President’s Message
- November 2025 Presidents Message
As mentioned in my recent email, there’s a lot going on at the Pearl River AOH. Please make sure to read through this newsletter! Our next division meeting will be at the Hibernian House this Friday, November 21st at 8:00 pm. Key agenda items include accepting nominations for Division Officers and planning for the many events we have going on from now through the new year. Congratulations to all the honorees chosen to represent in the 62nd annual Rockland County Parade. A special shoutout and recognition to our own Dan Mulligan, who will be the NYC Aide, and Chris Vergine… Read more: November 2025 Presidents Message
News
- Special Needs “Reverse Parade”
Saturday, December 20th, OMM Parking Lot: Anyone who helped at the parade in past years 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… Read more: Special Needs “Reverse Parade” - Hibernian House November 2025
Continuing the Christmas theme, it’s time for us all to dig deep for the Hibernian Family Fund. We will be taking donations to the fund throughout the upcoming season, so please drop by and donate what you can. Our collections make sure that dozens of local children see some presents under the tree. If you’d… Read more: Hibernian House November 2025 - Freeze Your Arse Off in a Good Cause
Freeze Your Arse Off Golf Outing – Is back again, and a sign-up board is up at the pub! There’s a limited number of spots, so if you’d like to play, make sure to sign up sooner rather than later. The ‘Freeze Your Arse Off’ Open is a three club golf outing on Friday, November… Read more: Freeze Your Arse Off in a Good Cause - Food DriveNo people understand the reality of hunger better than the Irish. Our history during An Gorta Mór—the Great Hunger—is a constant reminder of what happens when the poor are forgotten. St. Margaret’s is holding a Parish Thanksgiving Food Drive on Saturday, November 22nd, 8:15–10:00 AM at the St. Margaret’s Parish Center. Those hours can be… Read more: Food Drive
History
- The Manchester Martyrs: “God Save Ireland”
The morning of November 23, 1867, was cold and damp in Manchester. Three young Irishmen stood on a scaffold outside Salford Gaol before a crowd of ten thousand. William Philip Allen was nineteen, a carpenter. Michael Larkin, thirty-two, a tailor with a wife and five children waiting at home. Michael O’Brien, a shop assistant and… Read more: The Manchester Martyrs: “God Save Ireland” - The Patriots They Erased: Ireland’s Sons in Washington’s Army
Even today, our school children are told the story of the American Revolution as one of New England Puritan Yankees and “Scots-Irish riflemen” on the frontier fighting for freedom. Over time, this portrayal has hardened into a historical dogma. Even in an age of revisionism that rightly seeks to recover the voices of women, African… Read more: The Patriots They Erased: Ireland’s Sons in Washington’s Army - 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
