OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS IN LOUISIANA VOLUME 8, ISSUE 3 JUNE - AUGUST 2017 www.aohla.com T ATRICK AY Louisiana State Board - A S . P D Ancient Order of Hibernians CELEBRATION TO REMEMBER @LouisianaHibern The Louisiana State Board of the New Orleans and Louisiana to Bake-Off, a genealogy tent, and a Ancient Order of Hibernians and show the city (and the state) what young musicians competition. LOUISIANA AOH its respective divisions carried their it really means to be Irish. The Several thousand people from usual St. Patrick’s Day activities events started on Friday, March around the Lafayette Area enjoyed that capped off a fine week for the 10, in Lafayette with the Celtic a magnificent time with the “Cajun Irish throughout the New Orleans bayou Fest that featured good Irish Irish.” The focus then shifted on UPCOMING Area. craic mixed with the sounds and Saturday to New Orleans and A series of meaningful and festive tastes of Acadiana. Sponsored in Magazine Street as the annual Irish EVENTS celebrations allowed the part by the Acadian AOH, the Channel Mass and Parade brought ------Hibernians, the Ladies AOH, and Bayou Fest featured a crawfish boil, out the throngs. Led by the men of ------the various Irish groups throughout a Guinness Cook-Off, a Bailey’s (Continued on page 11) STATE CONVENTION JULY 28-29

Lafayette Ramada Conference Center THE HIBERNIANS HOLD THEIR FIRST EVER AUCTION Whatever one may say about our Sanders. A simple but magnificent Doug Mouton of WWL-TV, who State President, Jimmy Kuhn, he feast of salad, jambalaya, and described the items and professional INSIDE certainly dares to dream big. What crawfish pasta and an open bar were auctioneer Marvin Henderson who ------also can be said is that he always there for the guests. solicited bids. seems to deliver on those dreams. All those who entered the gym Bidding commenced on such T ATRICK S Such was the case on Friday, June 2, were greeted by an array of items items as an antique crucifix from S . P ’ when the State Board and Louisiana such as golfing foursomes, porcelain Belgium, a custom designed hat Divisions came together to host the vases, restaurant certificates, from Yvonne LaFleur, 120 bottles of DAY PHOTOS first ever Silent and Live Auction. jewelry, gift baskets, artwork, and wine, beachside condos, a Celtic Hibernians, Lady Hibernians, and outdoor items for silent auction. Cross with gold trim, and a Celtic ------their guests arrived at the St. Each silent auction table was named bowl. Dominic Gymnasium in Lakeview to after one of the four provinces of With the help of an Irish Jesuit up find not a space where kids engaged Ireland with their crests (artwork by unprecedented number of in physical activity but a venue Madeleine Fitzmorris) hanging over Hibernians, the Auction was a huge for bedecked in Irish colors and décor the tables. success and raised upwards of Canonization and the lovely sounds of both Irish The premier event of the evening $20,000--all of which will go to the and popular music courtesy of Mark was the live auction with auctioneer Hibernian charitable causes. PAGE 2 LONG LIVE THE KING THE CRESCENT HARP We have lost Hibernians throughout eyes told us all we needed to know. It The the years, and saying farewell to them was a warm and long day, but we made Crescent Harp has never been easy. We mask our in part because of Brother King. Editor-in-Chief John D. Fitzmorris III grief in the rituals that mark our Everyone who mentioned Fred King Advertisement Editor Ancient Order as something apart always said that he was the type who Kevin M. McKay Sr. from the average social club. embodied the first cornerstone of our Ex-Officio However, our Brother, Fred King, Motto, Friendship. When anyone ran James Kuhn Raymond Donovan has passed; and it warrants more than into Fred he treated it as the highlight Mark Foley just a farewell. Last March 11, the of his day, and his handshake conveyed Martin Kearney Hibernians prepared to step off once more than just politeness. Patrick J. Power again in the Irish Channel Parade. Many will tell of Fred’s dedication ——————————- ARTICLE SUBMISSION VIA: Absent from our ranks was Brother to the law and his application of that to [email protected] King, whom we knew was going yet those who deserve a defense in our Please submit all photos via .jpeg another round with the cancer that society. Others will speak of his ARTICLE DEADLINES: would eventually claim his body. But dedication as a husband to his dear wife November 15 as we made our turn from Jefferson Peggy. They would all be correct in February 15 Avenue to Magazine Street in the Irish using superlatives. May 15 Channel Parade, there was Frederick The Ancient Order of Hibernians August 15 King, swollen and puffy from the needs more brothers like Frederick chemotherapy, but standing in front of King. his wheelchair, making sure that the Challenge St. Peter in rowing up What is an Ollamh? Hibernians knew he was with us in there. An ollam or ollamh (anglici spirit along the route. The light in his Eternal rest and perpetual light. sed as ollave or ollav), in early Irish Literature, is a THE PASSING OF THE OLLAMH member of the highest rank The running joke in the newsrooms --the infamous Son of of fili. The term is used to and bars throughout New York was Sam--started taunting the NYPD refer to the highest member that if one wanted to know if Jimmy through Breslin’s column because the of any group: thus an ollam Breslin was the best in the business, serial killer admired him. Breslin did brithem would be the highest one need only ask Jimmy Breslin. He not return the respect, declaring rank of judge and an ollam would confirm with gusto that he was “Shoot him!” after meeting Berkowitz rí would be the highest rank the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, in a courtroom. He went on, of king. Ollav was also the best in . interviewing the police who first applied to a Druidic rank; The -winning former arrived on the scene where John meaning much the same as Daily News columnist died two days Lennon lay dying in 1980. When the "professor," or person of after St. Patrick’s Day at age 88. He Crown Height riots broke in 1991, the great learning. Typically the leaves behind a legacy as the champion 61-year-old Breslin hopped a cab and of the underdog, the pursuer of the headed to Brooklyn where he was Ollav/ollam was endowed “story behind the story,” the best yanked from the taxi by some four wrath of Mayor Ed Koch), using stun with a distinction equal to storyteller about New York, and an dozen rioters, robbed and beaten — guns on jailed suspects, and the fact that of a king and could inspiration for a generation of writers, left only with his underwear and an that celebrated vigilante Bernard Goetz therefore wear six colors. reporters and readers. With his shock NYPD press card. shot four of his victims in the back. No There was an official post of hair, cigar in mouth, drink in hand, In addition to his columns, Breslin too shabby for a college dropout. in ancient Ireland called the and constant mischievous Irish look, he authored more than twenty books, Typewriters trembled on his "Rí Ollam" or "Ard Ollam" spoke truth to power. And while he ranging in topics from the bumbling approach as he pounded out story after or Chief Ollam of Ireland. did so mostly in New York, he also Mets of the early 1960s (Can’t Anybody story and column after column, and The holder of the post had a could go to places like Vietnam or be Play This Game?) to the Brooklyn mob one colleague said that the broken standing equal to the High just five feet from Robert F. Kennedy (The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight) typewriter was the mark of Breslin’s King of Ireland. One of the in the Ambassador Hotel kitchen in Los to the scathing attack on the priest- passion. most famous Ollav/Ollam of Angeles. abuse scandal (The Church that Forgot Breslin could also be quite human in Ireland was Ollav Fala, His best-known piece became the Christ). his flaws. He joined author Norman eighteenth descendant standard of journalism classes when What truly made Breslin the ollamh Mailer in a run for citywide office in of Érimón c. 1000 BC. Breslin featured Clifton Pollard, the of his trade was his constant search for 1969, campaigning on a “51st State” Ollamh Fodhla, meaning $3.01-an-hour worker who dug greatness in America--and finding it in platform that said the city should "great teacher," was used to President John F. Kennedy’s Arlington some of the most unlikely of secede from New York State. “I’m designate various prominent National Cemetery grave. Then he characters. Klein the Lawyer, Marvin mortified to have taken part in a men throughout history. went back to Dallas and interviewed the Torch, Shelly the Bail Bondsman, process that has closed the bar for the From the Sacred the Parkland Memorial Hospital Un Occhio the mob boss riveted better part of the day,” was Breslin's surgeon who desperately worked on readers, led to scandals unearthed, and Election Day post-mortem. Texts of Ireland the dying JFK. Few can forget the put a Pulitzer on his wall. His His irascible personality and arson-riddled, blackout summer of muckraking exposed the parking penchant for bullying caught up to him heat in New York in 1977 when the violations scandal (and earned him the (Continued on page 12) VOLUME 8, ISSUE 3 PAGE 3

IN MEMORIAM BROTHER FREDERICK KING Archbishop Hannan Division JOHN MARIE Downtown Irish Club SPECIALIST CALEB MICHAEL COLLINS United States Army - Native of New Orleans

PRAYERS BROTHER JOHN BROWNE Archbishop Hannan Division U.S. REPRESENTATIVE STEVE SCALISE CAPITOL POLICE SPECIAL AGENT CRYSTAL GRINER MATT MIKA ZACK BARTH MRS. MARGARET FRIDLEY LOTT Ladies AOH FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN OUR NATION FOR ALL THOSE THREATENED BY RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION FOR THE BLUE ROSES OF ST. MICHAEL’S SPECIAL SCHOOL THE HOMELESS OF NEW ORLEANS and ALL MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN SERVING OVERSEAS

NEW ORLEANS SOLDIER HONORED POSTHUMOUSLY FOR HEROISM FAREWELL TO JOHN F. MARIE Brigade Commander. Collins is being recognized for his retirement in 1998. On The award, which is the his courageous actions of the day of his retirement, highest military peacetime disregarding his own safety and while enroute to his award for bravery, is putting his life on the line to retirement party, John was recognized by heroism not save a fellow Soldier. The involved in a high speed concerning direct encounter release states that Collins' chase and shootout with an with an enemy. actions are in keeping with the armed robbery suspect to According to a release, in finest traditions of military end his colorful and July of 2015, Specialist Collins heroism and reflect distinct exciting police career. That jumped into the Pacific Ocean credit upon himself, 25th afternoon, Sheriff Jiff from a 25-foot ledge in an Composite Truck Company, Hingle called and met with A fallen United States Army attempt to save the life of a 524th Sustainment Support The Downtown Irish John and offered him a staff Specialist was honored on May fellow Soldier, Specialist Battalion, 25th Sustainment Club suffered a loss of one position within the 20 with the Soldier's Medal Andrew. Collins jumped after Brigade, 25th Infantry Division of its stalwart members. Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's during an Award for Valor Andrew was swept into the and the United States Army. John F. Marie, Jr. passed Office. John served as ceremony. The parents of water while walking across the The Ancient Order of away on May 4. A graduate PPSO Public Information Specialist Caleb Michael ledge of the Halona Blowhole Hibernians offer their prayers of St. Henry’s and De La Officer, and held the rank Collins were on hand at in Hawaii. Collins was able to for the family of Specialist Salle High Schools and of Major and working title, Jackson Barracks Military reach Andrew but a larger Caleb Michael Collins and Loyola University, Marie (Deputy Chief of Museum Theater to accept the wave swept both into the blow their profoundest gratitude for was a veteran of the New Operations), where he was posthumous award, from hole prior to pulling both his offering of his last full Orleans Police Department instrumental revising police Colonel Gavin A. Lawrence, Soldiers out into the ocean. measure. where he was one of the procedures and 25th Division Sustainment In receiving the award, most decorated officers on (Continued on page 12) PAGE 4 THE CRESCENT HARP BOOK REVIEW - WORLD WITHOUT END, AMEN Jimmy Breslin, long-time writer and columnist York. for New York’s , passed away on A stranger in his ancestral country, March 19. A noted Irish writer, Breslin’s tough- Dermot realizes that he is more akin to the as-nails writing highlights New York, the Irish, Unionist oppressors than his own people. religion and life in the streets. His 1973 book, Breslin's theme is unsubtle but powerful. World without End, Amen, is reviewed Through sheer force of language, he makes below, courtesy of Richard Sutton of Goodreads the most out of Dermot's culture shock and and Kirkus reviews. the night and day contrast between the hard -hat cop culture of Queens and the anarchic Injustice, racism, intolerance and the revolutionary consciousness of a Belfast at fruits of encoded poverty are all on stark the start of The Troubles. display in Jimmy Breslin’s World without World without End pushes the question of End, Amen. Its central character, Dermot whether the lack of empathy can be Davey is a 29 year-old Irish-American cop. attributed to a people entirely, or is it the A narrowback. Not exactly one of New result of having to survive against York's finest, who once was treated for impossible hatred and violence. It also alcoholism and had his gun taken away from forces the reader to confront their feelings him. “I might as well go around without a about the refuge of alcohol and whether prick,” he thinks and in fact there is not flawed decisions made under its influence much else left of his manhood. Product of a could have ever been averted. spiteful and alcoholic mother and a father Jimmy Breslin's writing is gritty and hard will eventually find redemption, so those who left home, he roams the streets filled and not for those who piously wring their who want a cheerful read with a happy with hatred of minorities and wields his gun hands “at such language.” He exposes racism ending need look elsewhere. Those looking on them for sport. He hates his wife who and intolerance within the police culture of for a moving story told like it is, with all the won't sleep with him for fear of another America and then turns and exposes the warts and scabs, and want to read child and he mostly hates his own stunted, very heart of The Troubles in Ulster. something that will stay longer than a inarticulate life. Breslin writes that The Troubles were channel change, by all means should read At the end of his rope, Breslin takes directly the child of occupation and this book. Give some serious thought to Dermot into the revolutionary fires of economic warfare against the minority how society has dealt with many of the Belfast where he finds his defeated father Catholic population. Dermot, an American same issues and whether one can still feel and a Socialist firebrand named Deirdre, of Irish descent, a police officer and a confident that the American Spirit will who pledges solidarity with the Black Catholic who is used to being in control, always rise above. Panthers. Dermot watches ten year-old kids sees what hatred and injustice create among throwing fire bombs at cops, and realizes white folks like himself, and he is that his own people are the like the dumbfounded. minorities he held in contempt back in New Dermot is not the type of character who

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Box 8860 Metairie, LA 70011 VOLUME 8, ISSUE 3 PAGE 5 MARTIN MCGUINNESS (1950-2017) Martin McGuinness, a former Irish (pronounced shin-FAIN) had endorsed a Once banned from entering Britain, Mr. Republican Army commander and Sinn Fein reconstituted Ulster police force, which it had McGuinness won a seat in the House of political leader who helped negotiate peace in regarded for decades as an arm of British and Commons in London; ran unsuccessfully for the Northern Ireland after decades of sectarian Protestant repression. presidency of Ireland in 2011; visited prime violence, and became a senior official in its Left unresolved was whether Northern ministers several times at 10 Downing Street; power-sharing government, died on Tuesday in Ireland would ever be reunited with the met Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush Derry. He was 66. predominantly Catholic Irish Republic. The and Barack Obama at the White House; and Sinn Fein said Mr. McGuinness had died after Good Friday Agreement provided that that shook hands twice with Queen Elizabeth II. a short illness. When he resigned from the “This is the side of his political life that Belfast government in January, The Irish Times McGuinness wants the Irish people to reported that he had amyloidosis, a rare remember: the reformed man, the young, condition caused by the abnormal buildup of hotheaded idealist who learned the error of his protein deposits in tissues and organs. ways and forged peace, an achievement that still In bombings and killings that raged from the wins him plaudits from around the world,” the 1960s to the ’90s between Protestant and British magazine New Statesman said in 2011. Roman Catholic forces — the Troubles that left “To some in Ireland he is a hero — a man who 3,700 dead — Mr. McGuinness was widely stood up for the oppressed, who fought the believed to have joined, and later directed, British. To others, he was, is and will always be terrorist activities. He denied the allegations. a criminal.” His only convictions, in the early ’70s, were for James Martin Pacelli McGuinness was born in possessing explosives and ammunition and for Derry, Northern Ireland, on May 23, 1950, one belonging to the outlawed I.R.A. of seven children of William and Peggy Mr. McGuinness, left, helping a wounded McGuinness, a Catholic family that shared two man after a funeral in Belfast for three I.R.A. bedrooms and an outdoor toilet in the crowded members came under attack in 1988. Credit slum of Bogside, a setting for much violence David Jones/Press Association, via Associated during the Troubles. His father worked in an Press iron foundry, and his mother in a shirt factory. But in his 40s he evolved into a peacemaker The parents attended Mass and took and politician. He was chief negotiator for Sinn communion daily, and they gathered their six Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., in a Above. Former President Bill Clinton sons and daughter nightly for a recitation of the complex Good Friday Agreement in 1998, in places his hand on the casket of rosary. which Britain, Ireland and the political parties of Martin McGuinness. Martin was a bright, eager boy who loved the Northern Ireland created a framework for Below. A sight once unthinkable. poems of W. B. Yeats and played chess, but he power-sharing in Belfast and for eventual Martin McGuinness shakes hands failed the 11 Plus exams in his last year in grade resolution of issues like sovereignty, civil rights, with Elizabeth Windsor- school. So instead of getting an academic disarmament, justice and policing. education, he went to a Christian Brothers Mountbatten, the sovereign of And on May 8, 2007, a day many thought technical school, where the boys were beaten. would never come, the Rev. Ian Paisley, Britain. He quit school at 15 and became a who had founded the Democratic butcher’s assistant. Like many Bogside Unionist Party and had long stood for youths, he joined the lionized I.R.A. and continued Ulster association with Britain, was a gunman at 18. and Mr. McGuinness, who had fought for In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Bogside Ulster’s incorporation into a united was a war zone of hatred and revenge. Ireland, took oaths as the leader and Stone-throwing youths were beaten by the deputy leader, respectively, of Northern Royal Ulster Constabulary. There were Ireland’s power-sharing government. riots and protests. Two boys were shot As Prime Ministers Tony Blair of dead by British soldiers in 1971. The Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland looked Provisional I.R.A., the more militant on, the proceedings ended direct British successor to the I.R.A., launched control of Northern Ireland and reinstated ferocious counterattacks. Arson fires home rule for its 1.8 million people. burned 100 shops, and snipers killed 26 Legislative power was vested in a British soldiers in Derry alone in 1971 and Northern Ireland Assembly, and Ulster ’72. began a new era in which long-bitter adversaries could happen only with the consent of Northern Mr. McGuinness was second in command of pledged to abandon armed struggles and Ireland, and it made it likely that Ulster and its the Derry I.R.A. on Bloody Sunday, the grim embrace political solutions. Protestant majority would remain in perpetuity day in 1972 when British troops fired on The I.R.A. had already destroyed its weapons — along with the legacies of killings and unarmed civilians staging a peaceful protest and given up its clandestine cells, and Sinn Fein religious enmities. (Continued on page 12) PAGE 6 THE CRESCENT HARP

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CELTIC BAYOU FEST - LAFAYETTE 2017 PAGE 10 THE CRESCENT HARP LADIES AOH NEWS Members of the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians, Margaret Haughery Division in New Orleans, gathered in the beautiful courtyard of the Irish Cultural Museum in the French Quarter for their monthly meeting. Located in the historic French Quarter, the Irish Cultural Museum of New Orleans traces the city’s Irish heritage through rarely seen archival maps, photographs, and newspaper articles. After the meeting, members enjoyed a wonderful lunch by the Museum staff and then toured the Museum.

WEST FLORIDA AOH NEWS The Republic of West Florida Frs. Cronin agencies. More than one member cites feeling of many brethren when he reflects on and Macleay Division has been blessed to be the ability to address and be responsive to the genuine warm feeling and sense of pride in a position to offer efforts of charitable local one-time needs, such as aid to a fireman in community experienced when lending outreach many across the Florida a helping hand to the less Parishes community so far this fortunate. It more than gives back year. One such act was to aid the both for hard work and sacrifice Help Center for Churches in of free time. Franklinton which is under the The division’s embracement of direction of Geary Moloney. Mr. and by the community is not Moloney serves the needy via limited to charitable acts. The multiple churches including Holy members sponsored a retreat at Family Catholic Church and to all Rosaryville under the direction of the elderly in the area who would Father Hasse that was open to all. go hungry without food donations. In keeping with the festive spring During the course of their The Republic of West Florida Frs. Cronin and Macleay Division shows it's season, the Frs. Cronin and delivery, Brothers Mike community pride, pride in Irish Heritage, and pride in the AOH organization colors Macleay Division marched in Shaughnessy, Gene Helmstetter marching in Ponchatoula's St. Patrick's Day parade hosted by the Krewe of Erin. solidarity with the Krewe of Erin, and Randy King discovered Mr. Pictured (L-R) Andrew Hollingsworth, John Durnin and Division President Martin a North shore Irish parading Moloney's family is from County Kearny. photo: Michelle Delaune Lott group. Cork. The grateful recipient and More than 50 flags stand watch along the Avenue of Flags in Ponchatoula. Their Turning to the solemn side, each fellow Irish descendant then bases are inscribed with names of soldiers whose service is permanently day, but especially Memorial Day, commemorated due a joint venture between the Ponchatoula American Legion and declared his intention to highlight the Republic of West Florida Division of the AOH. Photo by Judge Jimmy Kuhn a permanent reminder of the the AOH donation on the charity's soldiers who gift reflects Facebook page. The extra the ultimate in self sacrifice are meaningfulness of the encounter is honored by the Avenue of Flags a testament to how letting the that stands in tribute to our spirit of giving lead can often nations veterans in Ponchatoula deliver welcome results to the Cemetery. Its establishment was a giver. joint venture between the Along with furthering the work Ponchatoula American Legion and of established worthy groups, The Republic of West Florida some of which are: Project Safe, Division of the AOH. Back the Blue, and Restoration House, the Frs. Cronin and Macleay Division brother members are empowered to be alert and responsive to strategic small needs himself the victim of a tragedy as inspiring a that often escape the attention of larger sense of gratitude in themselves. Club charitable organizations and government President Dr. Martin Kearny sums up the VOLUME 8, ISSUE 3 PAGE 11 IRISH JESUIT BEATIFIED - from The Jesuits in Ireland Anglican for the first half of his life and The first ever beatification in Ireland, that Roman Catholic for the second. In fact, the of Fr. John Sullivan S.J., took place on May entire event is unprecedented, as there has 13 in a joyful and moving occasion. The never been a beatification ceremony in principal celebrant and homilist was Cardinal Ireland before. Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation In his homily, Cardinal Amato quoted often for the Causes of Saints, and he was assisted from the submissions of ordinary people to by the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid the cause of Fr. John. “Witnesses in the Martin. The Church of Ireland Archbishop of diocesan processes often repeated that Fr. Dublin, Michael Jackson, was also present in Sullivan was ‘a poor man among the poor’, the sanctuary. ‘the personification of the spirit of poverty’. The ceremony, attended by almost two Even though he came from a rich family, once thousand people in the church, church garden he became a religious he was oblivious to marquees, and Belvedere College, consisted comforts and contented himself with that font, his crucifix from which he was of a mass during which a formal request for which was purely necessary. Faithful to the inseparable, a little table, and a bed, even beatification was publicly made. In an vow of poverty, he gave immediately to with few covers when the weather was unprecedented ecumenical gesture, this others every gift he received.” He described colder.” request was made by the Church of Ireland Fr. John’s room at Clongowes: ” …he had as Cardinal Amato also referred to an incident and the Catholic Archbishops together, his furniture a hard-word chair, a broken when Fr. John, on one of his customary visits reflecting the fact that Fr. John was an pitcher, a kneeler, some books, a holy water (Continued on page 16)

ST. PATRICK’S DAY EVENTS (Continued from page 1) celebrated the great Saint of Ireland first with to shine. Introduced by both cousin William High Mass at St. Patrick’s Church and then Trist and close friend and business partner the Irish Channel Club and followed by the with a banquet at Astor Crown Plaza on Steve Pettus, who both paid tribute to his Ancient Order and the Emerald Society, the Canal Street. strong sense of family and civic duty, Dickie parade survived overcast skies to once again At the Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Brennan rose and spoke of his father’s three show that Mardi Gras is but a mere warm up Gregory Aymond and con-celebrated by great loves: family, cooking, and being Irish. for St. Patrick’s Day. The AOH took its Archbishop Alfred Hughes, pastor Fr. Stanley With Dickie’s family looking on (and his traditional group photo before the altar at St. Klores, and a host of Irish clergy, Deacon father looking down from heaven), the Alphonsus Cultural Center and then marched Daniel Haggerty gave a moving tribute in his Hibernians paid tribute to Brother Brennan’s over to St. Mary's Assumption Church for sermon to the faith of the Irish people. At the commitment to the New Orleans community noon Mass. conclusion of the Mass, the AOH presented through his four restaurants and his civic During the course of the Mass, where AOH Hibernian Richard J. “Dickie” Brennan Jr. involvement, presenting him with his members were guests of our brothers in the with his proclamation as Hibernian of the proclamation as well as a plaque Irish Channel Marching Club, Hibernian Year. commemorating him as Hibernian of the brother Tommy O’Brien had the honor of At the evening banquet at the Astor Crown Year. serving as Grand Marshal and Hibernian Plaza, the Hibernians further honored Of course, in typical Dickie Brennan brother Billy Lyons was the Man of the Year. Brother Brennan. With the United States fashion, the party did not end when the Once again, the city of New Orleans Marine Corps Reserve Band playing the banquet room emptied. Patrons filtered demanded a route change due to “Garryowen,” the Hibernians--led by Dickie down to the Bourbon House for a spectacular construction, so the AOH marchers rode by Brennan--marched proudly into the banquet after party featuring tastings of Irish whiskey, bus to Jefferson Avenue and Tchoupitoulas hall, gave their usual aplomb rendition of post-banquet hors d’ovures, and the music of Street and then proceeded on to Magazine “O’Donnell Abu,” and then stood steadfast Tara O’Grady. Street where they continued down into the for the national anthems of Ireland and the If the ceremony and after party are any Channel and their disband point at Jackson United States and finally the Marine Corps indication, Brother Brennan’s tenure as Avenue. The crowds were their usual Hymn. After the usual speeches of welcome Irishman of the Year will certainly be welcoming selves, with the ladies often from State President James Kuhn and memorable and befitting of a man who offering their affection for the Irish. National President James McKay III, the cherishes his Irish heritage. Friday, March 17, was of course the feast of ceremonies and dinner began with dancing Many thanks go out to all who helped make St. Patrick, and the day began with the Irish from the Muggivan Irish Dancers and musical the banquet a wonderful event, especially the Channel Club having its annual Annunciation selections from the Jimmy Maxwell Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel, which picked up Square Festival for St. Michael’s Special Orchestra. the ball at the last minute when our previous School. Meanwhile, the Hibernians Finally, our guest of honor had his moment venue fell through. JOHN MARIE have formal Medicolegal Training and attend the Plaquemines Parish Lodge #27 of the Fraternal (Continued from page 3) American Board of Medicolegal Training at St Order of Police, he served as an active member of professionalizing the department, through CALEA Louis University School of Medicine to assure the the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation New (The Commission on Accreditation for Law highest standards of the Medicolegal Death Orleans Bowl and helped conduct free football Enforcement policies. John was also instrumental Investigation Profession. John has also served the clinics for underprivileged children, the Louisiana forming a Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #27, to Gretna Police Department as a Lieutenant in the Sheriff's Association, the Police Association of New assist and provide benefits to Plaquemines Parish Reserves. As an active member of the community, Orleans, the Irish Channel Marching Club and a Deputies. He also served as a major player, John's social involvement was very well known. He Fellow Member of the International Association of working as the Sherriff's Office liaison with Parish, has and held membership in over 25 civic, social Coroners and Medical Examiners, to list a few. As State and Federal Officials during several and athletic organizations and was a fixture at an avid LSU Tiger fan, he attended every football Hurricanes and the BP Oil Spill. After 15 years of almost every major social and athletic event. John game home and away for over 20 years, missing service with the PPSO, John retired again and was was an exceptional runner and member of several only one game due to Hurricane Katrina. On asked by Parish Coroner, Lawrence A. local and national running clubs. During his 30's March 28, 2017, LSU Football Coach, Ed Orgeron Giambelluca MD, to take over as Chief and 40's, John and his son were often a bracket presented John with an official LSU Football Jersey Investigator of the Plaquemines Parish Coroner's winners in local road races. His trophy cases are (MARIE 19). John was also an avid LSU baseball Office, where he served in that capacity until the filled with trophies, medals and ribbons. Annually, fan, season ticket holder and has been a regular time of his death. As Chief Investigator, John he was a top 500 in the Crescent City Classic. He since 1996 at the College World Series in Omaha, attended and completed the Professional Standards also ran the 26 mile New York City Marathon on 6 Nebraska where he has made many great contacts of Training of the American Board of Medicolegal occasions and was the first Louisiana finisher in and lasting friendships. He is survived by his son, Death Investigation Training at St Louis 1995. John is a, Charter Member, Board Member, John F Marie III (wife Angela), a daughter Melissa University's School of Medicine and also attended former Grand Marshal, of the Annual St Patrick's Jeanne Marie, a sister, Mary Jo Godfrey (husband their Masters Course 2 years later. As Chief Day Parade (1992) and Past President of the Mark) and his faithful 4 legged companion, Bella, Investigator, he lobbied Plaquemines Parish Downtown Irish Club. He is on the Board of (a piebald, longhair, Dachshund). He is also Government Officials and secured new modern Directors of the Crescent City Tigers (Greater survived by his first wife Patricia Walker (husband office facilities for his Investigators, new New Orleans LSU Alumni Association), Past William) and former wife Lisa Dazzo Marie, who computers, new furniture, new vehicles, updated President of the UNO Baseball Coaches remained devoted to John until his death. forensic equipment, and began working on a web Committee, Board of Directions Committee - from Legacy.com site for easy access and knowledge of Coroner Member of the Metairie St. Patrick's Day Parade, related functions, while staying under his allotted Executive Board Member of Crimefighters, budget. John assured Parish Leaders that all Executive Board Member of the Emerald Society Plaquemines Parish Coroner Investigators would of Metropolitan New Orleans, State Trustee for

JIMMY BRESLIN prove it.” Decades later, New York’s political that fell just short of his actual importance, a (Continued from page 2) leaders still championed Breslin’s written work. barstool for a podium, and just enough sadness is in 1990 when he was suspended for two weeks for He also suffered his fair share of tragedy, burying what made Jimmy Breslin quintessentially Irish, hurling a racial slur at an Asian-American reporter. his first wife, Rosemary, who died of cancer, and and we are all the poorer for his departure from Unlike many, though, who fall back on the “that’s two of his daughters--Rosemary and Kelly-- who the stage. not who I really am” excuse, Breslin manned up died in the 2000s, both in their 40s. and took his medicine, writing in an apology to the An accomplished storyteller with a flair for the entire staff, “I am no good and once again I can dramatic, an overblown sense of self-importance

MARTIN MCGUINNESS and her cabinet. in January for health reasons, prompting a snap (Continued from page 5) Mr. McGuinness was accused of participating election in which Sinn Fein made major gains against the British practice of internment in or plotting crimes. Television documentaries and nearly overtook the Democratic Unionists as without trials. Fourteen people were killed in and news and magazine articles linked him to the largest party in the regional assembly. what became known as the Bogside Massacre. murders of informers and bombings that killed “He retires without his dream of a united In 1973 and 1974, Mr. McGuinness was scores. He and Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein’s Ireland being fulfilled during his tenure,” Daniel imprisoned twice, for possession of a car filled president, reportedly concluded in the early McConnell, political editor of The Irish Examiner, with explosives and ammunition, and for his 1990s that militancy was not advancing their wrote. “But his contribution to peace on this acknowledged membership in the illegal I.R.A. aims. Cease-fires in 1994 and 1997 ensued, and island will be long remembered.” In 1974, he married Bernadette Canning. talks led to the peace accords. They had four children: daughters Grainne and Mr. McGuinness was minister of education in Fionnuala, and sons Fiachra and Emmet. There an interim government from 1999 to 2002. was no immediate word on his survivors. Elected to the House of Commons in London in From the late 1970s to the mid-’80s, Mr. 1997, he was re-elected in 2001, 2005 and 2010 McGuinness was widely assumed to be the and served until 2013. A biography, “Martin I.R.A.’s chief of staff. Hundreds of people were McGuinness: From Guns to Government,” by killed by the I.R.A. in that period, including the Liam Clarke and Kathryn Johnston, appeared in queen’s cousin Earl Mountbatten, whose fishing 2001. boat exploded off County Sligo in 1979. Many As senior officials of Northern Ireland, he and I.R.A. attacks also occurred in England, Mr. Paisley became friends of sorts. When Mr. including a bombing at a Brighton hotel in 1984 Paisley retired in 2008, Mr. McGuinness gave that killed five people and was intended to him a Seamus Heaney poem. After a decade as assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher deputy first minister, Mr. McGuinness resigned

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(Continued from page 11) community of believers today. I mention The untiring attention to the sick and the poor. Book of Common Prayer through whose collects Most of his priestly life was spent in to the sick, encountered a priest already in John would have learned to approach the Clongowes Wood College, Co. Kildare, and the cottage visiting. “The pastor asked him to Father of Mercies in reverence, humility and it was mainly in the towns and villages around leave, fearing a dangerous opponent in the trust. Whatever theological differences we this school that he spent so much time ministry. Upon his brusque command, Fr may have, our common belief in Christ is walking and cycling to visit those in need. Sullivan knelt down and asked forgiveness. fundamental. We believe together that After his death on February 19, 1933, The pastor was profoundly moved.” He Christ is the answer that humanity longs for, devotion to him continued to spread. It referenced also his upbringing in the Anglican the incarnate expression of the love and remains lively in many places around Ireland, tradition. “Rooted in a deep spirituality compassion of God. I pray that this so a large crowd is expected to attend the already as a young Anglican, he sought and beatification will lead to ever closer event, including the sick and the elderly. journeyed in his faith and in his life. He had a collaboration and cooperation between our Music during the liturgy was provided by deep appreciation of the scripture which was two Churches. I pray that together we can students from Clongowes Wood College. nurtured from a early age at his school in work to show that Christ is risen, that Christ Also, soprano Rachel Croach sang the Ave Portora, and inspired within the rich faith life is alive, that God’s mercy is for all, that Maria and Panis Angelicus. There we and prayerful tradition of his Anglican God’s Word of forgiveness and love is spoken trumpeters and timpanists and they gave all formation.” today, here, now, to us and to our friends and present a heart-lifting moment during the Archbishop Michael Jackson said John families just as it has been down through the Mass when a lartge portrait of Fr. John was Sullivan “had a special place in the hearts of all centuries. I pray that, through this ceremony unveiled, just after he was declared ‘Blessed’. of us who are members of the Church of today, all of us can know ever more deeply A new relic of his hair, which was kept by the Ireland and of all of us who have an this love, forgiveness and mercy. This is what Jesuit, Charlie Barrett, who acted as barber association with Portora Royal School and John Sullivan himself would want.” and cut his hair, was brought to the altar also Clongowes Wood College.” He said the day He said that Fr. John was a man who was at that point, along with the traditional relic was one of celebration and joy. “We mark held in great affection by Irish Jesuits for his card that holds a tiny piece of his very shiny, with the Jesuit Order in Ireland and world compassionate attitude towards the students, worn and frayed cassock. wide, along with the Christian the locals, and especially those who were ill After the ceremony there was time for Church everywhere, the beatification in the or poor. The 1930s in Ireland was a time of quiet reflection, during which the hundreds Roman Catholic tradition of John Sullivan, great suffering and hardship – a time of great of people present queued to receive a blessing S.J. We do so mindful of the unending need poverty--but Sullivan stood out as a man from the Fr. John Sullivan cross and the new for reconciliation in Ireland and expectant of preaching the compassion and mercy of God relic and to venerate his tomb, the gates of the abundant grace of God.” – themes close to the heart of Pope Francis. which were opened specially for the occasion. Fr. John Dardis, S.J., General Counsellor Beatification, which confers the title A Mass of Thanksgiving for the beatification for Discernment and Apostolic Planning and ‘Blessed’, means that a man or woman is of Fr. John took place in Clongowes Wood former Provincial of the Jesuits in Ireland, considered to be truly holy and worthy of College on Saturday, May 20. spoke on behalf of Fr. Arturo Sosa, leader of veneration at a local level. The next stage The Ancient Order of Hibernians joins with the Jesuits worldwide. He referenced Fr. after beatification is canonization, sainthood, our Holy Mother Church in a prayer of John’s Anglican background and paid tribute which is a recognition of this holiness by the Thanksgiving for Blessed John Sullivan, S.J. to the Church of Ireland today. universal Church. For this process a further “The Church of Ireland was the place where miracle is required, one which is confirmed John Sullivan’s Christian faith was initially to have taken place after the beatification. nurtured at home and in Portora Royal Blessed John Sullivan’s reputation for School. I pay a special tribute to that holiness stemmed in great part from his