| YEAR |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
| 1995 |
Dr Davis McCaughey AC – Governor of Victoria 1986 -1982 |
From Parnell to Paisley – The Peace Process in Northern Ireland |
| 1996 |
Ambassador Richard O’Brien – Irish Ambassador |
Ireland in the Coming Times |
| 1997 |
Professor Oliver MacDonagh – Irish scholar and writer, Prof of History Australian Catholic University |
O’Connell and Parnell: A Comparison |
| 1998 |
Clare Dunne OAM – Writer and Broadcaster |
Mother Ireland Mother Earth |
| 1999 |
Colm & Damien O’Doherty – Actors and Writers |
Countess Constance Markievcz, The Rebel Countess |
| 2000 |
Siobhan McHugh – Writer and Broadcaster |
Creating the Irish Empire: Television and Historical Compromises |
| 2001 |
Tony Evans – Writer, Journalist, Broadcaster and Producer |
The Engineer and the Poet: WA’s Irish Legacy, comparing the lives and work of CY O’Connor and John Boyle O’Reilly |
| 2002 |
Professor Jarlath Ronayne – President and Vice-Chancellor Victoria University |
Rogues and Reformers – The Irish in Colonial Australia |
| 2003 |
Carol Kiernan – Granddaughter of Delia Murphy the wife of Tom Kiernan, First Irish Ambassador to Australia |
Ireland’s Ballad Queen: Delia Murphy, her Life and Music, a Woman for the Times |
| 2004 |
Ambassador Declan Kelly – Irish Ambassador |
Ireland in the Third Millennium: A Country Transformed |
| 2006 |
Billy Cantwell – Editor Irish Echo |
Irish Australia: The State of the Union |
| 2007 |
Peter Sharkey – President of the WA Industrial Relations Commission |
The Irish in Australia: A Descendant’s Perspective |
| 2008 |
Perpetua Durack Clancy – Teacher, Arts curator and author, daughter of Elizabeth Durack |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman – a partial view of Elizabeth Durack |
| 2009 |
Professor Bob Reece – Prof of History Murdoch University |
The Irishness of Daisy Bates |
| 2010 |
Dr Richard Reid – Curator National Museum |
Not Just Ned: A True History of the Irish in Australia |
| 2011 |
Dr George O’Neil – Medical Doctor, Scientist and Innovator |
Pioneering Medicine in the 21st Century |
| 2012 |
Emeritus Professor Dennis Haskell – Poet and Literary academic University of WA |
Ireland, my Ireland |
| 2013 |
Charles Smith and Joan Walsh-Smith – International Sculptors |
A Personal Story |
| 2014 |
Ray Omodei – Theatre Director |
‘Influences of the Irish dimension on a Distinguished Man of Theatre’ |
| 2015 |
Ian Loftus – Public Policy Professional and author |
‘From Lorrha to Lemnos – A Brief Account of the Life of Martin O’Meara VC’ |
| 2018 |
Peter Canole – Historian, Author and Reviewer |
Charles Fitzgerald in colonial Western Australia’ |
| 2019 |
Amanda Curtin – Author |
Kathleen O’Connor of Paris |
| 2021 |
The Hon Alannah MacTiernan, MLC – Minister in WA State Government |
Durack involvement in history of horticulture in the North |
| 2022 |
Patsy Millet -daughter of Mary Durack |
The Irish Partners – Connor and Doherty |
