This year’s transatlantic conference will be hosted virtually from the historic Guildhall in Derry featuring a range of speakers and delegates from the US and Ireland who will discuss issues including COVID and Brexit. The Golden Bridges Conference will give the US audience a unique insight into how those living and working in the border region of Derry, Strabane and Donegal are collaborating to prepare for Brexit. Our full program can be viewed online here.

The annual awards presentation will also take place, honouring our friends in Irish America who go to great lengths to strengthen the bond between the US and Ireland North West.

This year we are proud to be honoring:

• Congressman Brendan Boyle
• Christine Kinealy, Chair Institute of Ireland’s Great Hunger, Quinnipiac University
• Councilman Frank Baker
• Joseph Burke, Deputy Director in the Office of International Business Development, PA
• Steve Burke, Executive Director, Irish Cultural Centre of New England
• Grace Cotter Regan, President Boston College High School
• Padraic MacLaughlin
• Mark Porter, Director, Irish Pastoral Centre, Boston
• Kathy Savage, LAOH (Recipient of the Dave Burke Award)
• Connemara Gaels, Boston
• Senator Nick Collins