21st Solas Dinner 2010 on Friday, December 10
Last year, nearly 1,000 members of Boston's Irish community celebrated twenty years of IIC and honored President Mary McAleese of Ireland with the 2009 Solas Award. This year, please join us in honoring Congressman Richard Neal and Mr. Robert Glassman at Boston's Seaport Hotel.
Congressman Neal is the chair of the Ways and Means Committee and has served in the House of Representatives since 1989. Decended from Irish grandparents, Neal has been an advocate for Irish concerns throughout his career. He is co-chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Irish Affairs and has been chairman of the Friends of Ireland since 2007. After the disarmament of the IRA in September 2005, Neal was among a group of Congressmen who met with Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness to congratulate him on the action of disarmament and to ensure that a lasting peace had been reached. Neal was namedas one of the top 100 Irish-Americans by Irish American magazine and received the International Leadership Award from the American Ireland Fund in 2002.
Mr. Glassman is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Wainwright Bank & Trust, a company committed to social justice. In addition to the activities of Wainwright Bank, Mr. Glassman is personally engaged in a number of efforts as both a social entrepreneur and civic leader. In 1984 he established the Glassman Fellowship Fund at the Harvard Business School, which provides inner city public school students with scholarship assistance. As a civic leader, Mr. Glassman has served as a board member and advisor to numerous Boston institutions, including The Boston Foundation, the William Joiner Foundation, and the University of Massachusetts Foundation.
Sponsorship is available and welcome.
About Solas 2009
President of Ireland and 960 Guests Mark 20 Years of IIC
“I’m surprised at how many people I know here,” said Tom Lee, during the afterparty of his first Irish Immigration Center Solas Awards. It was a sentiment shared by many of the 960 guests who reconnected with friends of years and locations past on a memorable Wednesday night.
Nearly 1,000 local folk from Boston's Irish Community crammed the ballroom of the Westin Copy Hotel to celebrate twenty years of IIC and to enjoy a dinner fit for a President.
The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese was the 2009 Solas recipient and honored guest. Living her to billing as an eloquent and moving orator, she delivered a keynote address that was alternately funny, emotional, personal and powerful. Taking the theme of “Two shortens the Road,” an old Irish saying meaning that a journey is a lot shorter when it’s shared, and the notion of “moving along a bit and making room for someone else,” she spoke as though addressing everyone individually, and delivered a message that resonated with immigrant and native alike.
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