Patricks Old Cathedral Development Officer. Michael has been hugely successful in ensuring that its rich history is preserved and that the Schools tradition of excellence continues into its third century. Saturday. January 16. 1999. marked the culmination of those effortsa grand celebration of the famed Irish Brigade soldiers of the Civil War. many of whom were immigrants and firstgeneration IrishAmerican parishioners of St. Patricks Old Cathedral. The event included a Requiem Mass. a reenactment of their 1861 march to join Union forces. and a benefit concert by Irish legend Tommy Makem to be broadcast to a national audience by PBS on St.
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