President's Message
September 2022 Presidents Message
As mentioned in my email last week, summer flew by and activities and events are beingscheduled fast and furious. Our next division meeting will be at the Hibernian House this Friday, September 16th at8:00pm. Aside from typical business, we will have nominations for Hibernian House offices thatare up for election…
News
Pot of Gold Tickets Available
YES! It is that time of year once again. Pot of Gold tickets are once again available. There willbe tickets behind the bar, and we’ll have tickets available at our division meeting. Tickets areavailable to all, so please consider grabbing a few and selling them to friends, neighbors andyour friends at work. The tickets not…
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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History
Al Smith, ‘The Happy Warrior’
Alfred “Al” Smith was born on 174th South Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the area where he resided his entire life. He was the son of Catherine (nĂ©e Mulvihill), the daughter of Irish immigrants from County Westmeath, Ireland, and Joseph Smith, the son of an Italian immigrant; Smith would always identify with…
‘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…