Cremona Heritage

19/11/2023

To mark the 225th anniversary of Wolfe Tone’s untimely death in 1798, Mme Marianne Barkan-Cowdy, Première Conseillére of the Embassy of France laid a wreath of flowers at the Wolf Tone Memorial sculpture at St Stephen’s Green. The short ceremony Hosted by Cremona Heritage concluded with a rendition of the Marseillaise.

Wolfe Tone, one of the great Irish patriots, died in the French army uniform of an Adjutant Général. The wreath, which is a scaled-up replica of the three-colour hat cockade worn on the uniform, is laid on behalf of all descendants of the Wild Geese in France. Also present for the occasion, will be a re-enactor wearing the replica uniform of Napoleon’s Légion Irlandaise, bearing the replica large Légion flag.

19/11/2023

Mme Marianne Barkan-Cowdy, Première Conseillére of the Embassy of France lays a wreath of flowers in the colours of the French flag at the Wolf Tone Memorial sculpture in St Stephen’s Green, Dublin to mark the anniversary of Wolfe Tone’s untimely death in 1798, 225 years ago. Ceremony hosted by CremonaHeritage.ie

22/10/2023

https://www.westmeathindependent.ie/2023/10/18/athlone-womans-part-in-arc-de-triomphe-ceremony/

An Athlone resident who was instrumental in helping her sister-in-law discover a family link to Wolfe Tone last year, was a guest at a recent ceremony celebrating the historic mutual military support between Ireland and France in Paris.

05/09/2023

Wonderful reception at the Irish Embassy in Paris following the Ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe.

01/09/2023

01/09/2023

Wild Geese Remembered in Momentous Ceremony yesterday
at the Arc de Triomphe in honour of the heroic Légion Irlandaise of Napoleon’s Grande Armée and the Brigade Irlandaise of earlier French armies. This is believed to be the first time the role of the Wild Geese in France has been marked in this way, by special permission of the Comité de la Flamme.
On the same date, August 31st 1803, Napoleon created his Irish Legion which he later decorated with the coveted Golden Eagle for valour. 2023 marks 100 years since the flame was first lit.
Conducted by the French military, with participation from the Irish Ambassador to France, the French Ambassador to Ireland and descendants of Wolfe Tone, culminated in a flaring of the eternal flame under the Arc. It is also 225 years since General Humbert landed in Ireland in 1798 on the shores of County Mayo to support the rebellion of Wolfe Tone, remembered as the ‘The Year of the French.
Following the ceremony His Excellency Niall Burgess, Irish Ambassador to France hosted a reception at the embassy to mark the occasion. At 18.30 each evening since 1923, the flame is first lessened before being ceremonially renewed in memory of the unknown soldier and all who died fighting for France.
The event co-hosted by Cremona Heritage Ireland will be an annual one commemorating the role the Wild Geese played in French history.