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B rothers, welcome to the Dog Days of Summer! Beat the Heat-Drink

Cold Beers at the always Air Conditioned BinLids!

On Friday, Aug. 26, the Carr-Stone-Carr Golf Outing will take place at Juniata GC. It’s a 1 p.m. shotgun start. The price is $90 and includes: shirt, prizes, box lunch and after party. The after party and awards ceremony will be at the club (price for just after party is $30). This is always a great event; our Brother Jimmy HiFi Carr does a great job putting this together. This legacy golf tournament was started in 2005 and is dedicated to the memory of; Mary and Pat Carr, Patrick J. Carr, Danny Stone and Daniel P. Carr. And this year we will also be fondly remembering Anne and Tom McGovern. No longer with us in person, but their legacies of love, laughter, friend-ship and true Christian Charity are alive and well in all of us.

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is Monday, Aug. 15, and com-memorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into Heaven, before her body could begin to decay — a foreshadowing of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time. Because it signifies the Blessed Virgin's passing into eternal life, it is the most important of all Marian feasts and a holy day of obligation. Our AOH brothers in Ireland take this feast day very seriously and hold an annual march on this date. Like always this march will be a dignified, peaceful and spiritual march unlike the contentious parades that were witnessed this past July 12 from the Or-ange Orders.

In July, the national AOH elected a new E-board at the Atlantic City Con-vention. The Order’s new officers are: National President Judge James McKay

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VOL. 119, ISSUE 7/8 HAIL MARY, FULL OF GRACE

National AOH adopts “One Ireland, One Vote” resolu-tion. Page 3

Kensington was ground zero for the 19th century Nativist riots. Pages 4-5

Carr-Stone-Carr golf outing is right around the corner. Page 6

Details for 35th anniversary Hunger Strike Mass. Page 7

INSIDE THIS ISSUE :

OFFICERS LIST 2

MEETING 3

S ICK/DECEASED 3

1916 SOCIETIES 3

NATIVIST RIOTS 4-5

CARR-STONE-

CARR GOLF

6

HUNGER STRIKE

MASS

6

MALVERN RETREAT 7

DUES FORM 7

CLUB RENTALS 7

MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS DIVISION 87, PORT R ICHMOND , PHILADELPHIA , PA 19124

CHARTERED APRIL 14, 1898—DAILY PRACTICING OUR MOTTO OF FRIENDSHIP , UNITY AND TRUE CHRISTIAN CHARITY

SPECIAL POINTS

OF INTEREST

PRESIDENT ’S MESSAGE

HOME BOARD

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Chaplain Rev. Joseph Howarth Resurrection of Our Lord 2000 Shelmire Ave Philadelphia, PA 19152 215-745-3211 Deacon in Residence Thomas McGovern 57 E. Main St. High Bridge, NJ 08829 908-692-5095 tmcg8466@gmail.com President James Lockhart Jr. 2442 E. Lehigh Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19125-2347 267-226-8843 fenianjim1916@gmail.com Vice President Gene Long III 7142 Cottage St. Philadelphia, PA 19135-1202 215-594-9935 genelong@yahoo.com Recording Secretary Patrick Dever 2657 E. Schiller St. Philadelphia, PA 19134-5412 609-760-4899 pdever@fairwayinsurance.com Financial Secretary Sean Coyne 1438 Dreshertown Road Dresher, PA 19025 610-405-8466 sean8182@yahoo.com Treasurer Brian Miracle 11622 Proctor Road Philadelphia, PA 19116 215-514-8541

Standing Committee Edward “Obie” O’Brien 3156 Aramingo Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19134 215-739-6560 215-300-6332 Marshal James Hughes 15050 Endicott St. Philadelphia, PA 19116-1508 215-671-1361 nuttyirish@aol.com Sentinel John Jones 11867 Colman Terrace Philadelphia, PA 19154-2510 267-608-9694 john_m_jones@comcast.net Immediate Past President Chris Asinos 2021 Griffith St. Philadelphia, PA 19152-3201 215-284-4275 moisescasinos@aol.com Historian Robert McConomy 3214 Miller St Philadelphia, PA 19134 215-426-1779 Catholic Action Tom McDonald Sr. 5115 Roosevelt Blvd. Philadelphia, PA 19124 Pro-Life Joseph Golden 2318 Ripley St Philadelphia, PA 19152

Chairman Tom Lavelle Jr. 6 Nancy Dr. Richboro, PA 18954-1325 215-942-9745 Financial Officer Chuck Welsh Jr. 2817 Sellers St. Philadelphia, PA 19137-1922 Recording Secretary James McGinley 3255 Glenview St Philadelphia, PA 19149 215-331-6239 Trustees James Lockhart Jr. 2442 E. Lehigh Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19125-2347 267-226-8843 fenianjim1916@gmail.com Brian Miracle 11622 Proctor Road Philadelphia, PA 19116 215-514-8541 Club Steward Thomas Wenger 4050 E. Cheltenham Ave Philadelphia, PA 19124 215-288-8140

Webmaster John Jones 11867 Colman Terrace Philadelphia, PA 19154-2510 267-608-9694 john_m_jones@comcast.net

The Brimmer Bill Kenny, editor 8606 Glenloch St. Philadelphia, PA 19136 267-249-1768 kennywj@hotmail.com

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AOH National Convention Endorses

“One Ireland, One Vote” The 1916 Societies are pleased to learn that the Ancient Order of Hibernians, an important organization within

the Irish Diaspora in the United States, has unanimously endorsed a resolution put to their National Convention in Atlantic City on July 14th, welcoming and lending support to our 'One Ireland One Vote' initiative.

'One Ireland One Vote' is the flagship campaign of the 1916 Societies - an Irish separatist movement we believe that the Irish Republic should be a Sovereign Independent United Country. The 1916 Societies are committed to fostering and promoting Irish unity as set out in the 1916 Proclamation. The 1916 Societies believe in the right of the Irish people to national self-determination. We demand that this right is recognised in the form of a 32 county refer-endum on Irish Unity. The 1916 Societies call on all to unite behind a declaration of the self-evident truth. “The people who live in Ireland are best placed to make the decisions that affect Ireland.

Only an all inclusive 32 county referendum can insure true democracy.

Our vision for a 'New All-Ireland Republic' is now gaining traction among the Irish Diaspora, something we are immensely proud of given the connections that have long existed between Irish America and the Republican Movement, connections we know to be of utmost impor-tance to the cause of Irish Independence.

Moving forward, republicanism and its hopes for a united and free Ireland, while faced with massive chal-lenges, yes, finds itself in a position whereby a changing world brings new opportunities.

In that context, we consider that our 'One Ireland One Vote' proposal offers an effective platform to press ahead and maximize those same opportunities, holding likewise that the endorsement by the AOH is a significant development towards that end, as the campaign for Irish Independence enters what we hope will prove its final phase.

'One Ireland One Vote' is a proposal by the 1916 Societies for an All-Ireland Referendum on Irish Unity.

It contends:

1. The Irish people have the right to self-determination in a Sovereign Republic that embodies that right;

2. A New and All-Ireland Republic, in line with the 1916 Proclamation, should proceed from a Na-tional Referendum on Irish Unity.

1916 SOCIETIES

NEXT DIV. 87 MEETING

Tues., Aug. 9, 2015, 7:30 p.m.

Donnelly Hall, 2171 Wakeling St.

SICK AND DECEASED

Please offer your prayers for the sick and souls of the deceased listed below

Committee for the sick: Erin Martin, Jerry Blaney, Tom O'Donnell, Betty Joe Dougherty, John McCaul, Mary Ellen Clay, Karen Wallace, Theresa Flaherty, Carmen Scotti, Marisa McAneny, Jamie White, Amy Heron Dougherty, Charlie Dougherty, Mike Mroz, Ernie Dever, Laureen White, Mrs. Betsy Gibbons, Joe Dolan, Jack Irving, John McCool, Tom Neville, John Keller Jr., Dennie Hennigan, Steve Tier-ney, Quinn McCook, Jane Lockhart .

Deceased: Mrs. McGovern, The 5 Dallas Officers, Monsignor Kelly, Jim Burns, Jim Lafferty, Nancy Mur-phy, Mary Moretti, The Victims in the Orlando Shoot-ing, Rita Grillone, Matt Levy, Colin McGovern, John Moran, Mark Power, Mike Sweeten, Len Skonsky, Ed Snyder

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When Philadelphia was the center of anti-Irish Catholic riots

By Zachary M. Schrag

Source: www.IrishCentral.com Editor’s Note: Though known as the “City of

Brotherly Love” and the home of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, back in 1844 Philadelphia hosted one of the biggest ever anti Irish Catholic riots, known as the ”Bible Riots,” after rumors spread that Catholics were removing bibles from public schools. On Monday night at the DNC, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (an Irish Catholic himself) used his time at the podium to take a look back at the days when the Know Nothings and Bible Riots darkened his city’s streets, and linked their attitudes and beliefs to those expressed last week at the Republican National Convention. "The Know-Nothings have returned, and last week, in Cleveland they vowed to take their country back this November," he said. "Whether our families came to this country in 1776 or 1976 or 2016, this country belongs to all of us.” The following is the his-tory of the Bible Riots.

In May and July 1844, Philadelphia suffered some of the bloodiest rioting of the antebellum period, as anti-immigrant mobs attacked Irish-American homes and Roman Catholic churches before being suppressed by the mili-tia. The violence was part of a wave of riots that convulsed American cities starting in the 1830s. Yet even amid this tumult, they stand out for their duration, itself a product of nativist determination to use xenophobia for political gain. In the aftermath of the riots, shocked Philadelphians began debating new methods of maintaining order, a dis-cussion that contributed to the consolidation of Philadelphia County in 1854.

Ethnic and religious antagonism had a long history in the city. Since the 1780s, Irish textile workers had come to Philadelphia after losing their jobs to mechanization in the British Isles. As early as 1828, when an off-duty watchman was killed after disparaging “bloody Irish transports,” Catholic presence had provoked anxiety among American- and Irish-born Protestants. In 1831, Irish Catholics battled along Fifth Street with Protestants celebrating the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.

Anti-Catholic agitation increased in the early 1840s, organized in part around a perceived threat to the Bible in the public schools. Catholic Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick (1796-1863), an Irish immigrant himself, objected to Protestant teachers’ leading students in singing Protestant hymns and requiring them to read from the King James Bible. Nativists used Kenrick’s complaints to gain followers. In 1842, dozens of Protestant clergymen formed the American Protestant Association to defend America from Romanism. In early 1843, editor Lewis Levin (1808-60) made the Daily Sun an organ for attacks against Catholicism and Catholic immigration, and in December of that year, he helped found a nativist political party called the American Republican Association.

Bible Reading as Flashpoint

In 1844, the Bible controversy intensified in the district of Kensington, a suburb to the northeast of Philadelphia City and home to many Irish immigrants, both Protestant and Catholic. In February, Hugh Clark (1796-1862), a Catholic school director there, suggested suspending Bible reading until the school board could devise a policy ac-

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ceptable to Catholics and Protestants alike. Nativists saw this as a threat to their liberty and as a chance to mobi-lize voters, and they rallied by the thousands in Inde-pendence Square. On May 3, 1844 they rallied in Ken-sington itself but were chased away.

The first serious violence broke out three days later. On May 6, the nativists reassembled in Kensington, pro-voking another fight, during which a young nativist named George Shiffler (1825-44) was fatally shot. By day’s end, a second man—apparently a bystander—was dead, and several more nativists were wounded, two mortally. The next day, the First Brigade of the Pennsyl-vania Militia, commanded by Brigadier General George Cadwalader (1806-79), responded to the sheriff’s call for help. The troops faced little direct resistance, but they proved unable to stop people from starting new fires. On May 8, mobs gutted several private dwellings (including Hugh Clark’s house), a Catholic seminary, and two Catholic churches: St. Michael’s at Second Street and Master and St. Augustine’s at Fourth and Vine. Only a flood of new forces—including citizen pos-ses, city police, militia companies arriving from other cities, and U.S. army and navy troops—ended the vio-lence by May 10.

The city remained superficially calm for the next eight weeks, but both nativists and Catholics anticipated further violence. In Southwark—an independent district south of Philadelphia City and a seat of nativist strength—a Catholic priest’s brother began stockpiling weapons in the basement of the Church of St. Philip de Neri on Queen Street. On Friday, July 5, a crowd of thousands gathered to demand the weapons. When the crowd reassembled the following day, the sheriff re-quested militia troops, and Cadwalader led about two hundred into Southwark. Saturday ended without blood-shed, but the situation remained tense, with a small group of militia—some of them Irish Catholics them-selves—guarding the church and a group of nativist pris-oners inside it.

Armed Clash in Southwark

On Sunday, July 7, the crowd reassembled, and this time it armed itself with cannon. Egged on by nativist speakers, the crowd forced the militia to surrender the church and its prisoners. Cadwalader returned to South-wark about sunset at the head of a column and tried to

clear the area around the church. When the crowd at-tacked the militia with bricks, stones, and bottles, the militia fired on them, killing at least two and wounding more. Starting around 9pm, the crowd counterattacked. For the next four hours, rioters and militia battled in the streets of Southwark, with both sides firing cannon. By morning, four militiamen and probably a dozen rioters were dead, along with many more wounded. South-wark’s aldermen negotiated the militia’s withdrawal from their district, but thousands of militia troops from other parts of the state arrived to patrol the City of Philadelphia.

Although American cities, particularly Philadelphia, had endured a surge of riots since the early 1830s, few individual riots lasted for more than a day, making the 1844 riots extreme in their severity and duration. While some of the violence had been spontaneous, the ambi-tions of the nativist newspapers and political party in an election year likely sustained nativist fury through the spring and summer. Though the riots were more than the simple transplantation of anti-Catholic violence from Northern Ireland, they echoed the deliberate provoca-tion seen there.

The riots did not resolve the place of the Irish in the city. On the one hand, few Philadelphians were willing to endorse publicly the attacks on Catholics, and more than two thousand Philadelphians signed an address praising the militia’s use of “lawful force which unlawful force made necessary.” On the other hand, in the Octo-ber elections, amid the heaviest turnout in Philadelphia’s history, Levin and another nativist won congressional seats and other nativists took lesser posts.

Meanwhile, Philadelphians began discussing plans for a stronger police force to deter future riots. In April 1845, the legislature passed a law requiring each major city and district of Philadelphia County to support at least one police officer for each 150 taxable inhabitants, and in 1850 it created a new Philadelphia Police District to cover the entire metropolitan area, including the out-lying districts of Kensington and Southwark. Though not the sole cause, these steps contributed to the consolida-tion of Philadelphia County into a single government in

1854.

* This article has been taken from the Philadelphia Ency-lopedia website, a project created by Rutgers University.

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(New Orleans), National Vice President Danny O'Connell (Ohio), National Secretary Jere Cole (New Jersey), Na-tional Treasurer Sean Pender (New Jersey). The national directors are Liam McNabb (New York), Dan Dennehy (New York), Tom O'Donnell (Pennsylvania), Bill Sullivan (Massachusetts), Dennis Parks (Ohio) and John Wilson (Missouri).

Let’s keep our new officers in our prayers. Nominations for Div. 87’s Home Board will be taken next month (Sept. 12). Nominations for Executive Board will be taken in October. If you feel strongly about your Irish heritage, your Catholic faith and our Hibernian Tradition, I urge you to consider running for office. Give Back to 87, what 87

Has Given You! In Our Motto,

Jimmy

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AOH Div. 87 Catholic Action Committee:

Invites all members to an

Overnight Retreat

at Malvern House 315 S. Warren Ave.

Malvern, PA, 19355

Aug. 12-13-14

Reconnect with your faith and your brothers, while rejuvenating yourself.

Details will be available at the Div. 87 meeting.

See Tony Donahue for info.

Hunger Strike

Commemoration Mass

35th anniversary

Join the Philadelphia area Irish community

At the Irish Memorial

(Front and Chestnut streets)

On Sunday, Oct. 2, at 2 p.m.

Gathering to follow at The Plough & The Stars

(123 Chestnut Street).

With live music by Raymond Coleman

And discounted menu.

Call Bob Dougherty at 610-996-2016

Or Pat Bonner at 215-724-3992

For information.

DIVISION 87

ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS

IN AMERICA, INC

2171 WAKELING ST

PHILADELPHIA, PA 19124

Mailing Label Must Go Here

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FRIENDSHIP, UNITY AND

CHRISTIAN CHARITY

The Ancient Order of Hibernians is a Catholic, Irish American Frater-nal Organization, whose members strive to live by our motto of Friend-ship, Unity and True Christian Charity. If you are interested in joining our organization, you must be of Irish decent and a practicing Catholic. Go to www.AOH87.com for more information on joining Division 87—Port Richmond.

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