“Everything I’ve ever tried to say on screen comes from that small island and its people. To be honored by The Irish Post – a paper that has followed the Irish story in Britain for decades – means more to me than I can say.”
Becoming reflective, Jim paid tribute to the women who shaped his life.
“I wouldn’t be here without my granny, who died giving birth to my mother,” he said.
“So I stand here in the name of Irish women, in the name of my dead wife Fran, my partner Zara, and my daughter Clodagh, and my daughters in America, all celebrating Thanksgiving. So let’s give thanks for being Irish.”
Film director Jim Sheridan won the Lifetime Achievement Award at The Irish Post Awards 2025. Pictured: Presenter Ryan Tubridy, Jim Sheridan, and actor Colm Meaney.
“I learned volumes about the craft as well as the art of fiction, and I am indebted. That was a wonderful time, a perfect year in Ireland that enriched and altered the course of my life in so many beautiful ways. I carry it with me and look back on it in wonder. My heart is always there, in Ireland.”
Virginia Evans, author of the bestselling novel The Correspondent on her year in the creative writing master’s program at Trinity College, Dublin.
“We would like to offer gratitude on behalf of the Irish who came to Canada in the 1840s during the Great Famine. We would particularly like to thank the Huron-Wendat Nation of Wendake, the Abenaki Nation of Odanak, and the Mohawk Nation of Kahnawà:ke who offered assistance to our people in troubled times.”
Bryan O’Gallagher, Ireland’s Honorary Consul to Quebec. “Honouring Indigenous Famine Aid from Quebec and Ireland Lacrosse” is available on YouTube.
“The Continental Army [was] just filled with teenagers and ne’er-do-wells, second and third sons who aren’t due an inheritance, felons, and recent immigrants. That’s who wins the war, and that’s why democracy is not an object of the revolution, it’s a consequence – because you realize at the end, they did the fighting and dying.”
Ken Burns speaking to Jordan Hoffman about his documentary “The American Revolution.” – Variety Fair
“The Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna stands on a site of immense historical significance, a place that bears direct witness to the hardship, loss, and upheaval experienced arising from An Gorta Mór.”
– Minister Patrick O’Donovan confirmed that Ireland’s annual memorial commemorating the lives lost and those forced to emigrate due to the Famine will take place in Portumna, Co. Galway, in May 2026. (Families entering the workhouse were segregated by gender and age, with only children aged under two allowed to remain with their mothers.) – The Irish Post
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