President presents the Distinguished Service Awards for the Irish Abroad 2017
30/11/2017 NO REPRO FEE, MAXWELLS DUBLIN Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Pic shows ( l to r ) Jacqueline O’Donovan who won in the Irish Community Support Category with President Jacqueline O’Donovan is Managing Director of O’Donovan Waste and the daughter of the late Joe O’Donovan, who came to the UK in 1959 from Co. Cork to found O’Donovan Waste Disposal. Jacqueline has grown the family business into one of London’s leading independent waste management companies, having become Managing Director of the company when she was just 19. Jacqueline is a highly respected and successful member of the Irish business community and is a prominent and active member of a number of Irish business networks. She is passionate about her Irish heritage, reflected in the extraordinary work she does for the Irish community in London. Having grown her own senior management team to be 70% female, Jacqueline is also a regular mentor for the Women’s Irish Network, and nurtures the next generation of Irish entrepreneurs as part of her role as Executive Board Member of the Irish International Business Network. In 2016 she was honoured with the special Outstanding Commitment to Innovation Award by the British Irish Trading Alliance, recognising her outstanding leadership and dedication to mentoring. She has been a very generous donor to a number of Irish charities including the Brent Irish Advisory Service, London Irish Centre, London Irish Film Festival, Irish Youth Foundation and the Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith and also sponsors the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in London. PIC: NO FEE, MAXWELLPHOTOGRAPHY.IE
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30/11/2017 NO REPRO FEE, MAXWELLS DUBLIN Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Pic shows ( l to r ) Denis Mulcahy who won in the Charitable Works Category with President Michael D. Higgins at Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. Denis Mulcahy is the Founder/Chairman of Project Children and a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. A retired detective who served in the New York Police Department, Denis founded Project Children in 1975 to help bring youth from Northern Ireland for brief vacations in the United States. Bringing up to 600 children per year to the United States, Project Children helped Protestant and Catholic youth escape the violence and fear of their communities and find ways to live together and build lifelong trust and friendships. Project Children was pure volunteer work from the outset, and even as its budget grew to nearly $1 million per year, all of the funding went towards helping the youth of Northern Ireland. Over the course of thirty six years, this Project brought over 20,000 young people, Catholic and Protestant, from Northern Ireland to encounter each other in the safe environment of North America. Denis subsequently initiated the Project Children Intern Programme to bring young students from the border counties for summer work experience in the US. Dennis, Project Children and the hundreds of families who supported the hosting of thousands of children from NI during the Troubles, were the subject of a recent documentary, “How to defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story”, narrated by Liam Neeson. PIC: NO FEE, MAXWELLPHOTOGRAPHY.IE
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30/11/2017 NO REPRO FEE, MAXWELLS DUBLIN Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Pic shows ( l to r ) Bernard Canavan, John De Chastelain and President Michael D. Higgins at Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. PIC: NO FEE, MAXWELLPHOTOGRAPHY.IE
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30/11/2017 NO REPRO FEE, MAXWELLS DUBLIN Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Pic shows ( l to r ) Bernard Canavan who won in the Arts, Culture and Sport Category with President Michael D. Higgins at Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. Bernard Canavan is a well-known Irish artist whose distinctive work addresses the experience of Irish emigration during the 20th century. Through his unique art Bernard has given a life time of sustained and distinguished service to Ireland and to the Irish Community Abroad. His work spans over six decades and uniquely records the social conditions of emigration of millions of rural Irish people, who came to make their lives in cities across Britain between 1930 and 1960. Bernard grew up in a small shop in the village of Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, in the 1950s. Illness prevented school attendance, but he read and drew pictures at home. He emigrated to England in 1959 with his father, and returned to work in Dublin as a graphic artist with a display and advertising agency before finally settling in London and working as a free-lance illustrator for most of the 1960s. He had two solo art exhibitions in London and won the Lowes-Dickenson medal and scholarship to Europe followed by a State Mature Scholarship to Ruskin College Oxford 1971-3, where he read for a Diploma in Social Studies, and after that a degree in ‘Politics, Philosophy and Economics’ at Worcester College, Oxford. For the last forty years, he has taught Irish history and produced expressionist paintings. He has had a number of highly acclaimed exhibitions on the emigrant theme both in Ireland and London. Bernard is passionate about the subject of the “forgotten Irish” and much of his work highlights this theme. He has previously supported Irish community endeavours through the donation of artwork. PIC: NO FEE, MAXWELLPHOTOGRAPHY.IE
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30/11/2017 NO REPRO FEE, MAXWELLS DUBLIN Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Pic shows ( l to r ) Bernard Canavan, John De Chastelain, Hideki Mimura and President Michael D. Higgins at Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. PIC: NO FEE, MAXWELLPHOTOGRAPHY.IE
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30/11/2017 NO REPRO FEE, MAXWELLS DUBLIN Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Pic shows ( l to r )Mary T. Murphy, Marianne Elliot and President Michael D. Higgins at Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. PIC: NO FEE, MAXWELLPHOTOGRAPHY.IE
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30/11/2017 NO REPRO FEE, MAXWELLS DUBLIN Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Pic shows ( l to r ) Dr. William C. Campbell, Mary T. Murphy and Professor Marianne Elliott at Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. PIC: NO FEE, MAXWELLPHOTOGRAPHY.IE
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30/11/2017 NO REPRO FEE, MAXWELLS DUBLIN Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Pic shows ( l to r ) Dr. William C. Campbell and Patricia Harty at Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. PIC: NO FEE, MAXWELLPHOTOGRAPHY.IE
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30/11/2017 NO REPRO FEE, MAXWELLS DUBLIN Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Pic shows ( l to r ) Dr. William C. Campbell and President Michael D. Higgins at Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. PIC: NO FEE, MAXWELLPHOTOGRAPHY.IE
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30/11/2017 NO REPRO FEE, MAXWELLS DUBLIN Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Pic shows ( l to r ) Hideki Mimura and Bernard Canavan at Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. PIC: NO FEE, MAXWELLPHOTOGRAPHY.IE
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30/11/2017 NO REPRO FEE, MAXWELLS DUBLIN Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Pic shows ( l to r ) Dr. William C. Campbell, Mary T. Murphy and Professor Marianne Elliott at Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. PIC: NO FEE, MAXWELLPHOTOGRAPHY.IE
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