In a perfect world, someone would have carefully archived these photos, noting time, place and - most importantly - the names of the people in the picture. Alas, you don’t have to be Irish to know this isn’t a perfect world. So, when info’s available, we will share it. Otherwise. just enjoy seeing how things looked once upon a time.
PORTLAND HIBERNIAN SOCIETY - BLOOMSDAY 2024 - KELLS RESTAURANT - FIRST DAY OF SUMMER 20 JUNE
David O’Longaigh and Katie Hennessy setting the stage for Katie’s reading from the works of WB Yeats at Bloomsday 2024 at Kells Restaurant.
Gemma Whelan of Corrib Theater paid respects to her fellow Irish novelist James Joyces with a reading of “Milie’s Letter” from Ulysses at the Portland Hibernian Society’s Bloomsday 2024.
Hibernian Colleen Schultz read a poem her grandmother wrote to Colleen and her siblings about her father.
Longtime Portland Hibernian Dick Feeney read Seanmus Heaney’s poem “Digging.”
John Bradach, Sr. read from the James Joyce short story in Dubliners “Eveline.”
PHS Minister of Music Mike Phillips played “After The Ball,” a song so popular in James Joyce’s day that its sheet music was number one in Ireland.
July2023. Left to right. Bill Gallagher, Brian Doherty, Denise MElwain and Consul General Micheal Smith.
April 2016 - An anxious crowd awaits the HIbernian's centennial commemoration of the 1916 Rising in Dublin upstairs at Kells.
Saint Patricks Day 2022.
Cross dedication flyer. 2008.
Summer of 2023 - PHS Minister of Music and Webmaster Mike Phillips upstairs at Kells.
July 2022 - Pittsburgh PA - Leo Varadkar at AOH Convention. The Taoiseach endorsed our failed constitutional amendment to eliminate gender restrictions to membership in the AOH.
March 2019. - Tim Birr leads procession to the Cross on Saint Patricks Day..
Banquet 2023. Right - Tracey Murphy Kells Manager.
Bloomsday during a pandemic. Barry Glass as Leopold Bloom. 2020.
March 2023 -Molly Malone Dancers with Breda Yeates.
Saint Patrick's Day at the Oregon Potato Famine Memorial at mount Calvary Cemetery 2023. Left to right. Brian Doherty, Bill Gallagher and Maddie Andrews.
March 2023. Theresa Markgraf, Dick Feeney, Sen. Margaret Carter and Roger Martin at the annual St. Patrick's Day Banquet.
Portland's Morrison Bridge across the Willamette River went GREEN on March 6, 2023.
A bit of Hiberniana. Eight years before the AOH convened in San Francisco they met in Portland.
PHS Meeting Feb. 22, 2024. Kells Restaurant.
Stephen J. McCormick. Subject of presentation at 2.22.24 meeting. Tenth Mayor of Portland 1859 - 1860. Editor Catholic Sentinel 1874 - 1881.
Hibernian Hall on NE Russell. Built in 1914 with contributions from Irish community I n Portland.
2.22.24 - Kells Restaurant.
2.22.24 - Kells Restaurant.