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Irish American Brotherhood THE IRISH AMERICAN BROTHERHOOD SOCIAL CLUB, LLC is a nonprofit social organization dedicated to the love of Irish and Celtic traditions, a love for motorcycles, and the joy of combining these things on the road with our brothers and sisters. They are not a motorcycle club or a riding club, they accept all persons regardless of bike make, engine size, race, sex, color, etc. They are sanctioned by the American Motorcycle Association (AMA), and claim no territory. The organization is about Irish/Celtic Traditions, and a love of Motorcycles.

Started as a facebook group in 2008 by Timothy Linnins of Linnins Law, PLLC, the group has grown to 85 members, including 32 founding members across the United States. In August of 2011 The Irish American Brotherhood designed a bone piece back patch and was formed into a limited Liability Company (LLC) with a 13 member national board of directors consisting of a national President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, and National Sergeant at Arms along with 8 regional directors. Each state has a president over seeing individual "clans" each with their own president.

Their patch has great meaning and was designed under careful consideration with our intentions kept close in mind.

The crossed flags represent the unity of two great nations’heritages. All regulations of the U.S. flag were taking into consideration in the patch. The clover is important due to the fact the number 3 is Ireland's "magic" number. Numbers played an important part in Celtic symbolism, 3 was the most sacred and magical number. It multiplies to nine, which is sacred to St. Brigid. Three may have signified totality: past, present and future or sky, earth and underground. The clover or "shamrock" also represents the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit). It is said everything good in Ireland comes in threes - the rhythm of Irish storytelling is based on three - fold repetition. This achieves both intensification and exaggeration. “Three accomplishments well regarded in Ireland - a clever verse, music on the harp, the art of shaving faces." The harp is from the original “unofficial” flag of Ireland flown from 1798 to the early 20thcentury. The harp adopted as the state emblem on the formation of the Irish Free State is a medieval instrument, the Brian Boru harp, which is preserved in Trinity College Dublin. We incorporated it to signify the love and preservation of Irish heritage. The 1916 the Easter Rising. The Easter Rising was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798. Organised by the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising lasted from Easter Monday 24 April to 30 April 1916. Members of the Irish Volunteers—led by schoolteacher and barrister Pádraig (Patrick) Pearse, joined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly, along with 200 members of Cumann na mBan—seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the Irish Republic independent of Britain. There were some actions in other parts of Ireland but, except for the attack on the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Ashbourne, County Meath, they were minor. The Rising was suppressed after seven days of fighting, and its leaders were court-martialled and executed, but it succeeded in bringing physical force republicanism back to the forefront of Irish politics. In the 1918 General Election to the British Parliament, republicans (then represented by the Sinn Féin party) won 73 seats out of 105 on a policy of abstentionism and Irish independence. This came less than two years after the Rising. In January 1919, the elected members of Sinn Féin who were not still in prison at the time, including survivors of the Rising, convened the First Dáil and established the Irish Republic. The British government refused to accept the legitimacy of the newly declared nation, precipitating the Irish War of Independence. Our original patch was designed and voted in and was sent off to the embroidery on July 15, 2011. Our patch was designed and made possible by our members, Sean Conroy and Bruce Cory.