President’s Message
- President’s Message October 2025
October 2025. Not sure how we got to the fourth week of October this quickly – but here we are! We hope the Fall or school-year routines have fallen into place for you. Our next division meeting will be at the Hibernian House this Friday, October 24th at8:00pm. Key agenda items include accepting nominations for divisional representatives for Rockland Parade Battalion Commander and Aide to the Grand Marshal. We’ll also organize around a number of upcoming events including the Thanksgiving Senior Luncheon and the Pot of Gold ticket sales and parties. Still looking for a number of volunteers! Aside from… Read more: President’s Message October 2025
News
- Major Degree, Saturday, October 25th.
When we all took our oath upon joining the Ancient Order of Hibernians, our entry was conditional that we “receive the lessons and take the test of the Order”, also known as taking the Major Degree. There is a great opportunity for those who still need to get their Major Degree to do so, as… Read more: Major Degree, Saturday, October 25th. - Meals on Wheels
Congratulations to our Meals on Wheels team who are entering their third year of coverage! If you’re looking for an easy local volunteer opportunity – we’ve always got room for additional delivery drivers and could use the help of one or two new team members. All it requires is roughly an hour once a month,… Read more: Meals on Wheels - Pot O’Gold is Back!
Once again, we’re happy to announce that our big fall fundraiser (and one of our best social events of yearend) is kicking off once again. Tickets are $100 and not only give you the chance to win a variety of cash prizes including the grand prize of $10,000, but the ticket affords you and a guest… Read more: Pot O’Gold is Back! - Support the Ciaran Green Foundation
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
