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Golden Legacies: The Floating Hospital

May 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment

2024 Gala, Tuesday June 4th, Gustavino's New York City Floating Hospital President Sean Granahan, an Irish America Business 100 honoree from 2023 and keynote speaker, urges your support for The Floating Hospital’s Golden Legacies Gala on June 4 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at Guastavino’s, nestled beneath the 59th Street Bridge in Manhattan. The event underwrites the charity … [Read more...] about Golden Legacies: The Floating Hospital

The Floating Hospital Annual Gala

IA Newsletter, May 27, 2023

May 23, 2023 by Leave a Comment

For more than 155 years, The Floating Hospital has assisted the neediest New Yorkers with their everyday and chronic medical concerns. But, providing healthcare alone is never enough. The Floating Hospital does more because they have to do more, meeting people where they are and doing whatever it takes to make them whole. By participating in The Floating Hospital’s Summer … [Read more...] about The Floating Hospital Annual Gala

Against the Tide

By Tom Deignan
Spring 2023

April 12, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Sean Granahan is determined to keep The Floating Hospital afloat It’s been nearly 20 years since Sean Granahan found himself in a diner on the West Side of Manhattan, staring at a piece of paper. “The numbers weren’t pretty,” Granahan recalls. “In fact, they were un-pretty.” A lawyer, Granahan had spent the previous several years doing work on behalf of a New York-based … [Read more...] about Against the Tide

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December 7, 0521

St. Columcille was born on this day in Gartan, Co. Donegal. Columcille, who would also become known as Columba, Colum, Columbus and Columkill, was born to a royal family but given in fosterage to a priest at a young age. After studying under St. Finnian, he spent 15 years preaching and traveling through out Ireland. By 25, he had already founded about 27 monasteries, including Kells which would become famous for producing the Book of Kells. Columcille was also famous through out other celtic regions, including Scotland. He founded the monastery at Iona, a tiny Island off the coast of Scotland. Iona would become the center of Christianity for the Celtic world.

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