President’s Message
- President Message for June
What a strange seven weeks it’s been. First, we consolidated our April and May meetings to an early May meeting, then our initial date for the Golf Outing was rained out (not to mention it seems to have rained every other day since!). So, our normal spring cadence has been thrown off. We’ll be getting back on track with our next meeting being this Friday, June 13th, at 8pm, that being the last meeting before oursummer hiatus. As just mentioned, our annual golf outing was postponed and the reschedule is a little over a week away, on Friday, June 20th.… Read more: President Message for June
News
- Support the Ciaran Green Foundation
- Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day
Summer’s fading, the leaves are turning, and the calendar whispers: IT’S SIX MONTHS TO ST. PATRICK”S DAY! Time to tune up the music and the friendships. Join us Saturday, Sept 13 upstairs at the Hibernian House for live music and good company. We’ll run a 50/50 to fund scholarships in memory of our young Brother… Read more: Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day - Traditional Music at Hibernian House
- Golf Outing Now June 20th
Due due monsoon level weather and Blue Hill closing the course we add to reschedule our Golf outing. Friday, June 20th, is the new date of our Annual Golf outing. This includes both the golfing and the cocktail hour/dinner to follow. Other than the date change (and hopefully, a drier venue), all of the other… Read more: Golf Outing Now June 20th
History
- Before the U.S. Navy, There Was O’Brien
Jeremiah 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 - Starving in a Sea of Plenty: The Fish Story That Whitewashes the Irish Famine
Among the more persistent and insulting myths of the “Great Hunger” is the claim that the Irish “starved while surrounded by fish” because they were too ignorant or too stubborn to help themselves. It’s a narrative repeated in history books, classrooms, and casual conversation—a defaming simplification that distorts the truth of what our ancestors endured.… Read more: Starving in a Sea of Plenty: The Fish Story That Whitewashes the Irish Famine - The Laden Table, an Irish Christmas Tradition
Christmas is a time of tradition. Every year, millions of Americans enact a tradition that few realize has its origins in Ireland and the mists of time: “the Laden Table.” In pre-Christian Celtic Ireland, hospitality was more than just good manners; it was actually written into the law. Under Brehon Law, all households were obliged to… Read more: The Laden Table, an Irish Christmas Tradition
