GARDA AND CONTRACTOR ASSAULT OF RATH LUGH DEFENDERS
TARA DEMONSTRATION CHICAGO IRISH EMBASSY SEPT 22, 2007
I used to say that my interests were sailing, skiing, and scuba diving; but since I met my wife, and she woke the sleeping Irishman in me, my interests have changed radically and completely. I still love my pastimes but my interests are now directed toward Ireland, the land of my forebears. I learned for instance, in 1827 my gg grandfather was “caught” fishing in the Blackwater River, 3 miles North of Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland. In those days, 1800-30 the penalty for poaching, stealing the Kings fish, was immediate death, but the Peelers had to take the criminal in front of the absentee landowner's magistrate first. After being abused, humiliated and forced to carry the two Peelers across the river, to the waiting magistrate, they whipped him like a mule, he killed them both and fled to America; and here I am to speak on his behalf.
Music
I love most music; but do not feed me disco; it gives me a nausea. I grew up in the R & B record shops on the south side.
Movies
Where do I begin...I love movies. How about "Wind That Shakes the Barley" or "The Departed"
Television
Twilight Zone...
Books
I read an awful lot. In addition to my obsession with my library, books that my wife calls “hooey”, I read with a passion, books on Irish history, the African slave trade, and the history of Native Americans, a people whom the Europeans named Indians. Point me to any books on the kidnapping and transportation of the Irish to the colonies of England. Where did all those children go who were taken out of the workhouses?
Heroes
My Great Great Grandfather, Thomas C. Wallace, who came to America in 1827, landed at Prince Edwards Island on a private ship, worked on the first passenger train, a steam engine that went 8 miles an hour and traveled 13 miles on the rails he helped build. He walked to Iowa when the RR was finished, which was Indian Territory in those days. When he passed through Chicago, he noted that there were a few settlers there. He kept going because he was headed for the lead mines in Galena to find work; he came from a coal mining family in the Millstreet area. He built the first log cabin in Dubuque, Iowa, before it was called Iowa, and later built seven more cabins; raised a family of 12 children in the bluffs of Otter Creek Township, 20 miles South of Dubuque, Iowa. In Otter Creek, he and a few other families, founded a community they called “Garryowen”. (think Limerick) In the year of 1835 each of 20 families were assigned the task of hewing one timber beam for the construction of their new church in the spring. When the Indians ran out of food in the winter, Thomas fed them from his root cellar, which he kept full of apples, potatoes and corn. He watched as his friend Blackhawk and his family were slaughtered in what became known as the Blackhawk War. The slaughter lasted about 4 hours and consisted of the army and settlers shooting all of Blackhawk's tribe, his family, as they were traveling to winter with another tribe, the Fox Indians on the Fox River in mid-Illinois. They killed any Blackhawk Indian they found east of the Mississippi River; men, women, children and even their animals. The battle was led by a young officer, Abraham Lincoln.
Richard Wallace's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Chicago
Body type:
5' 8" / Athletic
Ethnicity:
Other
Religion:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Leo
Smoke / Drink:
No / Yes
Children:
Someday
Education:
Post grad
Occupation:
Architect
Richard Wallace's Schools
Washington University
Saint Louis, MO
Graduated: 1976
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Architecture and Urban Design
1974 to 1976
Richard Wallace's Companies
Center for Construction Investigation Chicago, Illinois US Founder/Director
R.B. Wallace Associates Chicago, Illinois US Owner/Architect
Richard Wallace Realty Chicago, Illinois US Owner/Broker
Chicago Architects and Realtors Association Chicago, Illinois US Founder CARA
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I live in Chicago and actively support the families of Irish Political Prisoners held in Irish and British jails; am working with the Leonard Peltier support groups; am keenly interested in African American history as it relates to the Irish parallel; am working on a project to annually commemorate the San Patricios in the Chicago Mexican community; have designed a sculpture to memorialize Leonard Peltier; am working on a sculpture to memorialize all American Natives and their imprisonment in their own land; have designed a sculpture to memorialize Pedro Albizu Campos, the famous Puerto Rican Nationalist who died in a U.S. Prison from radiation experimentation.
I am very interested in pointing out, at every opportunity, the parallels with the Native Irish, Native Americans, and African Americans. All three groups have been similarly molested for hundreds of years by the White Anglo Saxon Protestants who have colonized every country they set foot upon: that would be the English. Ireland is their last colony; their last illegal occupation.
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Who I'd like to meet: If I had not already met my wonderful wife, I would still be looking for her; not someone..."herself". On our wedding day, in Dublin, my wife gave me a gift. A poem.
" I have Spread my Dreams under your feet,
Tread softly,
Because you tread on my Dreams."
William Butler Yeats
strong>Thanks for the Birthday Wishes! Heres a story:
Remember this song?....." Will you still love me , will you still need me , when I'm 64?" Guess so. I got a long bow and arrows from my two sons this year! Ha ha It will be fun! Don't fret...its cool. Back when I was 3 years old my father did an old Indian custom thing on me and my brother. He set a doll on one side of him and a bow and arrow on the other. My brother took the bow and arrow , ignoring the doll. But when it was my turn I swept in as fast as I could so as NOT to be stopped and snatched up both the Bow and Arrow and the Doll! Thats how its been. At age 7 I was a Child O' Gitchee Da ! On War Duty for real!..
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