President’s Message
- President’s Message December 2025We wish you and your loved ones a healthy, blessed and Merry Christmas. Our next division meeting will be at the Hibernian House this Friday, December 19th at 8:00pm. The key agenda item will be final elections for Division Officers Thank you and congratulations to Larry DeGennaro, chef Bill Boera and the extended crew for a tremendous Thanksgiving Senior Luncheon – article and pic’s follow. Thanks, and congratulations, too, to Sean Walsh for a successful first Pot Of Gold drawing party. The first drawing party was highly successful and enjoyed by all. Thanks to Joan Moore and her crew for… Read more: President’s Message December 2025
News
- Division 3 Ski Trip February 7, 2026, Signup by January 2, 2026
The AOH Division 3 ski trip is back on for 2026! The last trip was a blast! This year’s trip to Belleayre Mountain will take place on Saturday February 7, 2026. The trip includes the lift ticket, bus trip, breakfast, lunch, and refreshments for the trip home. The cost this year will be: $140 for… Read more: Division 3 Ski Trip February 7, 2026, Signup by January 2, 2026 - Special Needs “Reverse Parade”
Saturday, December 20th, OMM Parking Lot: Anyone who helped at the parade in past years can tell you how rewarding it was to see the joy on our visitors’ faces as they wound their way through the parking lot, enjoying the goodies, costume characters, fire trucks, and Santa, of course. We need volunteers once again and… Read more: Special Needs “Reverse Parade” - Hibernian House November 2025
Continuing the Christmas theme, it’s time for us all to dig deep for the Hibernian Family Fund. We will be taking donations to the fund throughout the upcoming season, so please drop by and donate what you can. Our collections make sure that dozens of local children see some presents under the tree. If you’d… Read more: Hibernian House November 2025 - Freeze Your Arse Off in a Good Cause
Freeze Your Arse Off Golf Outing – Is back again, and a sign-up board is up at the pub! There’s a limited number of spots, so if you’d like to play, make sure to sign up sooner rather than later. The ‘Freeze Your Arse Off’ Open is a three club golf outing on Friday, November… Read more: Freeze Your Arse Off in a Good Cause
History
- The Manchester Martyrs: “God Save Ireland”
The morning of November 23, 1867, was cold and damp in Manchester. Three young Irishmen stood on a scaffold outside Salford Gaol before a crowd of ten thousand. William Philip Allen was nineteen, a carpenter. Michael Larkin, thirty-two, a tailor with a wife and five children waiting at home. Michael O’Brien, a shop assistant and… Read more: The Manchester Martyrs: “God Save Ireland” - The Patriots They Erased: Ireland’s Sons in Washington’s Army
Even today, our school children are told the story of the American Revolution as one of New England Puritan Yankees and “Scots-Irish riflemen” on the frontier fighting for freedom. Over time, this portrayal has hardened into a historical dogma. Even in an age of revisionism that rightly seeks to recover the voices of women, African… Read more: The Patriots They Erased: Ireland’s Sons in Washington’s Army - Before the U.S. Navy, There Was O’BrienJeremiah O’Brien was born in 1744 in Kittery, in the district of Massachusetts that would later form the state of Maine, the eldest of six sons of Morris and Mary O’Brien—Irish Catholic immigrants from County Cork. In 1765, the family moved to Machias, a frontier settlement on the Maine coast. There, the O’Briens established a… Read more: Before the U.S. Navy, There Was O’Brien
