Tag: Walsh
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My Father’s Dragon
This is not that story.1 This is a story about another dragon, who looked like this: It’s a story about two Komodo Dragons that President Sukarno of Indonesia gave to America in 1964. They were in return for a pair of trumpeter swans that the United States gave to him.2 The Komodo Dragon is now the…
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El-a-noy
Then move your family westward,Good health you will enjoy,And rise to wealth and honourIn the state of El-a-noy. — The Folk Songs of North America, Alan Lomax, 1960 13 In 1819 Patrick Walsh is born in the village of Cooleyhune, rural County Carlow, Ireland. Twelve years later Bridget Brennan is born in the Carlow village of…