Word: wexford
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...year is 1798, and in County Mayo, on Ireland's impoverished west coast, an army of the French Revolution has landed to rouse the embittered Irish against their English overlords. Elsewhere in the country, in gibbet-strewn Wexford and in bloodstained Ulster, rebellions have already been crushed. Any remaining hope hinges on the rising in Mayo, and there, in the euphoria of the French landing, the cause catches fire. In centuries hence, the Irish will sing of the glorious Men of the West and the humiliation of the British at Castlebar. This is all history...
Gretchen Pinkerton Wexford...
...began admitting more than 400,000 "displaced persons." Then came 32,000 refugees from the Hungarian revolt of 1956 and some 650,000 from Fidel Castro's seizure of Cuba in 1959. But only under President John F. Kennedy, great-grandson of an immigrant farmer from Ireland's County Wexford, did overall reform begin. According to the Immigration Act of 1965, which finally took effect...
SHERRON MOORE Wexford...