| 2024 | Unateresa Sheahan Gormley | Renouned Irish Step
Dancing Teacher, Promoter and Director of Rose of Tralee, Ambassador for Tourism Ireland, Irish Echo Community Champion Recipient |
| 2023 | Thomas
J. McCarthy | Irish Community Activist and Officer of AOH Joseph Duelk Jr. Division 1 |
| 2022 | Thomas
B. Mulcahy | Co-Founder, Project Children and Past President of the Greenwood
Lake Gaelic Society |
| 2020-21 | Kevin R. Cummings | Past
NYS AOH District 8 Director, Organizer and Webmaster, Past President Orange
County AOH and Past President Father Donald J. Whelan AOH Division 2 |
| 2019 | James O'Donnell |
Orange County Legislator |
| 2018 |
Maureen Morse | LAOH Division 4 & 5,
Irish Heritage Festival, & Parade Committe Member |
| 2017 |
George W. Anderson | Past President AOH
Joseph Duelk Jr. Division 1 |
| 2016 | Sister Ann Daly | Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Former
Executive Director of Hospice Planning and Educational Foundation, Inc. |
| 2015 | Ann Slattery Michel | Past
President of LAOH St. Therese Division 4 |
| 2014 |
Stephen O'Shea | Co-Founder and Past President
of St. Brendan's GFC |
| 2013 | Reverend John Logan, O.Carm. | Chaplain for the Father Emanuel Hourihan AOH Division
4 |
| 2012 | Bill Boss |
Educator and Past President of Greenwood Lake Gaelic Cultural Society |
| 2011 | Joseph Ronald
Heppes | Past President of Father
Emanuel Hourihan AOH Division 4 |
| 2010 |
Annie Rabbitt | N.Y. State Assemblywoman,
97th District |
| 2009 | Mary Anne Garay | Past President L.A.O.H. Orange County Board |
| 2008 | Thomas F. Flynn |
Past President of AOH Joseph Duelk Jr. Division 1 |
| 2007 | Nancy Corrigan MacDonald |
Founder of Irish Heritage Festival |
| 2006 | Dennis P. Browne | Director,
District 8 A.O.H. |
| 2005 | James Graham, Sr. | Irish Community Activist |
| 2004 | Jeremiah P. Quill |
Past Parade Chairman |
| 2003 |
John Finnegan | Past Director, District 8
A.O.H. |
| 2002 | Hon. John
K. McGuirk | Supreme Court Judge |
| 2001 | Sr. Margaret Murphy, O.P. | Professor of World Religions and Celtic Spirituality at Mt. St. Mary College |
| 2000 | Seamus Comiskey |
Past President, A.O.H. Orange County Board |
| 1999 | Mona Kehoe | President, Middletown
Irish-American Society |
| 1998 | John Graham | Past Parade Chairman |
| 1997 | James Lynch | President, Orange County A.O.H. |
| 1996 |
John Greehy | Past President Father Donald
J. Whelan AOH Division 2 |
| 1995 | Patrick J. Colman | Supporter of Irish Heritage |
| 1994 | William J. Larkin, Jr. |
State Senator |
| 1993 |
Marion Mohr Wild | Irish Historian |
| 1992 | James Kelly |
Local Irish Historian and Bagpiper |
| 1991 | Christopher Turpin | Attorney
and Irish Entertainer |
| 1990 | Douglas Garnham | President, Irish American Unity Conference |
| 1989 | Mary Holt Moore |
Gaelic Societies Council President |
| 1988 | Dorothy Hayden Cudahy | Host
of Irish Memories Radio Program |
| 1987 |
Martin Galvin | Attorney and Spokesman for
Irish Freedom |
| 1986 | Dick Wells | Prominent Radio Host |
| 1985 | Most Rev. Austin B. Vaugh |
Episcopal Vicar of Orange County |
| 1984 | Leo M. O'Grady | Prominent
Local Irish Supporter |
| 1983 | Keara M. O'Dempsey | Nothern Ireland Human Rights Activist |
| 1982 | Jimmy McPhail |
Entertainer |
| 1981 |
Denis P. Mulcahy | Chairman and Co-Founder,
Project Children and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee |
| 1980 |
John J. Finucane | Northern Ireland Human Rights
Activist |
| 1979 | Paul O'Dwyer |
Former New York City Councilman |
| 1978 | Jack McCarthy | WPIZ-TV Personality |
| 1977 | John I. McCarey |
Former Middletown Councilman |
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