DECEMBER 2019 News for AOH Fr. Con C. Woulfe Division 1 Ulster County Bill Kearney, Editor P.O. Box 2026 Neil Murray, Columnist/Historian AOH Jean Steuding, Columnist LAOH Kingston, NY 12402 Fr. Edmund Burke, Chaplain AOH www.ulsteraoh.com Fr. John Kearney, Chaplain LAOH Jim Carey, President AOH Division 1 Patricia Gilpatric, President LOAH Division 5 NEXT MEETING YEAR. PAST GRAND MARSHAL TUESDAY DAVE DOYLE WILL BE COOKING IN THE KITCHEN AND WILL PROVIDE DECEMBER 10, 2019 GRAND MARSHAL US A HEARTY MEAL 7:00 PM 2020 ST PATRICK’S PARADE PLEASE NOTE THE EARLIER TIME HARRY WOLTMAN WHITE EAGLE HALL FOR THE DECEMBER MONTH’S DELAWARE AVENUE MEETING. KINGSTON, NY SEE YOU THERE. ELECTIONS Mark Geary Our Immediate Past President will be conducting our Hello, my name is Harry MERRY CHRISTMAS election for our 2020 slate of Woltman and I'm honored to be NOLLAG SHONA DUIT officers. Here are the offices we the 2020 Grand Marshall. I am a lifelong Kingston resident the son will be voting on for the of Tom and Brigid (Bridie) “MAY PEACE AND PLENTY President Woltman. Dad was a native of BE THE FIRST TO LIFT THE Vice President Staten Island, NY and Mom LATCH ON YOUR DOOR Recording Secretary immigrated from Dungloe, AND HAPPINESS BE GUIDED Financial Secretary County Donegal, Ireland to NYC. TO YOUR HOUSE BY THE Treasurer Mom and Dad met at an Irish CANDLE OF CHRISTMAS.” Marshall Sentinel dance in Manhattan and went on Chairman of Standing to marry several years later. After Committees a honeymoon in Donegal, when Dad met his new family for the 1st time, they relocated to DECEMBER DINNER Kingston to start a new life and DECEMBER 10, 2019 raise a family. I am the one of 7:00 PM 2020 ST. PATRICK’S three sons with brothers Brian and WHITE EAGLE HALL PARADE Sean. DELAWARE AVENUE MARCH 15, 2020 KINGSTON, NY Throughout my childhood, Mom CONGRATULATIONS and Dad worked hard to take us DECEMBER IS OUR ANNUAL TO OUR DIGNATARIES on trips to Ireland. I was 5 years DINNER MEETING AND WHEN WE old when I made my 1st trip to ELECT OFFICERS FOR THE COMING Donegal. We spent the entire summer on my Grandparent's Valley as a young man. Pat is the farm and continued to make the eldest of 7 children: Peggy, Tom, journey every 3 years. I was Mary, Jim, John, and Grace. She IRISH PRINCESS fortunate to have spent time with married her husband, Fred, and 2020 ST PATRICK’S PARADE both my grandparents before they they spent 45 years together ERIN CREEDEN passed. before he passed away in 2014. She continues to reside in their I am a graduate of Kingston High home in Port Ewen. She is the School and Ulster County proud mother of her twins, Mark Community College. I worked and Melissa. Her children blessed BEARER OF ST. PATRICK several jobs locally prior to being her with 3 beautiful 2020 ST PATRICK’S PARADE hired by Kingston Police Dept. in grandchildren, Larson (15) and October 1987. In May 1989, I Annika (11), of Poughkeepsie, married Denise Westergard of NY, and Mason (6) of Florence, Saugerties and we have 2 sons, SC. Kevin and Andrew. We continue to make regular trips to Dungloe Pat was previously employed ST. PATRICK’S PARADE to spend time with our family. by IBM for 30 years, spending the JOURNAL entire span in the personnel The three biggest days of the year department. She then worked As you know each year we in my parents house were another 15 years as an office publish a parade journal to help Thanksgiving, Christmas & the assistant in the medical field. pay for the parade expenses. Kingston St. Patrick's Day Parade. Today, she spends the majority of Please take an ad and also Dad was the 1998 AOH Mayor of her day volunteering for the Food please sell an ad The St. the Day, an honor he cherished. Pantry of the Catholic Charities of Patrick’s Parade is not free to Kingston. In her free time, she produce; we need all of the help Having completed 32 years with takes great pride in participating you can give us. the Police Department, my family in the activities of the LAOH, and I have decided to make the which she joined with the Kelly SELL THOSE ADS!! 2020 Parade my retirement day. I girls in 2007. Pat typically shies THIS IS THE WAY WE PAY can't think of a better way to away from the spotlight and is FOR THE PARADE celebrate both! most content being a busy LET’S MAKE SURE THIS member of the LAOH. She CONTINUES TO BE THE coordinates the raffles for the GRANDEST PARADE IN THE LAOH booth at the Hooley on the VALLEY!!! MAYOR OF THE DAY Hudson, provides hospitality at 2020 ST PATRICK’S PARADE monthly meetings and volunteers PAT SCHISKIE at Bingo for local nursing home residents. To stay in shape for all this activity, Pat is an avid walker and is frequently seen speed- THE walking through the streets of Port HISTORIAN’S CORNER Ewen. It is anticipated that she Neil Murray will set a new course record marching the parade route as Cromwell in Ireland 1649 Pat Kelly Schiskie was born and Mayor of the Day! raised in Kingston, NY. She is After Oliver Cromwell arrived in the daughter of the late Thomas Ireland, a quarter of the Irish and Dorothy (Burger) Kelly. Pat's population was dead. Catholic father spent his youth in Ireland landlords were dispossessed as before moving to the Hudson Cromwell’s soldiers were given large tracts of land. This invasion earned the captain a reward of The Cromwellian conquest of would shape Ireland’s history in gold coin by British Parliament. Ireland, put into modern new ways making the country a terminology, can be considered colony of England. This event Cromwell in Ireland represents a nothing less of full scale ethnic would mark the end of a relatively very sad period of Irish History. cleansing. With Cromwell’s stable period of Irish history as Some of the worst atrocities were combined strategies of killing, the Viking and Norman invasions committed in Wexford and selling Irish people into slavery, at this point had been absorbed by Drogheda. In Wexford and transplantation of Irish the resilient Irish. Cromwell’s soldiers killed over Catholics, it becomes eerily clear. 3,000 civilians indiscriminately. This conquest was not merely a Before Cromwell, 70 percent of In Drogheda, surrendering Irish land grab. Cromwell in Ireland is Irish land was in Catholic hands. soldiers, promised quarter, were no doubt a sad and dark page in After this invasion, less than 10 given none. 2,500 Irish soldiers Irish history. Although a period percent would remain and this is were executed, and the towns in history, we as Hibernians considered one of the largest land Catholic Church was set on fire. should never forget our ancestors grabs in Irish history. The Irish slavery during this era was who survived this attempt at the English treasury was essentially discussed in last month’s article. ethnic cleansing of our collective empty. Soldiers up to this point culture and Catholicism. had been paid in loans. Once The story of Medieval Ireland Ireland was conquered by changed forever on July 2, 1653. Sláinte, Neil Cromwell, soldiers were paid in It would be this day that English Irish Catholic land. The religious Parliament made the decision to element of Protestant against clear Catholic Ireland of their land Catholic added a whole lot of holdings. Catholic land owners ULSTER AOH MONTHLY extra charge and motivation. were transplanted to Connacht. MEETING UPDATE Cromwell’s troops would use this Connacht was the poorest county Michael Creeden as a justification for their cause. in Ireland with mostly barren land. The English law was Meeting Minutes The invasion was masked as a simple. Be Transplanted or November 12, 2019 revenge for the 1641 Irish hanged. As a result there were Next meeting: rebellion when Irish peasants many executions. Neither December 10, 2019 across the country had risen sickness nor age was an against English settlers and killed acceptable excuse. To be clear, 1. Meeting opened at 7:31 an estimated 4,000 people. this was a very calculated law. pm by AOH President, Jim Believed to be highly Interestingly, the English moved Carey exaggerated, Irish Catholics were the landowners, but, the peasantry 2. Paul Geary provided his viewed not as fellow Christians, was allowed to stay behind. This monthly Treasurers Report. but as somewhat less than human. begs the question, why? The 3. Paul also brought up that If a Catholic died, to the English answer is simple. The English 2020 dues are due. Any Protestant of the day, it didn’t would need labor to work the member in arrears over 2 years really matter. It would be land. With the clergy and gentry will be dropped from the comparable to the loss of a farm gone, it was hoped the Catholic membership rolls. animal. Killing Catholics would peasants would convert to 4. Bill Murphy provided in some instances be rewarded. In Protestantism. Furthermore, with monthly Calendar Fundraising one such case, English merchants the Irish peasantry staying behind, Report captured an Irish ship. The the English hoped the “old” Irish 5. ICCHV Update captain had 72 Irishman tied back gentry would be forced to become • Met with the banks and to back and tossed overboard to laborers themselves. come to a decision to request a their drowning death.