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Freedom of the City - Roll of Honour

Date

Name

Position

15-06-2006 Gary Hynes Theatre Director 

31-08-1939

Douglas Hyde President of Ireland
03-10-1946   Eamonn De Valéra Taoiseach of Ireland
13-12-1950   Sean T O’Kelly President of Ireland

01-02-1954  
Most Rev Dr Gerard P O'Hara Apostolic Nuncio
26-10-1957  John Cardinal Dalton  Archbishop of Armagh
23-06-1961    Paul Cardinal Marella Member of the Vatican Caria
30-07-1962  Robert F Wagner  Mayor of New York
16-08-1962  Mícéal Cairdinéal de Brún  Dominicec
29-06-1963  John Fitzgerald Kennedy  President of the United States of America
15-08-1965   Richard Cardinal Cushing Archbishop of Boston
15-08-1965  Liam Cairdinéal MacConmidé  Ard Easpas Ard Maca
16-11-1970    Christy O’Connor Golfer
20-08-1973 Most Rev Dr Michael Browne pp Bishop of Galway
07-12-1978  An Br. Lionan S. MacCába Braitre Pádraig
30-09-1979   Pope John Paul II Supreme Pontiff
16-06-1983  Paulo Evaristo, Cardinal Arns  Archbishop San Pavlo, Brazil
16-05-1984  Fr. Damian Byrne  Superior General Dominican Order
02-06-1984   Ronald Regan President of the United States of America
19-12-1995   Dr Colm ó hEocha President of University College Galway
12-05-1999  Hillary Rodham Clinton  First Lady of the United States of America
18-06-1999  John Hume  Leader of the SDLP Northern Ireland
20-05-2000   Christy O’Connor (jnr) Golfer
28-06-2003   Richard M Daley Mayor of Chicago
16-06-2005  Aung San Suu Kyi Burmese Pro-Democracy Leader

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