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Irish culture organization in the United States
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
John Ford and
John Huston , Irish actresses
Siobhán McKenna ,
Anna Manahan and
Maureen O'Hara , Irish poet
Seamus Heaney , and musicians
The Chieftains and
Tommy Makem . Politicians include:
Mary Robinson ,
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 .
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