Young Dubliner elected Mayor of Portland
THE HIBERNIAN INDEPENDENT
Volume One. Number Twenty. February 1, 2024.
More than an email. Less than a newspaper. In your email box the first and third Thursday morning of every month. Published by The Portland Hibernian Society.
MEET MAYOR MC CORMICK
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 - KELLS RESTAURANT - 6 P.M. DINNER 7 P.M. MEETING/PRESENTATION
As Portland voters prepare to elect Mayor Number 54, we’ll do a deep dive on Mayor Number 10 - Stephen James McCormick WHO WAS BORN IN DUBLIN AND WASN'T 30 YET when elected in 1859. How, you ask, could this Irish Catholic, one-time seminarian succeed politically in Protestant Portland? McCormick - immigrant, pioneer, politician and ever Irish - didn’t just succeed, he thrived here with the support of the local Irish community. Hibernian David O’Longaigh made the trip from Dublin to Portland 140 years after Mayor McCormick. Fascinated by the former mayor, David's done tons of research and will share stories and insights and archival information about Mayor Number Ten. FEBRUARY MEETING - THURSDAY FEB. 22 - SIX P.M. DINNER SEVEN P.M. PHS BUSINESS AND PRESENTATION. KELLS RESTURANT ON SW SECOND AVE.
SAVE THE DATE - ST. PATRICK’S DAY BANQUET
At the top of our social calendar for 2024 is the TWENTY SIXTH ANNUAL Saint Patrick’s Day Banquet. We hope it will top your calendar too. Here’s the date: MARCH 9 - Six P.M. - upstairs at KELLS . You can register now by dropping the HI an email.
SAINT BRIGID AND PORTLAND
TONIGHT - T.C. O’Leary’s Pub - 2.1.24 Feast Day celebrations and activities. From Siobhan O’Leary - Cross-making will be available all evening on our patio as long as supplies last for making them (people don't have to come at 4pm). And then we have live Irish music starting at 8 PM.
Kells Pub on SW Second - 2.1.24 Thursday Night Session. 6 - 8 p.m.
FRIDAY - Gaelige Northwest - 2.2.24 “Brigid of the Poets” - McMenamin’s Kennedy School 7 - 8:30 p.m.
SATURDAY - Irish Network Portland - 2.3.24 - Women’s Health Forum - Upstairs at Kells on SW Second 2 - 4 p.m.
SUNDAY 0 All Ireland Cultural Society - 2.4.24 Pub Social at th Brickhouse in Vancouver, WA. 4 - 6 p.m.
SAINT BRIGID AND IRELAND
Here’s a reminder of how the legend of Saint Brigid is so much a part of Catholic tradition in Ireland.
A RELIC of St Brigid has today returned to Co. Kildare as the county prepares to mark 1,500 years since the death of one of Ireland's patron saints. Addressing those gathered at today's Mass, Fr Denis McNulty said: "In many ways if Capernaum was the home city of Jesus, Kildare is the home place of St Brigid and today we have brought her home.”
ONE STOP IRISH IMMERSION
If you attend Féile Portland the weekend of Feb. 16 at PCC Sylvania you’ll marvel at how many people in Greater Portland cherish their Irish heritage and honor its traditions.
Here’s the official press release with details: Féile Portland - A Weekend-long Celebration of Irish Language and Culture, Presidents’ Day weekend, February 16-18, 2024. Portland Community College - Sylvania.
You are all very welcome to this fun and engaging weekend-long celebration of Irish language and culture featuring language classes, cultural workshops, conversation groups, social outings, community engagement, and more! More info at cceoregon.org/gaeilge. Registration IS NOW OPEN!
STAGE IS SET FOR SPEAR
Corrib Theater, Portland’s Irish-forward contribution to keeping the culture current, presents SPEAR by County Louth playwright C.N. Smith beginning February 16.
Sean, Nate and Joe are having a drink-up in an open field. The craic gets real. “Spear is a play about race, mediocrity, and misunderstanding,” says Smith of his work, which was part of the 2022 Dublin Fringe Festival. Spear runs from Feb. 16 to Mar. 10.
EIRE AHOY
Spring forward on March 10 with the Shamrock Cruise on the Willamette River. Anne Doherty and Sam Keaton do a great job with this every March. Watch the Willamette River flow.
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
