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Custer’s Last Rally

By Geoffrey Cobb, Contributor
October / November 2017

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The Battle of the Little Bighorn, the most significant engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876, saw the defeat of General Armstrong Custer and his soldiers of the 7th Cavalry (many of them Irish) by a battalion of united Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. ℘℘℘ Few people know the pain of being dispossessed of their land better than the Irish, but tragically in the … [Read more...] about Custer’s Last Rally

November 29, 1993

The Northern Ireland peace process took another momentous step forward on this day in 1993 by appointing ten members onto an executive power-sharing board under the leadership of David Trimble. Furthermore, the British and Irish governments began making constitutional changes that were laid down in the Good Friday Agreement. Martin McGuinness, former IRA member, was appointed minister of schools in Ulster, which caused much controversy amongst some unionist supporters.

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