Pot O’Gold Drawing is Back!
After a forced COVID-19 hiatus, Division 3’s Pot O’Gold Drawing is back! For those who are new to the Pot O’Gold, it is, along with out Golf outing, our main charitable fundraiser that funds our scholarship program and the divisions numerous acts of charity. Division 3 tries to limit its…
President's Message
December 2021 AOH Division 3 President’s Message
We hope everyone had a peaceful and healthy Thanksgiving. November was a whirlwind of activity and December promises to be equally busy. Our next division meeting will be held in person this Friday, December 3rd at 8:00pm. At the meeting, we will conduct elections for all Division Offices and there…
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News
Wren Night
Our Wren Night celebration is once again on this year. The day after Christmas, St. Stephen’s Day in Ireland, we will be getting together for some traditional Irish song, music, dance, and storytelling. This is a great evening of fun for the whole family upstairs at the Hibernian House. Specifics: It will be held on…
Special Needs Reverse Christmas Parade – Saturday, December 18th, 11am
Anyone who helped at the parade last year 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 ask that they arrive by 10am for set up.…
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Seniors’ Thanksgiving Luncheon
The Thanksgiving luncheon was back with a bang, with over 100 seniors attending. The day featured all the traditional fare for a PR AOH luncheon – plenty of good food, great entertainment by Teddy Herlihey and the young Irish dancers and musicians, all capped by Irish soda bread and a sip of Irish crème liqueur…
Ground Zero – 20th Anniversary 9/11 Remembrance
Photo from the late September NY state AOH ceremony and Mass to mark the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 at Ground Zero. Our Rockland County Pipe & Drums were the centerpiece of the event at the site with spectators from so many nations taking pictures and videos of them as they marched. The below picture was…
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History
Fr. Nicholas Callan, Forgotten Genius
Fr. Nicholas Callan was born in 1799 in County Louth. He was the fifth of six children born to a prosperous farming family. Noting that their son was remarkably clever, they sent him to the best private school available, which was run by a Presbyterian Clergyman (in the wake of the recent Penal Laws, there…
The Ballymurphy Massacre
On August 9, 1971, British Army Saracen armored cars rolled out at 4:00 AM onto the streets of Belfast to begin Operation Demetrius, the forcible internment of Irish Catholics suspected of being involved in paramilitary activity without charge or trial. Ironically, the British Army was now interning members of the community that they claimed upon…