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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update TOMB RAIDERS AND MORE SKULLS! Just back from what will certainly be our second-to-last digging trip to Huy. 1/20

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was immensely honoured to be invited by the Embassy of Ireland in France to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and revive the Eternal Flame alongside Ambassador Milton during the annual ceremony beneath the Arc de Triomphe, dedicated to the Irish soldiers who fought for France. 1/

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The 8th consecutive annual flag-raising ceremony commemorating the Flight of the Wild Geese and celebrating the longstanding friendship between Ireland and France was held last Sunday at the UN Peace Memorial. 1/

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Our annual Wild Geese banquet was held in the magnificent surroundings of The Hunt Museum this year. 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A ceremony was held last Saturday morning at the statue of Patrick Sarsfield to celebrate the most recent improvement works carried out on this precious piece of Limerick’s heritage. 1/

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is the fantastic menu of our 2026 Wild Geese Banquet. Thank you to chef George Casey and to our wonderful partners The Hunt Museum, Mickey Martins, Ballygowan Irish Water and Russel’s Bar. Only a couple of tickets left. Check Eventbrite to book.

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There are very few tickets left for tomorrow’s garden party organised by the Limerick & Clare Wine Lovers Club at No. 1 Pery Square Hotel & Spa as part of our festival… Last chance to enjoy a wonderful summery evening tasting French wines in great company! 👇 www.eventbrite.ie/e/limerick-c...

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Don’t miss this talk on Friday evening! 👇

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Book here quick! www.eventbrite.ie/e/limerick-w...

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

4 DAYS TO GO! 🪿 The Limerick Wild Geese Festival kicks off Thursday July 9th — and what a lineup awaits: 📍 Thu 9th – Wine Tasting & Garden Party, No1 Pery Square Hotel 📍 Fri 10th – History Lecture on the Sarsfield Statue controversy, LPYMA Hall 1/3

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Check out our new home with the list of events and tickets to be booked for this year’s festival all listed too! 👉 aflimerick.org/wild-geese-f... So Looking forward to this year’s festival many thanks to Paragon Digital for putting this webpage together for us. The Festival Committee, 2026

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Tickets for the Wild Geese Festival Annual Banquet are now on sale. This year’s event will take place in the Captain’s Room at the Hunt Museum on 11 July. A fantastic venue but smaller than in previous years so tickets are likely to sell out really fast 👇 www.eventbrite.ie/e/limerick-w...

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival : Gala Banquet

Join us for the Limerick Wild Geese Festival Gala Banquet – A Black tie celebration of good food, great company, and loads of fun!

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Delighted to attend the launch of the programme of this year’s Limerick Wild Geese Festival at No.1 Pery Square Hotel & Spa this evening, for the first time as a spectator and representative of the French Embassy in Ireland(who has been one of the main sponsors from the start). 1/2

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🚨#SarsfieldHomecoming Project Breaking News Part of the team have just completed another trip to Huy. 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update Some good news came today with the results of the radiocarbon dating of skeleton no 13 (SK13). 1/

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

For anyone interested in Limerick’s Jacobite history (the Sieges of Limerick, Patrick Sarsfield and the Wild Geese), Treaty City Walking Tours are now proposing interesting guided tours of the city centre. Check it out 👇 treatywalkingtours.com

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Treaty Walking Tours | Discover 17th Century Limerick

Explore 17th century Jacobean history on this guided walking tour through 17th century Limerick. From the Sarsfield Statue to the Treaty Stone.

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update Just back from another trip to Huy during which we continued our excavation of the site… 1/

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

On our way back from another very productive trip to Huy, we just found out that the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project and general Clancy’s visit to the site last October are the subject of a great article by Lt Col Conor Gorey in the latest edition of “An Cosantóir”, the magazine of the Defence Forces!

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Today I had the pleasure of meeting with Garry Jackson at Cathedral Place to have a look at the great work done by the Limerick City & County Council around the pedestal of the statue of Patrick Sarsfield. 1/6

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/10/2025

Members of the Defence Forces have joined a search for the remains of Patrick Sarsfield in Belgium, as a campaign to try repatriate the Irish war hero back to Ireland enters its final phase.

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Defence Force members join search for Sarsfield remains

Members of the Defence Forces have joined a search for the remains of Patrick Sarsfield in Belgium, as a campaign to try repatriate the Irish war hero back to Ireland enters its final phase.

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The Wild Geese of Brittany… Don’t miss this event next Wednesday at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland. It’s free and open to all but registration via the online form (see link below) is compulsory…

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My team and I were greatly honoured to be invited to the European Parliament in Brussels this week by Irish MEP Kathleen Funchion to make a detailed presentation of the Sarsfield Homecoming Project and of its latest developments... 1/3

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Really honoured to be invited to present the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project to Members of the European Parliament next week in Brussels! Many thanks to Irish MEP Kathleen Funchion for her kind invitation. 1/2

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🚨 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Breaking News! 🚨 Just back from a trip to Huy to supervise the beginning of the removal of the 200t. of soil from the part of the site remaining to be explored and I am glad to say that ATECS, the company we contracted to do the work, have done a fantastic job! 1/2

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Honoured to attend once again the now annual ceremony of the revival of the Eternal Flame under the Arc de Triomphe in memory of the Irish who fought for France… 1/3

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

That’s a wrap! The 2025 Limerick Wild Geese Festival concluded last Sunday evening. About 2,000 people attended over 5 days what was the festival’s 6th edition… 1/

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Thank you to Ambassador Céline Place and to Pat Kenny for talking about our festival yesterday on Newstalk on the occasion of Bastille Day! Listen back to the full interview with Ambassador Place here 👇 link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGnF3llVrOv0

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Statement from Loïc Guyon, founder of the Limerick Wild Geese Festival…

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Some beautiful photos taken by Keith Wiseman at our event at the LPYMA on Friday 4 June. Thank you again to Heavey Technology for ths wonderful gift to Limerick! Check out this great article by @ilovelimerick.bsky.social to find out more about the event 👇 www.ilovelimerick.ie/rare-jacobit... 1/2

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

#ThrowbackThursday A look back at one of the brilliant performances as part of our #TwilightThursdays Hennessy Cypher Trail with rapper MuRLi accompanied by Meadhbh Hayes at The Commercial

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

2025 annual flag-raising ceremonyThe “European anthem” (Ode to Joy) performed by Band 1 of the Defence Forces 🇪🇺 Video courtesy of Dermot Lynch

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

2025 annual flag-raising ceremonyThe Marseillaise performed by Band 1 of the Defence Forces 🇫🇷 Video courtesy of Dermot Lynch

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Superb Marseillaise by DF Band 1 during this year’s ceremony commemorating the Flight of the Wild Geese & celebrating the friendship between 🇮🇪 and 🇫🇷! Merci to Comdt Fergal Carroll & his band members. The French tricolour was proudly raised by Thomas Sheehan (French Foreign Legion Association of 🇮🇪).

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Here is a second video of the parade led by Band 1 of the Defence Forces last Sunday

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Here is a first video of last Sunday’s parade, kindly supported by Band 1 of the Defence Forces. Thank you to Séan from the Thomondgate Residents Association for the video 🙏🏻

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This year (as in 2023), we had the great honour to have Band 1 of the Defence Forces lead our parade and perform the anthems at our annual flag-raising ceremony which was also supported, as in previous years, by the 12th Infantry Battalion of the Defence Forces… 1/4

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Recipe for an emotional bliss (part 1) Take 5 separate incredibly talented artists. Put them together in a WhatsApp group. Add a mix of old gaelic and French poems, songs and stories, ancient and modern instruments and otherworldly voices. Let the whole simmer for a few months... 1/3

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

⭐ Highlights of the 2025 Annual Wild Geese Banquet! ⭐ 100 lucky ticket holders gathered last Saturday at a St John’s Chuch transformed for the occasion into a magical venue for our annual Wild Geese Banquet… 1/6

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

A look back at our afternoon of animations and fun in The Hunt Museum garden. A thousand thanks to all the participants: the En Garde reenactors for their always fascinating Living History Camp, Conradh Na Gaeilge Luimneach for great traditional Irish and Breton music… 1/4

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Hunt Museum garden afternoon 2025 (more about it soon)

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

After the restoration of the gate last year (made by Derek Hannon with the support of Shortts Steel and Donkey Ford’s), further improvements to the Patrick Sarsfield monument at the initiative of the Sarsfield Statue Committee were unveiled yesterday morning during an official ceremony… 1/7

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Limerick Wild Geese Festival @limerickwild.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

A first look back at our Very Jacobite Evening at the LPYMA yesterday! More images to follow…

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Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

THIS IS TODAY (Saturday 5 July) and it looks like the weather will stay dry so come and join us for a wonderful afternoon!

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