitchen was very damp and 
    remained unused except as a dumping ground for 
    unwanted items, a safe place for bicycles and 
    the storage of animal medicines. It was furnished 
    with two large chests  - the forlorn trousseaus 
    of departed bridal ancestors.
    
    To this day I do not know where daddy purchased 
    the paint with which he intended to adorn our 
    home. Wherever he found it, it was cheap and the 
    colours of such a mad variety as to be more 
    suited to the enhancement of a circus than to the 
    decoration of a dwelling house. Maybe, perhaps, 
    he was affected by the popular perception that 
    Yankees have a penchant for flamboyant and garish 
    colours but whatever the reason mammy was not 
    impressed.
    
    The front door wore a new coat of screeching 
    yellow that I have only since seen on the 
    glorious apparel of tropical parakeets. It looked 
    awful. It had to be changed. 
    
    'Waste not, want not', he said, and proceeded to 
    mix the remaining yellow with signal red to 
    produce a colour that found no echo in the normal 
    range of the spectrum -  an off-chocolate pink 
    which was less offensive on the eye and adorned 
    the door for most of a generation.
    
    When the painting was finished, my mother surveyed 
    the cutlery. She went to town and arrived home 
    with a new set of cups and saucers and a matching 
    milk jug. These were very pretty, made of white 
    china with blue and gold bands on the rims of both 
    cups and saucers. We were not allowed to touch 
    them in case they got damaged and she placed them 
    lovingly on the dresser with as many admonitions 
    as would befit the protection of a Pharaoh's tomb. 
    A new oilcloth for the table was also purchased 
    along with some smaller items of necessity.
    
    Finally, when all the preparations were made our 
    cousins were invited so that both my mother's and 
    my father's families were met together to welcome 
    and fete the arrival of the Yanks.
    
    They arrived. They talked. They took pictures. 
    They left.
    
    It was a terrible let down. My mother was so 
    crestfallen, when, at the end of the day, the 
    Yanks called for us, the children and said they 
    would like to give us 'a coin'! They placed a 
    two-shilling piece in each of our hands. Not even 
    the scent of a single dollar!
    
    I still look at the strained faces of my parents 
    in the fading photographs and feel the awful pain 
    of a vanishing dream. 
    
    The Yanks were, of course, very nice and plain and 
    friendly. They were on a package tour and made the 
    effort to come and see us and we were glad. I 
    suppose deep down, we all expected some reward, 
    some gift of money or presents from these, to us, 
    exotic and wealthy people. We did not imagine in 
    all our poverty and penury that they too were but 
    young struggling people with little or no means 
    either, who made an effort to say hello from 
    across the world - reflecting the homesick eyes 
    of a father looking at the home he had left half 
    a century before.
    
    The visit of these American cousins became a 
    reference point in the inner circle of our world 
    and from then on time was reckoned by that event 
    as before and after the Yankees arrived.
    
    John B. McCabe
    
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    AN IRISH DIRGE OF BATTLE AND KING
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    by: Sharon L.(Westbrook) Brown
    RR1, Box 11B-1
    Saint Jo, TX 76265
    sflight777@cooke.net
     
    A dirge from olden days has filtered
    Like a stream into my soul,
    Otherwise, I know not how to tell you
    From whence it came or it shall go.
     
    Just that the spirit has prevailed
    And bid I take pen in hand,
    As bagpipes resound in my mind
    And upon green, hills - I see a man.
     
    He is singing, 'I tried to leave the battle
    But freedom forbade I get away,
    Until death took the matter from me
    Standing me atop this mountain high to play:
     
    A final, sad, sad, song for Ireland
    Bonnie lasses and better days,
    'Lest blood shed - bring them here
    And there are then two of us to say:
     
    “Yes, I have loved my beloved Ireland
    But before me, shines a greater crown,
    Having little to do with politics
    Or of mortal justice seldom found,
     
    Me' Lord smiles beyond the days behind
    His angels ever near,
    O! My beloved Ireland
    He wants to come and dry ye tears.'
     
    'I've but a short time to play for you,'
    He told, between the words in his song,
    'O! Wee Ireland, be not dismayed
    With the dust of ash before the dawn.'
     
    I saw him sing as the masses assembled
    Though I, with pen in hand,
    Thinking they had heard him playing
    Till they looked and saw but a vanished man.
     
    Knowing nothing of his life - no naught
    Except of the words, he left to sing,
    'O! God Bless my beloved Ireland
    For I leave, to serve - a greater King.'
    
    Sharon L.(Westbrook) Brown
    
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    THE IRISH AT GETTYSBURG
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    by Kevin O'Beirne, Kevin P. Gorman, 
    and Joseph E. Gannon 
    
    The story of Gettysburg in many ways represents 
    the struggle to define America in the mid-19th 
    century. In many ways, too, those three bloody 
    days in July 1863 helped to define the nature of 
    several ethnic groups in this country, 
    particularly the Germans and the Irish. In the 
    hour of need of the two struggling nations, at 
    Gettysburg and many other Civil War battlefields, 
    the Irish nobly fulfilled their duty.
    
    Among the battle's casualties were many sons of 
    Erin, who served in large numbers in both armies. 
    More than a million Irish immigrants had come to 
    America during the preceding four decades, seeking 
    an opportunity to rise above the poverty they 
    faced in Ireland. While most remained in 
    Northern ports of arrival, hundreds of thousands 
    originally emigrated to or moved to the South, 
    drawn by better pay, a generally warmer welcome, 
    and an ample supply of jobs. When war broke out, 
    they flocked to the colors of their adopted 
    states.
    
    For the boys in blue, the Philadelphia Brigade's 
    69th Pennsylvania Infantry, which was almost 
    entirely Irish and marched under a green 
    regimental flag, was in the eye of the storm on 
    July 3 directly in front of the famous Copse of 
    Trees that was the objective of Pickett's Division. 
    The 69th was like a rock as that high tide of the 
    Confederacy lapped around it and was still in 
    place when the tide rolled back. The men of the 
    69th lost their commander, Col. Dennis O'Kane, 
    that day but, before he died of his wounds two 
    days later, he managed to keep his regiment in 
    place and fighting when other regiments ran and 
    the battle appeared to be in doubt. O'Kane's 
    Irishmen lost half their number on that terrible 
    day.
    
    One of the regiments that helped the 69th 
    Pennsylvania repulse Pickett's men was the 42nd 
    New York. The 'Tammany Regiment', as the 42nd was 
    called, was more than half-Irish. Their monument 
    stands near The High Water Mark, not far from the 
    69th Pennsylvania's harp-adorned granite obelisk.
    
    Like the Tammany Regiment, the 40th New York, the 
    'Mozart Regiment', had its roots in New York City 
    Democratic circles. Led by 'Fighting Tommy Egan', 
    the 40th had been recently reinforced by 
    three-year recruits from the former 37th New York 
    Infantry, a.k.a. the 'The Irish Rifles' and three 
    other regiments, Egan's men helped stem the 
    Confederate advance on Little Round Top by 
    charging down into 'The Valley of Death' near Plum 
    Run. The regiment's monument and a rock carved by 
    the men of the 40th to mark their position that 
    day, can be seen from the access road to Devil's 
    Den.
    
    Also on the Federal side, the tiny remnant - only 
    530 men - of the famous Irish Brigade, fought in 
    the killing ground of Rose's Wheatfield on July 2, 
    led by Galway-born Colonel Patrick Kelly. The 
    brigade emerged from its gallant delaying action 
    in the Wheatfield and Rose's Woods minus 40 
    percent of its men, but with all its flags and 
    its honor intact.
    
    Boston's hard-fighting Irish 9th Massachusetts 
    regiment, under County Tipperary-born Col. Patrick 
    Guiney, was part of the Fifth Corps. The 'Irish 
    Ninth' fought well against the Stonewall Brigade 
    on Brinkerhoff's Ridge but managed to avoid heavy 
    casualties in the battle.
    
    A brave Irish colonel, Patrick O'Rorke, of the 
    140th New York, of Rochester, N.Y., died with many 
    of his men defending the west side of Little Round 
    Top on July 2. O'Rorke, for whom Gettysburg's 
    well-known, modern-day Irish tavern is named, hailed 
    from County Cavan and his regiment included two 
    companies that were predominantly Irish.
    
    Capt. James McKay Rorty, of Donegal, who had once 
    made a daring escape from a Confederate prison, was 
    killed while desperately trying to keep one of the 
    guns of his Battery B, 1st New York Artillery, in 
    action during Pickett's Charge. Derry-born Col. 
    James F.X. Huston was killed on July 2, while 
    trying to rally his 82nd New York near the Peach 
    Orchard as the assault of Longstreet's Corps 
    rolled over it.
    
    Cork-born Col. Thomas Smyth commanded the Second 
    Brigade, Third Division, of the Second Corps at 
    Gettysburg where his men distinguished themselves 
    in fighting at the Bliss Farm on the second day 
    and in the defense of Cemetery Ridge during the 
    Pickett/ Pettigrew Charge. Smyth, who would briefly 
    command the Irish Brigade in the spring of 1864, 
    would die the same day as Lee's surrender at 
    Appomattox, April 9, 1865, succumbing to a head 
    wound suffered two days earlier from a 
    sharpshooter's bullet.
    
    On the Confederate side, Irish patriot John 
    Mitchel's son Willie fell with the color guard of 
    the 1st Virginia as his regiment assaulted the 
    position held by the 69th Pennsylvania during 
    Pickett's Charge.
    
    There were a number of Irish companies in various 
    Confederate regiments on the field, especially 
    among the two Louisiana brigades in Richard S. 
    Ewell's Second Corps, and in several Georgia 
    regiments. The State of Louisiana, New Orleans in 
    particular, had a large Irish population, which 
    was well-represented in the gray ranks at 
    Gettysburg. Similarly, many Irish immigrated to 
    the Savannah, Georgia, area and fought in the 
    Peachtree State's ranks in Pennsylvania.
    
    The 6th Louisiana, of General Harry Hays' 
    'Louisiana Tigers' brigade, in Jubal Early's 
    division, was largely Irish in its make-up. The 
    6th Louisiana fought well on July 1, 1863 and 
    suffered heavily when it participated in Early's 
    twilight assault on Cemetery Hill the next day. 
    The 6th left fully one-quarter of the 222 men it 
    took into the fight on the fields near Gettysburg.
    
    Similarly, the 10th Louisiana, which was about 40 
    percent Irish, suffered heavily in its attacks on 
    Culp's Hill on July 2 and 3. The 10th Louisiana 
    was part of Williams' Louisiana Brigade in Edward 
    Johnson's division. The regiment suffered 91 
    killed and wounded, with no figures officially 
    recorded for 'Missing'.
    
    The Irish Brigade Monument at Gettysburg
    
    County Tyrone-born Colonel Robert McMillan's 24th 
    Georgia Regiment, which had a large number of 
    Irishmen, was part of Wofford's Brigade (McLaws's 
    Division, James Longstreet's First Corps). It 
    fought well in the area of Gettysburg's Wheatfield. 
    Seven months earlier, the 24th Georgia had helped 
    to defend Fredericksburg's famous stonewall 
    against the Irish Brigade. At Gettysburg, they 
    once again helped to drive the Irish Brigade from 
    the field, losing 36 men in the process.
    
    Like the rest of the nation, the Irish-American 
    community bound up its wounds after the end of 
    the war. In one of the more poignant and ironic 
    coincidences in the history of the Irish at 
    Gettysburg, the famous Celtic cross monument to 
    the three New York battalions of Kelly's Irish 
    Brigade, which stands today in the woods near the 
    Wheatfield, was sculpted in 1888 by an Irish 
    immigrant from Louisiana who fought in the 
    Confederate ranks at Gettysburg.
    
    ~~~
    
    This article has been adapted from an 
    article at the 'Wild Geese Today' Webzine,
    a leading Irish history and heritage Internet 
    site, established in 1997 with the purpose of
    sharing 'The Epic History and Heritage of the 
    Irish' with the immense number of individuals 
    of Irish ancestry found worldwide.
    
    http://www.thewildgeese.com
    
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    ISLE OF MIST 			by Carole Kenney
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    Dear Michael,
    
    I'm enclosing a poem I wrote about Ireland upon 
    return from a trip there to visit my cousins near 
    Bunratty Castle.  Hope you like it!
    
    
                 Isle of Mist
    
    All the shades of lavender and gray
    Drift in water color - run
    Down purple slopes, and offer up to day
    Young maidens formed from mist,
    Their veils afloat, their hair undone,
    Rising ghostly and by heather kissed.
    These virgins who have never seen the sun
    Gather tufts of purple, sprigs of gold 
    Within their gauzy robes;  do not delay
    To gather so much more than they can hold,
    They stumble, roll down hills and on the way,
    Let fall some dabs of gold and purple flame,
    And who could blame these wood nymphs 
           for their zeal
    In hiding from the eye,  that we might feel.
    
    Carole Kenney
    
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    GAELIC PHRASES OF THE MONTH
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    PHRASE: 	Ta ocras orm.
    PRONOUNCED:	taw uck/russ urm
    MEANING:		I am hungry
    
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    PRONOUNCED:	taw tart urm
    MEANING:		I am thirsty
    
    PHRASE:		Ba mhaith liom cupan tae
    PRONOUNCED:	buh wah lum cup/onn tay
    MEANING:		I would like a cup of tea
    
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