PDX Hibernian Independent
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Read the PDX Hibernian Independent to keep up with the popular topics and current controversies in Ireland and Irish America.
How TVF&R Pipes and Drums endures
Topping the news in this week’s PDX Hibernian Independent is the milestone for the TVF&R Pipes and Drums. Also - Rory, Mary Lou, Dev, Conor and Andy Irvine.
Comparing Banshees of Inisherin and The Quiet Man among other things
As a John Ford Festival kicks off in Connemara, the PDX HI takes a closer look at two movies made nearby: The Quiet Man and The Banshees of Insherin. Similar in some ways. Different too.
ORE - IRE Sister State Committee WANTS YOU
The Leprechaun Yourself booth on Grafton St. in Dublin was popular with Yanks over for some college football. Read more in the PDX HI.
Big Pharma, College Football and The Fleadh in Ireland
The Senior Fiddle competition at the Wexford Fleadh Cheoil 2025 was won by Orla O’Connor of Idaho, representing Portland’s Micheal O'Domhnaill CCE Branch.
PDX Famine Cross sculptor dies in Ireland
Brendan McGloin of Kinlough, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, who sculpted the High Cross at the Oregon Famine Memorial in Portland, died in April of 2025.
PDX HIBERNIAN INDEPENDENT 7 August 2025
AUGUST - Anniversary of an Execution, Profile of a Priest, the Obamas Return to Ireland and by the way, no PHS Meeting this month.
Getting sent back to Ireland
Cliona Ward was born in Ireland but has lived in California since the 1980s. She was caught up in the current ICE sweeps.
Oregon + Ireland
A summary of some of the latest news from Ireland and Oregon appears weekly now in the PDX Hibernian Independent.
Saluting Fr. Jim for serving others
At our meeting this evening Thurs. 7.17 we'll celebrate with Father Jim Galluzzo the 35th anniversary of his ordination, his 80th birthday and the 17th anniversary of the organization he started to help people without a home and all that goes with having one
How Oregon almost killed private schools 100 years ago
It’s Oregon history that’s hard to believe. Voters voted to shut down private schools in Nov. 1922. The Supreme Court saved those schools on June 1, 1925.
Mayday. Mayday. Become a member.
Celebrating Beltane on the First Day of May has been a constant in Celtic and Catholic Irish culture.
Two Irish Catholic Americans Who Tried For The White House
Senators Gene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy brought their White House campaigns to Oregon 57 years ago; they split the Irish Catholic vote of Oregon Democrats.
Here, there, everywhere on St. Patrick’s Day
“In sunshine and in shadow” members of The Portland Hibernian Society and friends gathered at The Cross on Mount Calvary on March 17, 2025.
The Spirit of Our Irish Ancestors Remembered on St. Patrick’s Day
The March meeting of the Portland Hibernian Society will take place Monday, March 17 10:30 A.M. at The Cross of the Oregon Potato Famine Memorial in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
Oval Office Visit ON. St. Patrick’s Day ON.
Will it just be shamrocks, smiles, hand shakes and some blarney on March 12 when Ireland’s leader visits the White House? Or will tariffs, Gaza and Ukraine come up for discussion?
Will Trump host the Taoiseach on SPD in the Oval Office?
The latest word on whether Ireland’s Taoiseach will meet with President Trump at the White House on Saint Patrick’s Day is that a visit may be scrapped if there’s a government shutdown.
The Father of Oregon: An Unlikely Irishman
A deep dive on Doctor John McLoughlin is overdue. Who was The Father of Oregon anyhow? Find out at the Portland Hibernian Society meeting Feb. 20 at Kells.