Photographs of presentations to Washington DC Honourees from 2010 onwards can be viewed in section Washington DC Events.
2010
Hon Richard Neal (D) - U.S. Congressman for the 2nd District of Massachusetts, Chair Friends of Ireland
Hon Tim F. Murphy (R) - U.S. Congressman for the 18th District of Pennsylvania, Vice Chair The Friends of Ireland
John P. Cosgrove - Former President of the National Press Club
2011
Hon Kirsten Gillibrand (D) - United States Senator for New York
Hon. Christopher H. Smith (R) - United States Congressman for New Jersey 4yh District
2012
Norah O'Donnell - Co-host 'CBS This Morning'
John Feehery - President Quinn Gillespie Communications and Director of QGA Government Affairs
2013
Bret Baier - Anchor 'Special Report with Bret Baier Fox News Channel
Bruce A. Morrison - Morrison Public Affairs Group
2014
Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky - Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs and President's Special Envoy to Northern Ireland
Michael D. McCurry - President Public Strategies Washington Inc and Former White House Press Secretary
2015
Matthew R. Shay - President and CEO National Retail Federation
Megyn Kelly - Anchor, The Kelly File Fox News Channel
2016
Katty Kay - Anchor BBC World News America
H.E. Anne Anderson - Lead Anchor BBC World News America
Fr Myles Kavanagh C.P. - Lifetime Achievement Award, International Economic Development Council
2017
Wallace D. Loh Ph.D. - President University of Maryland
Norman Houston - Director/Counsellor of the Northern Ireland Bureau
James M. Boland - President Boland
2018
Larry Hogan - Governor, State of Maryland
Terry McAuliffe - Former Governor, State of Virginia
Michael J. O'Neill - Of Counsel, K & L Gates LLP
2019
Bob Dormer, Hymen, Phelps and McNamara, Director Flax Trust/America,
Margaret Brennan, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent at CBS News and Moderator of 'Face the Nation',
Hon. Joseph Crowley
2021
(Joint event with New York due to Covid outbreak)
Lisa Kardell - Director of Government and Public Affairs for Waste Management
Sean McGarvey - President North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU)
Charles (Chuck) McDermott - Founding General Partner at RockPort Capital Partners
2022
Hon. Mick Mulvaney - former White House Chief of Staff, Ambassador and Special Envoy to Northern Ireland
Kelly O' Donnell - Senior White House Correspondent NBC News
Hon. Marty Walsh - United States Secretary of Labor
2023
Timothy J. Driscoll - President of the International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers
Meghan L. O'Sullivan - Director of the Belfer Centre for Science & International Affairs Harvard Kennedy School
Kristen Welker - Co-anchor of "Weekend TODAY" and NBC News Chief White House Correspondent
