September 28 1678 - 'Popish plot' is alleged in England 1690 - Marlborough takes Cork for the Williamites 1703 - Francis Annesley is expelled from the Irish Commons for his part in The Report of the Commissioners appointed by Parliament into the Irish Forfeitures, printed in London, containing the paragraph: 'And indeed it does appear to us, that the Freeholders of this Kingdom, through length of time and by contracting new friendship with the Irish, or by inter-purchasing with one another, but chiefly through a general dislike of the disposition of the forfeitures, are scarce willing to find any person guilty of the late rebellion, even upon full evidence.' The House has found that Annesley 'scandalously and maliciously misrepresented and traduced the Protestant Freeholders of this Kingdom and thereby endeavoured to create a misunderstanding and jealousy between the people of England and the Protestants of this Kingdom' 1912 - Edward Carson, leader of Ulster Unionists, stages signing of "Southern League and Covenant" against Irish Home Rule 1920 - Cork No. 2 Brigade, IRA, attacks and captures a military barracks in Mallow, Co. Cork. English forces later burn and sack the town 1960 - RTÉ broadcasts a report on the re-opening of Bunratty Castle to the public after extensive refurbishing 1964 - Divis Street riots follow Ian Paisley's insistence that the RUC remove the Tricolour from a window at Sinn Féin’s Belfast headquarters 1978 - Pope John Paul I dies after just 33 days in office aged 65 - the shortest reign in the entire history of the Papacy 1987 - U2 is joined by the New Voices of Freedom choir onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York for a performance of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" 1998 - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern vows to hand over all necessary papers to the Flood Tribunal investigation into alleged planning irregularities 1998 - The final strains of the Last Post symbolically close a 200-year-old military history in Fermoy and Ballincollig as the Tricolour is lowered and the troops leave the barracks. Both camps are closing and the soldiers are being transferred to Cork 1999 - The home of dual Olympian and arguably Ireland’s greatest ever athlete, the late Dr Pat O’Callaghan, is demolished in his adopted Clonmel to make way for a Rehab training facility 1999 - Larchill Arcadian Gardens in Co. Kildare win's the top prize in the ESB Community Environment Awards 2000 - The Ulster Unionist Party warns that it may withdraw from all North South bodies established under the Good Friday Agreement unless guarantees are forthcoming on IRA decommissioning, and policing 2000 - According to official figures, the number of mobile telephone connections in Ireland exceeds the fixed line total for the first time 2000 - A call for the IRA to be disbanded is made by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern when he reiterates the view that Fianna Fáil cannot go into government with Sinn Féin while that party remains linked to an armed force.
September 29 1155 - A proposal for the invasion of Ireland by Henry II is discussed at the Council of Winchester and rejected, though soon after, Henry obtains a papal privilege approving the invasion 1603 - Rory O'Donnell kisses the king's hand and is created Earl of Tyrconnell 1678 - Count Peter Lacy, soldier, governor of Livonia (Latvia) and field-marshal in the Russian army, is born in Killeedy, Co. Limerick 1732 - Birth of Sir Henry Cavendish, politician and master of shorthand, who recorded parliamentary debates 1778 - Birth in Dublin of Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy 1798 - Tandy and other Irish political prisoners in Hamburg are handed over to British authorities 1826 - Charles Cornwallis Chesney, professor of military history, is born in Kilkeel, Co. Down 1836 - Michael Mulhall, publisher and statistician, is born in Dublin 1854 - Birth in Kinvara, Co. Galway of Francis Arthur Fahy who wrote the song, Galway Bay 1898 - Fenian Thomas Clarke is released from Portland Prison 1905 - Francis Llewellyn Harrison, musicologist, is born in Dublin 1908 - Birth of film star Greer Garson in Co. Down 1929 - The last active Fenian, John Devoy, dies 1930 - George Bernard Shaw refuses a peerage 1972 - Kathleen Daly Clarke, Irish patriot, dies 1979 - Pope John Paul II arrives in Dublin for the first ever papal visit to Ireland 1999 - Smyth’s bar on Haddington Road in Dublin, is sold ‘virtually’ and otherwise in Ireland’s first Internet broadcast property auction 2002 - In Co. Wicklow, five paintings, including two by the renowned artist, Rubens, are stolen in another raid on Russborough House which has a history of art thefts. In the liturgical calendar, today is the feast of St. Michael, the Archangel. Read our article Celebrating St. Michael's Day in Old Ireland.
September 30 1430 - A great council meets at Dublin on on this date; it states that Irish enemies and English rebels have conquered almost all of Limerick, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Wexford, Carlow, Kildare, Meath and Louth, so that hardly anything but Co. Dublin remains in the colony 1598 - The English poet Edmund Spenser is appointed Sheriff of Cork 1691 - The first recorded meeting of the Presbyterian general synod of Ulster is held at Antrim 1852 - Sir Charles Stanford, composer, is born in Dublin 1900 - Arthur Griffith forms Cumann na nGaedheal, which later becomes Sinn Féin 1949 - Birth of Finance Minister, Charlie McGreevy 1959 - World premiere of the Sean O’Riada’s film Mise Éire, at Cork Film Festival 1994 - Michael Flannery, Irish patriot, dies in New York City 1997 - U2 performs in Tel Aviv, Israel for the first time 1998 - Northern Secretary Mo Mowlam holds out the prospect of troops being removed permanently from the streets of the North if paramilitary groups hand in their weapons 1998 - Gerry Adams warns there must be no slippage in full implementation of the Good Friday settlement 1998 - The first appearance together of David Trimble and Séamus Mallon on a Labour platform draws an enormous and spontaneous ovation from the 3,000 delegates attending the party conference in Blackpool 1999 - The Rev. Ian Paisley meets with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on the question of arson attacks on churches in the border area 2001 - Ireland assumes presidency of the United Nation's Security Council 2001 - Thousands of Irish, New Yorkers and Irish-Americans pay tribute to the many Irish people who died in the terrorist attacks. Bishop John Buckley of Cork celebrated the mass with the Bishop of Killaloe at the Roman Catholic Holy Trinity church in Manhattan.
October 1 1600 - Robert Grave, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, and his family drown in Dublin Bay on their way home to Wexford by sea 1796 - The Royal College of St. Patrick. a Catholic seminary, is opened in Maynooth, Co. Kildare 1751 - Cornelius Bolton, politician, Volunteer and improving landlord is born 1761 - In the climate of sectarian tension created partly by the Mathew-Maude controversy, the Whiteboys, a violent agrarian protest movement, begins in Tipperary and spreads through Munster and West Leinster 1911 - Statue of Charles Stewart Parnell is unveiled in Dublin 1930 - Actor Richard Harris is born in Limerick 1979 - RTÉ broadcasts Pope John Paul II's visit to Ireland 2000 - Eight men, including one Irishman, are feared dead after their fishing vessel sinks off the Clare coast in gale force winds and treacherous seas 2000 - President Mary McAleese leads the tributes to the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Luciano Storero, who died at 8am this morning in the Mater Hospital in Dublin at the age of 74 2001 - Journalists from all over Ireland gather to pay tribute to colleague Martin O'Hagan who was gunned down last week. More than 1,500 people attend his funeral in his hometown of Lurgan, County Armagh 2001 - The Black & White Pub of The Year Award 2001 goes to Fitzpatrick's Bar of Jenkinstown, Co Louth.
October 2 1600 - O'Neill engages Mountjoy's forces in the Battle of Moyry Pass 1833 - Birth of Father William Corby who became Chaplain of the Irish Brigade in Detroit, Michigan 1852 - William O'Brien, writer and nationalist, is born in Mallow, Co. Cork 1875 - Arthur Conway, mathematician and president of University College Dublin, is born in Wexford 1879 - Kate Coll arrives in New York from Ireland on board the SS Nevada. She later marries Juan Vivion de Valera, and gives birth to Éamon on October 14, 1882 in New York 1900 - Hubert Butler, writer and local historian, is born near Bennettsbridge, Co. Kilkenny 1942 - The British cruiser Curaçao sinks off Donegal after colliding with the Queen Mary; 338 lives are lost 1975 - Death of sculptor, Seamus Murphy 2001 - Máire Ní Chathasaigh, harpist and composer wins the TG4 Traditional Music Award 2001 2002 - In Málaga, Spain, a street is to be named after deceased Irish painter, George Campbell. Mr Campbell, from Arklow, Co Wicklow, died in 1979. He spent five months of every year of his last 27 years in Málaga 2002 - A 1.3 acre site at Railway Square in Waterford city is sold at auction for €4.9 million – over twice its guide price and a record for the region.
October 3 1691- Treaty of Limerick is signed by Ginkel and Sarsfield, ending the Williamite War in Ireland; the treaty allows evacuation of the Irish army to France and promises tolerance of Irish Catholics 1750 - James McLaine, gentleman highwayman born in Monaghan, is hanged at Tyburn 1871 - Gen. John O'Neill and a small force of Fenians invade Canada at Pembina, Manitoba 1943 - Richard Caborn, Sports Minister, is born 1961 - Ireland applies for membership of the European Economic Community on 1 August and joins UNESCO on this date 1966 - Birth of Niall Quinn, footballer 1971 - Death of Seán Ó Riada, founder, composer, and arranger for the Chieftains. He composed Mná na hÉireann (Women of Ireland). Guided by his vision, traditional music changed radically, and became accessible to a modern Irish audience, and through this traditional music, the cultural life of Ireland was invigorated. (taken from the book "Bringing It All Back Home" by Nuala O Connor) 1975 - Dr Tiede Herrema, chief executive of the Dutch-owned Ferenka factory in Ballyvarra, County Limerick, is kidnapped by the IRA 1981 - In the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, ten IRA and INLA hunger-strikers die between 5 May and 12 August; the hunger strike is called off on this date 2000 - The death toll in storms that have raged for two days off the coast of Galway reaches 20 2002 - Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness condemns a weekend gun attack on a bus driver in his home city of Derry which police believe was the work of the IRA.
October 4 1582 - Pope Gregory reforms the calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45BCE: 4 October is followed by 15 October. However, the reform will not be implemented in Ireland till 1752 1693 - Irish Brigade of France fights in the battle of Marsaglia 1733 - Henry Boyle, the future Earl of Shannon, is unanimously elected Speaker of the Irish parliament. He will serve till 1756 - the longest-serving Speaker of the 1692-1800 parliaments 1741 - Edmund Malone, editor and Shakespearian scholar, is born in Dublin 1842 - Birth of heavyweight bare-knuckle boxer Jim Dunne in Co. Kildare. Dunne won the American heavyweight title from fellow Irishman Jim Elliot - the pair were jailed after the illegal event 1886 - Lennox Robinson, playwright and one-time Abbey Theatre manager, is born in Douglas, Co. Cork 1959 - Direct dialing is launched in Ireland 1961 - General election is held in the Republic. Fianna Fáil gains 70 of the 144 seats 1999 - Aer Lingus announces it will drop its Knock Birmingham route. The decision by the national airline to cease operations on this route also means the severing of its only regular link with Knock Airport. A spokesperson for Aer Lingus confirms that the last flight on the Knock Birmingham route will be on October 29 2001 - Cork will be Europe's Culture Capital in 2005 after landing the prestigious title ahead of Galway 2002 - Thousands of people from all over the country march in protest over redundancy payments 2002 - The North's police service launch dawn raids on Sinn Féin's offices at the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont In the liturgical calendar, today is the feast day of St. Francis. Traditionally, many people have their pets blessed in honor of the patron saint of all animals
The Sisters of Charity are hosting The Sounds of Charity Benefit Concert featuring local Irish entertainers Guaranteed Irish, Mike Gallagher and Sally Folan-Grab's Irish Dancers tonight, Sept. 27. A Dessert Reception and Basket Raffle will be held at 6:30 p.m. followed by the concert at 7:30 p.m.
The concert will be held at Seton LaSalle High School, 1000 McNeilly Road, Pittsburgh 15226. A donation of $25 will admit you to the event. For ticket information please contact Sister Patricia Hughes at 412.343.1382 or Dan Devinney at 412.860.6740. You can also register for the event at www.scsh.org.
Please come enjoy a great night of music and fun while also supporting a great cause.
The month of October has been traditionally dedicated to the Rosary of Our Blessed Mother. On October 7 we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Pope Benedict XVI recently in an address said: “The Holy Rosary is not just a pious practice banished to the past, like prayers of other times thought of with nostalgia. Instead the Rosary is experiencing a new springtime. Without a doubt, this is one of the most eloquent signs of love that the faithful can nourish for Jesus and his Mother, Mary.
"In the current world the Rosary helps to put Christ at the centre, as the Virgin did, who meditated within all that was said about her Son, and also about what He did and said. When reciting the Rosary, the important and meaningful events of salvation history are relived. The various steps of Christ’s mission are traced. With Mary the heart is oriented toward the mystery of Jesus.
"Christ is put at the centre of our life, our time, our city, through the contemplation and meditation of his holy mysteries of joy, light, sorrow and glory. May Mary help us to welcome within ourselves the grace emanating from these mysteries so that they may open us to the newness of God.”
The life of Mary, according to the Scriptures, is as humanly true as it can possibly be, but in this human quality it is filled with a mystery of divine communion and love, the depth of which is incomprehensible. The Rosary points in this direction.
October 1, 2008 will be the thirty-seventh anniversary of the Rosary being on the radio every night in the Western Pennsylvania area. It has been my privilege to lead and be the voice of the Rosary for those thirty-seven years. The Rosary is still broadcast every night at 7:00 p.m. on WHKB, 620 on the AM dial.
Over those thirty seven years, the Rosary on the radio has survived many different circumstances, such as several changes in stations as well as increased prices for air time.
As Catholics we were brought up to say the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries of the Rosary. However, a few years ago, Pope John Paul II approved the use of a new mystery of the Rosary, the Luminous Mysteries or Mysteries of the Light. It has been suggested that we recite the Mysteries of the Light on Thursday evenings.
"The Vocation Director of the Diocese of Pittsburgh has suggested that on Thursdays we pray the Mysteries of the Light for the intention of the fostering of religious vocations. Since the AOH is so instrumental in helping religious and seminarians financially with Project St. Patrick, the members can help the religious and seminarian spiritually by offering their Rosary on Thursday for vocations.
"The following are suggested mediations for the recitation of the Mysteries of the Light:
1. Jesus is baptized in the Jordan -- All of us are baptized in the Light of Christ. A Priest celebrates this special sacrament of Baptism and gives new life in the Church.
2. The Wedding Feast of Cana -- Jesus performed his first miracle at Cana. A Priest witnesses the Sacrament of Marriage for the new couple uniting as husband and wife.
3. The Proclamation of the Kingdom -- Jesus proclaimed the Good News to the people. A Priest proclaims the Gospel and teaches about the faith to the people of God.
4. The Transfiguration -- Jesus was transfigured on the mountain with Moses and Elijah. At a Priesthood Ordination a man is transfigured into a Priest as the Sacrament of Holy Orders is bestowed upon him.
5. The Institution of the Eucharist -- Jesus is the Body and Blood of Christ. A Priest changes the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ at the Eucharist. This is the center of our faith.
May Christ, the Divine Priest, and Mary his Mother continue to send more laborers for His harvest and help Priests and Religious persevere in their vocations.
With every blessing and best wish, Father Tom O’Donnell, Allegheny County and Penna. State Chaplain
The Major Degrees will be exemplified twice in the month of October by the Isle of Erin Degree Team.
Sunday October 12, 2008 at Phila. Fire Fighters Union Hall, 5th and Willow Sts, Phila. Register at 10:30 AM with Shamrock Degree beginning at 12 noon and Major Degrees to follow. Cost: Observers $20.00 and Candidates $25.00 Sponsored by Phila. Div. 22 and the Phila. County Board. For further information please contact Dan Cline-V. Pres. Div. 22 at (610)420-5973 or Mulcleen619@Comcast.net .
Sunday October 26, 2008 at the Sheehy-Farmer Student Center on the campus of Kings College in Wilkes-Barre. Registrations will begin at 11 AM. A Shamrock Degree will begin at 12 noon and the Major Degree will follow shortly after. The cost will be $30 for candidates and $20 for observers. For any further information or questions, please contact Jim Gallagher at 570 823-0480, 570 362-1350. or on-line at JGGAL@MSN.COM
Please join us Friday, October 24 at the Heidelberg Fire Hall for an Oldies Dance featuring The Mansfield Five.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. A hot buffet will be available at 7:00 p.m. The Mansfield Five will perform at 8:00 p.m.. Tickets are $25 and include beer and a Chinese Auction.
All proceeds will benefit the Doug Bado Family.
For tickets call Bernie Donnelly at 412.279.8220, Lynn Kist at 412.429.7084 or Denny Donnelly at 412.276.9312.
The Sounds of Charity Benefit Concert Featuring: Guaranteed Irish, Mike Gallagher and the Sally Folan-Grab's Irish Dancers Date:Saturday, September 27, 2008 Time: Dessert Reception and Basket Raffle- 6:30 PM Concert- 7:30 PM Place: Seton LaSalle High School, 1000 McNeilly Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15226. Donation: $25. Tickets and Information: Sister Patricia Hughes 412-343-1382 or Register on the Sister of Charity's secure link at www.scsh.org
Stop by Pittsburgh's Grand Hall at the Priory Sunday, September 28 from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. for Pittsburgh's Design Fair featuring Green Living! At the Pittsburgh Design Fair, up to 50 exhibitors in four categories such as Gardens & Landscapes, Interiors, Home Remodeling & Renovation, and New Construction will demonstrate products and services, answer your questions, and have special items for you to buy! Read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's event coverage here.
NOTE: SPECIAL RATES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE PRIORY HOTEL. Stay at the Priory Hotel this Friday, Saturday or Sunday and get a standard room (one queen or double bed) for just $60 (less than 1/2 our normal rate) with the purchase of a Design Fair Ticket or Deutschtown House Tour Ticket. Make your reservation at the Priory Hotel today.
Thanks to our good friend Diane Byrnes of Echoes of Erin, here are some fun things to do throughout the remaining days of September.
Monday, September 22
Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, features an Acoustic Jam Session at 7:00 PM.
Tuesday, September 23
Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, features Irish Night, Harp & Guinness Specials from 8:00 PM. Dennis Murphy is now bartending on Thursday’s. 412.279.0770’
Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle, 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, presents Ceili Dancing at 7:30 PM 412.642.6622.
“Window to Ireland’ classes at CCAC, Non-Credit Courses at Brentwood High School, 6:30PM to 8:30PM. Each week a new topic – October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2008. Information John Webber, 412.758.5446 or Email: jfwnamesman@aol.com
Thursday, September 25
Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle, 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, presents Pat Garvey on guitar, accordion & vocals at 9:00 PM. 412-642-6622.
Friday, September 26
The Claddagh Irish Pub & Restaurant, 304 Cinema Drive, South Side Works presents Christopher Laughrey & Casey Deely at 8:30PM. 412-381-4800.
Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, features Ballad Singer, Mike Gallagher at 9:00 PM.
Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle, 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, presents Pat Garvey on guitar, accordion & vocals at 9:00 PM. 412-642-6622.
Saturday, September 27
‘The Sounds of Charity Concert’ at Seton-LaSalle High School, 1000 McNeilly Road, Pgh. PA 15226. Entertainment with Guaranteed Irish, Mike Gallagher, Pittsburgh Irish Reelers. The evening begins at 6:30PM with a desert Reception and basket raffle, concert at 7:30PM. Tickets $25.00, Sister Patricia Hughes 412.343.1382, online at www.scsh.org and go to the News & Events section to use secure link to register online. The concert benefits the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill and their Far East Missions.
The Claddagh Irish Pub & Restaurant, 304 Cinema Drive, South Side Works presents Corned Beef & Curry at 8:30 PM. 412-381-4800.
Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, features Sean McClorey at 9:00 PM.
Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle, 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, presents Pat Garvey on guitar, accordion & vocals at 9:00 PM. 412-642-6622.
Sunday, September 28
Echoes of Erin, WEDO 810AM at 1:00 PM; The Ireland Report with Mairtin O’Muilleoir, Belfast. www.belfastmedia.com. Interview with Terry Blaschette with the Heinz History Center on the ‘Ulster Historical Foundation’ at the History Center.
‘Take a Swing Against Cancer’ at Boyce Park Silver Beaver Fields. An Official Wiffle Ball Tournament for Adult & Kids, $15 / kid, $20 / Adult. Pre-register at sunnycarneycarcinoidcancerfund@verizon.net. Donations can be sent to S & T Bank, Sunny Carney Carcinoid Cancer Fund, 2190 Hulton Road, Verona PA 15147. This fundraiser will help Sunny Carney who is suffering from this cancer.
Tuesday, September 30
The Ulster Historical Foundation, representing nine counties of Ulster, Derry, Antrim, Down, Tyrone, Armagh, Fermanagh, Cavan, Monahan and Donegal, will present a ‘Genealogical Workshop’ to help participants discover their Irish roots. Lecture from 6:00pm to 9:00pm at the Senator John Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman Street, The Strip. Tickets $10. Information: Terri Blanchette, 412-454-6411 or tsblanchette@hswp.org. Presenters are Dr. William Roulston and Brian Trainor.
A man stumbles up to the only other patron in a bar and asks if he could buy him a drink. "Why of course," comes the reply.
The first man then asks: "Where are you from?"
"I'm from Ireland," replies the second man.
The first man responds: "You don't say, I'm from Ireland too! Let's have another round to Ireland."
"Of Course," replies the second man. Curious, the first man then asks: "Where in Ireland are you from?"
"Dublin," comes the reply.
"I can't believe it," says the first man. "I'm from Dublin too! Let's have another drink to Dublin."
"Of course," replies the second man. Curiosity again strikes and the first man asks: "What school did you go to?"
"Saint Mary's," replies the second man. "I graduated in '65."
"This is unbelievable!," the first man says. "I went to Saint Mary's and I graduated in '65, too!" About that time in comes one of the regulars and sits down at the bar.
"What's been going on?," he asks the bartender.
"Nothing much," replies the bartender. "The O'Malley twins are drunk again."
September 21 1170 - MacMurrough and the Normans march on the Norse kingdom of Dublin, avoiding an Irish force that awaits them to the south of it. Dublin falls to them on this date. Some Norsemen, including the king of Dublin, Askulv, flee to the Hebrides or the Isle of Man 1601 - A Spanish army under Don Juan del Aguila lands at Kinsale 1703 - The first Irish parliament of Queen Anne is called; Alan Brodrick is unanimously elected Speaker 1728 - Philip Embury, founder of the American Methodist Church, is born in Ballingrane, Co. Limerick 1745 - The Jacobites are victorious at Prestonpans 1795 - 'Battle of the Diamond' between (Protestant) Peep o' Day Boys and (Catholic) Defenders near Loughgall, Co. Armagh leaves 30 Defenders dead and leads to the foundation of the Loyal Orange Institution (later the Orange Order) '...to defend the King and his heirs as long as they shall maintain the Protestant ascendancy' 1827 - Michael Corcoran, Union General, is born in Co. Donegal 1881- Revolutionary Éamonn Ceannt, is born in Glenamaddy, County Galway 1909 - Artist Tom Carr is born is Belfast 1932 - Birth of Mariga Guinness, née Princess Hermione Marie Gabrielle von Urach, Countess Württemberg; co-founder of Irish Georgian Society 1949 - The Republic of Ireland soccer team beats England 2-0 at Goodison Park - England’s first defeat by a foreign side 1981 - Death of author Christy Brown 1999 - Delegations from the Ulster Unionist Party and Sinn Féin meet at Stormont for their first direct talks in two months 1999 - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern pledges support for Arafat and the Palestinians 2000 - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern condemns the missile attack on the MI6 HQ in London 2000 - Gardaí arrest a man in connection with the bombing of Nelson’s Pillar in O’Connell Street, Dublin, 34 years ago 2001 - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announces that Ireland will put its airports, airspace, refuelling facilities and garda intelligence at the disposal of the US in the battle against terrorism. 2006: Golfing history on Irish soil. The Ryder Cup officially opens at the K Club in Co. Kildare. It is the first time golf's premier team tournament has come to Ireland and to date, it is the biggest sporting event ever staged in the country.
September 22 1601 - Battle of Kinsale 1626 - Charles I offers twenty-six concessions ("graces") to the Irish in return for subsidies to expand his army 1798 - Colonel Trench marches from Castlebar and takes Ballina 1821 - Patrick Moore, Confederate General, is born in Galway 1864 - Col. James Mulligan, who commanded "Mulligan's Irish Brigade," dies of wounds sustained at the 3rd Battle of Winchester 1884 - The gunboat HMS Wasp is wrecked off Tory Island, Co. Donegal, with the loss of 52 lives; there are eight survivors 1920 - Mid-Clare Brigade, IRA, kill six policemen near Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare 1928 - The first professional artist ever to appear on British television, Irishwoman Miss Peg O’Neil, gives "a charming entertainment, chatting and smiling, and telling Irish stories." The broadcast takes place at Olympia on the first day of the Radio Exhibition 1943 - Robert Ballagh, artist, is born in Dublin 1998 - RUC chief constable Ronnie Flanagan announces further reductions in the level of British troop patrols 1998 - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern pushes for a decommissioning timetable from the IRA 1999 - Ferry sailings resume following unofficial 24 hour strike action by SIPTU members which disrupted sailings out of Dublin and Rosslare, affecting almost 1,000 passengers 2001 - High-ranking British and Spanish diplomats join President McAleese and Britain's Prince Andrew to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Battle of Kinsale 2002 - David Trimble calls on all IRA members to quit the paramilitary organisation and join its political wing to save the Northern peace process.
September 23 1586 - At the battle of Ardnaree in Co. Mayo, Sir Richard Bingham, governor of Connacht, surprises a force of redshanks (Scottish mercenary light infantrymen) engaged by the Burkes of Mayo; 1,000 redshanks and 1,000 camp followers are killed. Bingham hangs the leaders of the Burkes 1641 - The Gaelic Catholics of Ulster stage an uprising against the Scottish Presbyterian planters 1798 - Second Battle of Killala. Final surrender of combined French and Irish forces to the English 1970 - Sir Arthur Young announces his resignation as chief constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary 1992 - The IRA destroys Belfast's forensic science laboratory with a huge bomb 2001 - Kevin Boland, who resigned from the Fianna Fáil Government during the 1970 Arms Crisis, dies after a short illness. He was the son of Gerald Boland, a 1916 veteran, confidant of Eamon de Valera, and long-time FF government minister; his uncle was the celebrated War of Independence hero, Harry Boland 1999 - Bob Geldof, Bono and other members of an international lobby group meet with Pope John Paul II to discuss the cancellation of third world debt repayments 2002 - The Listowel Races in Co. Kerry begin. For the first year in its history, which dates to 1858, it will be a seven-day meeting.
September 24 1661 - Faithful Tadpole is admitted as a clerical vicar choral of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness is born in Celbridge, Co. Kildare 1786 - Birth of Charles Bianconi, Irish passenger-car entrepreneur 1798 - United Irishman, Bartholomew Teeling, is hanged in Dublin 1801 - James Moore O'Donell, former MP for Ratoath, is killed in a duel with Major Denis Bingham in a feud over Co. Mayo politics 1880 - Mayo agent, Captain Charles Boycott, was sent to a 'moral Coventry.' He described his plight in a letter to The Times: "...people collect in crowds upon my farm and order off all my workmen. The shopkeepers have been warned to stop all supplies to my house. My farm is public property, I can get no workmen to do anything, and my ruin is openly avowed as the object of the Land League unless I throw up everything and leave the country" 1944 - Birth in Dublin of Eavan Boland, a poet who helped develop Arlen House, a feminist publishing company 1959 - Ireland's first Ban Garda recruit - woman police-officer - is introduced to RTÉ listeners 1998 - Garda Commissioner Pat Byrne admits that the Real IRA leaders who ordered the Omagh bombing will probably never be prosecuted 1998 - First Minister David Trimble and his deputy Séamus Mallon are divided over the set-up of the Assembly's power-sharing Executive 2000 - Boy band Westlife makes British pop history by becoming the first act to have six consecutive number one singles.
September 25 1697 - During William III's reign, Catholic clergy are banished by Act of Parliament 1819 - George Salmon, mathematician and professor of divinity, is born in Cork 1880 - Viscount Mountmorres is killed near Clonbur, Co. Galway 1917 - Thomas Ashe dies in the Mater Hospital in Dublin from the combined effects of a hunger strike and forced feeding at Mountjoy Jail. The following famous and much repeated Sean O’Casey quote "You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea... you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build." was made on the subject of the death of Thomas Ashe 1961 - Ronnie Whelan, Home Farm, Liverpool, Reading and Republic of Ireland footballer, is born in Dublin 1983 - 38 IRA prisoners break out of the Maze prison, 19 succeed in escaping 1999 - Sam Tamsanguan from Wilton’s Restaurant in London wins the world oyster opening championship title at the 45th annual Galway Oyster Festival 1999 - Protestant civil rights marchers blatantly defy a Belfast City Council ban to lay a wreath at the cenotaph to the victims of the Troubles during the so-called Long March 2000 - Sonia O'Sullivan wins a silver medal in the 5,000 meters at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia 2002 - Saying "He is no longer acceptable in our organisation," Loyalist chief Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair is dumped by the leadership of the paramilitary Ulster Defence Association.
September 26 1289 - 'All men of good will to the king', both Irish and English, in Munster and Leinster are summoned to Buttevant in Leix (Queen's County). A ten-day expedition which begins on this date, subdues and forces the local Irish into an uneasy peace 1713 - Charles Lucas, physician, MP and political radical, is born in Ballingaddy, Ennis, Co. Clare 1902 - James Dillon, politician and Fine Gael leader is born in Dublin 1930 - Saor Éire, a republican/socialist party, is founded by Peadar O'Donnell, Seán MacBride and other IRA members; it, the IRA and ten other organizations are declared illegal in the Free State on 23 October, and the Catholic Church excommunicates members of all 12 organizations. Saor Éire is soon dissolved 1932 - De Valera opens the 13th Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva 1957 - Shamrock Rovers become the first League of Ireland team to play in the European Cup — they lose 6-0 to Manchester United 1997 - U2 plays its first-ever show in Greece, in the city of Thessaloniki 2000 - Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble warns that the Good Friday Agreement could vanish over plans for new policing arrangements and the IRA’s failure to disarm 2000 - Financier George Finbar Ross, whose Gibraltar-based International Investments company went bust in the mid-eighties owning millions to Irish investors, is cleared of the bulk of the charges against him 2001 - Thousands of teachers will be docked up to £500 each because of industrial action they took prior to last year's State exams In the liturgical calendar, today is Feast day of St. Colman.
September 27 1662 - An "act for encouraging Protestant strangers and others to inhabit and plant in the kingdom of Ireland" is passed in the Irish Parliament under Charles II 1725 - Patrick Darcy, scientist and soldier, is born in Kitulla, Co.Galway 1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell makes his last public appearance at Creggs, Co. Galway 1926 - Tim O'Keeffe, publisher, is born in Kinsale, Co. Cork 1954 - Brian Mullins, Dublin Gaelic footballer, is born in Dublin 1957 - Launch of the Royal Showband 1971 - Heath, Lynch and Faulkner meet for talks at Chequers 1973 - The first in an annual series of ecumenical conferences is held at Ballymascanlon, Co. Lout and is attended by representatives of al the main churches 1998 - Tony Blair calls for a crisis meeting with David Trimble, Seamus Mallon and Gerry Adams to try to break the deadlock which has arisen over the decommissioning of arms 1998 - Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson announce they will donate a six-figure libel payout to a memorial fund for the victims of the Omagh bomb massacre 1999 - The Tipperary Rural and Business Development Institute opens in Thurles, Co Tipperary 2000 - Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams accuses David Trimble of attempting to manufacture another artificial crisis in Northern Ireland 2000 - Thirty-three years after it was made, censors lift the ban on a film adaptation of James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses 2001 - British Airways announces it is to close its Belfast-Heathrow route with 160 job losses. BA's decision also means it will suspend its daily service to Gatwick from Shannon and Cork 2001 - Entrepreneur Denis O'Brien is ordered to leave the Oireachtas committee inquiring into the CIE rail signalling project after telling Deputy Seán Doherty he is unfit to be its chairman.
Sr. Sarah Marie Healy passed away on Tuesday, September 16. Our Division 11 will meet at Carlow tonight, Thursday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. for our prayer service.
Sister Sara Marie Healy : Nurse, educator and administrator at Carlow Nov. 5, 1908 - Sept. 16, 2008 Thursday, September 18, 2008
By Gary Rotstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In the course of a century, Sister Sara Marie Healy flew airplanes, assisted in groundbreaking work with polio patients, led the city's big St. Patrick Day's Parade and had any number of memorable experiences.
But primarily, Sister Sara Marie mentored and motivated young people and represented some of the city's notable institutions with an infectious zeal. She was a top official at Carlow University into her 90s, with an ever-young spirit that still generated goodwill among benefactors, alumni, students and others.
The longtime Sister of Mercy died Tuesday at the Mercy Hall of the order's motherhouse on the Carlow campus in Oakland. She was 99. Health troubles began for her in 2001, when she concluded 18 years as special assistant to two different Carlow presidents, Sister Marylouise Fennell and Sister Grace Ann Geibel.
That role as university ambassador capped a career as a schoolteacher, nurse, nursing administrator and nursing educator. After entering the Sisters of Mercy from the North Side's St. Peter Parish in 1933, she held a range of supervisory positions at St. Paul's Orphanage in Crafton, at Mercy Hospital and at Carlow University and its predecessors, Mount Mercy College and Carlow College.
Sister Sara Marie was most closely tied to Carlow, where she obtained an education degree and in various stints since the 1950s taught nursing, ran the student health center and represented the two presidents. Known as "Aunt Sal" to many on campus, she delighted in spending time with younger generations, which led to many years spent living in a student dormitory instead of the convent used by her peers.
"I remember the students would always confide in her, and that takes a special quality," said Sister Grace Ann.
Before working with college students, Sister Sara Marie devoted her career to caring for young children. She worked alongside Dr. Jonas Salk in the 1950s as a nurse at the Municipal Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Oakland when he was developing the polio vaccine.
She became the nursing supervisor of pediatrics at Mercy Hospital in the late 1950s, where Sister Mary Louise Nash worked under her as a student nurse.
"She demanded much from students, but also gave much to students," Sister Mary Louise said. "She wasn't the kind of supervisor that kept in her office at all. She would move through all the wards and nurseries faster than you could track her."
An adventuresome spirit was exemplified by her obtaining a pilot's license as a young woman. She became an aviation instructor to prospective Army pilots in Latrobe during World War II. Life was a constant education for her, as she accumulated master's degrees in nursing, nursing education and counseling.
Decades spent networking with so many people in Pittsburgh's health and academic fields, as well as in active Irish heritage organizations such as the Ancient Order of Hibernians, made her perfect to start her special role at Carlow in 1983 even though she was already in her mid-70s. Sister Sara Marie excelled at remembering names and relationships and keeping track of them through notes and phone calls, both because she enjoyed it and because it was good for the university.
Already honored as a Carlow Woman of Spirit in 1994, she enjoyed a greater day in the limelight in 1996, waving giddily from a convertible as the first female grand marshal of Pittsburgh's St. Patrick's Day Parade. The next year, Mayor Tom Murphy honored her as Pittsburgh's "Senior Citizen of the Year." Fun-loving by nature, she did not shy away from the attention, but she also put in all the necessary effort to deserve it.
"I've never had an unhappy day," Sister Sara Marie said in a 1994 interview about her life's work. "I've had hard days. I've burned the midnight oil. But I've never had a really unhappy day."
She is survived by one sister, Catherine Healy, of the North Hills.
Friends will be received from 1 to 8 p.m. today (Thursday, Sept. 18) at the Convent of Mercy, 3333 Fifth Ave., Oakland. A Mass will be celebrated at noon tomorrow (Sept. 19) in the convent chapel, followed by burial in St. Xavier's Cemetery, Latrobe.
Funeral arrangements are by the Edward Kanai Funeral Home, Greenfield.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Sisters of Mercy or to the Carlow University Scholarship Fund, both at 3333 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Subject: Div #23 10th Annual Pub Crawl Mark your calendars!
LAOH #23 10th Annual Charity Pub Crawl Sat. Nov 1, 2008 AOH#23 Club opens at 11:30 a.m. Buffet lunch served Pub Crawl begins at 12:30 p.m. $20 donation includes T-shirt & lunch Drink tokens are $2 and can be purchased at the beginning or along the way. (If you cannot attend the pub crawl, you can still donate to our charity fund. You can receive a T-shirt for $15 minimum donation.) Please call or email to register by 10/18/08 to ensure your T-shirt size availability. Contact information: Donna Ricca - donnaricca@msn.com - 412-965-2123 Colleen McGinley - colleenlaoh23@verizon.net - 412-782-5357 Judy Boyle - jmb@camlev.com - 412-867-6026
Many thanks to brother Joseph Mathers for sending.
The 98-year-old Mother Superior from Ireland was dying. The nuns gathered around her bed trying to make her last journey comfortable.
They gave her some warm milk to drink but she refused.
Then one of the nuns took the glass back to the kitchen. Remembering a bottle of Irish whiskey received as a gift the previous Christmas, she opened and poured a generous amount into the warm milk.
Back at Mother Superior's bed, she held the glass to her lips. Mother drank a little, then a little more and before they knew it, she had drunk the whole glass down to the last drop.
"Mother," the nuns asked earnestly , "please give us some wisdom before you die."
She raised herself up in bed and with a pious look on her face said, "Don't sell that cow."
Brother Bill Carr thought this was a good article (Attribution to Father Scott Seethaler) to pass along since the mainstream media so often misrepresents the facts on “Us” Catholics, so here’s a good comeback for you know.
(From an article written by Sam Miller, prominent Cleveland Jewish businessman, who is NOT a Catholic)
"Why would newspapers carry on a vendetta on one of the most important institutions that we have today in the United States, namely, the Catholic Church?
Do you know that the Catholic Church educates 2.6 million students everyday at a cost to your Church of 10 billion dollars, and a savings on the other hand to the American taxpayer of 18 billion dollars. Your graduates go on to graduate studies at the rate of 92%, all at a cost to you. To the rest of the Americans it's free. The Church has 230 colleges and universities in the U.S. with an enrollment of 700,000 students. The Catholic Church has a non-profit hospital system of 637 hospitals, which account for hospital treatment of 1 out of every 5 people — not just Catholics — in the United States today.
But the press is vindictive and trying to totally denigrate in every way the Catholic Church in this country. They have blamed the disease of pedophilia on the Catholic Church, which is as irresponsible as blaming adultery on the institution of marriage.
Let me give you some figures that you as Catholics should know and remember. For example, 12% of the 300 Protestant clergy surveyed admitted to sexual intercourse with a parishioner; 38% acknowledged other inappropriate sexual contact in a study by the United Methodist Church, 41.8% of clergy women reported unwanted sexual behavior; 17% of lay women have been sexually harassed. Meanwhile, 1.7% of the Catholic clergy has been found guilty of pedophilia. 10% of the Protestant ministers have been found guilty of pedophilia. This is not a Catholic Problem.
A study of American priests showed that most are happy in the priesthood and find it even better than they had expected, and that most, if given the choice, would choose to be priests again in face of all this obnoxious PR the Church has been receiving.
The Catholic Church is bleeding from self-inflicted wounds. The agony that Catholics have felt and suffered is not necessarily the fault of the Church. You have been hurt by a small number of wayward priests that have probably been totally weeded out by now.
From,
Father Scott Seethaler O.F.M. Cap. Saint Augustine Friary 221-36th St., Pittsburgh, PA. 15201
P.S.: Walk with your shoulders high and your head higher. Be a proud member of the most important non-governmental agency in the United States. Then remember what Jeremiah said: "Stand by the roads, and look and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is and walk in it, and find rest for your souls." Be proud to speak up for your faith with pride and reverence and learn what your Church does for all other religions. Be proud that you're a Catholic!"
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September 14 1607 - Hugh O'Neill, Ruari O'Donnell and other chiefs of their families depart Lough Swilly for the continent in what has become known as the 'Flight of the Earls" 1647 - Lord Inchiquin, a royalist turned Parliamentarian, sacks the Irish Catholic Confederate garrison at the Rock of Cashel 1752 - The Gregorian calendar is adopted in Ireland and Britain, 170 years after mainland Europe: 2 September is followed by 14 September. There are protests and riots by people who are convinced that they have lost 12 days out of their lives 1824 - Sir Frederick Falkiner, impoverished former MP for Athy, Co. Dublin and Co. Carlow commits suicide in Naples 1852 - Death of Arthur Wellesley, alias the Duke of Wellington. The Dublin born soldier served as MP for Meath before eventually becoming Prime Minister of Britain 1886 - Birth of author Alice Milligan 1907 - Edel Quinn, promoter of Legion of Mary in Africa, is born near Kanturk, Co. Cork 1955 - Dr. Kathleen Lynn, Irish Citizen Army officer, dies 1971 - Ian Paisley founds the Democratic Unionist Party 1982 - Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, dies in a car crash 1994 - At a London auction, Bono pays $53,400 for Charlie Chaplin's costume from The Great Dictator 1998 - Sinn Fein is warned by First Minister, David Trimble, that it could not take up seats in the new Northern Ireland Assembly's ruling executive until the IRA's vast armoury of weapons are decommissioned 1999 - Clonfert Cathedral which ranks in importance with the Great Pyramids and dates back to the 12th century, joins the millennium list of the 100 Most Endangered Monuments. The list is compiled by The New York Times and in the past has included such famous landmarks as the Inca city of Machu Picchu in Peru and the Aztec site of Teotihuacan in Mexico City 1999 - UFF "godfather" Johnny Mad Dog Adair is released from the Maze Prison 1999 - The Pro-Agreement parties resume talks with former US Senator George Mitchell during the second week of his review of the Good Friday Agreement 1999 - Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern begins his official visit to Russia 2000 - Roy Keane, Pauline McLynn and Samantha Mumba are among the stars who are honoured at the Millennium Irish Post Awards held at the Millennium Brittania Hotel in Grosvenor Square 2001 - Following the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, as many as 15,000 Irish people are stranded in the US and Canada awaiting flights to Ireland 2001 - The Irish government declares a national day of mourning; schools, businesses and shops are shut down in an unprecedented gesture of sympathy following Tuesday's attack on the World Trade Center.
September 15 1851 - Sir William Whitla, physician and professor, is born in Co. Monaghan 1865 - Police raid and close the Irish People offices; Rossa, Luby and O'Leary are arrested 1866 - John Blake Dillon, Young Irelander and co-founder of The Nation, dies in Killarney 1881 - First soccer international in Ireland; England beats the Irish squad Total crowd receipts: £9.19s.7d 1889 - Birth in Castlebar of singer Margaret Burke Sheridan 1905 - Pat O'Callaghan, physician, hammer-thrower and first man to win an Olympic gold medal while representing Ireland, is born near Kanturk, Co. Cork 1976 - Anne Letitia Dickson is elected leader of the Unionist Party of Northern ireland, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in Ireland 1997 - Sinn Fein joins multiparty peace talks in Northern Ireland 1999 - The Corrs, the Cranberries and the Chieftains take the lion’s share of £15.6 million collected by the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) on behalf of Irish song writers 2000 - Sonia O'Sullivan leads the Irish team at a spectacular Olympic opening ceremony in Sydney, Australia 2001 - Aer Lingus, Delta and Continental Airlines resume services to and from Ireland. The first trans-Atlantic flights to the US leave for New York, Newark, Chicago and Washington. Priority status is given to all relatives of the victims and injured in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.
September 16 1732 - Birth in Castletown, Co. Clare of Thomas O'Gorman, physician, wine trader and courtier in France; made a chevalier by Louis XV 1798 - Small French force under James Napper Tandy makes brief landing on Rutland Island, Co. Donegal 1798 - Belfast United Irish leaders arrested 1808 - William Trench, land agent and author, is born near Portarlington, Co. Laois 1830 - Birth in Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow of Patrick Moran, Archbishop of Sydney, first Australian cardinal, and church historian 1845 - Death of Thomas Davis, revolutionary, poet, and political theorist 1865 - Fenian newspaper, Irish People, ceases publication 1870 - Birth in Dublin of John Pius Boland, nationalist politician and Ireland's first Olympic gold medalist 1906 - Trevor G. McVeagh, cricket, hockey, squash and tennis player, is born in Athboy, Co. Meath 1925 - Charles Haughey, Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach, is born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo 1934 - Singer, guitarist and founder of the Dubliners, Ronnie Drew, is born in Dublin 1941 - Sixteen soldiers are killed in the Glen of Imaal, Co. Wicklow, while testing mines 1945 - World renowned Irish tenor, John McCormack, dies in Athlone 1998 - Irish-owned Musgrave Group becomes the biggest food distribution company in the country after signing an historic franchise deal with supermarket chain Roches Stores 1998 - Books of condolences opened in the aftermath of the Omagh tragedy are closed. More than 150,000 people from across Northern Ireland are estimated to have signed the books.
September 17 1711 - John Holwell, surgeon and survivor of 'Black Hole of Calcutta' is born in Dublin 1798 - 3000 French troops depart for Ireland from Brest 1903 - Frank O'Connor, (pseudonym of Michael O'Donovan), short-story writer and author of poetic translations from Irish is born in Cork 1920 - Birth of Chaim Herzog, former president of Israel, born in Belfast and educated in Dublin 1930 - The Free State is elected to the council of the League of Nations 1937 - Ten young men, potato-pickers from Achill Island, die when a bothy catches fire on a farm at Kirkintilloch, Scotland 1976 - The founders of the Peace Movement, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, are awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace 1999 - Interest rates for thousands of home owners tumble as the mortgage war escalates 2003 - Mrs Harriet O'Donovan Sheehy unveils the new stamp of her late husband Frank O'Connor at St Patrick's National School, Gardiner's Hill, Cork.
September 18 1846 - James Standish O'Grady, novelist, is born in Castletownbere, Co. Cork 1867 - Kelly and Timothy Deasy are rescued in a Fenian attack on a police van in Manchester during which a police sergeant is shot dead 1889 - Kathleen Behan, née Kearney, 'Mother of All the Behans' and folk singer is born in Dublin 1851 - Anne Devlin, friend and comrade of Robert Emmett, dies in Dublin 1914 - Home Rule Act on Statute Book but is suspended for the duration of World War 1941 - Stephen Hayes, a former IRA chief of staff, is kidnapped on 30 June; he later claims to have been 'court martialled' and tortured by the IRA; Seán McCaughey is convicted of his kidnapping on this date 1964 - Death of Sean O’Casey in England.
September 19 1757 - Having been funded by a bequest from Jonathan Swift, St Patrick's Hospital for the insane, Dublin, is opened 1889 - Seán Keating, painter, is born in Limerick 1880 - Parnell delivers his famous speech at Ennis in which he introduces the term for non-violent protest - boycotting. Parnell asked his audience, 'What are you to do with a tenant who bids for a farm from which another has been evicted?' Several voices replied, 'shoot him!' Parnell answered: "I wish to point out a better way, a more Christian way which will give the lost man an opportunity of repenting. When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must shun him on the roadside, on the streets, in the shop and even in the place of worship by putting him in a "moral Coventry." You must show him your detestation of the crime he has committed" 1881 - Kate Coll and Juan Vivion de Valera are married in St. Patrick’s Church, Greenville, New Jersey. Just over a year later the couple give birth to Éamon 1905 - Death of Dr. Thomas Barnardo. Dublin-born Barnardo opened his first home for destitute boys in Stepney in 1870 2000 - Aodhnait Fahy, Ireland's top student is given £30,000 to allow her to pursue the course of her dreams at Oxford University. She swept the board in this year's Leaving Cert with nine A1s - the highest ever result in the country 2000 - Fishermen all around the coast tie up their boats in protest at the £15 million hike in their fuel bill which, they claim, will put many of them out of business before Christmas.
September 20 1689 - The Enniskillen Protestants defeat Jacobite forces at Boyle, Co. Roscommon 1784 - Sir Richard Griffith, geologist and civil engineer, is born in Dublin 1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish patriot, is executed in Dublin. Emmet becomes a hero of Irish nationalists, largely on the basis of his stirring speech from the dock: "Let no man write my epitaph...When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then let my epitaph be written" 1847- Birth in Carron, Co. Clare of Michael Cusack, GAA founder 1911 - Anna Catherine Parnell, Irish patriot, dies 1918 - Republican newspapers are banned by English 1920 - Black and Tans raid Balbriggan, Co. Dublin 1920 - Kevin Barry is captured 1960 - Frederick H. Boland becomes president of the United Nations Assembly 1968 - Traffic wardens appear in Dublin for the first time.
Many of our brothers did not receive the Keystone News bu e-mail this morning because of its very large size (22 pages), but it is also posted on our Pa. State website at http://www.paaoh.org/newsletter.html. Please go to this site to get the news and tell your members about this site so they can appreciate the great works and happenings in the Keystone State AOH. Please read Tom Jr.'s message about upcoming degrees and the 2009 State Convention.
Gerry Ennis State Secretary
Brothers, Please let your membership know that the September edition of Keystone News is now posted on the State Board Website. You can access it by clicking on the following link http://www.paaoh.org/newsletter.html.
Also, please let your membership know that they are now able to pre-register for the October 26th Major Degree in Wilkes-Barre. By pre-registering candidates and observers it makes life alot easier for the host Division to plan for the after party, etc. and also helps the Degree Team with making up the Degree cards ahead of time rather then trying to get them all done during the Degree. The form can be found by clicking on the following link http://www.paaoh.org/degrees.html.
Be sure to check out the 2009 AOH / LAOH State Convention Website. There is a link to the site on the State Board Website. You can access it by clicking on the following link http://www.paaoh.org/conventions.html.
In AOH circles, since there is sure to be a lot of talk and debate about Senators' Barack OBama and John McCain and their respective Irish heritage, we'll do our best to keep discussions lively, fair, balanced and informative from the "Irish perspective."
The American Ireland Fund presented the Distinguished Leadership Award to Senator John McCain. Senator McCain, a proud Scots-Irish American, is well recognized for his interest and efforts in the peace process in Ireland.
Above is a picture of An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern alongside McCain at the event.
"So, have you figured what to buy the Missus for Christmas?" asked Brady. "I, sure have, she decided it for me," answered Paddy. "She said she wanted something with diamonds in it, so I've bought her a pack of cards."
September 7 1695 - Penal Laws are passed which restrict the rights of Catholics to have an education, to bear arms, or to possess a horse worth more than five pounds 1798 - Humbert crosses Shannon at Ballintra and camps at Cloone. Cornwallis crosses Shannon. Rebels at Wilson's Hospital are routed; this ends the rebellion in the midlands 1801 - Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquis of Downshire, former MP for Co. Down and one of the wealthiest landowners in Ireland, commits suicide 1823 - Kevin Izod O'Doherty, transportee, physician and politician, is born in Dublin 1892 - John L. Sullivan loses his world heavyweight boxing title to another Irish American, James Corbett 1921 - Frank Duff founds the Association of Our Lady of Mercy, later to be known as the Legion of Mary 1948 - Taoiseach John A.Costello declares the Irish Free State a Republic 1980 - Galway wins the All Ireland Final 2001 - It is announced that US President George Bush is sending his special envoy, Richard Haass, to Northern Ireland to sound out parties on the ailing peace process.
September 8 1783 - A second convention of Dungannon - a gathering of Volunteers from Ulster- is held and prepares the way for a National Volunteer convention on parliamentary reform 1798 - Battle of Ballinamuck - last major battle of "The Year of the French"; after a short fight, Humbert surrenders 1812 - John Martin, revolutionary, transportee and politician, is born near Newry, Co. Down 1830 - Thomas Nicholas Burke, Dominican friar, preacher and lecturer, is born in Galway 1852 - A conference of the Tenant League in Dublin adopts a policy of independent opposition in Parliament 1908 - Poet, educator and eventual Easter Rising rebel Patrick Pearse opens St. Edna's school for boys (Scoil Eanna), combining new European theories of education with a focus on the glory of the Gaelic past 1931 - Birth of Desmond Guinness, author and conservationist 1933 - Founding of Fine Gael Party 1980 - U2 plays the first of four consecutive Monday night performances at London's famous Marquee Club 1998 - A radical Government action plan aiming to cut thousands off the dole is launched 1999 - AB Airlines will cease operations on the Shannon to London Gatwick route at midnight 2000 - US President Bill Clinton announces he will visit Ireland in December 2000 - Clonakilty, Co. Cork claims the Best Village title in the prestigious European Entente Florale competition; in the town category, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, wins a bronze medal in the highly competitive environmental contest 2002 - The Kilkenny Cats beat the Co. Clare Banners and collect their 27th All-Ireland hurling title in front of 76,254 fans at Croke Park In the liturgical calendar, today is the feast day of St. Disbode, a 7th century Irish missionary. According to German legend, the Irish saint founded the German wine industry when wine started pouring from his pilgrim’s staff.
September 9 872 - Earliest verifiable date of a Viking invasion of Ireland in Dunrally 1831 - 30,000 punds is allocated to establish "national" system of elementary education in Ireland 1845 - The arrival of the potato blight in Ireland is reported in the Dublin Evening Post 1852 - The last day of the Tenant League Conference in Dublin 1893 - House of Lords rejects Second Home Rule Bill 1922 - The newly elected Daíl Éireann meets to frame its constitution and elects William T. Cosgrave President of the Executive Committee 1963 - Cardinal William Conway becomes Primate of All Ireland 1978 - U2 support The Stranglers at the Top Hat Ballroom in Dublin before a crowd of 2,500 people, their biggest to date. The band is paid 50 pounds 2001 - Protestant residents of Ardoyne defy church leaders and politicians by continuing their protest outside north Belfast's Holy Cross primary school 2001 - Family, friends and fans pay tribute to actor Joe Lynch during a special commemorative mass at the Catholic Pro-Cathedral in Dublin 2001 - Three suspected IRA members - Niall Connolly, Martin McCauley and James Monaghan - are transferred from La Modelo federal prison to a high security jail in Bogota over fears for their safety 2002 - Bob Geldof delivers a moving speech at the launch of the world’s first genocide centre in Nottinghamshire 2002 - Castletown, Co. Laois, is declared Ireland’s Tidiest Town In the liturgical calendar, this is the feast day of St. Kieran, founder of the great monastery at Clonmacnois. He dies on this date in 545.
September 10 1315 - Battle of Connor. Major victory for Edward Bruce in his invasion of Ulster 1602 - "Red" Hugh O'Donnell dies in Simancas, Spain; evidence suggests he was poisoned by an English spy 1641 - Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda 1763 - The Freeman's Journal is founded in Dublin by Charles Lucas 1831 - Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian, is born in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork 1850 - In Thurles, it is the final day of the first canonical synod of the Irish church, summoned by Paul Cullen 1916 - While serving in the Dublin Fusiliers during World War I, Irish poet Tom Kettle dies in attack on Ginchy 1919 - Dáil Éirean outlawed by the English as a "dangerous association." 1923 - The Irish Free State is admitted into the League of Nations 1985 - The first heart transplant takes place in Ireland 1987 - The third leg of the U2 Joshua Tree tour opens in New York's Nassau Coliseum 1998 - Students queue for food at an emergency soup kitchen and advice centre, set up in a bid to ease the impact of the stress and strain caused by one of the greatest accommodation shortages ever experienced in Dublin 1998 - Gerry Adams and David Trimble finally come face-to-face in an historic move aimed to bring to an end decades of mistrust between the two sides 2001 - Westport, Co. Mayo wins the Tidy Towns competition.
September 11 1649 - Massacre at Drogheda. Cromwell captures the town and slaughters the garrison 1766 - John Bligh, former MP for Athboy, who suffers from the delusion that he is a teapot, marries suddenly and unexpectedly at nearly 50 years of age. Between now and his death in 1781 he will father at least seven children, 'in spite of his initial alarm that his spout would come off in the night' 1919 - Dáil Eireann is suppressed as a ‘dangerous association’ by the British government and membership is deemed to be a crime 1922 - Proportional representation for local elections is abolished in Northern Ireland 1998 - British troops are withdrawn from the streets of Belfast in response to the ongoing republican and loyalist cease-fires 1998 - The Northern Ireland Office announces that more than 200 loyalist and republican prisoners will be freed from the Maze Prison before the end of the year 2000 - Gina Adair, the wife of jailed loyalist paramilitary boss Johnny Adair is thrown out of the public gallery after disrupting proceedings at the Northern Ireland Assembly 2000 - Picturesque Kenmare completes a unique double by becoming the first town in the country to take the prize as both Ireland’s Tidiest Town and Ireland’s Best Kept Town 2001 - President Mary McAleese goes on RTÉ Radio to express her shock and horror at the terrorist attacks in the US. In the wake of the attacks, the government immediately begins reviewing security arrangements 2002 - In a gesture of support and solidarity, schools, shops and businesses come to a symbolic halt at 1.46pm - the precise moment, Irish time, that the first terrorist hijacked plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center in NYC one year ago.
September 12 1653 - Ireland and Scotland are represented by six and five members respectively in the 'Barebones' parliament which is in effect from 4 July to this date 1798 - Rebels attack Castlebar and are repulsed 1907 - Louis McNeice, poet and classical scholar is born in Belfast 1919 - Dáil Éireann is declared illegal 1951 - Birth of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern 1957 - Birth of Mal Donaghy, former NI and Manchester United player 1983 - The first episode of RTÉ’s Glenroe is broadcast 1999 - It is announced that every household in Ireland is to receive a millennium candle to light when the sun sets on New Year’s Eve 2001 - Irish aid agencies pull out of Afghanistan amid growing fears of a possible US retaliation on the Taliban regime and Osama bin Laden 2001 - Families in Limerick take in American tourists grounded since 9/11 at Shannon Airport after all flights in and out of the US are cancelled. In the liturgical calendar, it is the feast day of St. Ailbe, Bishop of Emly, Tipperary.
September 13 1494 - Edward Poynings, best known for his introduction of "Poynings Law," which prevented the Irish Parliament from meeting without royal permission and approval of its agenda, is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland 1803 - Death of John Barry, a native of Ballystampson, Co. Wexford, Commodore in the US Navy and renowned as the Father of the American Navy 1903 - Padraic Pearse arrives in Ros Muc, County Galway and takes up residence at his cottage in Inbhear 1912 - In a speech at Dundee, Winston Churchill announces his support of a policy of devolution for Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1999 - Former US Senator George Mitchell returns to Northern Ireland as he embarks on the second week of his review of the Good Friday Agreement 1999 - Clonakilty, Co. Cork wins the Tidy Town competition.
You're welcome on September 28 to attend a fundraiser benefiting the North Versailles Marine MP Bravo Company Unit at Mitchell's Bar and Restaurant, 304 Ross Street, Downtown Pittsburgh . Enjoy music from the Stanley Kurtis Band and Iron City bottles and drafts. The fundraiser starts at 5:00p.m. and ends at 8:00 p.m. Admission is $2.00.
Mr. Obama left the stage with a joke about how there is an apostrophe in his name _ that would make it O’Bama — and said his first name was really Baragh, which he pronounced with a thick brogue. “It’s actually an old Celtic name,” he said.
Editorial Note: Original editotial comment has been removed per suggestion of commentary. This blogger meant no offense to Mr. McCain. This blogger simply cannot find any news articles about him interacting with the Irish community.
John F. Webber of Division 23 in Lawrenceville, plus the Gaelic Arts Society and Knights of Equity Court 9, will be teaching a fall Irish culture course entitled "Window to Ireland."
The non-credit classes, under the auspices of Community College of Allegheny County, will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on six consecutive Thursdays from Sept. 25 through Oct. 30 at Brentwood High School, 3601 Brownsville Road.
The AOH Luzerne County Board will sponsor a Major Degree of the Order on Sunday, October 26, 2008.
The Degree will be held at the Sheehy-Farmer Student Center on the campus of Kings College in Wilkes-Barre.
The Degree will be administered by the Isle Of Erin Degree Team from Montgomery County. Registrations will begin at 11 a.m.
A Shamrock Degree will begin at noon and the Major Degree will follow shortly after.
The cost will be $30 for candidates and $20 for observers.
We have not had a Major Degree in Luzerne County in five years, so we are hoping for a good turnout of candidates and observers not only from Luzerne County but also from our surrounding area.
For information and questions, please contact Jim Gallagher at 570 823-0480, 570 362-1350 or by email at JGGAL@MSN.COM
