President's Message
May 2022 President’s Message
Days are getting good and long and spring is finally sprung. We hope everyone is getting a chance to get out for some sun and fresh air. Our next division meeting will be at the Hibernian House this Friday, May 20th at 8:00pm. Congratulations to Sean Walsh and the Golf…
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Golf Outing
Congratulations to Sean Walsh and the Golf Committee for a great event last week. The day was a great remembrance for our friend for whom it was in memory of – John Gannon – and we were so happy to have both Kathleen Gannon and John Gannon Jr. there. So many pitched in and spent…
Congratulations to Our Scholarship Winners
Throughout the pandemic, our scholarship committee found a way to continue our scholarship program. At first it meant delivering the scholarships on the student’s front lawn. Later, it was a limited attendance breakfast for the families. Finally, this year, we were back to our full-blown celebration, including a Hibernian Mass followed by a Communion Breakfast…
58th Rockland County St. PAtrick’s Day Parade
The Rockland County Ancient Order of Hibernians’ St. Patrick’s Parade once again stepped off from the Pfizer campus on Sunday, March 20th. The long-awaited parade was three years in the making, and it did not disappoint. Not only were we blessed by great weather for a day March, but the crowd was large, loud and…
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Senior Citizen’s Lunch, Best Non-Profit 97th Assembly District
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night ….” – On Saturday, March 12th there was little heat, but plenty of desire to be out and about with friends as 80+ seniors attended the annual St. Patrick’s Day luncheon. Larry DeGennaro was assisted by over 15 Brothers and an army of tweens/teens in…
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History
‘King Kelly’
In the early days of Baseball, Irish Americans dominated the sport and helped transform it into America’s national pastime. Young men made strong through the strenuous physical labor in what were often the only jobs available to them took what little relaxation they had in the new sport and soon came to dominate it and…
The 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday
January 30, 1972, was an uncharacteristically bright and sunny day for an Irish winter in Derry, Northern Ireland. It was the day of a planned peaceful protest march against the policy of internment without trial instituted by the British Army; a policy that, while allegedly created to curtail sectarian violence, was itself hypocritically sectarian in…