The 6th annual Boston Irish Honors luncheon will take place on Fri., Oct. 23, at 11:45 a.m. at the Seaport Hotel/Boston World Trade Center. The celebratory gathering will also mark the Silver Anniversary of the Boston Irish Reporter.  

The 2015 honorees are: Boston Police Commissioner William Evans and his brothers, Paul, John, Thomas and James; Mike Sheehan, chief executive officer, The Boston Globe; and Margaret Stapleton, retired vice president, John Hancock Insurance and Financial Services, past president Eire Society, and longtime Pine Street Inn volunteer.

“Since October 2010, the Boston Irish Reporter has sponsored this annual event,” said publisher Ed Forry. “It’s an inspiring luncheon to recognize and celebrate exemplary Irish individuals and their families who share our heritage in Boston and Ireland. “At this event, we tell the life stories of exemplary Boston Irish with immigrant roots in Ireland, who established productive and meaningful lives in Boston, and worked to make better lives for succeeding generations of emigrants to our city.” 

The 35-member luncheon committee will be chaired by Jim Brett, president of the New England Council. Serving as honorary chair are US Senator Ed Markey and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Program moderator will be Boston Red Sox “poet laureate” Dick Flavin.

Other committee members are Breandán O Caollaí, Ireland Consul General, Aidan Browne, William M. Bulger, John Burke, James Carmody, John T. Carroll, Della O’Flaherty Costello, Steve Costello, Jay Curley, Brendan Feeney, John Philip Foley, Bill Forry, state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, Maureen Forry-Sorrell, Anne Geraghty, David Greaney, John B. Hynes III, Edris Kelley, William F. Kennedy, Rev. Thomas B. Kennedy, Mimi and Paul LaCamera, Joe Leary, Bill McNally, Roseanne and Peter Meade, Sean Moynihan, Gil Sullivan, Bobby White, and W. Paul White.

Past Honorees: (2014) Katherine Craven, Mayor Marty Walsh, and the Burke family of South Boston; (2013) State Senate President Therese Murray, John P. Driscoll Jr. (posthumously,) and Gerry and Bob Mulligan & family; (2012) Congressman Richard Neal, Brendan and Greg Feeney, and the Mary and Bob Muse family; (2011) Former Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole, State Sen. Tom Kennedy (RIP,) the Joseph Corcoran family, the James Hunt family and the Thomas Mulvoy family; (2010) Congressman Ed Markey, John Donohue, the Brett family, the Tom & Peg Geraghty family, and the Mayor John B. Hynes family.

For more information, please contact Ed Forry, Publisher, Boston Irish Reporter, at 617-436-1222; email bostonirishhonors@bostonirish.com