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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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N: Norman
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CARA IRISH PENPALS NEWS
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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

PHRASE:		Ta tart orm.
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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