National Officers

Chaplain: Father Bartley McPhaidan C.S.C.

President: John J. Meehan, Jr. (Quincy, Massachusetts)

Vice President: Seamus Boyle (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Secretary: Thomas D. McNabb (Auburn, New York)

Treasurer: Brendan Moore (Blue Point, New York)

Director: William Byrne (Warren, Michigan)

Director: John S. Kane (Scranton, Pennsylvania)

Director: Martin Kelly (Brooklyn, New York)

Director: Joe Brady (Newport, Rhode Island)

Director: Frank Kearney Jr (Meriden, Connecticut)

Director: Joe Dougherty (Inmo, South Carolina)

Organizer: Robert J. Mott (Murrells Inlet, South Carolina)

Catholic Action: Richard A. MacDonald (Needham, Massachusetts)

Pro-Life: Brother Thomas M. Fahey, C.F.X. (Middletown, Connecticut)

General Counsel: James V. Magee Jr. (Cincinnati,Ohio)

Archivist: Michael J. Cummings (Albany, New York)


Historian/Hibernian Digest Editor: Michael McCormack (Centereach, New York)

Deputy Historian: Thomas J. Conway (East Islip, New York)

Irish Way Program/Study Abroad: William J. Sullivan (Andover, Massachusetts)

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Committee Chairs: Ron Hagen, Pat Fahy and Jim Hacker

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The Mother

I do not grudge them: Lord, I do not grudge
My two strong sons that  I have seen go out
To break their strength and die, they and a few,
In bloody protest for a glorious thing
They shall be spoken of among their people,
The generations shall remember them,
And call them blessed;
But I will speak their names to my own heart
In the long nights;
The little names that were familiar once
Round my dead hearth.
Lord though art hard on mothers:
We suffer in their coming and their going;
And tho’ I grudge then not,
I weary, weary
Of the long sorrow - And yet I have my joy:
My sons were faithful, and they fought.

Patrick Pearse