Parade Committee.

Parade Day 2024 is March 1, 2025

: Parade News- Thank you to everyone who helped in any way with the 56th “parade day.” Rest up- “parade day”2025 is 3/1/25.

​ AOH FINANCIAL NEWS

The 2024 AOH membership cards will be arriving soon. We’d appreciate you paying your dues at your earliest convenience. The dues are $40.00. Drop off or mail your payment to: AOH Hall, 148 Main St., Binghamton, NY 13905. Attn: Mark Kadlecik. If you have an address change, please let us know. It’s the only way we can keep our records straight and ensure you’ll get all the mailings.

IRISH HISTORY

A SPECIAL MOMENT IN IRISH AMERICAN HISTORY

     Our St. Patrick’s Day flag raising began with Binghamton Mayor Kraham noting how the small island of Ireland has had such a great impact on the history of America. America has grown to become the richest most powerful country in world history and all along the way Ireland has provided America with government leaders, hard workers, Hollywood personalities, and war heroes. Thus, the connection between Ireland and the United States is strong and historical.  At the time of President Kennedy’s murder this connection was put on display for the world to see.

     On his visit to Ireland JFK had watched with great admiration a cadre of Irish Army cadets perform a burial drill at the graves of executed Irish revolutionaries. The day after the President’s death, Jackie Kennedy personally requested that the U.S. State Department invite a cadre of Irish Army cadets to do the same burial drill at her husband’s Arlington gravesite.

     An Irish writer called it a strange moment in world history: “An American president buried with the honors of a foreign country’s patriot dead, a thing that had never happened before and hasn’t happened since.”  The writer described it, “They were immaculate, poised, balletic. The only sound was of the orders being given in Irish. The cadets moved their rifles as if in slow motion, turning them in perfect synchronicity so that they faced the ground. They shot out their right arms, then their left ones, and brought them both back to rest on the butt of their reversed guns. They bowed their heads, kept them down, then raised them again. Each movement was controlled, contained, precise.”

    Maybe a strange moment, but to many, this beautiful honor represented the Irish and American connection. We should cherish that moment and that connection. As Hibernians it is our duty to remember it. -Bill Burke. 

Sources:  G. Kraham 3.17.24, F. O’Toole - A Personal History of Ireland. 2021

2023 Event Pictures, click here.

aoh finaaccial news

I’d like to thank all the members who have paid their 2024 dues. An arrears letter will be sent in April to those who haven’t paid, and the dues will then be $50. Those who are in arrears with their dues will need to bring them up-to-date as soon as possible. Drop-off your payment at the hall or mail to AOH; 148 Main St.; Binghamton, NY 13905 – Attn: Mark Kadlecik

​ CORPORATION NEWS

The first meeting of the year open to all AOH/LAOH members in good standing is June 10 at 7:00. The Queen of Hearts drawing will be Thursday at 5:15- ticket selling will stop at 5:00. At times a shamrock will be on the entrance door to indicate the door is open in place of the sign.. -Tom Kelly Corporation President.

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION PROCESS

  Membership in the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Inc. is confined to men 16 years and older who are practicing Roman Catholics of Irish birth or descent and who are citizens of United States of America or who have declared their intentions to become citizens of the United States of America.

Associate memberships are also available to those who do not meet the aforementioned qualification.

It is a standing rule that Applications for Membership that languish without action for longer than 6 months are discarded.

Notifications for induction dates and times, through the Shamrock Degree, are sent to all applicants.
Those who have applied prior to this 6 month period, and are serious about joining the A.O.H., need to reapply for admission and make arrangements to attend a Shamrock Degree ceremony within the next six month.

Those interested in membership must stop into the Hall to submit an application as they must have an active member sponsor them and sign the form.

Please check the Bartender Schedule page here for days and times the hall is open.