Stamford St. Patrick’s Day Parade Friday, March 1, 2019 6:00pm Shamrock is a commercial cleaning company based in Connecticut with offices across the United States. A Green Cleaning Company www.shamrockclean.com 203.395.7162 Welcome to the 24th Annual Stamford St. Patrick’s Day Parade Grand Marshal’s Dinner Friday, March 1, 2019 2019 Parade Grand Marshal Polly O’Brien Morrow Polly is the adopted daughter of John Robert and Brigid Hume O’Brien. She came home to her new family on St. Patrick’s Day. Since finding her birth families in Germany and Norway, Polly likes to say, “I’m half German, half Norwegian, and ALL IRISH!” Her parents set an example that strongly influenced her interest in community service and her earliest volunteer efforts included working with the Girl Scouts, the Long Island Sound Task the Stamford Bartlett Arboretum. Force (now known as Save the She has received multiple awards Sound) and as a “big sister” in the for her charitable work, including Friends of Youth Program offered the Stamford Advocate by Family & Children’s Services Community Leader of the Year (now Family Centers). Award, the City of Stamford Polly is the Program Manager Citizen of the Year Award, in for Global Corporate Citizenship addition to many more. and Philanthropy for Pitney Bowes. Polly is a graduate of She serves as vice president of the Stamford (now Trinity) Catholic Pitney Bowes Foundation and the High School. She earned her Pitney Bowes Relief Fund. She bachelor’s degree from Wells manages the company’s global College, a paralegal degree from volunteer programs and employee the University of Bridgeport giving campaign, as well as the School of Law, and an M.B.A. in Foundation’s direct grant-making. Finance from the University of She has volunteered her time and Connecticut. efforts to various charitable Polly lives in the Glenbrook organizations, including the neighborhood of Stamford with Volunteer Center of Southwestern her husband Robert, their amazing Connecticut (now part of the daughters Kristin and Kaitlyn, too United Way of Western many cats and a very-patient dog Connecticut), the National Council named Tucker. They are grateful on Workplace Volunteerism of the members of the Congregational Points of Light Foundation, and Church of New Canaan. Grand Marshal’s Dinner Program Processional Entry Greenwich Pipe Band Welcome Timothy McGuinness Dinner Chairman & Master of Ceremonies National Anthems Tom Ormond Invocation/Benediction Rev. Dr. Stephen Chapin Garner Dinner Entertainment Anam Cara School of Irish Dance Introduction of Grand Marshal Michael Patrick Feighan Chairman, Parade Committee Remarks Carl Shanahan Sheila McCaffrey Presentation of Grand Marshal Sash 2017 Grand Marshal Robert Emmett Callahan Remarks Grand Marshal Polly O’Brien Morrow 24th Annual Stamford St. Patrick’s Day Parade Saturday, March 2, 2019 12 noon Stamford Downtown Rain or Shine Stamford St. Patrick's Day Parade Irish National Anthem Amhán na bhFiann Seo dhibh a cháirde duan oglaidh We’ll sing a song, a soldier’s song Caithréimeach, br’oghmhar, ceolmhar. With cheering, rousing chorus ár dteinte cnámh go buacach táid, As round our blazing fires we throng, `S an spéir go min réaltógach. The starry heavens o’er us; Is fionmhar faobhrach sinn chun gleo Impatient for the coming fight, ’S go tiúnmhar glé roimh tigheacht do’n ló, And as we wait the mornings light Fa ciúnas chaoimh na h-oidhche ar seol, here in the silence of the night Seo libh, cana’dh amhrán na bhFiann. We’ll chant a soldier’s song. CURFA: CHORUS: Cois banta réidhe, ar árdaibh sléibhe. In valley green or towering crag Ba bhuadhach ár rinnsear romhainn, Our fathers fought before us, Ag lámhach go tréan fá’n sár- bhrat séin And conquered ‘neath the same old flag Tá thuas sa ghaoith go seolta; That’s floating o’er us, Ba dhúthchas riamh d’ár gcine cháidh We’re children of a fighting race Gan iompáil riar ó imirt áir, That never yet has known disgrace, ’Siubhal mar iad i gcoinnibh rámhaid And as we march the foe to face, Seo libh, canaidh amhrán na bhFiann. We’ll chant a soldier’s song. CURFA: CHORUS: A buidhean nach fann d’fuil Ghaoidheal is Gall Sons of the Gael! Men of the Pale! Sinn breacadh lae na saoirse, The Long watched day is breaking; Tá sgéimhle ‘s sgannradh’ gcroidhthibh namhad, The serried ranks of Innisfail Roimh ranngaibh laochra ár dt’re; Shall set the tyrant quaking. ár dteinte is tréith gan spréach anois, Our camp fires now are burning low; Sin luinne ghlé san spéir anoir, See in the east a silvery glow, ’S an b’odhbha i raon na bpiléar agaibh: Out yonder waits the saxon foe, Seo libh, canaidh amhrán na bhFiann. So chant a soldier’s song. END CURFA: CHORUS: Sinne Fianna Fáil, Soldiers are we Atá fá gheall ag Éirinn, whose lives are pledged to Ireland Buidhean dár sluagh tar rúinn do ráinig Some have come from a land beyond the wave, chughainn: Sworn to be free, Fámho’dh bhe’rh saor, no more our ancient sireland Sean-t’r ár sinnsear feasta Shall shelter the despot or the slave; N’ fágfar fá’n t’orán ná fa’n tráil; tonight we man the Bearna Baoghal Anocht a theigeamh sa bhearna baoghail, In Erin’s cause, Le gean ar Gaedh’ chun báis nó saoghail, come woe or weal; Le gunna sgréach: Fá lamhach na piléar. ‘Mid cannon’s roar and rifle’s peal Seo Libh canaidh amhrán na bhFiann. We’ll chant a soldier’s song. 2018 Senator Christopher Murphy 2017 Robert Emmett Callahan 2016 Hon. Andrew McDonald 2015 Bill & Evon Malloy 2014 Joseph Tooher Michael P. 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May peace and plenty bless your world, with joy that long endures. n n May all life’s passing seasons, bring the best to you and yours!” -An Old Irish Blessing Congratulations to Grand Marshal Polly O’Brien Morrow ~~~~~ The Cingari Family A Brief History of the Irish in Stamford by Michael Patrick Feighan, Chairman to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Stamford St. Patrick’s Day Parade, March 8, 2o15 “Just imported from Dublin in the Brig Darby, A Parcel of Irish Servants, both men + women, to be sold cheap by Israel Boardman, at Stamford” Connecticut Gazette, January 5, 1764. Few note that this was the lot of the Irish in the 18th century, that English Lords kidnapped Irishmen and sold them into slavery in the colonies.