2003

  • Jan. 4th: Division chartered with a total of 23 members.
    Pictures:  (members)  (framed charter)
  • Feb. 2nd: First official meeting as a division
  • Mar. 2nd: Members present at monthly meeting unanimously vote to name division for local Irish immigrant and Civil War soldier, Bernard "Barney" Devine.
  • Apr. 27th: Brothers Phil McDonald & Gary Ryan become 4th Degree Hibernians at Major Degree ceremony in Bowie, Maryland.
  • Jun. 1st: Division members vote at monthly meeting to adopt the 9th Massachusetts Infantry monument (North slope of Big Roundtop) at Gettysburg.
  • July 19th: Division participates in Adams County Irish Festival as a vendor. Phil McDonald presents Derek Warfield with gift from the division.
  • August 17th: Pat Bowling represents the division during WITF-TV on-air fundraising drive.
  • September 20th: Hibernian Hunger Project spaghetti dinner raises approximately $250 in funds and food for the Gettysburg Community Soup Kitchen.
  • October 4th: Inaugural Irish-American Battlefield & Soldier's National Cemetery Tour sells out allowing the division to raise $250 for restoration/perpetual care of the 9th Massachusetts Infantry monument on Gettysburg battlefield.
  • October 9th: National President, Ned McGinley and National Chaplain, Fr. Patrick Sullivan visit Gettysburg and meet with division members. Short tour of Irish monuments on the battlefield the following day.

2004

  • Jan. 24th: Division President, Jim McGuigan presents Dr. John Latschar, Superintendent of the Gettysburg National Military Park with check for $6600 on behalf of the Irish Cultural Society. Also presented to the Irish Cultural Society was a check for $250 from our division. This money was donated with profits made from the 2003 Irish American tour of the Gettysburg battlefield.