It looks like the count for just 30 days last month will be over 100 current members out of 535 Members of Congress!!! That is no small feat! It's great that champions of our cause like Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Bruce Morrison, were all at the beginning of the month and the month ended with Nancy Pelosi getting pinned. That's not counting other legislators, and people like Ambassador Anderson and CG Noel Kilkenny who wore theirs for the entire month! … [Read more...] about Immigration Pin Presentations
Archives for April 2014
Brian Boru
A thousand years ago, April 23 was an important date – it was Good Friday, a date significant to Christians everywhere. However, in Ireland it had another significance. It was the day that the forces of High King Brian Boru met the Vikings on the field of Clontarf and broke Viking power in Ireland forever – the only country ever to do so. It really all began about the year 941, when Brian was born to Kennedy MacLorcain, Chieftain of the Dalcassian clan in County Clare. He was born near present day Killaloe on the River Shannon. As the youngest son, he was destined to become a monk as his … [Read more...] about Brian Boru