This place in the main is a mine of information,
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My favorite show of all time,all creatures great and small, seriously good ,and the remake is excellent also but not a patch on the original
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Thatâs some reply to a picture of yellow penguins 
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Well wonât disappoint,but TBH I donât know how to post directly,yeah no sweat creating a post etc
This chap was Prime Minister of Spain a few times. I was walking down Calle de OâDonnell in Madrid once upon a time and was wondering how the fuck there was an OâDonnell getting a street named after him in Madrid. A descendant of the Red Hugh OâDonnellâs.
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Wild geese descendants
By God
No I meant put some random post on without replying directly ,got it - create a new post each time
Dealing with a luddite here in the main
Is OâDonnell not more Flight of the Earls than Wild Geese?
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At one point in the late 1700s, the Spanish appointed governor of the state of Tejas y Coahuila (modern day Texas, a good chunk of northern Mexico and southwestern US), was a certain Hugo OâConor, Irish born general in the Spanish army.
In the 1760s the Spanish took control of the French territory of Louisiana, which at the time consisted of not only modern day Louisiana, but all land drained by the Mississippi River, so a large chunk of what is today the central USA. The Spanish viceroy appointed another Irish born general, Alexander OâReilly, who happened to be a first cousin of OâConnor, as the governor of Louisiana
So for about a year or so in the 1700s two Irish cousins ruled a large part of the North American continent.
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We still rule America
Paddy wasnât very welcome in US well into the 1800s and didnât start running the place till the 1900s. He was running the show next door long before.
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Same difference
I donât know about ye but my first stop for historically accurate information will always be a boating club based in a different province.
Landing in baginbun? I wonder what the chaps at Dungarvan Harbour Sailing Club have to say about that
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Still not convinced pal.
Flight of the Earls 1607
Wild Geese 1691 (After William III took Limerick by allowing Sarsfield and his forces - several thousand men - to escape to the continent)
I suppose there was crossover as years went by but The Flight of the Earls was the aristocracy fleeing.
The Wild Geese were officers and ordinary soldiers.
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The Wild Geese were a result of the Williamite wars⌠The earls were 90 years earlierâŚyouâre bang on.
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did you never see Goldeneye?
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