Brothers, the summer seems to have passed us by without much notice; each year seems to go by quicker. It was a fairly busy summer with all the conventions taking place and many other functions as well. I attended the LAOH National President’s Dinner honoring Margaret Hennessey in Melville, New York, and it was a [...]
Brothers, since our last Hibernian Digest issue we have been busy attending conventions, picnics, festivals and other Hibernian functions. As you know by now we have a new editor for the Digest, John C. O’Connell from Glen Cove, NY. All future submissions should be sent to him at editor@hiberniandigest.com I was sad to accept the [...]
Brothers, the summer is here and we are all getting ready for conventions, vacations or both. Officers of the National Board and I are trying to make arrangements to have a presence at all state conventions, so please notify me of when and where your convention will take place. I hope everyone got a glimpse [...]
Brothers the holy month of March is over and all the parades and parties are done but the defamation of our heritage and religion continues. I believe the worst case is with Spencer stores who have the most degrading and insulting shirts and other paraphernalia that I have ever seen and to have a person [...]
Brothers, another edition of the Digest is upon us and I can’t believe where the time has gone since the last edition. I was pleased that I could attend an anniversary of the John Cardinal O’Connor Division 32 in Belmar NJ. The festivities were held in Doolan’s Shore Club in Spring Lake Heights NJ honoring [...]
Brothers, as I sit here writing this column there is about 2 feet of snow outside of my window, Christmas has passed and I am looking forward to the New Year. Since I last wrote my column I have received many Christmas greetings from you the members and I thank you so much, also numerous [...]
Brothers, I have been quite busy with the Medal of Honor Grove in Valley Forge and I will report fully on that in a separate story in this edition. In September I attended a commemoration ceremony in New Jersey at the Base of the Commodore Barry Bridge which was sponsored by the Gloucester County Division [...]
Brothers the convention is well and truly over and things have been quiet over the past 2 months although I had a lot of work to do at home rather than on the road. Following the convention I went to Ireland for my nieces wedding and had a very relaxing time. I spoke to some [...]
Brothers, the convention in Cincinnati is over and what a great convention it was. Everyone there seemed to enjoy it and I received more compliments on how it was run and what a great job the committee did in setting it up and running the events. All the officers had their reports and that is [...]
Brothers, March has passed, but not without the usual defamation of the Irish culture, tradition and its people. Denny’s offended us with their unbelievable desecration of the great hunger. Spencer’s Gifts also did so with their vulgar and degrading clothing line and the usual list of local and national greeting cards and posters. We, as [...]
