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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland)
		Who were the first Irish to land on the American continent and the time of their arrival are perhaps matters of conjecture rather than of historical proof; but that the Irish were there almost at the beginning of the colonial era is a fact support by historical records.
		The devotion of the Irish in America to the country of their adoption and their readiness to sacrifice themselves in her defence were again conspicuously demonstrated when the safety of the republic was imperilled by the unfortunate Civil War.
		While men of the Irish race were engaged on the battlefield in defence of their adopted country, accompanied and encouraged by the clergy, the religious orders of women within the Church were no less diligent in nursing the sick and wounded in camps and hospitals.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08132b.htm (15677 words)

	The Great Irish Famine
		Irish intervention on behalf of the Stuarts was to be made impossible forever by reducing the Catholic Irish to helpless impotence.
		Irish linen manufacturing met with the same fate when the Irish were forbidden to export their product to all other countries except England.
		Irish sailors who mutinied to help their countrymen were flogged unmercifully, and "ironed" together with handcuffs, thumbscrews and slave leg bolts.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/irish/irish_pf.html (16021 words)

	Moondance : The Irish in Film
		It seems that no matter how beloved is the land the Irish are always leaving.
		Jobs in American, missionary work in Africa, wars in Europe--the list goes on.
		Generation after generation, the Irish must endure the fact that some family member will be far away, maybe indefinitely.
	www.irishfilm.net /blurbs/MD.html (142 words)

	Irish_mobsters
		Historically speaking, the Irish beat the Italians to the punch when it came to Chicago's nefarious underworld activity.
		For decades Irish underworld figures crookedly steered politics with ever-increasing clout.
		One of the most famous Irish kingpins of the Prohibition Era, O'Banion was a former pickpocket who became a gambling and bootlegging czar on the North Side in what is now the Cabrini-Green neighborhood.
	www.ipsn.org /irish_mobsters.htm (782 words)

	Ireland and Irish in the Movies
		Scrappy, dirt-poor Irish tenant farmer hooks up, in unlikely fashion, with the equally feisty daughter of a wealthy landowner, and together they sail for America to seek their ultimate destiny in the 1893 Oklahoma land rush.
		The Irish upper crust were a mixture of those who, centuries before, had left Catholicism and allied with the Queen of England and British gentry sent from England to occupy captured territory.
		It was a war that was not a war, yet, Collins and his men, through perseverance, brought about a treaty with England and the establishment of the Irish Free State.
	www.aoh61.com /movie.htm (13599 words)

	Gangland.net - Home
		In 1931, he was made a representative of the Irish Mob in New York by Lucky Luciano.
		War didn't break out but by 1977 Spillane was a shadow of his former self.
		In 1979, Featherstone was indicted for the murder of Whitney Whitehead.
	www.gangland.net /westies.htm (1731 words)

	IRISH EYES
		IRISH EYES is steeped in mob violence and gang wars right out of the shady underbelly of Boston's recent history.
		Originally, Baldwin was contracted to play the Phelan boys' father, a longshoreman with mob ties who gets blown away before the innocent eyes of his young sons early in Act I. Baldwin eagerly lobbied for the role of Sean after the lead pulled out five days before shooting began in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada.
		IRISH EYES almost was filmmed in the streets of Boston.
	imaginenews.com /Archive/2002/DEC_2002/01_FEATURES/07B_IRISH_EYES.html (1559 words)

	Irish American Index .US (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Index and profiles of Irish in the Society of the Society of the Cincinnati.
		A flag-bearer/veteran of the 1798 rebellion buried at Garryowen, Iowa.
		A further irony is borne out in a rare letter (in our possession) written during the civil war by the governor of Illinois, Richard Yates, in which he offers his personal resources in support of the Irish movement for independence to Colonel John O'Mahony, leader of the Fenian Brotherhood in New York.
	www.irishamericanindex.us (1185 words)

	Winter Hill Gang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Winter Hill Gang also played a central role in the Boston Irish Mob Wars of the 1960s between Winter Hill leader James "Buddy" McLean and Bernard McLaughlin's Charlestown Mob.
		A movie about the Irish Mob Wars, "The Winter Hill Gang," is scheduled to begin production in Boston in fall 2005.
		The film is rumored to be starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Mark Wahlberg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_Hill_Gang (252 words)

	Irish Eyes (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Plot Summary: "Irish Eyes" explores the relationship between two Irish-American brothers in Boston born to immigrant parents and raised in a rough...
		'Irish Eyes' or 'Vendetta' is an action-packed crime-drama that follows two Irish-American brothers in Boston from childhood to adulthood as they rise to power on opposite sides of the law.
		Irish gang wars have bloodied the streets, and like a moth to a flame, Sean soon finds himself climbing the ranks of Boston's Irish mob.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0285624/combined (451 words)

	IRISH EYES
		IRISH EYES is a thoroughly Boston story, although the eyes portrayed aren't smiling; rather, they're often crying.
		Sean rises-or falls-from street thug to Irish mob goon to FBI informant, while brother Thomas goes to law school, climbs the legal ladder, and aspires to state Attorney General.
		Because Baldwin was brought in at the last minute to play a leading role, he didn't have time to research his character other than from the school of life.
	www.imaginenews.com /Archive/2002/DEC_2002/01_FEATURES/07B_IRISH_EYES.html (1559 words)

	AmericanMafia.com 26 Mafia Cities - Cleveland, Ohio
		The bombing was a warning to the Porrellos from the Mayfield Road Mob.
		Fiercely proud of his Irish heritage, he was a Celtic warrior at heart, obsessed with the color green - green car, green jackets, green ink pens.
		Their biggest offensive and mistake was the 1976 murder of Leo "Lips" Moceri, the respected and feared new underboss of the Cleveland Mafia, and the bombing of enforcer Eugene “The Animal” Ciasullo.
	www.americanmafia.com /Cities/Cleveland.html (1990 words)

	Amitai Etzioni Notes: November 2003 Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Irish families are notoriously loath to reveal emotions anyhow, and our emotions were raw and mostly unspoken.
		One of the most enduring criticisms from Bush's fellow conservatives of those Americans, especially liberals, who opposed the U.S. war in Vietnam was that, as a consequence of that vocal opposition, no parades or bands or celebrations were held to honor and welcome American veterans returning from that war.
		True, he suggests that the second world war played a crucial role in creating the great deposits of social capital found among the 'long civic generation.' But he is vague about how exactly this occurred.
	www.amitai-notes.com /blog/archives/2003_11.html (8790 words)

	List of Irish-Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of famous Irish Americans.
		Sean Flynn-Amir, actor (Irish mother); grandson of Errol Flynn
		Ronald Reagan, US President,(mother Scots-Irish, father Irish Catholic)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Irish-Americans (459 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and A Devil's Deal
		It was the FBI's number-one national priority, a war to counter the bad press, and Connolly had a plan, a work-in-progress to advance the cause.
		In May 1971 Condon managed to elicit extensive inside information from Whitey on an Irish gang war that was dominating the city's underworld—who was allied with whom, who was targeting whom.
		Given the gang war and all the shifting alliances, Flemmi's life was always up for grabs.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/blackmass.htm (4932 words)

	BURKE - Online Information article about BURKE
		West, we may easily realize how the task of describing these portentous and far-reaching events would be likely to strengthen Burke's habits of wide and laborious observation, as well as to give him firmness and confidence in the exercise of his own See also:
		There is not a word too many nor too strong in the description of him by one of Burke's friends, as " a sullen, vain, proud, selfish, cankered-hearted, envious reptile." The reptile's connexion, however, was for a time of considerable use to Burke.
		Bourke, that he had been a Jesuit, that he was an emissary from St Omer's.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BUN_CAL/BURKE.html (4629 words)

	Irish Echo Online
		Just in time for what is shaping up to be the most divisive immigration reform fight in years, a new Irish lobby group was kick-started at a meeting in New York last week.
		The Irish economy received a massive boost Tuesday with the announcement that Internet search engine giant Google is to create over 600 jobs in Dublin.
		Submit your event to be published by the Irish Echo.
	www.irishecho.com /search/searchstory.cfm?id=9374&issueid=202 (431 words)

	Irish Elk
		"War never again!" he exclaimed in a letter he sent to the participants of the "Men and Religions" meeting, held this week in Milan and organized by the Community of Sant'Egidio and the Milan Archdiocese.
		"War must always be considered a defeat: a defeat of reason and of humanity." He argued that world leaders should seek to root out the primary causes of terrorism, "especially misery, desperation and the emptiness in hearts."
		Perhaps this is a reflection of capacities diminished by age and ill health, of insulation from the day-to-day by cardinalatial handlers.
	mcns.blogspot.com /2004_09_01_mcns_archive.html (9782 words)

	Powell's Books - Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T J English
		Here is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob, from the mid-nineteenth century all the way to the present day.
		History shows that the heritage of the Irish American gangster was established in America long before that of the more widely portrayed Italian American mafioso, and has held strong through the modern age.
		Prohibition — the high point for the Irish mob in America — first was viewed by the Irish as a WASP attack on their way of life, and eventually as a way to get rich.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=0060590025 (585 words)

	Mafia-international Accardo
		The Irish mob was headed by Bugs Moran and had resisted many lucrative offers from Capone to sell up and go away but continued to decline.
		Big Al took control and a young Tony Accardo had made his bones in the Chicago outfit in some of the helacious mob wars of all times with major headline stories such as the most infamous valentines day massacre Tony Accardo had made his bones alright and had also shown just how capable he was.
		I wouldn't like to tell you that Accardo was a saint, far from it many men have died at his hands he is after all reputed to be involved in the Valentines Day massacre and when outraged at the antics of Sam Giancana he subsequently had had him chopped down.
	glasgowcrew.tripod.com /accardoprofile.html (843 words)

	Mob Wars: Brigade Games and Hobby Supply, LLP
		These figures are also very usable for Irish Rebellion and Pulp Games.
		Gangsters with Tommy Guns, Mob Bosses and FBI packs are in stock and also part of Deal # 2 with free hitman figure
		Note: if you already have the G010 and/or the P005 packs, you can choose a different pack in the comments box on the order form.
	www.brigadegames.com /go.mvc?ID=BGHMMW (368 words)

	ipedia.com: 1979 Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		November 21 - The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing four.
		November 23 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
		August 27 - Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 79, British World War II hero, and three others are killed by a blast on a fishing boat off the Irish coast; two I.R.A members are accused on August 30.
	www.ipedia.com /1979.html (1500 words)

	Al Capone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Biopic of gangster Al Capone rising to the top of the heap of mob rule and his downfall.
		Included here are the gang wars with the Irish gang and among the Italian gangs, as well as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
		James Gregory plays an honest cop (based on Captain John Stege of the Chicago Police Department), while Martin Balsam plays the corrupt news reporter (modeled after Jake Lingle of the Tribune).
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/alcapone.html (319 words)

	Kanfer Welcome
		There they were used to explain all of the disasters that had befallen the country; the defeat in the war, the hunger, the destructive inflation.” Naturally, the book was one of Adolf Hitler’s favorites.
		The anchors will still prattle on; wars and conventions and election nights will still be dutifully covered; experts and pseudo-authorities will be brought on to bombinate about various aspects of American politics and economics.
		During the first Gulf War, those who wanted the news outside the narrow margin of early evening—and there were millions of them—turned to CNN.
	www.stefankanfer.org /welcome.htm (11398 words)

	Culture Wars
		As Sharif sees his friend killed by Israeli troops, the audience too is plunged into the heart of Jerusalem, and the depths of the hate that divides its Arabic and Jewish populations.
		The legacy of war and the neoconservative agenda
		The audience of just under 90 people was certainly mixed as far as age, sex and race are concerned.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /springsummer2003.htm (4049 words)

	Greg Moses: Narcowars vs. Civil Rights
		War is Peace: John Bolton to the UN
		So we will wait to see if there is credible evidence of equal-opportunity narco wars in progress or if like Tulia and Palestine the racial bias of these busts is naked as your face.
		But even a state as large as Texas is but a puzzle piece in the larger racist struggles of the narco wars.
	www.counterpunch.org /moses04052005.html (3934 words)

	Roosevelt, Theodore. 1906. New York
		Wars with France—Self-government—Shipping industries—Privateers and pirates—Slave trade—Foundations of large fortunes—Freebooters—Governor Fletcher’s connivance at piracy—Administration of Fletcher—Smuggling—Recall of Fletcher—Administration of Governor Bellomont—Active measures against pirates—Career of Captain Kidd—Reform of land system—Election frauds—Administration of Lord Cornbury—Demands for self-government—Administration of Governor Hunter—German immigration
		Tie vote between Jefferson and Burr—Rise of democratic supremacy—The spoils system—Family influence in politics—Downfall of Burr—Hamilton killed by Burr—Fall of the Livingstons from power—Political bitterness—State banks—Social life and customs—Municipal regulations—Markets—Sanitary deficiencies—Charities—Foundation of free-school system—Scientific and literary societies—Literature—Beginning of steam navigation—The War of 1812—Right of search—Privateering—European immigration—Assimilation of the Dutch—Negro emancipation—The “New England invasion”
		Increased population—Constitutional amendments—Extension of suffrage—Negro suffrage—Constitutional provisions for election of officers—Material prosperity—The Erie Canal—Steam transportation and electricity—Commercial enterprise—Careers of John Jacob Astor and Cornelius Vanderbilt—The fur trade—The clipper ships of New York—Decay of shipping—Dangers of poverty—Increase of immigration—The German population—The Irish population—Americanization of immigrants—Growth of the Roman Catholic Church—The cholera epidemic—Riots—Political
	www.bartleby.com /171 (578 words)

	Questlines: Hero Wars Links
		A visit to Issaries will provide you with the latest Gloranthan news and information, including background articles, cult write ups, scenarios, myths, maps, art and details of new products, (with release dates that subscribe to the finest traditions of the industry).
		I have always believed, despite all that rabbiting on about television in the Hero Wars rule book, that the true inspirations for Gloranthan storytelling and campaigning are myth and epic poetry.
		A glorious, comprehensive and up-to-date collection of links, touching on most areas of Irish mythology and folklore.
	mythologic.info /questlines/link.html (2109 words)

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		A War of Nerves Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century
		The Horse Soldier 18511880 The Frontier, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars
		War on the Eastern Front The German Soldier in Russia, 19411945 Greenhill Military Paperbacks.
	www.venussonde.de /ven_bo_reidlos (2411 words)

	Wakefield Public Library's Readers' Advisory/Book Discussion Groups/Books By The Lake
		It then becomes easy for her to believe that the shadowy figure who assaults her cousin Lola late that night is Robbie.
		Gradually understanding what she has done, Briony seeks atonement first through a career in nursing and then through writing, with the novel itself framed as a literary confession it has taken her a lifetime to write.
		When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before, thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away and changed the history of the world.
	www.wakefieldlibrary.org /zralibris.htm (2606 words)

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