1916 CENTENARY COMMEMORATION EVENTS

April is a busy month! Derek Warfield and the Young Wolfe Tones performed the songs of 1916 at a concert at Albertus Magnus HS on April 3. The weekend of April 22-24 will see many of our State and National brethren joining us in Pearl River. Festivities will start with a Rambling House at the Hibernian House on Friday night. Buses to NYC will leave the PR Hilton on Saturday for the National AOH Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral 1 pm followed by a march to the Irish Consulate for a reading of the proclamation. Clan na Gael and Irish Northern Aid will host their Commemorative Dinner Dance at Leonard’s of Great Neck on Saturday night at 8 pm. Please call 1-800-IRELAND for more info. Our ceremony will commence on Sunday with a mass at the RGAA Field Clubhouse at 10:30 am followed by a ceremony at the field and brunch will be held at the Pearl River Hilton at 2pm. Martin Mulvihill Branch CCE and Pearl River young musicians, singers, dancers and storytellers are honoring THE HEROES OF THE 1916 RISING & BEYOND in music, song and dance on May 6 (please note changed date) at 7:30 pm at Pearl River HS. The Bobby Sands Memorial Mass and Social honoring Brendan Moore and James Donaghy will be held at the Pearl River Elks Hall on April 30, mass at 6 pm followed by the social.