The AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award / Lifetime Achievement Award / Booker Prize / the Lifetime Achievement Award / /
Organization
Ireland Fund / American-Irish Foundation / /
Person
Benedict Kiely / Reilly Heaney / Bill Clinton / Brian Friel Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill / Mary Lavin / Paul Smith / Marina Carr / John McGahern / Thomas Kilroy Brian Friel Nuala / William V. Shannon / Sebastian Barry / Brian Friel / Michael McLaverty / Frank McGuinness / Tom Jordan / Paul Muldoon / Michael Hartnett / Seamus Deane / William Trevor / Dermot Healy / Seamus Heaney / Colm Tóibín / Bryan McMahon / Maurice Hayes / Austin Clarke / John B. Keane / Johnson / John Montague / Aidan Higgins / Tom MacIntyre / Richard Murphy / John Banville / Enda Kenny / Eugene McCabe / David Park / Thomas McCarthy / Antonio Zuzueta Olmos / Loretta Brennan Glucksman / Brendan Kennelly / Michael Longley / Hubert Butler / Derek Mahon / /
Position
promising young writer / young poet / President / Taoiseach / writer / Ambassador / US President / /
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