Boston Irish Reporter publisher Ed Forry has announced the newspaper will observe its 25th anniversary at a Celebratory Luncheon on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015 at the Plaza Ballroom, Boston Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center. With an expected attendance of some 400 Boston business, civic, and political leaders, the luncheon event will present the 2015 Boston Irish Honors to acknowledge exemplary lives among Boston’s Irish community.

Forry, whose roots extend deep into the soil of Sligo and Cork, said the Irish Honors “are all about heritage, that special link to the island from which our forebears set out to find a future for themselves and their families. The Irish Reporter is one of the region's few remaining family-owned and-operated publications,” he added, 'and we take care in telling the stories of accomplished Boston Irish individuals who have made a difference in public service and business, and of exemplary Irish families who share our common roots in Boston and Ireland.”
A luncheon committee is currently being formed and soliciting nominations for potential honorees. To suggest a person or family for an Honors award, or to join the committee, please contact Ed Forry at honors@bostonirish.com or call 617-436-1222
The names of the honorees will be announced later this month.
The October 23 luncheon will be the sixth annual Boston Irish Honors event. Past honorees have been:
2014: Katherine Craven, Mayor Marty Walsh, the Burke family of South Boston.
2013: Senate President Therese Murray, Gerry and Bob Mulligan & family, John P. Driscoll Jr. (posthumously)
2012: Congressman Richard Neal, the Feeney brothers - Brendan & Greg Feeney, the Mary & Bob Muse family
2011: Kathleen O'Toole, former Boston police commissioner, State Senator Tom Kennedy, and the Corcoran family, the James and Jean Hunt family, and the Mulvoy family.
2010: Congressman Ed Markey, John Donohue, Arbella Insurance, the Tom & Peg Garaghty family, the Brett family, and the family of the late Boston Mayor John B. Hynes.