In what has become a celebrated annual, pre-St Patrick’s Day tradition, Glucksman Ireland House NYU hosted its Gala on March 3 in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Among the distinguished guests gathered to honor this year’s Honorees were Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States, H.E. Geraldine Byrne Nason; Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Chair of the Advisory Board of Glucksman Ireland House; Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the UN, H.E. Fergal Mythen; Director of the Northern Ireland Bureau, Richard Cushnie; award winning actress, Sarah Jessica Parker; Consul General of Ireland, the Hon. Gerald Angley; and Georgina Dopico, Provost of NYU, Eileen Murray, 2025 winner of the Lew Glucksman Award for Leadership; Maggie Timoney, CEO, Heineken USA and 2024 St. Patrick’s Day Parade Grand Marshal, Andrea Haughian, Executive Vice President, Head of Americas in NY, Invest Northern Ireland.
Critically-acclaimed Irish writer and 1995 Booker Prize winner, Roddy Doyle, received the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. CEO Emeritus of Northwell and Irish American leader, Michael Dowling, received the Outstanding Public Service Award and Lifetime Contribution to Public Health. Global Chief Executive of Dentons Law Firm, Kate Barton, received the Lewis Glucksman Award for Leadership. And co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Irish America Magazine, Patricia Harty, received the Pete Hamill Award for Journalistic Excellence.
The Gala Co-Chairs were Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Judith McGuire, Kieran McLoughlin, Ted Smyth, and Sophie Sweetman McConnell.
The generous donations of supporters of the annual Gala sustain student scholarship programs, research, and public events at Glucksman Ireland House.
PHOTOS: JAMES HIGGINS
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