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      • 2022 March Meeting
      • Hartford AOH at Hartford 2022 Parade
      • Canal Monument Dedication Photo Gallery
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      • April 2022 Meeting With Scott Dolch
      • May 2022 Meeting With UConn Bseball Coach Jim Penders
      • 2022 Hartford Irish Road Bowling Tournament
      • June 2022 Meeting With Essay Contest Winners
      • 2022 Fall Pig Roast
      • 2022 Christmas Toy/Gift Card Drive
    • 2021 >
      • January Meeting With Father Thomas Walsh
      • January 2021 Food Drive
      • February Meeting With Karen Avitabile
      • February 2021 Food Drive
      • March Meeting with Molly Bent of FOCUS Catholic
      • March 2021 Food Drive
      • Irish Canal Worker Memorial Event
      • April Meeting
      • April 2021 Food Drive
      • May Meeting with Jason Soucy, Travelers Championship
      • Calendar Raffle Check Presentations
      • Check Presentation to IAHS
      • June Meeting with John Walshe
      • July Meeting with Riverfront Recpature CEO Mike Zaleski
      • 2021 Hartford Irish Road Bowling
      • August 2021 Meeting
      • September 2021 Meeting
      • October 2021 Meeting with Patrick Mahony
      • November 2021 Meeting
      • 2021ThanksgivingFoodDrive
      • 2021 Christmas Toy/Gift Card Drive
    • 2020 >
      • May 2020 Food Drive
      • June 2020 Food Drive
      • Mass for Hartord AOH-Our Lady and All Saints, Stourbridge, UK
      • July Meeting With Ryan Mahoney of Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
      • July 2020 Food Drive
      • August Meeting With Dr. John Tully
      • August 2020 Food/School Supply Drive
      • Setpember Meeting with Dr. Mary Burke and President Danny O'Connell
      • September 2020 Food/School Supply Drive
      • October Meeting with Rory McGloin of Hartford GAA
      • October 2020 Food Drive
      • November 2020 Meeting with Dennis House
      • November 2020 Thanksgiving Food Drive
      • December 2020 Meeting
      • December 2020 Toy/Gift Card Drive
    • 2016 >
      • 2016 IRB - Pipes in the Valley
    • 2015 >
      • 2015 CTIRB
      • 2015 Hartford St. Patrick's Day Parade
      • 2015 Mystic St. Patrick's Day Parade
      • 2015 Norwich St. Patrick's Day Parade
      • 2015 Green Mass
    • 2014 >
      • Meriden AOH 90th Anniversary Dinner
      • 2014 Hartford St. Patrick's Day Parade
      • 2014 Mystic St. Patrick's Day Parade
      • 2014 New Haven St. Patrick's Day Parade
      • 2014 Norwich St. Patrick's Day Parade
      • Malta/St. Justin Food Pantry
      • 2014 Malta/St. Justin Food Pantry Fundraiser
      • 2014 Greater Hartford Irish Music Festival
      • 2014 Cape Cod Irish Village Trip
      • 60th Anniversary Dinner Dance
      • 2014 AOH Christmas Party
    • 2013 >
      • 2013 CT State Convention
      • 2013 Hartford CT Saint Patrick's Day Parade
      • Handicap Accessible Picnic Table Project
      • Get Your Irish Up for MS
      • BBQ Pub Night
      • 2013 Greater Hartford Irish Music Festival
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Who are the Hibernians?

The Ancient Order of  Hibernians is  America’s oldest Irish Catholic fraternal organization founded concurrently in the coal-mining region of Pennsylvania and New York City in May, 1836.  The Order can trace its roots back to a series of similar societies that existed in Ireland for more than 300 years. 

The Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, Inc.. (AOH) of today continues to evolve in an effort to meet the needs of today’s Roman Catholic Irish American males.  Active across the United States, the Order seeks to provide its members with divisions and club facilities where a common brotherhood is shared.  Here, participation in our religion and Irish culture —art, dance, music and sport are encouraged, fostered and preserved; all the while staying true to our ideal of providing aid to the newly arrived Irish, both socially and politically.

The AOH in America continues to stay in the political forefront of issues concerning the Irish and Irish-Americans.  In addition to our efforts to aid in a peaceful and just solution to the issues that divide Ireland, issues such as Immigration Reform: Right to Life; human rights issues addressed in the McBride Legislation and other relevant causes continue to make up the core of our local, state and national agendas.

Information about the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Connecticut can be found on the Connecticut State Board Website, www.ctaoh.com.

More information can be found on the Ancient Order of Hibernians National website, www.aoh.com.

Hartford AOH
Division #2 Officers

Chaplin: Father Thomas Walsh (St. Augustine, Hartford)

President: Mike Enright

Vice President: John Gallivan

Treasurer: Kevin Morton

Recording Secretary: Kieran Devenney

Financial Secretary: John Callahan

Sentinel: John Williams

Historian: Tom Breen

​Charities: Linus Deasy

Veterans Affairs: Sean Conroy

Meetings

Meetings are held at the Irish American Home in Glastonbury, CT (132 Commerce Street Glastonbury, CT 06033) on the first Thursday of each month and begin at 7:30 pm. See the Hartford AOH Calendar of Events for more details.

Hartford AOH Division #2

Though Hartford Division #2 was established in 1954, the AOH has been established in Connecticut since 1869. Bridgeport, in Fairfield County was the birthplace of Hibernianism in Connecticut. On March 14, 1869 the Bridgeport Division was organized with seventeen charter members.

Though Fairfield County was the birthplace of the AOH in Connecticut, it would not be the area where the organization would first prosper. In the early years of the 1870's the AOH would experience a rapid growth in the central and eastern portions of Connecticut. Many new divisions were founded in and around the cities of Hartford and New Haven and in New London County. By the time the first State Convention was held in Hartford in April of 1872, the city already had three active divisions. Only a few weeks before the State Convention, 480 Hartford Hibernians from its three divisions had marched in Hartford's St. Patrick's Day Parade. Throughout the years, Hartford Hibernians have continued to play a significant role in the history of the AOH in Connecticut. Between 1871 and 2013, Hartford Hibernians have acted as hosts of a total of 9 Connecticut State Conventions, a National Convention in 1890, and have provided some of the Order's most prominent leaders, including two state presidents (Patrick Daly in 1872 and Owen McCabe in 1881) and two state treasurers (Edward Lyons in 1902 and William McCarthy in 1973).

The Hartford Hibernians today meet the first Thursday of each month at the Irish American Home in Glastonbury. Here, the participation in our religion an Irish Culture --- art, dance, music and sport are encouraged, fostered and preserved; all while staying true to our ideal of providing aid to the newly arrived Irish, both socially and politically.

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