Lockport LAOH Division II

10/13/2026

Lockport LAOH showing up, volunteering, and donating to a great cause. 5th Annual Elvis’ Tailgate party. Job well done ladies!

09/25/2026

Thank you Mr. President

President Trump called Irish reunification “one of the naturals of all time.”

The Ancient Order of Hibernians believes those words present an opportunity for American leadership.

In an open letter to the President, AOH National President Sean Pender calls on the Administration to turn that common-sense observation into policy: appoint a U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland and press the British Government to provide transparency on how it will determine when the conditions exist for a border poll under the Good Friday Agreement.

For nearly three decades, the people whose constitutional future is at stake have been given no clear answer as to what evidence would trigger that democratic process.

The rules of democracy should not be secret.

Read the AOH Open Letter to President Trump and why we believe the United States should once again exercise leadership in protecting the promise of the Good Friday Agreement.

🇮🇪 Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity

09/20/2026

Remembering our memories of past Niagara Celtic Festivals.☘️ It was a lot of work but we also had a lot of fun!

09/11/2026

Never forget.

Approximately 200 Claddagh rings were reclaimed from ground zero after 9/11. The Claddagh ring is an Irish symbol of friendship, loyalty and love.

Similar to the Claddagh ring, rescue and recovery workers at the World Trade Center site embodied just that—comradery, love and dedication. Through recovery and then rebirth, the Irish-American presence at the WTC site has not faltered.

READ: https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/friendship-loyalty-and-love-ground-zero

08/07/2026

07/26/2026

The most remarkable thing about Irish emigration to America is one that often gets overlooked: for a long stretch of it, more women went than men, and huge numbers of them went straight into service in other people's houses. 🍀 The Irish domestic servants of America deserve to be remembered as heroes of the diaspora.

They came alone, often as teenagers, and took work as maids, cooks and nursemaids in the grand houses of Boston, New York and beyond. So many were employed that Bridget became a generic and often mocking nickname for any Irish servant girl, and newspaper cartoons of the era caricatured them cruelly. The work was hard and the hours were long, with little privacy and less status. But here is what makes their story extraordinary. Because they lived in their employers' houses, their food and lodging were covered, and so an unusually large share of their small wages could be saved. And save it they did. These young women sent home staggering amounts of money to Ireland, money that paid rents, fed families, and above all bought the tickets that brought sisters, brothers and parents out after them. They financed the chain of emigration almost single-handedly.

Girls in aprons, far from home, quietly funding the survival of families back in Ireland. 💚 The Bridgets were the backbone of Irish America, and they are owed a great deal.