Troy NY AOH - James Connolly - Division 8

06/18/2026

06/18/2026

Mark your calendars and contact the Valleycats for tickets! Join us for a night of Irish Family Fun and Baseball.

06/18/2026

The storied Irish fighting 69th

06/18/2026

🙏 Every night, across the whole of Ireland and in Irish homes around the world, the same words were spoken at the same hour in the same posture — kneeling on stone or wood or earth, beads moving through fingers worn by work, voices low and steady in the particular rhythm of shared prayer that generations of the same family had used before them and generations after would use again.

The family rosary was the heartbeat of Irish Catholic domestic life for over two centuries — and it was far more than a religious obligation. It was the moment of the day when the family stopped. When the doors were closed and the world outside was held at bay. When the grandmother who had survived the Famine and the father who was worried about the rent and the child who had been frightened at school and the mother who had not sat down since morning all knelt together in the same posture and said the same words and were, for those fifteen minutes, equal in the only way that mattered.

The prayers themselves were a mixture of Latin formality and Irish vernacular intimacy that is unlike any other prayer tradition in the world. The Hail Mary — "Is maith liom tú, a Mhuire" in Irish — was said ten times per decade, a repetition that in the hands of a skilled prayer leader was not monotonous but deepening, each repetition sinking the words further into the body, into the silence beneath language where prayer actually lives. The trimmings — the special intentions added at the end, the prayers for the sick and the dead and the emigrated and those in danger — were where the family's particular sorrows and hopes were brought into the formal frame of the prayer and held there.

The prayer before the prayer in many Kerry households was always the same: "We offer up this rosary for the souls of our dead, for the safety of those at sea, and for the return of those far from home." In a county and a country where the dead were recent and the sea was close and emigration had emptied so many houses, that triple intention contained an entire world.

Your ancestors said these words. Some nights they meant every one of them.

06/16/2026

16june2026 @ The St.Augustine food pantry in Lansingburgh. Where to start ?? Well it was a record breaking day as far as community food donations. Two personal donators,Carole Weaver and st Augustine parishioner Nancy Harder first up to bat , then RENSSELAER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL student council followed with a grand slam donation. Keep in mind these are middle school students !! The student council is a community service organization on the elementary school level,Their council coordinators are Robin Delaney & Dave Hamilton. They all get a 5 Shamrock ☘️☘️☘️☘️ ☘️ rating. Our guest helper today was county executive Steve McLaughlin who earned his keep by unloading the donation truck ,stocking shelves and assisting at the window, all in Friendship, Unity and Christian charity. We appreciate you stopping by Steve ..

06/16/2026

The Troy AOH would like to thank Carole Weaver for her generous personal donation today to the St Augustine Church food pantry.

06/16/2026

The Troy AOH would like to thank Lansingburgh School Board member Theadora Hines for her generous donation to the St. Augustine Church food pantry today.

06/13/2026

Antrim — Aontroim
Armagh — Ard Mhacha
Down — An Dún
Fermanagh — Fear Manach
Derry — Doire
Tyrone — Tír Eoghain
Donegal — Dún na nGall
Cavan — An Cabhán
Monaghan — Muineachán
Carlow — Ceatharlach
Dublin — Baile Átha Cliath
Kildare — Cill Dara
Kilkenny — Cill Chainnigh
Laois — Laois
Longford — Longfort
Louth — Lú
Meath — An Mhí
Offaly — Uíbh Fhailí
Westmeath — An Iarmhí
Wexford — Loch Garman
Wicklow — Cill Mhantáin
Clare — An Clár
Cork — Corcaigh
Kerry — Ciarraí
Limerick — Luimneach
Tipperary — Tiobraid Árann
Waterford — Port Láirge
Galway — Gaillimh
Leitrim — Liatroim
Mayo — Maigh Eo
Roscommon — Ros Comáin
Sligo — Sligeach

06/09/2026

Today at st Augustine’s community food pantry The AOH DIVISION 8 had two community members lending a hand feeding the hungry in friendship,unity & Christian charity ☘️. They were Donny Miller director of Human Resources for the Lansingburgh school district & Mike Drinkwine Jr. board member of the Lansingburgh school district and A member of the Rennselaer county sheriff’s office…We appreciate these well known community member’s help today. Also a shout out to St.Mary’s of Assumption food pantry (Waterford) for sharing their bounty of canned goods. also John Welsh veteran coordinator at Troy’s CRAB club Garrison #1954 for his personal food Donation !!