I hope you and your families had a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year. Our next meeting will be held on Friday, January 22nd. Welcome aboard to new members Pete Dan Mulligan and Kevin Cahill. Many thanks go out to Frank McDonagh, Joan Moore, and all the volunteers who helped out at our Christmas parties this year. Congratulations to all our raffle winners … [Read more...] about January 2016 President’s Message
Archives for January 2016
Sean Mac Diarmada, the “Mainspring of the Rising”.
Sean Mac Diarmada was born in Corranmore, near Kiltyclogher in County Leitrim, the third youngest of ten children. He grew up in an area scarred by the sad history of Irelandâs experience under English rule. Surrounding his boyhood home there was an ancient sweathouse, Mass rocks from the penal law days when the Catholic faith was illegal and priests hunted like wolves and … [Read more...] about Sean Mac Diarmada, the “Mainspring of the Rising”.
“The Final Days of Wolfe Tone”
The Irish Arts Forum will be presenting "The Final Days of Wolfe Tone", a new  play by  Peter Danish starring Broadway actors, Ciaran Sheehan, Peter Cormican, and Brian Maffit at the Antrim Playhouse in Suffern.  Tickets are only $25.00 and 100% of the  proceeds will benefit multiple worthy nonprofits:  Camp Venture, The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Pearl River School of … [Read more...] about “The Final Days of Wolfe Tone”