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11 days ago

Meta rejected parts of our story. They won’t tell us why. So we’ll let you decide for yourself. Read all the chapters + the ones they wouldn’t let us share: https://t.co/2HXO8n08Zq The Wild Geese® story is one of exile, courage, survival and an Irish legacy that travelled across the world. From the soldiers who left Ireland but never surrendered their identity, to the emigrants and descendants who helped shape nations across Europe and the Americas — discover the remarkable history that inspired The Wild Geese® Collection. Read the story. Know the history. Decide for yourself. https://t.co/2HXO8n08Zq Refused, and thriving on it since 1691.

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11 days ago

Meta rejected this story. No reason was given. It matters that it’s read. https://t.co/YVWv6htkrn Chapter 31 — The Famine Roads Across the west of Ireland there are roads that lead nowhere — begun in bog, ending at a lakeshore, built during the worst years of the Famine under a scheme that refused to feed the starving as charity and made them break stone instead, for a wage set deliberately below what they needed to live. Many died where they worked. The foremen noted it in the ledgers. The roads are still there. Forty of these stories passed Meta’s review. This one did not, and no reason was offered. Draw your own conclusion. Someone died building that road, and the least we can do is not let the account of it go quietly. Read it here → https://t.co/YVWv6htkrn

TWGspirits's tweet photo. Meta rejected this story. No reason was given. It matters that it’s read. https://t.co/YVWv6htkrn

Chapter 31 — The Famine Roads
Across the west of Ireland there are roads that lead nowhere — begun in bog, ending at a lakeshore, built during the worst years of the Famine under a scheme that refused to feed the starving as charity and made them break stone instead, for a wage set deliberately below what they needed to live. Many died where they worked. The foremen noted it in the ledgers. The roads are still there.
Forty of these stories passed Meta’s review. This one did not, and no reason was offered. Draw your own conclusion. Someone died building that road, and the least we can do is not let the account of it go quietly.

Read it here → https://t.co/YVWv6htkrn

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11 days ago

Meta rejected this story. They won’t say why — which Shaw would have enjoyed. https://t.co/GJUKCXWK3s Chapter 28 — George Bernard Shaw, the Irishman Who Argued with Everyone Dublin-born, self-taught, the most successful playwright in the English language for forty years and constitutionally incapable of agreeing with anyone about anything. His plays were banned, his ideas were called too socialist, too irreligious, too Irish. He won the Nobel Prize and used the speech to express his reservations about the Nobel Prize. A man who spent his life being told he was too much, now too much for the ad review. Forty stories went through; this one was stopped, unexplained. He’d have found that funny. Read it where nobody gets to edit him. → https://t.co/GJUKCXWK3s Refused, and thriving on it since 1691.

TWGspirits's tweet photo. Meta rejected this story. They won’t say why — which Shaw would have enjoyed. https://t.co/GJUKCXWK3s

Chapter 28 — George Bernard Shaw, the Irishman Who Argued with Everyone

Dublin-born, self-taught, the most successful playwright in the English language for forty years and constitutionally incapable of agreeing with anyone about anything. His plays were banned, his ideas were called too socialist, too irreligious, too Irish. He won the Nobel Prize and used the speech to express his reservations about the Nobel Prize.
A man who spent his life being told he was too much, now too much for the ad review. Forty stories went through; this one was stopped, unexplained. He’d have found that funny.

Read it where nobody gets to edit him. → https://t.co/GJUKCXWK3s

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11 days ago

Meta rejected this story. No reason. Fitting, for this one. https://t.co/9JEFUrRZx6 Chapter 29 — The Wild Geese in France Six Irish regiments, exiled to France in 1691, kept as Irish units for a hundred years — Steenkerque, Blenheim, Fontenoy. They were exiles the empire had no use for, who became one of the most decorated formations in the French army. Exile did not destroy them. It made them harder. The story of men turned away and refusing to stop, turned away again — unexplained, while forty others passed. There’s a pattern here older than any algorithm. They went around. So do we. → https://t.co/9JEFUrRZx6 Refused, and thriving on it since 1691.

TWGspirits's tweet photo. Meta rejected this story. No reason. Fitting, for this one. https://t.co/9JEFUrRZx6

Chapter 29 — The Wild Geese in France

Six Irish regiments, exiled to France in 1691, kept as Irish units for a hundred years — Steenkerque, Blenheim, Fontenoy. They were exiles the empire had no use for, who became one of the most decorated formations in the French army. Exile did not destroy them. It made them harder.
The story of men turned away and refusing to stop, turned away again — unexplained, while forty others passed. There’s a pattern here older than any algorithm. They went around. So do we. → https://t.co/9JEFUrRZx6

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11 days ago

Meta rejected this story. No reason given. Here it is anyway. https://t.co/1UEh2qPUVA Chapter 21 — Andrew Jackson, the First Irish President Seventh President of the United States, first of Irish descent, son of a County Antrim emigrant who died before he was born. Captured by British soldiers at fourteen, struck across the face with a sword for refusing to clean an officer’s boots. He carried the scar for life and the grudge considerably longer. A story about a man who would not back down, held back with no explanation. Forty others passed; this one didn’t. We’ll let you judge the coincidence. Jackson never waited for permission either. → https://t.co/1UEh2qPUVA Refused, and thriving on it since 1691.

TWGspirits's tweet photo. Meta rejected this story. No reason given. Here it is anyway. https://t.co/1UEh2qPUVA

Chapter 21 — Andrew Jackson, the First Irish President
Seventh President of the United States, first of Irish descent, son of a County Antrim emigrant who died before he was born. Captured by British soldiers at fourteen, struck across the face with a sword for refusing to clean an officer’s boots. He carried the scar for life and the grudge considerably longer.
A story about a man who would not back down, held back with no explanation.

Forty others passed; this one didn’t. We’ll let you judge the coincidence. Jackson never waited for permission either. → https://t.co/1UEh2qPUVA

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11 days ago

Meta rejected this story. They gave no reason. We think it should be read. Chapter 13 — Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children https://t.co/RnM6XBQzuu In 1903 a Cork-born woman of seventy-three led a column of child mill-workers — some as young as eight, many missing fingers — on a hundred-mile march to the President’s door. She had buried a husband and four children to yellow fever, lost everything she owned to fire, and had nothing left to protect, which made her impossible to frighten. She did not stop until her nineties. Forty of these stories went through. This one Meta stopped, without a word. We won’t tell you what to conclude. We’ll only say the children in it were real, and so was she. Read it here → https://t.co/RnM6XBQzuu

TWGspirits's tweet photo. Meta rejected this story. They gave no reason. We think it should be read.

Chapter 13 — Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children
https://t.co/RnM6XBQzuu
In 1903 a Cork-born woman of seventy-three led a column of child mill-workers — some as young as eight, many missing fingers — on a hundred-mile march to the President’s door. She had buried a husband and four children to yellow fever, lost everything she owned to fire, and had nothing left to protect, which made her impossible to frighten. She did not stop until her nineties.

Forty of these stories went through. This one Meta stopped, without a word. We won’t tell you what to conclude. We’ll only say the children in it were real, and so was she.

Read it here → https://t.co/RnM6XBQzuu

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11 days ago

Meta rejected this story. They won’t say why. Read it here and decide for yourself. https://t.co/4WGuBc7uLe Chapter 7 — Bernardo O’Higgins and the Liberation of Chile The father of Chilean independence was the son of a penniless man from County Meath — an emigrant who left with nothing and rose to Viceroy of Peru. His son crossed the Andes in winter and freed a nation that now carries his name on every second street. Forty of these stories went through. This one, Meta stopped — and gave no reason. Make of that what you will. The Wild Geese were refused before, by people who also didn’t explain themselves. They went around. So can you. → https://t.co/4WGuBc7uLe Refused, and thriving on it since 1691.

TWGspirits's tweet photo. Meta rejected this story. They won’t say why. Read it here and decide for yourself. https://t.co/4WGuBc7uLe

Chapter 7 — Bernardo O’Higgins and the Liberation of Chile
The father of Chilean independence was the son of a penniless man from County Meath — an emigrant who left with nothing and rose to Viceroy of Peru. His son crossed the Andes in winter and freed a nation that now carries his name on every second street.
Forty of these stories went through. This one, Meta stopped — and gave no reason. Make of that what you will. The Wild Geese were refused before, by people who also didn’t explain themselves. They went around. So can you. → https://t.co/4WGuBc7uLe

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TheWildGeeseSpirits

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6 months ago

This drink has no right being this good... THE WILD GEESE® SPRITZ COCKTAIL • Add Ice to glass • 50ml The Wild Geese® Irish Whiskey Honey Liqueur • Top the glass with soda water • Garnish with orange peel (optional) https://t.co/vuJ38PXgJp