Feis Journal Now Online
For the first time, the Nassau County AOH Feis has placed the journal online with an easy to read page turner. Please take a look and remember to patronize our sponsors.
To access the journal, please click here.
The 2009 Feis Honoree: Dr. William A. Donohue
Dr. William Donohue
The 37th annual Nassau County AOH Feis will be honoring Dr. William A. Donohue of the Catholic League. It will also be dedicated to the memory of Alice Caffrey.
William A. Donohue began his teaching career in the 1970s working at St. Lucy’s School in Spanish Harlem. In 1977, he took a position as a college professor teaching at La Roche College in McCandless, Pennsylvania. In 1980 he received a doctorate in Sociology from New York University (NYU).
His first book was The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union and he became associated with the conservative Heritage Foundation where he is an adjunct scholar. His books on the American Civil Liberties Union have made him one of the group’s most prominent critics.
While Donohue was in college in New York, Virgil C. Blum, a Jesuit at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded the Catholic League to counter Anti-Catholicism in American culture. Blum died in 1990; in 1993, Dr. Donohue became the director of the organization. Under his direction, the organization has become far more prominent and vocal.
Donohue publishes The Catalyst, the Catholic League journal. He serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Scholars. He serves on the board of advisers of the Washington Legal Foundation, the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, Society of Catholic Social Scientists, Catholics United for the Faith, Ave Maria Institute, the Christian Film & Television Commission and Catholic War Veterans. He has received several awards from the Catholic community and was voted one of the top 100 Catholics of the 20th century in a survey of Catholics conducted by the internet site, Daily Catholic. He received the 2005 St. Thomas More Award for Catholic Citizenship from Catholic Citizens of Illinois.
Information taken from Wikipedia.org.
eFeis is Now Open
eFeis is now open for dancing registrations.
Visit www.efeis.com for more information.
2009 Syllabus Is Now Available
The 2009 Syllabuses is now available.
Dancing registration will be offered through eFeis.com beginning on or about July 29th 2009. eFeis is the leading feis registration service. Mail in entries also accepted. Please see syllabus for instructions.
Piping and Drumming registration is available by clicking here.
New Site: Molloy College
The Nassau County AOH Feis and Irish Festival will be heald at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, NY. Located right off the Southern State Parkway, this centrally located college will be easy to find, while also allowing more people to attend.
Originally founded in Brooklyn over 50 years ago, Molloy College has grown steadily since its foundation by the Dominican Sisters of Amityville. Thanks to the encouragement and support of Archbishop Thomas E. Molloy, Bishop of Brooklyn, the Sisters welcomed their first class of forty-four freshmen in 1955. The College was originally chartered as Molloy Catholic College for Women.
For directions to the campus click here.
Follow the Feis News on Twitter
You can now follow all the Feis news on Twitter. Sinply go to www.twitter.com/nassauaohfeis and follow the link to the receive all the updates.
We will also be posting news on there first so to get the latest Feis updates, Twitter will be the way to go.
Welcome to the New AOH Feis Site
Welcome to the new AOH Feis site. We hope you enjoy the site as we will be adding content over the next few months.
Right now you currently can:
- View video from the 2008 Feis
- View pictures from the 2008 Feis
- Inquire about sponsorships and jorunal ads
- Read about the history of the Feis and the AOH
- Contact the Feis committee
In the future we plan on adding:
- Schedule and sylibus for the 2009 Feis.
- Register and pay online for the dance competition and piping and drummers
- Updated rules for the 2009 Feis
- News and location for the 2009 Feis
We hope you enjoy the new site and would love your feedback. You can send it to our webmaster at jmcdonald@nassauaohfeis.com.