Eire Society of Boston
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Formation | 1937 |
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Purpose | Promotion of Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
Website | Official website |
The Éire Society of Boston was founded in 1937 to promote Irish culture and to bring it to a wider audience particularly in the United States of America.
Gold medal
Each year the Society bestows its Gold Medal award to individuals they feel have made "significant contributions to benefit society and to their chosen fields of expertise". Recipients in entertainment have included filmmakers
Thomas P. O'Neill, Charles Haughey, George J. Mitchell and 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 (in 1957). Academics, cultural and fine arts awardees include: Charles Donagh Maginnis, Thomas H. O'Connor, Robert K. O'Neill, Desmond Guinness and Padraig O'Malley.[1]
References
- ^ List of Gold Medal recipients to 2011 Archived 2012-08-08 at the Wayback Machine