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s President of the Ireland-U.S. Council it is my pleasant duty to extend, on behalf of the entire Council membership in the United States and throughout AIreland, the warmest of welcomes to our 54th Anniversary Dinner. Another consequential year has passed during which we have seen elections and changes in Government administrations in Ireland and in the United States. We have also seen changes that may affect Northern Ireland’s relations with the United States with the decision by Great Britain to exit the European Union despite a majority of those in Northern Ireland expressing the desire to remain Brian W. Stack within the world’s largest trading bloc. We live in interesting times and our hope is that during the coming year we will see a deepening of the commercial connections and business ties between Ireland and the United States.

At this time each year, it is incumbent upon us to say how thankful we are for the support and participation received during this past year from Council members and from so many benefactors, patrons and sponsors. The encouragement, assistance and support you have offered has been very heartening. It has also been crucial in helping us to continue the organization’s roster of programs and activities during this past year.

Because of your help, we have been enabled to engage the core mission of the organization in meaningful ways. In working to enhance and strengthen those important business bonds and commercial connections between the United States and Ireland, we hope to make a worthwhile contribution to the betterment of the economic circumstances of all the people in the United States and in Ireland, north and south. Improved and expanded investment, trade and tourism in both directions between America and Ireland is not a zero-sum game – it betters the lives, livelihoods and economic circumstances of everybody.

Tonight, we are delighted to present the Council’s Award for Outstanding Achievement to a distinguished businessman Willie Walsh, who is driving the fortunes of one of the world’s great airline groups – IAG – that includes some of aviation’s most iconic brands – British Airways, Iberia and, of course, Aer Lingus which has invested heavily in developing, sustaining and expanding the vital air bridge that connects Ireland and Europe across the Atlantic with the United States.

The very important business links that connect America and Ireland in capital investment, trade, tourism, technology transfer and so much more have flourished during this past year. These are durable, tangible and resilient connections that require intelligent attention and systematic nurturing. Our hope is that in the coming year, we in the Ireland-U.S. Council can assist the process of sBtrenrgitahnen inSg antda ecxpk anding these bonds that bind America and Ireland ever closer. Brian W. Stack President The Ireland-U.S. Council

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National Secretary National Treasurer James M. Adrian Kieran Claffey Partner Michael Clark Partner Adrian-Cassidy President PwC, LLP & associates Surmont, LLC.

Vice Presidents Niall Condon Vice-President Michael J. Gibbons John P. Nallen Pharmaceutical President-Emeritus Chief Financial Officer Manufacturing Operations The Ireland-U.S. Council 21st Century Fox Pfizer, Inc.

John J. Reilly Joseph Connolly Diarmuid Hogan Partner Executive Vice President Chief Executive Squire Patton Boggs Bank of Ireland Global Excess Partners, LLC (U.S.) Global Markets U.S.

Andrea T. Mills Director Cillian Ó Brádaigh Gerald C. Crotty Fiscal Management Senior Vice President President Associates, LLC Morgan Stanley Weichert Enterprise, LLC

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Patricia A. Cunningham David Evans National Account Manager Managing Director - Jack Foley Leisure Sales North America Executive Vice President United Airlines Canyon CTS Aer Lingus

William Falvey Donard Gaynor Patrick J. Donaghy Sales Director - International Business Chairman Metro Atlantic Consultant and Favour Royal, Inc. Diageo Guinness USA Non-Executive Director

John J. Doolan Mark Finlay Thomas J. Goodwin Vice President President Partner Heineken USA ULV Americas, Inc. McCarter & English, LLP

William B. Finneran Eddie Dowling Chairman & Peter J. Hooper Chief Executive Managing Director Director The Padded Wagon EXOP Capital, LLC New Ireland Fund, Inc.

James J. Houlihan Alan T. Ennis John Fitzpatrick Partner President & CEO Chief Executive Houlihan-Parnes Glansaol, LLC Fitzpatrick Hotel Group Realtors, LLC

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Gerard P. McNamara John J. Kelly Global Managing Director Managing Partner Information Officers Carl Shanahan Hanover Stone Partners, Practice President LLC Korn Ferry Shamrock Building Services

Barbara G. Koster Senior Vice President & Thomas J. Moran Chief Information Officer Chairman Prudential Financial, Inc. Mutual of America Dennis D. Swanson

Martin Murphy Maurice Wolridge Partner Chairman MacDara Lynch The Repton Group, LLP Alimentary Health, Inc.

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Elizabeth F. Martin Rhianna Quinn-Roddy Partner Principal Elizabeth F. Martin Fine Art Tinderbrook Associates Patrick O’Neill

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Roddy Feely Clive Bellows Executive Director Stan McCarthy Country Head Ireland-U.S. Council Chief Executive Northern Trust Ireland Ireland Chapter Kerry Group plc

Brendan Cahill Pat Gilroy Danny McCoy Partner Managing Director – Ireland Chief Executive William Fry, Solicitors Designer Group IBEC

Brian Goggin Michael Cannon Past-President Martiena Milton Director Ireland Chapter Director Cannon Kirk Homes Ireland-U.S. Council H. R. Holfeld Group

12 Yvonne Muldoon Marie O’Connor Andy Ruane Director of Sales Partner Chief Executive Aer Lingus PwC LLP Irish Channel America

Joseph P.J. Murray Founding Director Dr. Len O’Hagan Martin Shanahan Ireland-U.S. Council Director Chief Executive Ireland Chapter OCH Corporate Advisers IDA Ireland

Eoghan O’Mara Walsh Martin Naughton Chief Executive Julie Sinnamon Executive Chairman Irish Tourist Industry Chief Executive Glen Dimplex Confederation Enterprise Ireland

Anne Nolan Aidan Prendergast Aidan Smyth Chairman Chief Executive Managing Director Irish Aviation Authority Cardinal Consulting Ltd. Labplan Ltd.

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he past year has seen a deepening Tand intensification of economic relations between the United States and Ireland. There has been more capital investment, more commerce and trade, more tourism and more technology transfer Brian W. Stack Chief Executive Officer between our two countries CIE Tours International than ever before. Truly, it can be said that the business bonds and commercial connections tying together America and the Emerald Isle are stronger, deeper and more durable than they have ever been.

The political seasons in Ireland and in the United States have run full course. The uncertainty that automatically accompanies election cycles in any democracy appears to have been more an undercurrent in Ireland-U.S. business relations than a forceful impediment.

It has now been almost 100 months since the darker days of the financial crisis and the economic recessions that rocked both countries. The recovery in both economies Plans for a March 2017 has happened somewhat in lockstep – both economies have put the worst of that crisis behind. In America’s case, the Economic Conference economic recovery has been slow-paced but consistent. The Ireland-U.S. Council has decided to stage a major Ireland, on the other hand, recovered slowly at first but conference on Ireland-U.S. Economic Relations in New is now firing on all cylinders and recording more rapid York in March 2017. We will partner in this venture with economic expansion these days. Although there is much IBEC – the major employers’ organization in Ireland. evidence of continuing caution and prudence in economic The Conference will conclude with our regularly-scheduled policies by government and private sector interests alike St. Patrick’s Lunch. We believe this is an important in both countries. conference at an important time. It will provide a valuable forum for examination of key issues affecting the dynamic, These are unusual times we live in. The Brexit vote in the fast-growing and vital economic relationships between the United Kingdom this year offers some important challenges United States and Ireland. to Ireland, north and south. It will time before it is clear how Britain’s exit from the European Union plays out. The event is timed - March 15/16, 2017 – to occur after However, there are several issues that may impact future the Governments in both countries will have changed. economic performance in Ireland – especially in Northern A General Election has already happened in Ireland this Ireland. The free movement of goods, capital and labor on year - resulting in the appearance of many new faces in the island may be compromised or hindered in ways that the Government cabinet in Dublin. A new Administration appear uncertain at this time. takes office in the United States in January 2017. Mark your calendars.

16 53rd Annual Dinner of the Council in 2015 The 53rd Annual Dinner of the Council saw another full house in attendance for this important event in the Council’s annual calendar which was a great success, staged in the Metropolitan Club in New York City on Thursday, November 13, 2015. The Ireland-U.S. Council’s Award for Outstanding Achievement was presented to Siobhán Talbot, Chief Executive of the fast-growing and successful Irish firm of Glanbia .

2015 Member-Guest Reception in Dublin The InterContinental Hotel , in Ballsbridge, Dublin (formerly The Four Seasons) was the venue for the Council’s popular Annual December Member-Guest Reception held on Thursday, December 17, 2015.

Keynote remarks were delivered by Greg Varisco, Chief Operations Officer of Houston-based AquaComms which operates transatlantic A Bite of An Apple subsea fiber-optic cable networks. The gathering also heard It certainly put the cat among the pigeons. We speak of remarks from Kevin F. O’Malley, United States Ambassador the decision in Brussels in late August by European to Ireland . Commission regulators that Ireland’s tax treatment of Apple’s operations in the Emerald Isle violated Europe’s 2016 Winter Meeting: rules on state aids to industry – to the tune of a headline- Florida grabbing $14.5 billion. The 25th annual edition of the Council’s The Ireland-U.S. Council stands firmly with the Government Winter Meeting series was held in Palm of Ireland and with Apple in fighting this ruling (see our Beach, Florida from February 10 thru 12, briefing and commentary on page 20). Already, the Irish 2016 and was sponsored by CIE Tours government has commenced an appeal of this regulatory International. The Winter Meeting was decision. Do not hold your breath waiting for the outcome. kicked off in style with a splendid opening- Experts who know the way of Brussels say that it could take night dinner party on Wednesday, February up to ten years. However, it turns out, we are all on notice 10 hosted by the Council at The Sailfish that this is a bellwether happening that will have far-reaching Club on the banks of the IntraCoastal Waterway in implications – even if it takes a long time to resolve. Palm Beach.

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On Friday February 12th, the Council hosted a luncheon In her important and most interesting remarks, which are meeting at The Beach Club at which there was an impressive reproduced in full in this Annual Report, Justice Denham double-header speaker roster. noted that “the strong links between Ireland and the USA may be illustrated by looking through the prism of the law – Dr. Michael B. Murphy, President, University College Cork past and present. The legal ties between Ireland and the delivered remarks on Dr. George Boole (1815-1864) who U.S.A are rooted in concepts of independence and equality.” was Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork. On the 200th Anniversary of his birth, Dr. Murphy’s 2016 Scholarships Program remarks contained some reflections on his contributions Lunch in New York to the modern era. The Council’s 32nd annual program of Also addressing the luncheon gathering were Aileen O’ - Student Work Experience Scholarships for Donoghue & Gerard Scully from Ireland’s Stock Exchange, 2016 was celebrated this year at an awards which is Europe’s leading Gateway Exchange. luncheon held at The Metropolitan Club in New York City on Thursday, June 9, 2016. 2016 St. Patrick’s Council President Brian W. Stack, Luncheon in New York welcomed the 2016 Council Scholars to The 2016 edition of the Ireland-U.S. New York. He also noted that “this year’s scholarship Council’s St. Patrick’s lunch in the Big awards represent the 32nd year in which the Council has Apple is surely a great celebration of operated this successful and much-admired Scholarship “Irish heritage in America. This year Awards program. We, in the Council, are proud of the role “was no exception especially as 2016 is that this program has played over the years as part of the the Centenary year of Commemoration Council’s broader mission to build closer business and of the 1916 Rising – which was the first economic links between the United States and Ireland.” step in Ireland’s successful struggle for independence. 2016 MidSummer Gala Ireland’s Consul General in New York Barbara Jones Dinner in Dublin delivered remarks that were appropriate and fitting for the occasion, noting especially the role played by those in the Dublin Castle may be the best venue for a United States and particularly in New York, in the planning dinner party anywhere in Ireland. And and staging of the Rising at Easter 1916. Also speaking at that is where the Ireland-U.S. Council’s the lunch was Andrew Murphy, Chief Commercial Officer MidSummer Gala Dinner was successfully of Shannon Group who updated Council members and their hosted on Friday, June 24, 2016. The guests on Shannon Airport and the commercial activities of glittering occasion saw PwC’s Marie Shannon Group in the MidWest Region of Ireland. O’Connor receive the Council’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award marking especially her 2016 Council Spring notable and important achievements in building business bonds between America and Ireland. Corporate Lunch in Dublin The Chief Justice of Ireland’s Supreme Also at the event, the Council presented its 2016 edition of Court the Hon. Justice Susan Denham its Annual Award for Outstanding Portraiture to a young was the Guest Speaker at the Ireland- Dublin artist Molly Judd. U.S. Council’s Spring Corporate Lunch held in Dublin’s InterContinental Hotel (formerly The Four Seasons Hotel) in April of this year.

18 2016 Council Council Membership Golf Days in The Council is a membership organization and welcomes new members for its mission and activities on both sides Ireland and in of the Atlantic. Council Membership Chairman Peter the U.S. Hooper is keen to hear of potential new member In 2016, many mem - candidates. bers and their guests in both countries enjoyed The Last Word the opportunity to partici - As improving economic conditions continue to evolve pate in Council-organized Golf Days. The Annual Golf between the United States and Ireland, the bonds and Day in the United States saw another successful event at connections between our two countries continue to be Rye Golf Club in Rye, New York – on its usual last Monday deep, dynamic and ,most of all, durable. in July calendar date. I wish to thank all our members, supporters, sponsors On the other side of the Atlantic, inclement weather did and friends in the United States and in Ireland for their not dampen the spirits as a strong turnout of Council participation and support this past year. We hope you will members and their guests were on hand on September 9 continue that tradition of support, loyalty and commitment at the splendid Dún Laoghaire Golf Club in County Wicklow during the coming year. near Dublin – site of this year’s staging of the ladies’ amateur biennial transatlantic golf match between the United States and Great Britain & Ireland. Sadly for the U.S. team, they had to return to the United States without Brian Stack the Curtis Cup. Brian W. Stack Council President Council Partners in the Arts November 10, 2016 in Ireland and in U.S. New York City The Council continues to partner with outstanding arts organizations. We believe that by showcasing excellence in the arts, our Council activities are enhanced by the artistic performances this collaboration encourages.

During 2016, the Council continued its collaborations with Ireland’s national theatre The Abbey Theatre ; the Royal Irish Academy of Music ; the Irish Repertory Theatre , Classical Arts Ireland and others.

19 BBRIEFING AND COMMENTARY

European Commission’s Ruling on view, the European Commission may finally get its wings clipped – which is sorely-needed and long-overdue. Ireland’s Tax Treatment of Apple’s Most international tax accounting experts are of the opinion, it Operations Was Big News This Year seems to us, that the tax treatment that Ireland decided upon for Apple’s operations in Ireland, conformed to generally-accepted It was big news on both sides principles and practice within the OECD and were appropriate. of the Atlantic. The decision These two separate tax opinions by Ireland’s Revenue Commissioners announced with great fanfare – one in 1991 and a second one in 2007 - confirmed how Dublin’s in Brussels in late August by tax authorities would treat various transactions in Apple’s Irish European Commission regulators subsidiaries under the Irish laws that applied to everyone. that Ireland’s tax treatment of Without getting too deep into the weeds of transfer pricing and Apple’s operations in the Emerald intellectual property rights, Apple’s Irish companies held the Isle violated Europe’s rules on rights to the company’s intellectual property such as software state aids to industry – to the protocols, product designs and so on. The revenues from these tune of a headline-grabbing intellectual property licenses are what’s at issue in the European $14.5 billion. Commission ruling. So what’s going on here? Here are a few facts that may be helpful: The paradox here is that ultimately these revenues and profits • The European Commission decision affects only one would be taxed in the United States at its prevailing corporation company – Apple tax rate - America has the third-highest general top marginal • The decision does not question or have any impact on corporate income tax rate in the world at 39.1 percent (consisting Ireland’s corporate tax rate system of 35% federal rate and a combined state rate). Of course, under long-standing U.S. Treasury Department rules on tax deferral, • No other companies in Ireland – from the United States or these taxes are not payable until those funds are repatriated to elsewhere - are subject to this decision by the European the company’s California headquarters. Commission An interesting aspect to the debate that this European Commission • The Government of Ireland disagrees with the European ruling has prompted is the reaction of the U.S. Federal Government Commission ruling and will appeal the decision to the itself. It has blasted the European decision as “unfair, contrary European Courts. It could take five years or more for a final to well-established legal principles”….and “could threaten to decision on this ruling to be given undermine foreign investment and the important spirit of economic • Apple does not owe any money to the Irish Government and partnership between the U.S. and the EU.” has fully paid all of its taxes in Ireland Ireland, as a founder member of the OECD, has been at the • No fine or penalty was levied by the European Commission forefront of international tax reform. Ireland has been an early on the Government of Ireland in this matter mover in implementing the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project and has participated fully in important The Ireland-U.S. Council stands firmly with the Government of reforms at EU level through the recent Anti-Tax Avoidance Ireland and with Apple in fighting this ruling. In many ways, it is Directive. Ireland is a strong supporter of tax transparency and a bellwether happening that will have far-reaching implications. administrative cooperation, which are key to tackling the global The European Commission ruling shows the extent to which the problems of tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning. International un-elected bureaucrats in Brussels have elbowed their way into tax reform is complex and requires all countries to work together. politics in Europe – in this case tax politics. Far from representing The evidence shows that real reform is happening and delivering a threat to Ireland’s low-tax arrangements with companies operating results, with an unprecedented level of consensus on a way in the country, in its broadest context it could be seen as a clear forward and a demonstrable commitment to making it happen. and present danger to the European Commission itself. Under European law, the European Commission has a legitimate As a sort of European Federal Bureaucracy, this egregious decision role in enforcing competition rules. It is not appropriate, however, may finally energize elected Governments in Europe to exercise that European State aid competition rules should be used in this firmer control over the European Commission whose thicket of new and unprecedented way in the area of taxation. Tax matters rules and anti-business muscle-flexing have grown to uncomfortable remain a fundamental matter of national sovereignty. This issue levels in the past few decades. Accountability may finally be is not settled. Watch this space. around the corner, especially after the shock of Brexit. In our

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2016 Work Experience Student “This year, the Council is delighted to again partner on this program with Fordham University for those Council Scholars Scholarships Program Is Council’s 32nd based in New York City”, Mr. Stack also noted. “These Council Year Presenting Work Experience scholars are accommodated in the residence halls of the Lincoln Awards In New York Center campus of the college during their time staying in Manhattan. We thank Council member Dr. John Kezel, The Ireland-U.S. Council’s annual program of Student Work Dean of Students at Fordham University, for his enthusiastic Experience Scholarships for 2016 was celebrated this year at and always-generous support of this Council program.” an awards luncheon held at The Metropolitan Club in New York City on Thursday, June 9, 2016. He added “Through these Student Work Experience Scholarships we hope to highlight the excellent educational Council President Brian W. Stack, in announcing details of infrastructure that has been developed throughout the this year’s scholarship awards, had noted “This is the 32nd island of Ireland. Universities in Ireland, North and South, year in which the Council has operated this successful and participate. This year colleges in Belfast, Dublin, Cork and much-admired Scholarship Awards program. We, in the Limerick will be represented in the program”. Council, are proud of the role that this program has played over the years as part of the Council’s broader mission to The Ireland-U.S. Council is the premier transatlantic build closer business and economic links between the United business organization that encourages and promotes business States and Ireland. I am delighted to announce details of between Ireland and the United States. It was established the recipients of the Council’s Student Work Experience in the Fall of 1962 by American and Irish business leaders in Scholarships for this year.” preparation for the visit of President John F. Kennedy to Ireland in the Spring of 1963. President Stack added “Our 2016 student scholars will travel to the United States and will work temporarily during the Commenting on the Council’s beginnings, Brian Stack said: Summer months in American corporations. The scholarships “The Council’s founding was designed as an initiative to build provide work assignments linked to the fields of study and institutional form around a structure to improve business, economic academic disciplines which the undergraduate scholars are and commercial relations between the two countries. The organ - pursuing in Ireland. Typically, the Council’s scholarship ization assists in the exchange of information, views and opinions candidates are undergraduate university students in their between the two countries. Through its various membership next-to-final or junior year – usually, the third year of their activities, the Council provides a platform to meet and four-year bachelors’ study programs.” communicate for representatives from business, Government and other key policy makers from both sides of the Atlantic.”

24 Framed plaques, bursary checks and bags – all was ready for our Ireland-U.S. Council 2016 Student Scholars. PRROOGGRRAAMM

• Sean Tracy who hails from Belfast in Northern • James Connolly hails from Ireland is studying for a Bachelor of Science Tramore, County Waterford and is studying for degree in Actuarial Science and Risk a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Management in Queen’s University Belfast. Business and Economics at the University of He worked at Prudential Financial in Limerick . He was based in New York City at Jersey City. the World Headquarters of 21st Century Fox .

• Molly Haskins, who lives in Sallynoggin, • Gavin Kiely is is a native of Sandymount County Dublin, is studying for a Bachelor of in Dublin and is a student at Trinity College Science degree in Medicinal Chemistry and Dublin where he is pursuing a Bachelor’s Pharmaceutical Studies at the Dublin Institute degree in Law & Business. He traveled to of Technology . She was nominated to work New Jersey to take up his work assignment with Pfizer in New York City. at Council member-firm Prudential Financial in Jersey City.

• Brendan O’Driscoll is from Galway and is • Evin McKay , who hails from Bray, County enrolled at the National University of Ireland Wicklow, is studying for a Bachelor of Science Galway studying for a Bachelor of Science Degree in Quantitative Business at University degree in Financial Mathematics and College Dublin . He worked in Morristown, Economics having finished his third year of New Jersey in the offices of CIE Tours the four-year degree course. He was based International . in New York City where he took up his appointment to work at Mutual of America .

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Ireland’s Consul General Barbara Jones with Fordham University ’s Dean of Annalise Stack who coordinates the program was there with Gavin Kiely Students Dr. John Kezel with Council President Brian Stack. and Brendan O’Driscoll.

Ruth Croke of Croke Communications with Rosemary Dooley of law firm McCormick & Dooley.

John Lee of Goodman Media with Council Board Member Andrea Mills. The Library in the Metropolitan Club was the splendid venue for the event.

26 PROGRAM

Marty Keating with Jake Latchman and recent new member Bill Phelan. Council Members All: Richard Henry, Michael Brewster, Noel McSweeney and Council President-Emeritus Dennis Swanson.

Peter Hooper, Rosemary Dooley and IDA Ireland ’s Emmanuel Dowdall. Dooley Rent-A-Car ’s Attracta Lyndon with Consul General Barbara Jones.

21st Century Fox ’s Dennis Swanson with Council Scholar James Connolly and Barbara Jones.

Pfizer ’s Chriselle Banaag (right) with Council Scholar Molly Haskins. 27 2016 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS

Mutual of America ’s John Luebs (center) with Council Scholars Sean Tracy Barbara Jones with Council Scholar Brendan O’Driscoll and Mutual of America ’s and Evin McKay. Tish Cash and John Luebs.

Fordham University ’s Rita Della Valle with Annalise Stack. Michael Stone of Designer Group with Richard Henry, Pat Gilroy and Rory Mulcahy.

The Council’s 2016 Student Work Experience Scholarships awards luncheon was held at The Metropolitan Club in New York City on Thursday, June 9. Seen at the presentations event were (from left) James Connolly; Brendan O’Driscoll; Evin McKay Council President, Brian W. Stack; Molly Haskins; Barbara Jones, Ireland’s Consul General in New York; Gavin Kiely and Sean Tracy.

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Our 2016 Student Scholars recount their experiences.

Sean Tra Ja cy - Q ueens University Belfast mes Connolly - U niversity of Limerick

”I was fortunate to be “Over this p offered the opportunity to ast summer I was given the invaluable participate in th oppor e Ireland-U.S. Council’s Student tunity to work at the headquarters of Work Experience S 21st Cen cholarship over the summer tury Fox in New York City through the months of 2016. A Ireland-U lthough having researched the .S. Council’s Student Work Experience program, I was no Scholar t prepared for how significant ship Programme. This work experience and remarkable the scholarsh experience would be. From the ip has given me a tremendous insight assistance in fi into nding a role that aligned with my the operations of a hugely-successful studies, to the mult numerous Council events we were i-national company in the U.S. I was invited to, the prese Ireland-US Council scholarship nted with my scholarship award at a offered us a momentous su Council lunch in mmer, both professionally and personal the Metropolitan Club in midtown Ma ly. This offe nhattan. red me a great opportunity to meet so I was given a work opportunity in Pru th me members of dential Financial, one of the e Council and hear about their career Ireland-U.S. Council member fi s and businesses which rms that support this respected initiative I found interesting. With such a long and p . roud history, being given the opportuni work in such an ty to historically-significant business was a p Working with 21st highly-r rivilege. It was Century Fox was an unbelievable expe ewarding for me to be placed on the fin for me. As rience ancial reporting and part of the financial analysis team I w financial accounting control teams beu opp as given the ase I wanted to gain some ortunity to implement what I had lea practical experience in this area rned in college to a . Understanding my multi-disciplinary relevant area of work. My role wi background, Prudential F thin the company offered inancial went far above and beyond in interesting and challengin facilitating the e g tasks and projects throughout. I xperience to be as fulfilling as possible, learned much abou me varie assigning t how to interpret data and provide a d projects frequently. review of an detailed alytical trends. I thoroughly enjoyed w manag orking with my I was given the oppo ers and co-workers and hope to stay i rtunity to prepare audits and to assist i n touch with them in reporting thr n the future. oughout the close-of-quarter period. I the o was also given pportunity to help in the development of financial controls to A truly fantastic elem satisfy statutory reporting regulatio ent to my time in New York at 21st C ns. This mixed, daily work enabled Fox was expe entury me to enhance my accounti riencing the trips and events they org ng, legal and financial skills, while summ anised for other simultaneously allow er workers. The highlight of the exper ing me to develop strong relationships ience was watching a my colleague with live segment of Good Day New York s. The entire opportunity allowed me to and meeting the hosts of the profe develop show afterwards. Working wi ssionally in a way that I know will be in th 21st Century Fox has given me valuable when I return invaluable experience to Ireland to finish my degree and em which I will continue to use througho bark on my future career path. both my colleg ut e work as well as future employment. The accommodation provid ed by Fordham University at the Lincoln Center similarly played a role i Living in Fordham Universit n making the experience incredible. y Campus was an amazing opportunity The location itself allowed us to reside in the heart of the to experience New York in a way that city for a summer. Being just a short is unavailable to most students a walk to Times Square allowed nd enabled us to explore the city in us to experience life in the city which depth. I am indebted to the is impossible to match. Th staff at Fordham University and all the e staff and residents of Fordham were students we crossed paths w very facilitating. Living to ith over the summer for making our stay gether in Fordham gave me and my so memorable. It was these fellow Ireland-U.S. Counc people, the Irish scholars, my work il scholars a great opportunity to get colleagues, and the Ireland-U an insight into each other S Council members that I encountered ’s work experience as well as share the that made the summer such opportunity of living in t a brilliant experience and with whom I he city. hope to stay in contact. Without a doubt the past su I cannot mmer has been the opportunity of a thank the Ireland-U.S. Council enough lifetime. I’d like to t m for bestowing upon hank all the members of the Ireland-U e such a wonderful opportunity that ha Council for m .S. s been truly a once-in-a- aking this experience possible as wel lifetime experience. The generos Fox a l as 21st Century ity of the business organization has nd Fordham University for giving me su afforded me with an unfo ch a tremendous summer.” rgettable summer that will be of great benefit for me in my future e ndeavours to which I am very grateful.”

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MOLLY H Gavin Kie ASKINS - D ublin Institute of Technology ly - T rinity College Dublin

“The Irel “It was alw and-U.S. Council gave me a fantastic ays my lifelong ambition to work in the opportuni United State ty this summer to spend two months s. Thanks to the U.S Council, this dream in the became heart New York City working in the a reality at the young age of 22. When Pfizer h the oppo eadquarters, a block away from Grand rtunity arose, I jumped at the chance to Central. represent Throughout the course of my science my University on this grand stage. The degree, I h experience s aven’t had much opportunity to see tarted off with receiving an award at the the busi Metropolit ness side of science, so this scholar- an Club in Manhattan. I networked with ship gav many of t e me a chance to see how a company he Ireland-U.S. council members at the such as a ceremony an major pharmaceutical corporation d I felt very inspired by their successful Pfizer, is managed. Pfizer careers. I learned that if I con really facilitated me by personalizing tinue to work hard, then I too can reach my time there around my i this level. nterests but also introduced me to all the different directions my career can be taken. They brought me Getting the op to plants in Peapack, N portunity to work at Prudential Financia ew Jersey and Madison, New Jersey r l was a highly- Kalamazoo, and ewarding experience. I received much gu Michigan to also give me a taste of w idance from my mentor and p orking in a he gave me great advice on my lant environment. future career. Working in this dynamic office environment allowed me to put the theory that I have learned in university in to practice i The accommodation in Fordham n the workplace. This whole experience University at Lincoln Center in challenged Manhattan was bett and developed me greatly and I now fee er than I could ever have imagined. T l that I am better prime loca he equipped to face the working world. I w tion, only a block away from Central P as also fortunate enough to get t ark, enabled me to meet the Chief Information o make the most of my first time in Officer of the company, Barbara Koster. New York City and see all I would like to e the beautiful sites. xtend my gratitude to her for continuing sch to provide this olarship to young students such as me. Th e luncheon at the superb Metropoli I was tan Club was a tremendous very fortunate to get to live at the Linco experience. It really emphasize ln Center in Fordham d to me the privilege attached to University. Located in the heart of Man receiving the 2016 Irel hattan, it gave me the perfect and-U.S. Council’s Student Work Exp opportunity to explore the fab ence Schola eri- ulous city of New York and what it had t rships award. Also, when attending offer. I visited all o C the Ireland-U.S. the historic sites such as Ground zero, C ouncil New York Golf Day, the oppo the E entral Park and rtunity to spend time with mpire state building. I even got the cha many of the Council members nce to attend sporting was highly enjoyable and a true events such as a Golf classic organize highlight. I sincerely d by the Council, baseball games hope that I can maintain contact w and soccer matches. I met so many of th ith me fantastic people there and I can hon em in the future. say that I have estly made friends for life. It was a pleasure t ot o live with the her Irish scholars. We came from all diffe Overall it was a brilliant an rent Universities across Ireland d memorable summer, and I want to and it was an honour to share thi say a huge thank y s experience with them. ou to the Ireland-U.S. Council and to affording Pfizer for I w me such a wonderful opportunity. Th ant to put on record my thanks to the I a is scholarship reland-U.S Council. I cannot ward has been a truly life-changing express enough gratitude for this experience with a wonderful award and for everyone who has helped group of fellow students from Irela me to get here. Without the co nd who I have developed close uncil’s hard-work, vision and generosity, friendships with.” none of this would have been possible. Having been given this opportunity, I ho pe to be an ambassador for the award so stud that future ents can get the same experience as me. In conclusion, this award has developed me in so many ways and for this I am truly grateful. I have enhanced my CV, I have got exposure to real-life business scenarios an d it has provided me with a firm focus in continuing to work hard in my studies so that I too can be a success. It was a privilege to particip ate in this scholarship and I can safely say that no matter where I go or what I do in this life, this has been an unforgettable experience.”

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Brendan O’Dri Evin McKay - U niv scoll - N ational University of Ireland Galway ersity College Dublin

“I was thri Being no lled to have been nominated as one of minated to take part in the Ireland- this year’s Ire U.S, Counc land-U.S. Council Scholars to participate il scholarship programme was a in the or great h ganization’s Student Work Experience onour and an incredible opportunity. Scholarshi Whilst t p programme. It was the start of a truly aking part did require me to world-class comprom experience and it made for a a fantastic ise on my proposed plans for the summer. I summer a felt it was a great honour to have been t the time, the entire experience was selected to r definitely epresent NUI Galway in this programme. worth it and I am delighted to have taken part in such a prestigious programme. As soon as we arrived in New York City, we were presented with our framed scholarship c After travelling to New Yo itations at a great lunch in the rk in early June, we first met with the Metropolitan Club in midtown Manhatt Ireland-U.S. Council mem an. Generous accommodation in the bers at the Scholarship Awards Lunch Lincoln Campus of Fordham University, held at the New York Met allowed me to get to know the other ropolitan Club. This event is certainly Award recipients, and, over the course not to be missed and is of the summer form strong and definitely one of the highlights of the hopefully lasting friendships. Its prime programme. We were giv location and serene campus meant en the opportunity to meet with many we could explore New York with e new faces, and the ase and, at the same time, get away from event really showed how privileged the city’s hustle a to hav we were nd bustle whenever we wanted. e received the generous scholarship. I worked at Mutual of America Life Insurance Inc. on Park A I was given my placement in CIE mi venue in Tours International. During my dtown. I was quickly made to feel at ho time there, I was as me within a team of helpful, signed to the group bookings departm talented associates. As one of and assis ent 25 summer workers I also had good ted in the day-to-day tasks of busines company in a group s processes from of bright ambitious students. Before lo making the initial quote to sendin mad ng, I had g final invoices. Everyone at e many new friends. the company was both ext remely welcoming and helpful, making my time there very enjoyable. The work programme at Mutual of America was well laid out, wi attenti th care and on to detail. I was given several tasks th Although CIE T at allowed me to quickly ours International is based in New Jer adopt the team dynamic and begin had sey, I to contribute almost immediately. the privilege of taking up accommoda Questions were welcom tion in the heart of ed, and I was shown all the skills and te Manhattan at the Fordham U necessa chniques niversity’s Lincoln Center. Despite ry to get the job done. having to commute to work, the experience of living in the center of New Yor Out k City was invaluable. Being my fir side of the office, we were given the opp the st time in ortunity to meet with past States, Fordham University provided t and present employees at an em he ideal location to ployee’s social dinner and reception. We easily explore and discover the e were also treated to ntirety of the city. With Central breakfast with the CEO and some of the Park to one side an Presi Senior Vice d the hustle and bustle of Manhat dents, where they imparted fascinating i the o tan on nsights into the corporate ther, the Lincoln Center delivers a bea world, the company itself and adv utiful balance of ice for prospective future graduates. As liveliness and peace. the program progressed, we atten ded several training workshops designed not only to help us im prove our work in Mutual, but also impa I would like to than skills rt lasting soft k the members of the Ireland-U.S. that we would take with us upon comple for giv Council tion of the program. This ing me the opportunity to take part in entailed seminars in Public Speaking such a tremendous , Effective Networking and, for students programme. They have been incred of finance, meetings wit ibly supportive and helpful h the company’s Chief Financial Officer. throughout the entire proce ss. We have been invited to a number of events hosted by the Council and My time in New York was a once-in at each event they have -a-lifetime opportunity that I will alway been overly welcoming remember. I owe g s to us all. It has been a privilege t reat thanks to the members of the Irelan involved o be for d-U.S. Council with such a prestigious yet friendl this splendid opportunity . I enjoyed a fa y group of people ntastic summer work experience and I hope that we can retain our co in America with ideal accommodati nnection in this network on in the Fordham University, plus I got going forward. a great taste for the United St ates, New York and the corporate world. Thank you!”

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The 2016 edition of the Ireland-U.S. Council’ s St. Patrick’s It was excerpted from a longer program that represented a his - lunch in the Big Apple is surely a great celebration of Irish toric collaboration between the Royal Irish Academy of Music, heritage in America. This year was no exception especially as Juilliard School of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and 2016 is the Centenary year of Commemoration of the 1916 Drama . Curated by Iain Burnside, the performance draws on Rising – which was the first step in Ireland’s successful songs and poetry of Ireland that explore the struggle for independence. concepts of conflict, especially poignant in 2016. Performances were staged in Dublin, London and New York. Council President Brian Stack welcomed members and guests of the Council to The Metropolitan Club for this annual and Academy Director Deborah Kelleher introduced the program traditional luncheon gathering in New York on the eve of the and accompanied the singers on piano – Rebecca Rodgers St. Patrick’s Day Parade. (soprano); Andrew Gavin (tenor) and Peter Manning (baritone). The program of traditional Irish songs was Ireland’s Consul General in New York Barbara Jones well-received by the enthusiastic gathering of Council delivered remarks that were appropriate and fitting for the members and their guests. occasion, noting especially the role played by those in the United States and particularly in New York, in the planning and staging of the Rising at Easter 1916.

Also speaking at the lunch was Andrew Murphy, Chief Commercial 2017 St. Patrick’s Lunch Officer of Shannon Group who updated Council members and their guests on Shannon Airport and the commercial activities Next year’s Ireland-U.S. Council’s of Shannon Group in the MidWest Region of Ireland. Saint Patrick’s Lunch is Thursday, During the lunch event, a program of first-class entertainment March 16, 2016 in New York. was provided by gifted students of the Royal Irish Academy of Plan on joining us at our usual venue Music from Dublin. Academy Director Deborah Kelleher – The Metropolitan Club! introduced the program and accompanied on piano the singers who were Academy star graduates - Sarah Brady

On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 the Ireland-U.S. Council hosted our Annual St. Patrick’s Lunch at The Metropolitan Club in New York. Guest Speakers were 34 Barbara Jones, Ireland’s Consul General in New York seen here with Jack Foley (left) of Aer Lingus ; Dr. John Lahey, President of Quinnipiac University and who is also Chairman of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York with Council President Brian W. Stack.

Áine Sheridan, United Airlines ’ Pattie Cunningham and Quinnipiac University ’s IrishTV Chief Executive Pierce O’Reilly and Chairman John Griffin enjoyed Vice President of Public Affairs, Lynn Bushnell. the festivities.

Ireland’s Consul General Barbara Jones chatted with and Aventure Aviation ’s Theresa McCann, NBC Golf Channel ; Tourism Ireland ’s Orla Carey; Katie Daly, Zaheer Faruqi (left) and James O’Hora. Specialized Travel and Michael Reilly of Publicis .

Marie Slattery, Marketing Director, Shannon Group ; Council member Ruth Croke with Jimmy Kelly and Andrew Murphy, Chief Commercial Officer, Shannon 35 Group , who were a sponsor of the lunch. 22001166 SS T.. PP ATRICK ’S LUNCH

Tom Moran with Bob Golden. Council member John Mahon with his son Robert.

Mike Gibbons with John Doolan of Heineken USA .

Ireland-U.S. Council Board Member and Aer Lingus Executive Vice President in Mayo County Manager, Peter Hynes with Councillor Michael Holmes, Chairman the United States, Jack Foley presenting an Aer Lingus festive tie to Dr. John of Mayo County Council with Mike Hannon, Executive Director pro-tem of the Lahey, President of Quinnipiac University and Chairman of the New York St. County Mayo Foundation. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee. 36 Council President Brian W. Stack gaviled the podium proceedings at the event. Dr. Esperanza Duran and Ireland Chapter Member Thomas McDonagh of McDonogh Capital Investments from Galway with Angus Miller of UBS .

Council National Secretary, Jim Adrian; Dr. James Doran, Georgina Neal of Derek Collins of Bank of Ireland Corporate Finance Dublin and Norbert Galligan The Abbey Theatre and Michael Kelley, Senior VP Merrill Lynch-Bank of America . of AIB New York with Peter Hooper.

Sarah Brady, Sean Boylan, Deborah Kelleher of the Royal Irish Academy of Angus Miller of UBS Financial Services; Bill Falvey of Guinness; John Doolan of Music and Barbara Jones, Ireland’s Consul General in New York. Heineken USA with Dan Walsh of Windmill Distributing Company.

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The excellent program of entertainment was introduced by Deborah Kelleher, Squire Patton Boggs ’ Partner John Reilly with Consul-General Barbara Jones Director of the Royal Irish Academy of Music . and Aer Lingus ’ Jack Foley.

The Florida Connection : Always big supporters of the Ireland-U.S. Council Council Members All : John Mahon with Gene McCarthy and Dr. John Lahey, Winter Meeting are Karla Nickell and Bill Mahoney seen here with Brian Stack. President of Quinnipiac University .

Dublin Meets Santa Fe, New Mexico : Mike Doorley, the only member of the Ireland-U.S. Council based in New Mexico, seen with the Royal Irish Academy 38 of Music team – Sean Boylan, Sara Brady and Deborah Kelleher. John and Christine Reilly are proud to support the Ireland-U.S. Council and we congratulate this year’s honoree, Willie Walsh.

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PwC ’s Marie O’Connor Receives Lifetime Guns ’. This historic collaboration between the Royal Irish Achievement Award Noting Especially Her Academy of Music , New York’s Juilliard School of Music and London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama . Performances Work in Building Business Relations of this piece took place in Dublin, London and New York Between America and Ireland during the year.

Excellence in Art and Music Also Hailed Council Director Donard Gaynor, who traveled from his home in New Jersey, introduced the Council’s Lifetime We thank our sponsors Achievement Award honoree saying “We are delighted this year to present the Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award to Marie O’Connor. The members and directors of the Council Dublin Castle may be the best venue for a dinner party any - are delighted to honor such an outstanding and worthy where in Ireland. And that is where the Ireland-U.S. Council’s recipient with an award that is so richly-deserved. The Council MidSummer Gala Dinner was successfully hosted on Friday, is pleased to mark the unique and positive contributions which June 24, 2016. The glittering occasion saw PwC ’s Marie O’ - she has made in forging important business connections Connor receive the Council’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award between the United States and Ireland throughout her marking especially her notable and important achievements in successful business career.” building business bonds between America and Ireland. Marie O’Connor was the first woman to be admitted as a Also at the event, the Council presented its 2016 edition of partner of Price Waterhouse in Ireland 30 years ago. She has its Annual Award for Outstanding Portraiture to a young Dublin specialised in audit and business advisory services to the artist Molly Judd. The evening also included an excellent financial services industry. She has displayed unparalleled skills music recital by the Royal Irish Academy of Music introduced in bringing people together to further the interests of foreign by the Academy ’s Kathleen Tynan who updated the audience direct investment from the USA to Ireland. Marie led PwC ’s on Academy activities and priorities. David Adams on piano Irish Funds and Asset Management practice for 12 years and accompanied Sarah Brady (soprano) and Sean Boylan (baritone) was also a member of the PwC ’s Global Asset Management in Songs & Poetry of Ireland – an excerpt from a poignant 1916 leadership team. She has advised some of Dublin’s most Centenary commemoration program entitled ‘ Drums and successful investment fund structures and many leading U.S.

Prudential Financial is the major sponsor of our Award for Outstanding Portraiture . Seen at the presentation of the bursary award to the 42 winning artist Molly Judd were (from left) Ciaran Harvey of Pramerica who manages the company’s operations in Ireland in Letterkenny, County Donegal and in Dublin; John Mulcahy, Editor of the Irish Arts Review and the prize-winning artist herself. DDUBLIN CASTLE

asset management groups on establishing operations in Ireland. She has been appointed to the boards of several high-profile State organizations by the Irish Government. These have included directorships at Dublin Airport Authority and IDA Ireland and membership of the Top Level Appointment Committee, among others. She has been a board member of the Ireland-U.S. Council for many years, serves on the Funds Raising Advisory Committee for the Irish Cancer Society and the President’s Advisory Board at UCD . Marie leads the 30% Club in Ireland – which is a group of Chairs and CEO’s committed to better gender balance at all levels of their organizations through voluntary actions. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , and is also qualified as a Barrister. Marie O’Connor with Glanbia ’s Siobhán Talbot.

One of the evening’s sponsors was Cormac Commins of William Fry Solicitors Event sponsor United Airlines’ Aoife Gregg addressing the Dublin Castle dinner. who addressed the gathering.

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Mary Anderson, Sean Boylan, Sara Brady and Jennifer Anderson. Rory Mullen and Denise Garland.

Ciaran and Debra Harvey. Anna Brennan with Vincent MacMahon and Patricia Johnston.

Chris and Claire Lynch. Vivienne Jupp, Chair of the CIE Group with her husband Roger.

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The Irish Arts Review “A” Team – Sonya Perkins and John D. Mulcahy.

Paul Flanagan and Áine Murray. The Office of Public Works ’ Mary Heffernan.

Annette Mahon with Pat and Carmel Wall. Paul Doran with Council Member Brian Fitzgerald.

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Ruth and Martin Reilly. U.S. Embassy’s Stuart and Julie Dwyer.

David Minton of Mayo County Council ; Theresa and Con Clarke with Peter Hynes, Mayo County Manager.

Derek Gleeson and Cliodna Buckley Sinead Fynes and Gráinne McGann.

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Olwyn Alexander; Marie O’Connor with Mike and Carol Corker. Brian and Marian McNamara.

Annette Mulligan with Marie and Noreen O’Connor and Marguerite Pearsall. Also attending were Joe and Lorraine O’Connor with Joe O’Shea.

Cathy Gavigan; Georgina Kenny; Raymond Mahon and Michelle Mellotte. 47 20166 GG ALA MIIDD SSUMMER DINNNNEERR IINN

Maureen O’Hagan; Joan Adair; Roy Adair and Len O’Hagan.

David Guest with Derek Collins and Cathy O’Connor. Paul O’Neill with Dara O’Donnell and James McNally.

Anne-Maria Crowley and Aidan Smyth Alan and Gayle Molloy with Sarah and Michael Graham.

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Council Board member Aidan Prendergast with Executive Director Roddy Feely. The great Mike Doorley traveled all the way from Santa Fe, New Mexico for this photo op with Marie O’Connor.

Honoree Marie O’Connor delivering her acceptance remarks in Dublin Castle. Antoinette and Jim Galvin.

Prize-winning artist Molly Judd (left) posing in front of the winning portrait with Council President Dr. Michael Somers 49 and Sonya Perkins, Publisher of the Irish Arts Review . 2016 A WARD FOR OUTSTANDING

The Ireland-U.S. Council’s 2016 Award with Nerdum at his Atelier in Norway and in Paris from 2011 For Outstanding Portraiture Presented To until 2013. She is currently creating her first series of paintings Young Female Artist Molly Judd from her studio in The Chocolate Factory on Kings Inn Street, Dublin. www.chocolatefactory.ie

Prudential Financial’s Sponsorship Supports This She is a classical figurative painter and the winning portrait Important Arts Program Murmuring Lights , is an oil painting on linen. She has exhibited previously at the Royal Hibernian Academy 185th Annual Exhibition in Dublin in 2015 and at the Gallery L’oeil du Prince in Paris. The winning portrait work was chosen from among the entries at the opening of the Royal Hibernian Academy’s Spring Exhibition held recently in Dublin where Ms. O’Neill A young female contemporary was presented with the Council’s €5,000 award bursary. A formal representational painter from presentation of the Award citation was made by Council Ireland Dublin, Ms. Molly Judd, is the Chapter President Dr. Michael Somers at the Council’s winner of this year’s Award for Midsummer Gala Dinner on Friday, June 24, 2016 in Dublin Castle. Outstanding Portraiture , sponsored by the Ireland-U.S. Council , in Dr. Somers noted “This annual competition and prize is now in conjunction with The Irish Arts its eleventh year and has been an important career marker Review and the Royal Hibernian where many of today’s successful portrait painters in Ireland re - Academy . The award is presented ceived their initial support and encouragement. It is a tradition in Ireland to an artist whose work that we are delighted to sustain with the Irish Arts Review on the is judged to be of outstanding prestigious platform of the Royal Hibernian Academy ’s Annual merit. The Award is an important Exhibition.“ part of the Council’s program to support the arts and arts education in Ireland. The Award program is undertaken with generous financial sponsorship from Council-member firm, Prudential Financial , a Molly Judd is a 25-year-old Dubliner who began her studies at U.S.-based life insurance company which is not affiliated in any the Florence Academy of Art in 2009. Following an age-old manner with Prudential plc, a company incorporated in the tradition, Molly then became an apprentice to the world- United Kingdom. The Irish Arts Review , the quarterly publication renowned Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum. Molly studied devoted to Irish culture, art and design throughout the ages,

50 Seen at the Council’s Midsummer Gala Dinner in Dublin Castle on Friday, June 26 at the presentation of the Council’s Award for Outstanding Portraiture were Molly Judd, the winning artist; Council President Dr. Michael Somers, AIB Group and Sonya Perkins of the Irish Arts Review. PPORTRAITURE

manages the judging process with the support of the Royal Hibernian Academy, an all-island institution that is celebrating its 186th Anniversary. The panel of judges included John Mulcahy and Sonya Perkins from the Irish Arts Review.

Over the past decade, the Ireland-U.S. Council has contributed a total €55,000 ($64,000) to this program of Awards for Outstanding Portraiture which since 2006 have gone to the following artists not all of whom are members of the RHA but who have exhibited at the RHA annual exhibition: Maeve McCarthy, Garry Coyle, Carey Clarke, Jonathan Dalton, Colin Davidson, Una Sealy, Ian Cumberland, Mick O’Dea, Oisin Roche, Geraldine O’Reilly and now Molly Judd.

As part of the sponsorship program associated with the Award, every Council member in the United States and in Ireland receives a copy of the excellent quarterly Irish Arts Review. Other benefits for Council members include a program of discounts available through the Irish Arts Review to many arts events in Ireland. Also included are calendars of upcoming arts activities throughout the year plus online information on prices of Irish art and results of auction sales.

The Ireland-U.S. Council was founded in 1962 by business leaders in the United States and in Ireland. It is the premier transatlantic business organization that encourages and promotes business between Ireland and the United States. Its founding was in preparation for the visit of President John F. Kennedy to Ireland in the Spring of 1963, as a measure to build institutional form around a structure to improve business, economic and commercial relations between the two countries. The Council operates a variety of scholarship programs, stages seminars and hosts frequent events in Ireland and in America aimed at developing communications and dialogue between leaders in business, government and politics on both sides of the Atlantic.

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degree in management and business administration from Trinity College Dublin during his pilot years, while advancing to become a Boeing 737 captain.

He joined the management ranks at Aer Lingus serving in various positions and in October 2001 was appointed CEO at a time when the airline was in financial difficulty. He eliminated 2,000 staff positions, reduced the number of aircraft types and sold non-core assets, including an art collection at the company headquarters. He reconfigured Aer Lingus as a low-cost airline. His turnaround recipe worked and company operating profits rebounded.

At that time, Aer Lingus was a state-owned airline. A management buyout he proposed was rejected by the Government which led to his resignation from the company Willie Walsh in January 2005. He worked briefly at Virgin Atlantic but Chief Executive in October, 2005 he was appointed CEO at British Airways in October 2005. In 2011, he managed the merger of International Airlines Group British Airways and Iberia forming a new holding company International Airlines Group. The Ireland-U.S. Council Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2016 is presented to Willie Walsh, Chief Brian W. Stack, the President of the Council based in Executive Officer of International Airlines Group (IAG) New York, said “We are delighted this year to present the to mark his important contributions to building business Council’s Annual Award for Outstanding Achievement to bonds between America and Ireland. Throughout his Willie Walsh, Chief Executive Officer of International successful career, he has been a superb manager of strategic Airlines Group (IAG). The members and directors of the change in an industry where change has become a byword. Council are delighted to honor such an outstanding and worthy recipient with an award which he greatly deserves. In September 2015, IAG which includes British Airways We are pleased to mark the unique and positive contributions and Spanish airline Iberia, purchased Aer Lingus in a $1.8 which Willie Walsh has made to improving the economic billion takeover as part of its plans to use Aer Lingus to relationship between Ireland and the United States. expand its transatlantic services via Dublin. When the Throughout his notable career, Willie Walsh has been takeover was completed he said “Aer Lingus will remain an a manager who envisions and successfully implements iconic Irish brand with its base and management team in big-picture solutions to complex problems. This Council’s Ireland but will now grow as part of a strong, profitable mission is to encourage closer commercial connections airline group. This means new routes and more jobs and deeper business links between Ireland and the United benefitting customers, employees and the Irish economy States. Our 2016 Recipient of the Council’s Award for and tourism," he said. Outstanding Achievement has already made a major contribution in this area. Importantly, he has also created Willie Walsh was born in Dublin, Ireland and attended his a structure that likely will sustain this process long into the local secondary school Ardscoil Rís. At age 17 he joined future.” Aer Lingus as a cadet pilot in 1979. He earned a Master's

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Daniel P. Tully attend college instead of continuing that tradition.” He graduated from St. John’s University in Queens Former Chairman & CEO in 1953 with a bachelor’s degree in business Merrill Lynch & Company administration. After serving in the U.S. Army, he President of the Ireland-U.S. Council landed a job in 1955 as a junior accountant at the partnership then called Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner 1990 – 1993 & Beane. “I didn’t know what the company did, and neither did anybody in my family,” he said. It was with the deepest regret and the greatest sadness that we Bank of America in a statement said that Mr. Tully learned of the passing on May 10, “had built Merrill Lynch into a top competitor in 2016 of Daniel P. Tully, former mergers and acquisitions, and successfully carried Chairman & CEO of Merrill forward our global expansion in investment banking.” Lynch, now part of Bank of His path up the corporate ladder included a seven-year America. He served as President stint in the firm’s Stamford, Connecticut, office. of the Ireland-U.S. Council from Tully was named a vice president in 1971, president 1990 to 1993. He was 84. of consumer marketing in 1984, president and chief operating officer in 1985. He was deputy to CEO Merrill Lynch shares tripled during his tenure as CEO, William Schreyer and succeeded him in May 1992, from May 1991 to December 1996. Assets under adding the chairman’s role the following year. management topped $500 billion for the first time in 1993. He retired as chairman in 1997 after 42 years He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Grace; at the firm. Daniel Patrick Tully was born January 2, children Daniel, Timothy, Eileen and Elizabeth; 1932, and grew up in Jackson Heights, in the New 13 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. York City borough of Queens. An early job was as copy boy for the New York Daily News. “When I was growing up, everyone in my family was a steam fitter, which was a blue-collar, union job,” he wrote in a contribution for “My One Big Break,” a 2004 book. “So my parents were shocked when I said I wanted to

Dan Tully led an Ireland-U.S. Council visit to Northern Ireland in 1992. Seen here at an industrial estate outside Belfast he was joined by the Deputy Chief Executive of the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland (now called Invest Northern Ireland) Frank Hewitt and its Chairman, Sir Eric McDowell. 54 Council Presidents at different times: Mike Roarty with Dan. 1993 Annual Dinner Mike Roarty, Grace & Dan Tully with Ireland’s Ambassador the United States, Sean O hUiginn.

At a March 1991 St. Patrick's Luncheon of the Council, President Dan Tully was Dan seen with (from left) John Nine of Schering-Plough Corporation; Margot pictured with Jim Dunne, Finance Editor of the Irish Times newspaper and Niall Conway of IDA Ireland and Michael Alexander, long-time National Secretary of O’Dowd of Irish America magazine. the Council.

Boston’s own Jim O’Brien, with the great John O’Sullivan and Dan. The great Frank McCourt entertained the 1991 St. Patrick’s Lunch of the Council dressed as Sir Walter Raleigh and presented Dan Tully with a Galway Crytsal paperweight in the shape of an Irish spud.

55 IN REMEMBRANCE : W ALTER J.P. C URLEY

Ambassador Walter J.P. Curley – long- in the Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guam and North China campaigns. He was awarded decorations by the Army, time Ireland-U.S. Council Supporter – Navy, Marine Corps, and The Republic of China. After dies in New York City at age 94 the war, he worked in India and Italy with the Caltex Oil Company from 1949 until 1959. He became a partner in It was with the greatest sadness that we J.H. Whitney & Company , the venture capital firm where learned of the passing of long-time he worked until 1974. He served as Commissioner of Ireland-U.S. Council Board Member Public Events and was Chief of Protocol of New York City Ambassador Walter J.P. Curley who in the administration of Mayor John Lindsay. died this year in New York at the age of 94. He was a native of Pittsburgh, PA, He was appointed Ambassador to Ireland by President attended Phillips Academy Andover, Gerald Ford in 1975. He returned to the private sector Yale University, Harvard Business to establish his own venture capital investment firm in School and the University of Oslo, and New York in 1977. He served as Ambassador to France held an Honorary Doctorate in Laws (1989-93) under President George H.W. Bush. from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a Trustee of the New York Public Library, Miss Ambassador Curley was among the earliest supporters Porter’s School, Brooks School in Massachusetts, The “of the Ireland-U.S. Council. He was a distinguished Buckley School, Barnard College. He was a former American who had served as Ambassador of the United board director od my companies, including New York States to both Ireland and to France. In 2005, then- Life Insurance Company, Fiduciary Trust International, Council President Michael J. Gibbons hosted a Lecture Bank of Ireland, Crane Co., Guinness Peat Aviation & Reception in New York’s River Club to mark the (U.S), Independent Newspapers Ltd. (Dublin), Fairchild ““publication of Ambassador Curley’s excellent book Camera and Instrument Co., American Exploration Co., “Vanishing Kingdoms – The Irish Chiefs & Their Families” The New Yorker Magazine, the International Board of at which members and friends of the Council heard most Banque Paribas, and Sotheby’s Holdings, Inc. interesting remarks from him. He and his wife Mary were regular attendees at Ireland-U.S. Council events in He is the author of four books: Almost a Century - An New York stretching back over five decades. American Life East & West of Suez ; Vanishing Kingdoms; Monarchs in Waiting ; and Letters from the Pacific . He is In World War II, Ambassador Curley served as a Marine survived by his wife of 67 years, the former Mary Taylor Corps infantry combat officer. He served with distinction Walton of Pittsburgh.

At Ambassador Walter Curley's book launch party hosted by the Ireland-U.S. Kevin and Lynn Crowe with Walter Curley. Council in April, 2005 in The River Club were (from left) Mike Gibbons; Ambassador Curley; Ireland's Consul General at that time Tim O'Connor and the late Michael Alexander. 56 Out of Ireland Television and Global Excess Partners Congratulate

Willie Walsh on his well-deserved Award.

Diarmuid M. Hogan President & CEO 53 RDD ANNUAL DINNER IN NEEWW YORK

53rd Annual Dinner in New York Honors The Council’s 53rd Annual Meeting of Members and Directors Siobhán Talbot, Chief Executive of was held earlier, immediately prior to the Annual Dinner. Glanbia – one of Ireland’s big success Council President Stack said “The members and directors of stories in a home-grown industry sector the Council are delighted to honor such an outstanding and worthy recipient with an award that is so richly-deserved. The Council’s 53rd Annual Dinner was held at the Metropolitan The Council is pleased to mark the unique and positive Club in New York City on Thursday, November 12, 2015. contributions which Siobhán Talbot and Glanbia have made The Council’s 2015 Award for Outstanding Achievement was to improving the extraordinary economic relationship between presented to Siobhan Talbot, Managing Director of Glanbia Ireland and the United States.” plc , one of Ireland’s most successful companies, to mark her notable and important achievements in building the business In his introduction of Ms. Talbot for the Award presentation, bonds between America and Ireland. Dinner Chair Donard Gaynor noted that “throughout her successful career, she has exemplified an unmatched commitment Glanbia has its origins in the Irish co-operative movement that to growing the company’s international business, especially in the evolved over the last century. It was formed in 1997 out of the United States, that is so emblematic of modern Irish industry merger of Avonmore Foods plc and Waterford Foods plc. and managers. This Council’s mission is to encourage closer and Today, the company is a global performance nutrition and deeper links between Ireland and the United States. Our 2015 ingredients group with operations in 32 countries and a stock Recipient of the Council’s Award for Outstanding Achievement is market capitalization of almost $6 billion. With annual sales the embodiment and personification of this ideal.” of $4 billion, the company has built leading market positions in sports nutrition, cheese, dairy ingredients, specialty non-dairy Siobhán Talbot joined Glanbia in 1992 and has been Group ingredients and vitamin and mineral premixes. The company Managing Director since November 2013. Previously, she employs over 5,800 people in 34 countries and its products are served as Group Finance Director and as Group Secretary and sold or distributed in over 130 countries. in several other senior management positions within the company. She was elected to the Board of Directors in 2009. Ms. Talbot Council Dinner Chair & Board Member, Donard Gaynor is a Chartered Accountant by profession, and graduated from welcomed Council members and their guests to the sold-out, University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. black-tie occasion. He introduced Council President Brian In her early career, she trained and worked with Pricewaterhouse - W. Stack who gaviled the podium proceedings for the evening. Coopers (now PwC) in Dublin and in Sydney, Australia.

The ladies and gentlemen of the Council pictured at the close of the 58 Council’s 53rd Annual Meeting of Members and Directors held just prior to the 2015 Annual Dinner. HONORS SSIIOOBBHHÁÁNN TTALBOT

Council Board Member Niall Condon of Pfizer, Inc. and his wife Majella.

Long-time member of the Ireland-U.S. Council, Attracta Lyndon from J. Walter Corcoran, former Executive Director of the Ireland-U.S. Council’s Dooley Rent-A-Car. Ireland Chapter with Lise Moran.

Presenting the Council’s 2015 Award for Outstanding Achievement were Eddie Dowling, Chief Executive of The Padded Wagon ; Mark Finlay, President (from left) Brian W. Stack, Council President; Siobhán Talbot, Managing ULV Americas; Clive Bellows of Northern Trust Bank and Council National Director of Glanbia and Dinner Chair, Donard Gaynor. Secretary, Jim Adrian.

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Ron Schults with Council Board Member Andrea T. Mills of Fiscal Management Associates ; Tom Goodwin, Partner at the law firm of McCarter & English ; Helen Maguire of Andrew Murphy of Shannon Group and Council Executive Director Roddy Feely. Aer Lingus with Gene & Sheila McCarthy.

Kyle Clifford of the American Ireland Fund with Tom Moran of Mutual of America . Paul O'Hara of Mutual of America with Northern Ireland Bureau ’s Lorraine Turner; Mutual of America ’s Alfie Tucker and Áine Sheridan.

Gerry Crotty of Mayo Renewable Power with Siobhán Talbot; PwC ’s 60 Marie O’Connor and Michael Ronayne. HHOONNOORRSS SIOBHÁN TTALBOT

Brian and Aoife Murphy of PwC in New York with David Cronin, CEO of the Council Board Member Michael Brewster of Wells Fargo Advisors with Sheila University of Limerick Foundation and his wife Renate. Lynott and Origin Theatre Company ’s George Heslin

Addressing the 53rd Annual Dinner Council President Brian W. Stack. Katie Daly of Specialized Travel , Pattie Cunningham of United Airlines and Tourism Ireland ’s Alison Metcalfe.

Sr. Mary Turley with Council President-Emeritus Dennis Swanson.

Ireland’s Consul General in New York Barbara Jones with Siobhán Talbot. 61 53 RD AANNUAL DINNER IN NEW YORK

Enjoying the festivities were Siobhán Mullen, Kevin Fegan, Sarah Dell’Orto and Brandon O’Sullivan.

Council National Treasurer and PwC Partner Kieran Claffey with Siobhán Talbot. John Greed CEO of Mutual of America ; Patricia Harty, Editor Irish America Magazine with the great Ed Kenney.

Mutual of America ’s Tom Moran with Enda Kenny and Sheila Lynott.

The entertainment was sung beautifully by soprano Margaret Bridge – 62 a graduate of The Royal Irish Academy of Music . HOONNOORRSS SIOBHÁN TALBOT

Valerie Kennedy, Margaret Bridge and Ireland’s Consul General Barbara Jones. Council Member Dermot Dolan with guests Deirdre McMorrow, Karolina Leszczynska and Kevin Dignam.

Katrina Pasciutti (left) with Raymond Sexton and Margaret Molloy. Tom Moran with Sr. Mary Turley and Aer Lingus ’ Jack Foley.

Eddie Dowling of The Padded Wagon with Attracta Lyndon, Sheila Lynott and Ciaran Barry. 63 WELCOME TO THE START OF YOUR IRISH VACATION…

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Chief Justice of Ireland’s Supreme Court is Guest Speaker at Council’s 2016 Spring Corporate Lunch in Dublin Event Sponsored by

The Chief Justice of Ireland’s Supreme Court the Hon. Justice Susan Denham was the Guest Speaker at the Ireland-U.S. Council’s Spring Corporate Lunch held in Dublin’s InterContinental Hotel (formerly The Four Seasons Hotel) in April of this year.

In her important and most interesting remarks, which are reproduced in full nearby, Justice Denham noted that “the Yvonne Muldoon, Sales Director of Aer Lingus with U.S.-based Council member Mari Atchason of Travel Professionals, Inc. of Lemoyne, PA. strong links between Ireland and the USA may be illustrated by looking through the prism of the law – past and present. The legal ties between Ireland and the U.S.A are rooted in concepts of independence and equality.”

Justice Denham emphasized that “an important and enduring link between Ireland and the USA is that both nations, after they became independent, decided to keep the Common Law system of law.”

Justice Denham also praised the work of the Council remarking that “The Ireland-US Council has, since it was founded in 1963, been an important organisation in fostering business ties between Ireland and the United States. The Council is to be commended for the work it is doing, hosting events here in Ireland and in the United States, operating scholarship and student internship programmes, organising seminars, and promoting the commercial links between our two States.” Tish Lagerwey of U.S. Customs & Border Protection with David Nugent of the Dublin Airport Authority .

Seen at the Ireland-U.S. Council’s Spring Corporate Lunch in Dublin’s InterContinental At the Spring Corporate Lunch in Dublin were (from left) Aidan Smyth of Hotel were U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, Kevin O’Malley; Justice Susan Denham with Labplan ; Mike Hannon of the County Mayo Foundation ; John Rankin; the President of the Council’s Chapter in Ireland Dr. Michael Somers of AIB Group . Róisín Fitzpatrick and Laurence Crowley.

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The Abbey Theatre ’s Georgina Neal (left) and Oonagh Desire with Council Aer Lingus ’ Áine Behan and Orla Harnett pictured with A&L Goodbody ’s Board Member Dr. Len O’Hagan. Michael Greene and Des Fahey.

Stuart Dwyer, Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Dublin; U.S. Ambassador Also at the event were (from left) Aine Browning of Centralis ; Christine O’Connor Kevin O’Malley; IBEC ’s Dearbhail McDonald and Council Executive Director Roddy Feely. and Samantha Sheehan both from event sponsor Bank of Ireland Corporate Finance .

Also there were Tom Davy of the law firm of Mason Hayes & Curran ; Nigel Dublin Airport Authority guests David Nugent; Gary McLean; Jenny O’Connor; Spence of KMCS and Sean Boyle of Twitter . Tom Kerrigan; Barry Barker and Paul O’Donovan.

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Also at the Spring Corporate Lunch in Dublin were Mary Heffernan of the Team KB Investors : Geoff Blake; Padraig Sheehy and Peter Fox. Office of Public Works and John Ruddle, CEO of Shannon Heritage .

Irish Channel America ’s Andy Ruane; Dr. Michael Somers with Tony Condon, Northern Trust Bank ’s Meliosa O’Caoimh and Clive Bellows with IDA Ireland ’s U.C.D. Smurfit School of Business . Mary Buckley.

Derek Collins, Executive Vice President, Bank of Ireland ; United States Ambassador Kevin O’Malley; Yvonne Muldoon, Director of Sales, Aer Lingus 68 and Dr. Michael Somers, Council President.

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attempt was made in 1803 when Robert Emmet led a rising in Dublin. It failed also.

Robert Emmet was, of course, one of our iconic leaders.

The United Irishmen were a critical spark for an independent | Chief Justice of Ireland | Ireland. They left a legacy which still inspires. The Hon. Mrs. Justice Susan Denham Chief Justice From those times, enduring legal links with the United States commenced. ______Many United Irishmen who survived the rebellions were Speech at the Annual Ireland-US Council compelled to leave Ireland for the Americas. While Robert Spring Corporate Lunch Emmet did not survive the rebellion, his brother, Thomas Addis Emmet, did. Intercontinental Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 Thomas Addis Emmet Friday, 15th April, 2016 The life of Thomas Addis Emmet in the USA illustrates that of many of the United Irishmen. The United Irishmen had not ______succeeded in obtaining independence and rights, such as equality, in Ireland, but they helped those concepts become part of the Ambassador O’Malley, U.S.A jurisprudence. President Somers, Members of the Ireland-US Council, Thomas Addis Emmet was called to the Bar of Ireland in 1790. Judicial Colleagues, His first case was to defend a United Irishman. He quickly Members of the Bar of Ireland and Law Society, developed a legal practice, mainly as a counsel for prisoners Ladies and Gentlemen, charged with political offences, and he was a legal adviser to the United Irishmen. However, he was not to have a future as a It is a pleasure to be with you this afternoon. lawyer in Ireland. He “became a United Irishman in order to obtain a radical parliamentary reform and Catholic emancipation; The Ireland-US Council has, since it was founded in 1963, been he found that these things were never likely to be attained except an important organisation in fostering business ties between by force and he at last succeeded in persuading himself that if Ireland and the U.S.A. Ireland were only detached from England she would soar to an unprecedented height of prosperity.” 1 The Council is to be commended for the work it is doing, hosting events here in Ireland and in the United States, operating scholarship That prosperity was not to happen for 200 years. and student internship programmes, organising seminars, and promoting the commercial links between our two States. Thomas Addis Emmet was arrested, with the other leaders of the The strong links between Ireland and the USA may be illustrated United Irishmen, in 1798 and imprisoned in Fort George until by looking through the prism of the law – past and present. 1802. On the failure of his brother’s rising, Thomas emigrated to the New York in 1804. Independence and Equality The legal ties between Ireland and the U.S.A are rooted in There, despite considerable opposition, he was admitted to the concepts of independence and equality. practice of law in New York in 1805 or 1806. Between 1806 and 1811 he made 45 appearances before the Court of Errors, the Let us go back to the 18th Century, a time of revolution. The Highest Court of the State 2 Further, Tom Emmet (as he is United States Declaration of Independence was adopted on 4th referred to by his firm) argued cases before the Supreme Court of July, 1776. It was published first on this side of the Atlantic, in the U.S.A, at a time most of the lawyers who argued cases before Belfast, in August of that year. The concepts and aspirations: a the Supreme Court were from Virginia and Maryland. republic, independence, equality of man, echoed across the ocean. From 1812 - 1813 Thomas Addis Emmet was Attorney General of In 1791 the Society of United Irishmen was founded by Theobald New York. On 14th November, 1827 he collapsed in the Circuit Wolfe Tone, the father of Irish Republicanism, in Belfast, to break Court, while trying a case, and died that night. Between his the connection with England and to win independence for Ireland. arrival in the New World and his death he created a legacy in In 1798 Irish people rose in arms, unsuccessfully. Another the law. In describing his career it was said:

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“On the day of his funeral in 1827 the whole city [New York] came Clan na Gael and, in particular, its leaders such as John Devoy, to a standstill for several hours”. 3 Judge Cohalan and Joseph McGarrity in Philadelphia, supported the Irish organisations, such as the Gaelic League and the GAA. 7 Thomas Addis Emmet, and other United Irishmen exiled in New York, grew and fostered in New York ideals they were banished Signatories to the Proclamation from developing in Ireland. Support from the States for the Easter Rising was very important.

Emmet and others worked for concepts of freedom and equality: Five of the seven signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish concepts which they argued in legal cases. Through their legal Republic spent time in the USA. victories they helped to seed the American Constitution with several constitutional concepts. Thomas Clarke was a naturalised U.S. Citizen and assisted Devoy in the Clan na Gael organisation. Of course, Ireland was neither independent, nor able to develop these concepts until the 20th Century, when the State was Pádraig Pearse spent three months in the U.S. raising funds for founded. Central to the movement from which an independent his school, St. Enda’s. Ireland was born, were many ﬁgures who supported an inde - pendent Ireland in the United States. On this centenary year of Joseph Mary Plunkett, another signatory to the Proclamation, the 1916 Rising, it is appropriate to remember those who played went to New York eight months before the Rising and informed a key role in the Rising, from the opposite side of the Atlantic, John Devoy of the plans for the Rising. where they hatched plans and prepared for the rebellion. Immigration For, of course, the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, read by Pádraig Pearse at the commencement of the Rising, when a strike The ties between Ireland and the USA bind us together because was made for freedom, it was stated to be “supported by her so many of our families have members on either side of the At - exiled children in America”. lantic. John Devoy According to the United States Census Bureau, 11.1% of the pop - ulation of the United States has Irish ancestry. 8 One such Irishman working for a free Ireland from the USA was John Devoy. Statistics following the 2011 census in Ireland show that over 11,000 people from the United States live in Ireland. 9 Devoy, born in Co. Kildare, was Chief Organiser of Fenians in the British Army in Ireland and was responsible for enlisting soldiers The high Irish immigration to the United States over the last two in the British Army into the Irish Republic Brotherhood. He was centuries means that many people of Irish heritage have been in - arrested in 1886 and sentenced to ﬁfteen years penal servitude volved in developing the U.S.A. These include those who built for treason. Upon his release in 1871, he was exiled to America. roads, railroads, buildings and bridges. Devoy became a journalist, and was leader of Clan na Gael. He was instrumental in Clan na Gael becoming the central These also include Justices of the United States Supreme Court, republican organisation in the U.S. Clan na Gael contributed such as: considerable funds towards the Rising. Pádraig Pearse referred to Devoy as “the greatest of Fenians.” 4 • William Paterson (born in Co. Antrim in 1745, he was a signatory to the U.S. Constitution, and Associate Justice of the Judge Daniel Cohalan US Supreme Court); Judge Daniel Cohalan, an American lawyer and politician of Irish • Joseph McKenna (born in 1843 to Irish Immigrant parents, ancestry, was a close associate of John Devoy. Having practised he served in all three branches of the U.S. federal government, at the Bar, he was appointed a Judge of the New York Supreme as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Court in 1911. 5 Attorney General and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; Judge Cohalan was actively involved in many Irish-American • Pierce Butler (born in 1866 to immigrant parents from Co. organisations. He assisted John Devoy in reuniting Clan na Gael Wicklow, he served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court); in 1903, and was president of the Board of Directors of John • William J. Brennan (born in 1906 to immigrant Irish parents Devoy’s newspaper, the Gaelic American. 6 from Co. Roscommon); a great friend of members of the Supreme Court of Ireland – I well remember the evening he Judge Cohalan was a leader of the Friends of Irish Freedom, became an Honorary Bencher of King’s Inns here in Dublin; founded a few weeks prior to the 1916 Rising, to promote the • Anthony Kennedy (current Associate Justice of the United cause of Irish freedom in the United States. States Supreme Court).

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Many Presidents of the USA have had Irish roots, including: Constitution Legal dialogue between our two nations has other parallels. For • Andrew Jackson (whose parents, Andrew and Elizabeth example, we each have a written constitution. For example, the Hutchinson Jackson were migrants from Carrickfergus, Supreme Court of Ireland has expressly in the Constitution, the County Antrim); right to review law to consider if it is constitutional, and to hold • William McKinley (descendant of a farmer from Conagher, that an Act of the Oireachtas, Parliament, is unconstitutional. near Ballymoney, Co. Antrim); • John F. Kennedy (his family came from Co. Wexford); The inclusion in our Constitution of this power for our Supreme • Ronald Reagan (great-grandson, on his father’s side, of Court was inﬂuenced by the Constitution of the USA. migrants from Co. Tipperary); • Barack Obama (some of whose maternal ancestors came from While this important power is not expressly enshrined in the County Offaly). Constitution of the United States, it was found to be inherent by the United States Supreme Court. Common Law An important and enduring link between Ireland and the USA is This power of review by a Supreme Court is now a common that both nations, after they became independent, decided to feature in a democracy. keep the Common Law system of law. This is another area where Thomas Emmet’s work was of importance. Emmet and other But the USA led in this construing of the role of a Supreme Court United Irishmen exiles played an active role in developing the – which inﬂuenced the drafting of the Irish Constitution. common law in the United States. The shared values, and enduring dialogue, between Ireland and the USA through the ages has formed the basis of a strong At that time, some radicals wished to replace the common law - partnership between our two countries. The links which we have which had its origins in England. forged are strengthened by legal systems which are committed to the Rule of Law. “Within this general attempt to defeat federalism, democratize the Republic and present themselves as the authentic voice of Irish Courts System and the Rule of Law America, a minority of radicals insisted upon the need for legal as Central to the success of a trading nation is a legal system well as political reform. They noted with dismay that English committed to the Rule of Law, and with independent and legal precedents remained an integral part of American law and efficient courts. Such courts are essential for the economic believed that the common law should be replaced by a new system well-being of the State. based on the principles of liberty, equality and reason. To a large extent their attack on ‘judicial tyranny’ in America was an out - Legal certainty and speedy resolution of disputes are critical for growth of their earlier activities and experiences back home . . .” 10 economic growth and development.

Thomas Addis Emmet was of the view that the common law itself Continued positive reform in the Irish courts system allows it to should be retained, but where necessary developed. cater for the evolving demands of the corporate world. Ultimately, that is what happened in the United States. The The Commercial Court Common Law was retained, and developed. The establishment of the Commercial Court, which manages a This approach - to retain the common law but develop it - specialist list of cases within the High Court, is an example of ef - was the approach taken in Ireland a hundred years later, when fective court reform which has impacted beneﬁcially on com - Ireland obtained its independence and Irish jurisprudence began merce. It was set up following a recommendation of the 11 to be developed. Committee on Court Practice and Procedure.

In the 1920s in Ireland a choice had to be made also. Should the Case Management decisions of the revolutionary Dáil Courts be part of Irish law? The development of case management is crucial in modern What about the ancient Brehon law – a sophisticated system of courts. We have had very useful discussions with our colleagues law from 10000 years before? However, we chose to keep the State-side on managing “the docket”. Common Law, and upon it develop our own constitutional law and jurisprudence. We have a modern case management system in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, and in increasing divisions of the This is an enduring link between our legal systems, both are High Court. grounded in the Common Law.

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Court of Appeal Conclusion The establishment of the Court of Appeal in October 2014 was There has been an enduring legal dialogue between the U.S.A. one of the most significant reforms of the Irish court system in and Ireland since our nations were founded. the history of the State. Prior to the establishment of the Court of Appeal, appeals from the High Court all went to the Supreme • Our foundation is similar - a written Constitution; Court. An increase in the volume and complexity of the appellate • We use Common Law; case load of the Supreme Court led to a backlog of appeals and • We speak English; longer delays. • Ireland, in the European Union, is a gateway to that block; • Our court system is constantly engaging in positive reform; Consequent to a referendum in 2014, when the People supported • Our Courts are run by independent judges, and the development of a Court of Appeal, we established the Court • Managed by an independent corporation; and of Appeal in 2014. • An independent Bar is available to all who seek advice or who wish to litigate. Companies Many significant companies, in many important industries, are This enduring dialogue has borne fruit. It has enriched the legal located in Ireland, such as: systems of both nations, and encouraged the business links • Software; between Ireland and the United States to flourish. This has been • Pharmaceuticals; assisted by the Ireland-US Council. • Med tech; • ICT; and The Ireland-US Council was founded in anticipation of the • Finance. visit of John F. Kennedy to Ireland in 1963. During that visit, Take, for example, the ICT sector, ten top global companies are President Kennedy spoke of the situated in Ireland, including Intel, HP, IBM. Microsoft, EMC, Apple and Amazon. 12 The addition of internet and social media “many and enduring links which have bound the Irish and the giants, such as Google, Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter, has led Americans since the earliest days”, culminating in “two nations, an area of Dublin to earn the name, ‘Silicon Docks’. divided by distance [having] been united by history.” 21 Employment Today’s meeting is an illustration of the strong ongoing links between our nations. The number of people employed in this country by U.S. companies is at an all time high. Thank you.

In 2011, IDA Ireland reported that at that time over 600 United 1 Lecky, History of Ireland in the 18th Century, Vol. IV. 5 Vol. (1892) p.253, 254 States companies employed over 100,000 people in Ireland. 13 2 The Emmet firm, A History of the New York Law firm of Emmet, Marvin and Martin, LLP Figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis indicate that in from 1805 to 1999 by Thomas P. Fenlon. Privately published by Emmet, Marvin & Martin LLP, New York, New York at pages 11-12. 2013, Ireland-based US multinational companies employed 3 Doyle and Edwards Ed. America and Ireland 1776 - 1976 The American Identity and the Irish 108,000 people - an increase of 1.3% from 2012. 14 The American Connection (Greenwood, 1980) p. 199 4 Terence Dooley, The Greatest of the Fenians: John Devoy and Ireland (Dublin 2003) at 1. Chamber of Commerce has suggested the figure is now as high as 5 Michael Doorley, ‘The Friends of Irish Freedom: a case-study in Irish-American nationalism, 1916-21. 140,000. 15 6 Ibid. 7 Francis M. Carroll, ‘America and the 1916 Rising’ at 125. 8 Irish roots: U.S. Population with Irish Ancestry, available at However, the flourishing relationship between our two countries https://www.census.gov/data/visualizations/2015/comm/cb15-ff04_irish_roots.html. 9 CSO, Profile 6: Diversity in Ireland, available at http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/ as regards employment operates both ways. Irish companies in documents/census2011profile6/Profile,6,Migration,and,Diversity,entire,doc.pdf. the U.S. employ over 80,000 people. 16 10 Wilson, United Irish, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic, (1998) p.68 11 Committee on Court Practice and Procedure: Twenty-seventh Interim Report: Commercial Court, 13th February 2002 available at www.courts.ie in the “Publications” section followed Trade by “Reports and Strategic Plans”. 12 See American Chamber of Commerce, ‘US-Ireland Business 2016’at 53. The United States is one of Ireland’s largest trading partners. 17 13 IDA (2011) 14 American Bureau of Economic Analysis, Direct Investment and Activities of Multinational Goods exported to the United States amounted to 23.4% of Enterprises: Ireland, and American Chamber of Commerce ‘Irish-US Economic Relationship 2016’. exports in 2015, making the USA Ireland’s largest export 15 American Chamber of Commerce, ‘US Companies in Ireland’, www.amcham.ie/about-us/ 18 us-companies-in-ireland.aspx. partner. It was Ireland’s third largest export partner for 16 American Chamber of Commerce, ‘US Companies in Ireland’, www.amcham.ie/about-us/ services, such exports accounting for 8.3% in 2015. 19 us-companies-in-ireland.aspx. 17 The EU is our largest trading partner, accounting for approx. 60% of trade. UK is the main trading partner in the EU (16% exports and 34% of imports). 23% of exports go the US and Thus, we have strong “doing business” links. 12% of imports come from the US). 18 Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Ireland’s Trade Performace 2005 – Q4 2015. 19 Ibid. The rule of law is vital to trade. Trade “supposes the existence of 20 Jean-Yves de Cara ‘International Trade and the Rule of Law’, The Sixth Annual John E. predictable and enforceable [domestic and international] law.” 20 James Lecture, Walter F George School of Law, Mercer University, (Georgia 2006) 21 John F. Kennedy Address to the Houses of the Oireachtas, 28th June 1963.

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Ireland’s Stock Exchange and University The 2016 Winter Meeting also featured Council Support of the College Cork’s role in the founding of the American Ireland Fund Dinner in Palm Beach which this year digital age. honored Sheila O’Malley Fuchs. Also featured was the Council’s usual golf day at Mayacoo Lakes Country Club which has become a favorite occasion staged during the Winter Meeting. he 2016 edition of the Council’s Winter Meeting series was held in Palm Beach, Florida from February 10 Tthru 12, 2016 and was sponsored by CIE Tours International. The Winter Meeting was kicked off in style Plan To Attend The 2017 Winter Meeting with a splendid opening-night dinner party on Wednesday, The Council’s 2017 Winter Meeting is scheduled February 10 hosted by the Council at The Sailfish Club on to open in Palm Beach, Florida on the evening the banks of the IntraCoastal Waterway in Palm Beach. of Wednesday, February 15 and will run through Friday, February 17, 2017. Michael J. Gibbons President-Emeritus of the Council welcomed participants and noted that this was the 25th year for the Council to host a Winter Meeting in Palm Beach for Council members in the United States and in Ireland.

On Friday February 12th, the Council hosted a luncheon meeting at The Beach Club at which there was an impressive double-header speaker roster. Dr. Michael B. Murphy, President, University College Cork delivered most interesting remarks on Dr. George Boole (1815-1864) who was Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic. Boolean logic, Dr. Murphy explained, is credited with laying the foundations for the digital information age. On the 200th Anniversary of his birth, Dr. Murphy’s remarks contained some reflections on his contributions to the modern era.

Mayacoo member Bill Lewis with Bill Finneran, Esther Murray and Mike Gibbons. Also addressing the luncheon gathering were Aileen O’Donoghue & Gerard Scully from Ireland’s Stock Exchange, which is Europe’s leading Gateway Exchange. The Irish Stock Exchange has always had strong ties to the United States – a relationship that continues to this day. In recent years it has become a major global hub for international fund and debt securities.

Aileen O’Donoghue talked about the Irish Stock Exchange’s latest product which it has recently launched – the Atlantic Securities Market (ASM) which aims to strengthen the links between American and European capital markets. The ASM enables companies on both sides of the Atlantic to operate a dual U.S./European listing in a seamless and effective way – enabling U.S. companies operating in Ireland to further benefit from their Irish footprint.

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Michael Brewster; Pat Donaghy; Mayacoo member John Paxman and Bill Murphy. David O’Sullivan; Ed Burns, Sr.; Frank McLaughlin and Mayacoo Member Bill Dolbow.

Roddy Feely, Jim Adrian, Martin Tormey and Terry Fitzgerald. Oonagh Desire and Georgina Neal of The Abbey Theatre .

Brian Stack and Loretta Brennan-Glucksman. Dave Goodbody of the Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association with Gerard Scully from Ireland’s Stock Exchange .

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Council member Gil Landy trying to acquire a better golf swing at Mayacoo Lakes Winner : Julie Connolly of Mayacoo Lakes Country Club . Country Club .

The great Jay Connolly attended the lunch at The Beach Club. Northern Ireland Bureau ’s Lorraine Turner with Council-member Attracta Lyndon.

Dr. Michael Murphy of University College Cork with Northern Ireland Bureau ’s Michael Clark with Bill Mahoney and Karla Nickell aboard The Bottom Line . Norman Houston.

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The Bottom Line in Palm Beach on a beautiful evening. Esther Murray and Bill Finneran.

Kyle Clifford of the American Ireland Fund , Susan Anable and Jack McCarthy. Kieran McLoughlin of The American Ireland Fund with Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley-Bagley and Georgina Neal of The Abbey Theatre.

Audrey Phelan from the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin with Seen at the Ireland-U.S. Counci l’s 2016 Winter Meeting Lunch were (l to r) Gene Gaughan; Goodbody Stockbrokers ’ Martin Tormey and Council Michael J. Gibbons, President-Emeritus of the Ireland-U.S. Council with member Marge Duffy. Dr. Michael Murphy of University College Cork ; Irish Stock Exchange colleagues Aileen O’Donogue and Gerard Scully with Ireland’s Consul General Paul Gleeson. 77 COUNCIL ’S 2016 W INTER MEETING

Ireland’s Consul General Paul Gleeson with Council Member Siobhán Byrne-Learat. Loyal Council Members : Pat Donaghy with John Mahon.

Ron Schults with Council Board Member Andrea Mills of Fiscal Management Mike Gibbons loved the goings-on. Asociates.

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The InterContinental Hotel , in Ballsbridge, Dublin (formerly The Four Seasons ) was the venue for the Council’s popular Annual December Member-Guest Reception held on Thursday, December 17, 2015. Also pictured at the event were NilaKanti Ford-Satamana; Aogán Foley of The President of the Council’s Ireland Chapter, Dr. Michael Somers, Incisive Capital Management and Adrian Bolton of S&C Electric Company . welcomed the two speakers for the occasion – keynote remarks were delivered by Greg Varisco, Chief Operations Officer of Irish-owned AquaComms from Houston, Texas. The gathering also heard remarks from Kevin F. O’Malley, United States Ambassador to Ireland . The Council’s December-Member Guest Reception was sponsored by Aqua Comms, which operates transatlantic subsea fiber optic cable networks. These provide capacity networking solutions to the global media, content providers and information technology industries. The company, which is based in Houston, Texas, is investing $300 million in a new cable connection between the United States and Europe which comes ashore in Ireland in Killala, County Mayo. The U.S. connection is in Shirley, New York and will span more than 5,400 km with stubbed branching units for future landings. The company will use CeltixConnect , an Irish Sea subsea cable wholly-owned by AquaComms , to provide extended connectivity Also at the event were Brian Goggin, Ireland Chapter President-Emeritu s with to London and greater Europe. Eamonn McKeon.

82 Seen at the Ireland-U.S. Council’s 2015 December Member-Guest Reception in Dublin’s InterContinental Hotel were (from left) Tony Leonard and Alan Leonard of Clarendon Properties with a sponsor of the evening - Kevin Tuck of Alltech . RRECEPTION IN DUUBBLLIINN

Tony Condon from UCD Smurfit School with Lynn and Clive Bellows. Also enjoying the occasion were (from left) Sanja Cigic, InSource Recruitment ; Dan Feaheny and Andy Ruane, The Irish Channel America .

Labplan ’s Aidan Smyth with Terry Brennan of Chatham Design . John Farrell, Broadcaster and Cliodna Buckley of Buckley Properties .

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Council members Michael Crowley of TOG Orthotics and Trevor Montgomery Padraig Jordan, Charles Tennant & Co .; Gerry Niland, Wolstan Investments ; from VHI. Pat Dower and Paraic O’Toole, Automsoft .

Brian Horgan; David O’Sullivan; Oonagh Desire and Georgina Neal. Kevin Tuck, Alltech with U.S. Ambassador , Kevin F. O’Malley; Martin Roche and Greg Varisco, both of AquaComms .

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Also enjoying the festive occasion were (from left) Jimmy Healy, Teneo with Aer Lingus ’ Declan Kearney addressing the group. Aer Lingus was a sponsor of AquaComms colleagues Carol Browne and Tom McMahon. the evening’s event.

Also attending were Daniel J. Lawton, U.S. Consul-Belfast; Stuart Dwyer, Deputy Council Board Member, Michael Donohoe of Colliers International with Anne Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy and Aidan Prendergast, Cardinal Consulting . Mescal.

Geraldine McGinty, Weill Cornell Medical Center ; John Greatly and Bríd Horan, PwC’ s James McNally; Dr. Michael Somers; Michael Larkin and Council Executive PwC Ireland . Director Roddy Feely. At the event, Mr. Larkin displayed memorabilia and items of historical interest related to the history of transatlantic sub-sea cables between Ireland and the United States. 85 MEMBER -G UEST Find us on

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2016 Council Golf Day Held Under Sunny New York Skies Rye Golf Club and Ireland’s History There are significant connections between Rye Golf Club and Ireland. Apart from having many members who are Irish-born or of Irish-American heritage, the course was designed by Devereux Emmet , who was related to one of Sponsor Successful Event Ireland’s most historic figures - Robert Emmet - executed by the British in Dublin in 1803 following a failed Rebellion eather played a small but not seriously-disruptive role against British rule, which was closely fashioned after the in this year’s enjoyable and successful Ireland-U.S. American Revolution of 1776. WCouncil Golf Day in New York. This marked the 13th successive year when a full field of Council members and guests Devereux Emmet was born in Pelham, New York in 1861 teed it up at Rye Golf Club in Westchester County, a few miles and was the great-grandson of Thomas Addis Emmet – north of Manhattan on July 25, 2016. Robert Emmet’s brother. Thomas Addis Emmet was a senior member of the revolutionary republican group Mother Nature sent some late-in-the-afternoon inclement United Irishmen in the 1790s and was educated at Trinity weather our way curtailing the on-course golf play by less than a College, Dublin as a lawyer. Following the unsuccessful handful of holes. Despite this unwelcome turn in the weather all rebellion in 1803, he emigrated to the United States and participants seemed to have had an enjoyable day on the links at joined the New York bar where he founded a lucrative law this always-popular event on the Council’s schedule. practice. He served as New York State Attorney General 1812–1813 and argued many cases before the United States The Connie Doolan Memorial Trophy was the day’s highlight, Supreme Court. sponsored by Diageo in memory of former Council member and long-time Guinness executive Cornelius F. Doolan – always His great-grandson, Devereux Emmet built a highly- known to all as simply “Connie”. Our thanks to Council Board successful golf course architecture business. One of the Member Bill Falvey of Guinness for the support. many courses he designed was the course on which the first The Council’s 2016 Student Work Experience Scholarships Irishman won a U.S. Open Golf Championship – in 2007 Program , which benefits from the New York Golf Day surplus Rory McIlroy won on Congressional Country Club in revenues, was also highlighted during the presentations at the Bethesda, Maryland – another Devereux Emmet gem. post-golf dinner portion of the occasion.

We always appreciate the support of Diageo Guinness USA and Bill Falvey. Billy Condon, Vice President of Marketing at Tourism Ireland , which was a sponsor of the occasion, addressed the gathering.

90 Council President Brian Stack with his fourball of Doug Todd, Peter Hooper Council Board Member John Reilly of the law firm Squire Patton Boggs was and Ed Molloy. in the driving seat with golf buddy Peter Smith.

Al diBlasio, Michael Kelley, Jim Adrian and Chris Strapp. Team Guinness : Bill Falvey; Edmund Cleary; Phil Sheridan and John Doherty.

We appreciate the support of our sponsors. Ed Burns, Sr., Kevin and Carl Shanahan supported the Council’s golf day.

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The Padded Wagon team of David Appel, Eddie Dowling, Noel Tompkins and Peter Smith, David Evans; Justin Askew and John Reilly. Sean O’Sullivan.

The American Ireland Fund supported the event: seen with Pat Tully (center) were Dean Thomas and Dan Howell.

Whitby Castle at Rye Golf Club was where the post-golf action was. Team Aer Lingus : Peter Loquercio, Bill Kane, Jack Foley and Bill Johnson.

92 Council member Jack Petrie with Gavin O’Sullivan, Robert Mahon and Council Board Member Eddie Dowling of The Padded Wagon was a winner and Eddie Urso. was presented with his prize by Annalise Stack.

Team Donaghy: Cel, Brian, Pat and Kevin Donaghy. Tourism Ireland was a sponsor: Billy Condon of Tourism Ireland (second from left) led his team of NBC Golf Channel ’s Theresa McCann with Tim Willerton and John Hennessey.

The Ireland-U.S. Council’s Student Work Experience Scholarships Program is a beneficiary of the Council’s various Golf Day Programs held in New York, in Florida and in Dublin. Seen from left Sean Tracy; Council Treasurer and PwC partner Kieran Claffey; James Connolly; Brian Stack; Molly Haskins; Brendan 93 O’Driscoll; Council Secretary Jim Adrian of the law firm Adrian Cassidy & Associates ; Evin McKay and Gavin Kiely. 22001166 GG OLF DDAY IINN NEW YORK

Council member Gil Landy also took home a prize.

The difficult par-3 17th hole did not see an ace all day. But we thank prize The Connie Doolan Memorial Trophy spiced up the competition on the day. sponsor Dean Thomas of G2G Collection for adding to the excitement there.

The winning team taking home the Connie Doolan Memorial Trophy sponsored by Diageo Guinness USA was hosted by Council member Mick Tuohy of 94 2E Ventures . Council Board Member and a sponsor of the Council’s Golf Day Bill Falvey of Guinness (third from left) did the honors at the presentation to Mick Tuohy; Council Treasurer and PwC partner Kieran Claffey; Paul Coughlin and Bobby Collins. W

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• Individual Membership $500 • Corporate Membership $1,000 This membership category offers Executives in corporations, partnerships • Full Council membership, including Council voting rights or organizations: • Access to the Council's transatlantic business network This membership category entitles the designation of a • Complimentary subscription to the excellent Irish second executive with full Council membership, Arts Review quarterly magazine including voting rights; • Complimentary attendance for 1 person at the Wednesday, • Complimentary subscription to the excellent December 13, 2017 Member-Guest Reception in Dublin Irish Arts Review quarterly magazine • Support for all Council business advocacy initiatives • Complimentary attendance for 2 persons at the Wednesday, • Support for all Council support of the arts December 13, 2017 Member-Guest Reception in Dublin • Support for the Council's scholarships and • Support for all Council business advocacy initiatives internships programs • Support for all Council support of the arts • Support for the Council's scholarships and internships programs

• Sustaining Corporate Membership $3,000 This membership category offers all the benefits listed above in individual membership, plus the following benefits: • Designation of a second executive with full Council membership, including voting rights; • Complimentary subscription to the excellent Irish Arts Review quarterly magazine • Two seats at Saint Patrick’s Lunch in New York on Thursday, March 16, 2017 Save over • Two seats at the Council's Spring Corporate Lunch in Dublin, Ireland on Friday, April 7, 2017 * • Two seats at MidSummer Gala Dinner in Ireland on Friday, June 30, 2017 in Dublin $1,800 • One Fourball at the Council's Golf Day in New York on Monday, July 31, 2017 • Two seats at The Council’s 55th Annual Dinner on Thursday, November 9, 2017 in New York • Complimentary attendance for 2 persons at the Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Member-Guest Reception in Dublin

• Charter Corporate Membership $5,000 This membership category offers all the benefits listed above in individual membership, plus the following benefits: • Designation of a second executive with full Council membership, including voting rights; • Complimentary subscription to the excellent Irish Arts Review quarterly magazine • Company logo on print invitations to Council events listed below Save over • Four seats at Saint Patrick’s Lunch in New York on Thursday, March 16, 2017 ** • Four seats at the Council's Spring Corporate Lunch in Dublin, Ireland on Friday, April 7, 2017 $3,600 • Four seats at MidSummer Gala Dinner in Ireland on Friday, June 30, 2017 in Dublin • Two Fourballs at the Council's Golf Day in New York on Monday, July 31, 2017 • Four seats at The Council’s 55th Annual Dinner on Thursday, November 9, 2017 in New York • Complimentary attendance for 4 persons at the Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Member-Guest Reception in Dublin

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• Sustaining Corporate Membership €2,250 This membership category offers all the benefits listed above in individual membership, plus the following benefits: • Designation of a second executive with full Council membership, including voting rights; • Complimentary subscription to the excellent Irish Arts Review quarterly magazine • Two seats at Saint Patrick’s Lunch in New York on Thursday, March 16, 2017 Save over • Two seats at the Council's Spring Corporate Lunch in Dublin, Ireland on Friday, April 7, 2017 * • Two seats at MidSummer Gala Dinner in Ireland on Friday, June 30, 2017 in Dublin €1,000 • One Fourball at the Council's Golf Day in Ireland on Friday, September 8, 2017 • Two seats at The Council’s 55th Annual Dinner on Thursday, November 9, 2017 in New York • Complimentary attendance for 2 persons at the Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Member-Guest Reception in Dublin

• Charter Corporate Membership €3,500 This membership category offers all the benefits listed above in individual membership, plus the following benefits: • Designation of a second executive with full Council membership, including voting rights; • Complimentary subscription to the excellent Irish Arts Review quarterly magazine • Company logo displayed on our website as Council sponsor for full calendar year Save over • Four seats at Saint Patrick’s Lunch in New York on Thursday, March 16, 2017 ** • Four seats at the Council's Spring Corporate Lunch in Dublin, Ireland on Friday, April 7, 2017 €2,450 • Four seats at MidSummer Gala Dinner in Ireland on Friday, June 30, 2017 in Dublin • Two Fourballs at the Council's Golf Day in Ireland on Friday, September 8, 2017 • Four seats at The Council’s 55th Annual Dinner on Thursday, November 9, 2017 in New York • Complimentary attendance for 4 persons at the Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Member-Guest Reception in Dublin

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JANUARY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Wednesday, February 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 – Friday, February 17, 2017 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Council’s Winter Meeting 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Palm Beach, Florida 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 MARCH 29 30 31 26 27 28 Wednesday, March 15 MARCH APRIL – Thursday, March 16, 2017 Conference on Ireland-U.S. S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Economic Relations 1 2 3 4 1 Metropolitan Club, New York City 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Thursday, March 16, 2017 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Saint Patrick’s Luncheon 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Metropolitan Club, New York City 26 27 28 29 30 31 30 APRIL MAY JUNE Friday, April 7, 2017 Spring Corporate Lunch S M T W T F S S M T W T F S InterContinental Hotel 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 (formerly the Four Seasons Hotel) 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Dublin, Ireland 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 JUNE 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 Thursday, June 8, 2017 Scholarships Awards Lunch New York City JULY AUGUST Friday, June 30, 2017 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Midsummer Gala Dinner 1 1 2 3 4 5 Dublin, Ireland 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 JULY 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Monday, July 31, 2017 30 31 27 28 29 30 31 Council Golf Day in New York Rye Golf Club, Rye, New York SEPTEMBER OCTOBER SEPTEMBER S M T W T F S S M T W T F S Friday, September 8, 2017 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Council Golf Day in Ireland 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Dun Laoghaire Golf Club, 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Ireland 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 NOVEMBER 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 29 30 31 Thursday, November 9, 2017 NOVEMBER DECEMBER 55th Annual Dinner of the Council The Metropolitan Club, New York City S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 1 2 DECEMBER 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Wednesday, December 13, 2017 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Member-Guest Reception 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 InterContinental Hotel 26 27 28 29 30 (formerly the Four Seasons Hotel) 31 Dublin, Ireland The Northern Ireland Bureau is delighted to be associated with this prestigious event, which honors Willie Walsh, Chief Executive, International Airlines Group.

We are particularly grateful for the continued support and encouragement that the Bureau receives from the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the Taoiseach as we carry out our role of representing the Northern Ireland Executive in the United States.

We wish the Ireland-U.S. Council continued success.

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@NI_Bureau 2016 G OLF DAY INN IRELAND

Council’s 2016 Golf Day in Ireland –Weather Did Not Dampen Spirits in County Wicklow

Our Venue - Dun Laoghaire Golf Club - Also Hosted this year’s Curtis Cup Matches between U.S.A. and Great Britain & Ireland in Ladies’ Amateur Golf

Northern Trust Bank & United Airlines Were Sponsors

All the signs pointed to a great day.

For the second year in a row, the Ireland-U.S. Council Golf Day in Ireland was victim to some inclement weather. For sure, when you stage an outdoor event, especially in Ireland, weather is a consideration. Having said that we had eleven straight years of favorable weather conditions for this event – so we cannot complain too loudly.

This year, the Council’s Golf Day in Ireland was held on Friday, September 9 at the spectacular Dún Laoghaire Golf Club - site of the 2016 Biennial Curtis Cup Matches between the United States and Great Britain & Ireland amateur ladies’ golf teams (Sadly for the U.S. team, they returned home without the Curtis Cup).

Philip Scruggs, President of AerCap with UCD Smurfit School ’s Tony Condon. The club’s home is a beautiful tract of land overlooking the village of Enniskerry in County Wicklow with majestic views of the Wicklow Mountains, especially the Sugar Loaf, and the southern half of picturesque Dublin Bay.

The Council’s Golf Day in Ireland this year was generously supported by United Airlines and Northern Trust Bank . The Council’s Ireland Golf Day is a popular one with the Council’s members and their guests in Ireland and is a regular September calendar event. Next year’s Ireland Golf Day has been set for Friday, September 8, 2017.

The occasion combines great prizes, a splendid venue, great fun and other positive factors which together produce a successful outcome. Many great prizes for the event were donated by our prize sponsors including Alltech, Titleist, Bacchus, Vinos and many hotels, golf resorts, visitor attractions Northern Trust Bank was a grand sponsor. and others. We thank them all.

100 Aer Lingus ’s Alan Molloy and Yvonne Muldoon. Michael Stone, Tom Costello, Pat Gilroy and Robbie Dolan.

Team Alltech : Colin McMahon, Paddy McIntyre, Kevin Tuck and Michael Tuck. Team PwC : David Pickerel, Mark Rochfort, Brendan Wakeham and Paul McGrath.

William Fry Solicitors ’ team : Tom Cassin, Brendan Cahill, Sheamus Considine and Martin Keane. 101 2016 G OLF DAY INN IRELAND

Team Aer Lingus : Alan Molloy, Vincent Drouillard, Mary Kate Lavin and Gilbert Barrington.

Liam Butler from Northern Trust Bank – principal sponsor of the event - Brian Hughes from event co-sponsor United Airlines addressed the gathering. delivered remarks to the group.

Dan Feaheny of Feeney Enterprises and Aidan Prendergast of Cardinal Consulting. Róisín Fitzpatrick, Dr. Michael Somers and Andy Ruane.

102 Austin McCabe, Gerry Kenny, Derek Collins and Conor Agnew from Gerry Morrissey, Karen Rothwell, Andrew Morrissey and Dick Lenehan. Bank of Ireland.

Council Board Member and Chair of the Irish Aviation Authority Anne Nolan Hubert O’Reilly, Norbert McDermott and Bernard Murphy. (center) with guests Annette Burke and Kristine Lawlor.

Always lots of door prizes. 103 2016 G OLF DAY INN IRELAND

United Airlines ’ Brian Hughes with Council Board member Michael Greene, of Susan Murphy with Deirdre Somers. counsel with law firm of A&L Goodbody .

Michael Stone, Tom Costello and Robbie Dolan. Sarah Costigan from the Little Museum of Dublin was a winner.

104 Sean Twomey, Peter Davy, David Cantrell and Tony Weldon from the law firm of Eugene F. Collins. Congratulations to Willie Walsh on his well-deserved Outstanding Achievement Award.

From Mike Doorley and all at Thornburg Investment Management. Congratulations to Willie Walsh on his Award for Outstanding Achievement.

Surmont LLC is proud to support the Ireland-U.S. Council.

This message sponsored by Ireland-U.S. Council Director Michael Clark President & CEO Surmont LLC

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