President’s Message
- President’s Message October 2026
Welcome to Autumn! We hope your Fall or school-year routines have fallen into place. Our next division meeting will be at the Hibernian House this Friday, October 23rd at 8:00pm. Key agenda items include accepting nominations for divisional representatives for Rockland Parade Battalion Commander and Aide to the Grand Marshal. Note, the joint AOH/LAOH County Board Meeting is on Tuesday, 11/17 and we’ll have to get organized around that (and our candidates for parade honors). We’ll also organize around a number of upcoming events including the Thanksgiving Senior Luncheon and the Pot of Gold ticket sales and parties. We’re a… Read more: President’s Message October 2026
News
- VETERANS SUPPORT
The Pearl River AOH, along with a number of other Pearl River civic associations, is once again supporting the Wreaths Across America, a national initiative to ensure no veteran who has passed is forgotten at Christmastime. The local effort will pay respect to our heroes by placing a wreath on all veteran gravesites at St.… Read more: VETERANS SUPPORT - Hibernian House October 2026
We are looking forward to the Comedy Night on Friday, November 13th – we hope to see everyone there. We’ve also got an NFL Pub Sunday planned upstairs on Sunday, December 13th – it should be a great day! Special note: the Hibernian House (and all of Railroad Ave.) will be CLOSED for a movie… Read more: Hibernian House October 2026 - Pot O’Gold
The first Pot of Gold drawing party is right around the corner on Sunday, November 22nd starting at 2pm ($2,000 of prizes will be awarded), so don’t get left behind. There will be tickets behind the bar at the pub, and we’ll have tickets available at our division meeting. Tickets are available to all, so… Read more: Pot O’Gold - Major Degree
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
History
- Ireland’s WW II Neutrality: The Lie that Refuses to Die
Whenever Ireland takes an independent stand on international affairs, particularly one that displeases powerful interests, a familiar accusation resurfaces. Ireland, we are told, was sympathetic to Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Its neutrality was supposedly evidence of moral cowardice, if not outright support for fascism. More than eighty years after the war, this… Read more: Ireland’s WW II Neutrality: The Lie that Refuses to Die - The Norman Invasion of Ireland
On 1 May 1169, three foreign ships cut through the gray surf off the coast of County Wexford and beached their keels on the gravel spit of Bannow Island. Out from the hulls stepped roughly thirty Norman knights encased in chainmail, accompanied by sixty mounted men-at-arms and three hundred archers and foot soldiers from the… Read more: The Norman Invasion of Ireland - The Ghost Ship of 1916: The Audacious Mission of the SS Aud
When we think of the 1916 Easter Rising, we see it as a Dublin phenomenon: we speak of the heroism at the GPO, the sharp crack of rifles in St. Stephen’s Green, and the ultimate sacrifice of the signatories. But there is a chapter of the 1916 Rising that played out far beyond the cobblestones… Read more: The Ghost Ship of 1916: The Audacious Mission of the SS Aud