| 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 |
| | |
|
