Father Kelley Division ~ Manassas

Our goal is to advance our mission of Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity. Saturday’s parade was an excellent opportunity to recruit new members. I sent out invites to three potential candidates, focusing on men in kilts. We should be aggressively…

The Windsor Framework is a proposed post-Brexit legal agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom which was announced on 27 February 2023. It is designed to address the problem of the movement of goods between the European Single Market and the United Kingdom in the current Northern Ireland Protocol. The proposed…

AOH Veterans Report (March 2023) National: State: Virginia State Military Retirement Subtraction The seventeenth enactment clause of the 2022 Appropriation Act (House Bill 30, Special Session I, Chapter 2) allows an individual income tax subtraction for certain military benefits received…

By November 1862 Lincoln needed to demonstrate to the public that his war effort was succeeding. While Antietam was a strategic success since it stopped the Confederate army, Lee’s army remained intact and quite capable of invading the north again….

Highlights: The Father Kelley Division fundraising efforts and results were discussed. The schedule of activities in 2023 was reviewed and modified. Future key fundraising and recruiting events were discussed. The meeting was called to order at 7:31 PM at the…

Wells Fargo Bank Business Savings $300.09 with 4 cents interest paid 1/31/23 Wells Fargo Bank Business checking Beginning balance on 1/1/23             $14,979.29 Deposits/credits                                 $1,237.00 Withdrawals/debits                               $529.98 Ending balance 1/31/23                   $15,686.31     Transactions: 1/4/23 check #1680 $250. Boyle School of Irish…

National: Toxic Exposure:   State: I have spoken to the local Virginia Veterans Support Office in Fairfax. They are having a shift in personnel. Will have two new Veterans Service Representatives (VSR). Loudon, Springfield also have officers from the Virginia…

Last month I reported on the sizable number of Irish women who immigrated to the United States in the early part of the 20th Century. Pre-famine immigrants from Ireland mainly were male, while in the famine years and their aftermath,…

The term “Black Irish” is often used to describe people of Irish descent who have dark features, black hair, dark eyes, and a swarthy complexion. However, the origins of the term and the exact characteristics associated with it are somewhat…