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Wild Geese Honored by Irish American Bar Association

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
June / July 2018

May 9, 2018 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/adam-farley/">Adam Farley</a>, Deputy Editor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2018-archive/june-july-2018/">June / July 2018</a> Leave a Comment

The I.A.B.A. of New York hosted its annual Wild Goose Awards in April, honoring three lawyers for their creative endeavors outside the field of law: Colleen McMahon (second from left), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and a singer/ songwriter who penned five original verses to the classic Irish song “The Parting Glass;” Kelly T. … [Read more...] about Wild Geese Honored by Irish American Bar Association

September 25, 1917

Thomas Ashe, member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers, died from a hunger strike on this day in 1917. Ashe, who was born in Co. Kerry, took part in the Easter Uprising of 1916 as a commander of the Fingal Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. On May 8, 1916, both Ashe and De Valera were court martialled by the British and sentenced to death. He was released but then charged with sedition and returned to prison in August of 1917. There, he began a hunger strike in protest that he be treated with a prisoner of war status.

Wild Geese Honored by Irish American Bar Association

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