Wild Geese may refer to:
Animals
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Geese
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Greylag geese
The greylag goose or graylag goose (''Anser anser'') is a species of large goose in the waterfowl family Anatidae and the type species of the genus ''Anser (bird), Anser''. It has mottled and barred grey and white plumage and an orange beak and ...
, specifically
Literature
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''Wild Geese'' (novel), a 1925 Canadian novel by Martha Ostenso
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''The Wild Geese'' (Carney novel), a 1978 novel by Daniel Carney
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''The Wild Geese'' (Mori novel), a 1911 Japanese novel by Ōgai Mori
* ''
The Temple of the Wild Geese'', a 1961 Japanese novella by Tsutomu Mizukami
* ''Wild Geese'', a 1986 poem by
Mary Oliver
Film and videos
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''Wild Geese'' (film), a 1927 silent film based on the novel by Ostenso
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''The Wild Geese'' (1953 film), a Japanese film based on the novel by Mori Ogai
* ''The Temple of Wild Geese'', a 1962 Japanese film directed by
Yūzō Kawashima
was a Japanese film director, most famous for making tragi-comic films and satires.
Career
Kawashima was born in Mutsu, Aomori in the Shimokita Peninsula. From his youth, he suffered from a paralysis that affected his right leg and arm. He was ...
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The Wild Geese
''The Wild Geese'' is a 1978 war film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, and Hardy Krüger. The screenplay concerns a group of mercenaries in Africa. It was the result of a long-held ambit ...
'', a 1978 British mercenary war film based on Carney's novel
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Wild Geese II'', a 1985 sequel to the above
* ''
Code Name: Wild Geese'', a 1980 Italian mercenary war film
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''Wild Geese'' (video ballad), a 2006 English video ballad
Sports
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Wild Geese GAA
Wild Geese (Irish: ''Na Géanna Fiáine CLG'' ) are a GAA club based in Oldtown, Fingal. They currently field a single junior football, two junior hurling and previously a ladies football team. At juvenile level they field at hurling only with te ...
, an Irish Gaelic Athletic Association club
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London Irish Wild Geese
London Irish Amateur Rugby Football Club, also known as London Irish Wild Geese, is an amateur English rugby union club based in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, who play their rugby in Regional 2 Thames – a league at tier 6 of the English rugby u ...
, a nickname of the London Irish Amateur rugby team
* Wild Geese GFC, an
Irish GAA club formed in Southern California
Other
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Wild Geese (soldiers)
The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland. ...
, Irish soldiers who served in European armies after being exiled from Ireland
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"Wild Geese" (song), a 1917 war poem by Walter Flex, set to music by Robert Götz
* "Wild Geese", a song by the Drums from ''
Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles ...
'', 2014
* Wild Geese, a rabbit in the Japanese manga ''
Is the Order a Rabbit?''
See also
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Wild Goose (disambiguation)
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