The Eire Society's Gold Medal is awarded annually to a person of who has made significant contributions to benefit society and to their chosen fields of expertise. Previous recipients include filmmakers John Ford and John Huston, Irish actresses Siobhan McKenna and Maureen O'Hara, Irish poet Seamus Heaney, U.S. Ambassadors to Ireland William V. Shannon and Jean Kennedy Smith, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John W. McCormack and President John F. Kennedy see complete list below.
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2011 Gold Medal Dinner
& Award Ceremony
The Eire Society of Boston cordially invites you to attend
the seventy-fourth annual Gold Medal Award Dinner honoring
the 2011 Gold Medal Award Recipient
MARY ROBINSON
Please join us to honor Mary Robinson, who served as the
first female President of Ireland, The United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, Founding Member & Chair
of the Council of Women World Leaders, Chancellor of
University College Dublin, and the 2009 recipient of the
United States Presidential Medal of Freedom.
On FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2011
3:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
at
The World Trade Center, Harbor View Ball Room
164 Northern Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02210
A Welcome Reception from 3:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Will Begin the Afternoon Event
The Banquet Dinner and Award Ceremony will
Follow in the Harbor View Ball Room.
Please R.S.V.P. with check or money order for
$150 per guest by May 6, 2011 to:
Mrs. Kathleen Lawlor
172 Adams Street, Milton, MA 02186
Black Tie Optional
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Gold Medal Recipients
- 2011
- Mary Robinson
- 2010
- Edward W. Forry of the Boston Irish Reporter Newspaper.
- 2009
- John Cullinane and Michael Donlan
- 2008
- Professor Padraig O'Malley
- 2007
- Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith
- 2006
- Peter Meade
- 2005
- Joseph F. Leary
- 2004
- Peter & Carmel O’Reilly
- 2003
- Dr. Robert O'Neill
- 2002
- Hon. William M. Bulger
- 2001
- Hon. Desmond Guinness
- 2000
- Rev. Bartley MacPhaidin, CSC, Stonehill College
- 1999
- Professor Thomas O'Connor, Boston College
- 1998
- Frank Patterson & Eily O'Grady
- 1997
- Hon. George J. Mitchell
- 1996
- Brian P. Burns
- 1995
- Phil Coulter
- 1994
- Hon. Brian J. Donnelly
- 1993
- Dr. Margaret MacCurtain, OP
- 1992
- Eoin McKiernan
- 1991
- The Chieftans
- 1990
- Herbert Kenny
- 1989
- Maureen O'Hara
- 1988
- John F. Collins
- 1987
- 50th ANNIVERSARY
Maeve O'Reilly Finley
Thomas Flanagan
*Dr. Sean McBride
Tommy Makem
Dr. Michael McElroy - 1986
- Mary O'Hara, Internationally acclaimed Harpist, Soloist, Author, Radio, Television and Concert Hall Performer
- 1985
- Hon. Charles J. Haughey, Former Prime Minister of Ireland,
Patron of the Arts - 1984
- Anna Manahan, stage, motion picture and television star
- 1983
- Barnard Hughes, stage, motion picture and television star
- 1982
- Seamus Heaney
- 1981
- George Edward Ryan
- 1980
- John Hume
- 1979
- Hon. Thomas P. O'Neill,Jr.
- 1978
- Leon Uris
- 1977
- Edward Benno Hanify
- 1976
- John D. J. Moore
- 1975
- William V. Shannon
- 1974
- Mary Lavin
- 1973
- Bob Considine
- 1972
- Hon. John W. McCormack
- 1971
- Siobhan McKenna
- 1970
- Hon. Eugene McCarthy
- 1969
- Patrick and Aimee Butler
- 1968
- John Huston
- 1967
- Most Rev. Jeremiah F. Minihan, D.D.
- 1966
- Cornelius Ryan
- 1965
- Rev. Martin P. Harney, S.J.
- 1964
- Helen Landreth
- 1963
- Dr. Brian O'Doherty
- 1962
- Joseph Gannon
- 1961
- Padraic Colum
- 1960
- Rev. Terrence L. Connolly, S.J.
- 1959
- James Augustine Healy
- 1958
- Hon. Daniel T. O'Connell
- 1957
- Hon. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- 1956
- Very Rev. Robert I. Gannon, S.J.
- 1955
- John Ford (Sean O'Feeney)
- 1954
- Rt. Rev. Michael J. Houlihan
- 1953
- Hon. Henry Lee Shattuck
- 1952
- Joseph Edward Carrigan
- 1951
- Hugh O'Neill Hencken
- 1950
- Richard Cardinal Cushing
- 1949
- Hon. James McGurrin
- 1948
- James Brendan Connolly
- 1947
- Joseph Dunn
- 1946
- Fred Norris Robinson
- 1945
- Charles Donagh Maginnis
