June, 2013 Brother Hibernians, ELECTED OFFICERS DIVISION Our next meeting will be held on Friday, June the repose of the soul of Pete McGovern, a real President 21st at 8pm. Welcome aboard to new member gentleman from Swanlinbar, County Cavan. DERMOT O’CONNOR MOORE Ed McDonald. Congratulations to the golf Another prayer is due for Mike Higgins who is committee, the McKiernan family, and the many in Nyack Hospital recovering from a punctured Vice President volunteers for running a fantastic Joe McKiernan lung and several broken ribs. Congratulations are VINCE TYER Memorial Golf Outing. Congratulations to Sean in order for Joe Mulroe who was presented with Financial Secretary Walsh on his election to County Vice President a new granddaughter Caroline by his daughter WILLIAM YOUNG as well as to the division members who were Eileen and her husband Scott and for Frank Treasurer re-elected to their county offices, and many Reilly being presented with a new granddaughter MARTIN DAVIN thanks again to outgoing president Vince Tyer for Frances by his son Brian and his bride Kelly. Recording Secretary his 6 years of very productive leadership. We’ll be NEIL COSGROVE reaching out to you with a date for the comeback We wish you and your families a happy and Marshal of our annual picnic in September and mark safe summer. KEVIN DONOHUE your calendars for National President Brendan Sentinel Moore’s testimonial dinner weekend which will As always, please remember in your prayers our WILLIAM LEE be held on October 5th and 6th at the Crowne wounded warriors and their families. Chairman Grievance Plaza in Suffern. JACK O’CONNOR Yours in Friendship, Unity & Christian Charity, Chaplain Dan Callanan reports the following Good REV. MSGR. JOHN O’KEEFE and Welfare News…Please say a prayer for Dermot O’Connor Moore, President. HIBERNIAN HOUSE President FRANK McDONAGH Vice President PETER DUNNE Treasurer PHIL SHERIDAN Recording Secretary JOHN GANNON CALENDAR June 18 O’Malley’s Charity Golf Outing June 21 Division Meeting July 10-13 NYS Convention Saratoga July 11 McDermott Golf Outing Aug 3 Saratoga Trip FOR HIBERNIAN Pearl River, N.Y. 10965 N.Y. River, Pearl HOUSE 28 Railroad Avenue Railroad 28 ENTALS R Ancient Order of Hibernians of Order Ancient CALL 845-731-9697 HIBERNIAN HOUSE LAOH Having escaped the latest storm "Tropical Depression Andrea," as it The year is half over and we have done a lot but the summer season never became a full Hurricane, we must look back and remember how gives us a short break. last year these storms namely "Sandy" caused so much devastation and hardships in our area, and the areas around us. A great big Thank You to all that helped set up and clean up at the scholarship/essay Mass and Communion Breakfast. It is at these times we are especially proud to be Hibernians. Remembering the tons of food and clothes, tools, gloves, cleaning Also to Katie Basler and Eileen Bierne for the Mass and Dermot products, sometimes filling the hall stairs and pub floor and the people Moore for doing the cooking. involved in loading, transporting and distributing this aid. Sincere thanks to Fr. John Pallitucci for coming to say the Mass and Much of this was needed by fellow Hibernians, in places like Breezy Msgr. O'Keefe for his support. We are holding a "Dancing like the Point and the Rockaway’s. This time we knew some of the recipients Stars" fundraiser on October 18 and are looking for some dancers of the generosity that the community is capable of, many times we did to participate. Any and all suggestions/volunteers welcome. Get in not know the people who were helped (i.e.) Walton, NY, Deposit, NY, touch with Katie Basler at 845-596-6754. as in their floods a few years ago. Have a safe, healthy and relaxing Summer and see you all in September. As we come into these seasons again let up hope and pray that all may Yours in Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity, be spared this fate. However I am sure every one of us stands ready to Joan Moore, President show the Hibernian Moto, Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity, is alive and well. 845-735-8793 (h) • 845-536-2742 (Cell) or email: [email protected] Hibernian House Board Saratoga Races Bus Trip This year’s Saratoga bus trip will take place on Saturday, August 3, 2013. A coach bus will leave the Hibernian House @ 8 am sharp & will Michael return after the last race. McDermott The cost again this year is $60 per person, which includes beer, wine, soda, sandwiches. The sign-up sheet will go up behind the Hibernian House bar on June 1, 2010. 11th Annual You must leave payment (cash/checks) with the bartender when you sign up (Attention: Chris Gallagher). This trip is always a sell-out, so make sure you sign up and pay early to reserve your spot. Memorial Contact Chris Gallagher with any questions @ (845) 548-2573 or [email protected]. Golf Outing The Newsletter is Going on Thursday, July 11, 2013 Summer Vacation . You can still keep up with what is going on in the division BLUE HILL GOLF COURSE wherever your summer travels take you through the Division Web Site at: Contact Kathy, Dan or Ryan http://www.praoh.org or by liking us on Facebook at: 845.623.6367 https://www.facebook.com/PearlRiverAOH Historian - Neil Cosgrove Fr. Murphy of Boolavogue History The increasing militancy of the United of well-armed, well led, professional soldiers Irishmen had resulted in the British now being sent against the United Irishmen. government instituting brutal methods of Fr. Murphy and his men were severely suppression that did not trouble itself to defeated at Arklow while simultaneously distinguish between active rebel and the Harvey’s men were defeated at New Ross. ordinary Irish population, with martial The rebels were forced to retire on their law being declared on March 2, 1797. The central camp at Vinegar Hill. There they instrument of British government policy were confronted by 20,000 regular English was the Yeomanry (the “Yeos”), private troops and German mercenaries supported military companies raised by British by artillery who quickly defeated the poorly landlords. Literally a law unto themselves, armed rebels. they dispensed vigilante justice without Vinegar Hill was the last major battle of trial to anyone suspected of being a rebel or the 1798 rising and now the brutal reprisals sometimes just for personal gain. Their tactics began. General Lake ordered every wound- included house burnings, torture, rape, theft, ed rebel to be shot. The cavalry was released pitchcapping (pouring hot tar on a victim’s on the fleeing rebels, indiscriminately cutting head then ripping it off when cool, effectively down men, women and children alike. The scalping them) and murder. Enniscorthy courthouse, used as a hospital, At first Fr. Murphy was an advocate for was burned down with its 80 wounded rebels peace, urging his parishioners to comply inside. General Sir John Moore, later to This year marks the Two Hundred and with the authorities, give up their arms and become one of the most revered generals Fifteenth anniversary of one of the water-shed even sign an Oath of Loyalty to the Crown. in the history of the British Army, wrote moments in the Irish struggle for freedom: However, the continued outrages of the in his diary of “the violence and atrocity the rebellion of 1798. The extension of some Yeomanry soon made Fr. Murphy realize of the yeomen, who committed the most of the penal laws in the early 1700’s to include that no matter what his parishioners did, they unpardonable acts.” And Count Hompech, Presbyterians, in addition to Catholics, in had already been found guilty of the crime commander of the German mercenaries, an attempt to suppress any religion but that of being Irish and subject to punishment by stated that 25,000 rebels were killed in cold of the state sponsored English Anglican a reign of unchecked terror. The final straw blood after the fighting ended. Church, had led both groups to find an was when the Yeomanry seized and executed Fr. Murphy was also a victim of these brutal unprecedented common cause against twenty-eight innocent local men without reprisals. He was captured at Tullow, Co. a tyrannical government. This common proof or trial. Reports indicated that their Carlow on 2 July. He was tortured, summarily oppression helped forge a new national next target was Boolavogue. Transformed tried and hung in the village square. The identity of United Irishmen. Inspired by the now into the good shepherd called upon to Yeomanry then removed his head displaying “rights of man” expressed in the American defend his flock, Fr. Murphy organized a it on a pike while his body was burned in and French Revolutions, they sought to have party of thirty men armed with a single gun front of a prominent Catholic household a voice in their own government, including and a few pikes improvised from farming as a “message”. the Catholic majority who were excluded tools. They intercepted the yeoman led by from political participation, and freedom Lieut. Bookey at the Harrow as they were The 1798 rebellion has a mixed legacy. The of religious expression. After first seeking beginning to set fire to the homes of suspected English government, seeing the peril to their redress by constitutional means, only to be rebels. In the confrontation that ensued rule when the Irish united, made stoking frustrated by an alien government intent on Bookey and another yeoman were killed the flames of sectarianism a government absolute rule, the United Irishmen realized while the rest fled.