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The Gold Medal Awards

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).

  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

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Coming Up Next...
2008 Annual General Meeting
Eire Society to host the 2008 AGM at Boston College on May 15


News:
April 3, 2008 - The Eire Society Honors Irish Peace Negotiator Padraig O'Malley at the 2008 Gold Medal Awards
See the feature in the April 2008 Irish Echo


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