1897. Dec. 11. Sixth meeting of the Council of the Society is held in the Parker House, Boston, Mass. Thomas J. Gargan of Boston presides. It is voted to prepare for publication, and publish, the first volume of the Journal of the Society’s Proceedings. The volume thus authorized was issued some months later. There is received from Dr. J. C. O’Connell, Washington, D. C., a copy of his work on “The Irish in the Revolution and in the Civil War.” 1897. Dec. 18. Death of Hon. Owen A. Galvin, a member of the Society, Boston, Mass. 1898. Jan. 14. Joseph F. Swords, of Hartford, the Society’s state vice-president for Connecticut at this time, contributes a letter to the _Boston Pilot_ treating of the origin of the family name Swords in Ireland. 1898. Jan. 25. Death of Hon. Charles B. Gafney, a member of the Society, Rochester, N. H. 1898. Jan. 29. Seventh meeting of the Council of the Society. Held in the Parker House, Boston, Mass., Thomas J. Gargan presiding. It was decided to hold the annual meeting and banquet of the Society at the Hotel San Remo, New York city, on the evening of the 17th prox. 1898. Feb. 7. Hon. Thomas M. Waller, ex-governor of Connecticut, qualifies as a member of the Society. 1898. Feb. 17. Eighth meeting of the Council, held at the Hotel San Remo, New York city, Thomas J. Gargan, of Boston, presiding. 1898. Feb. 17. Annual meeting of the Society at the San Remo, New York city, following the meeting of the Council. Gen. James R. O’Beirne of New York presides. Edward A. Moseley, Washington, D. C., is reëlected president-general. 1898. Feb. 17. Annual banquet of the Society at the San Remo, immediately following the annual meeting. General O’Beirne also presided at the banquet. Resolutions of sorrow adopted on the loss of the U. S. battleship _Maine_, in Havana harbor, and copies of the resolutions ordered transmitted to the president of the United States, and to the secretary of the navy.