Honorees posing for a group shot are (from left) Irish Man of the Year Hugh O’Lunney, an entrepreneur, humanitarian and promoter of Irish culture; Rachel Gilkey, the director of programs and education at the Irish Arts Center; Irish Woman of the Year Alice O’Neill, the UFT Manhattan High School District representative; and City Councilman Daniel Dromm, the chairman of the education committee and a former teacher.

The PS 222, Brooklyn, chorus with music teacher Jason Luft.

Alice O’Neill (left), the UFT Manhattan High School District representative, receives her Irish Woman of the Year award from Barbara Snow of the DOE’s Irish American Heritage and Culture Committee.

Student Md Sayem Hossain of the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics HS was the oratory winner. Hossain read President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 speech at Amherst College memorializing the poet Robert Frost.

Maureen O'Lunney (center), the daughter of Irish Man of the Year Hugh O’Lunney, with her baby Aine and family friends Ann Garvey and Liam Murphy.

Award-winners Alice O’Neill and Daniel Dromm chat after the ceremony.