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Cunningham Medal 2013-2014

10 March 2014

Professor Patrick Honohan, MRIA, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, was awarded the Royal Irish Academy’s Cunningham Medal at a ceremony in Dublin on Monday, 10 March 2014.

Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy (2011-14) said ‘in honouring Patrick Honohan today with the Cunningham medal we celebrate not only an economist of international stature and renown but a Member of the Academy with a keen sense of civic responsibility. The medal shows Hibernia, supported by scholarship and science, brandishing the cap of liberty, hopefully a good omen for the future."

After the Medal conferring, Professor Honohan gave a lecture entitled “Irish Exceptionalism in the World Economy”.

Address by Governor Honohan

Cunningham Medal

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