Meet me in....

....St. Louis.

Not at the fair, but rather at the 2014 Ancient Order of Hibernians National Convention which will take place in the Missouri two years from now.

And two years after that, the biennial gathering will take place in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

These and other important decisions pertaining to the future of the largest Irish American organization were finalized last week by members, men and women, who had gathered in Verona in upstate New York for the 2012 convention.

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The event witnessed the end of the two term, four year, leadership of AOH National President, Philadelphia's Seamus Boyle, and the installation of his successor, Brendan Moore, a resident of Rockland County, NY.

Outgoing ladies national president, Margaret Hennessy, was succeeded by Maureen Shelton from Michigan, while Mary Hogan from Brooklyn became national vice president.

The convention was addressed by, among others, North Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, and Ireland's Consul General in New York, Ambassador Noel Kilkenny, who spoke effusively of the order's storied past, and its varied and vital mission for the years ahead.

 

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