When Mary Robinson lit a candle for the Irish all over the world during her days as President of Ireland, she inspired a sense of family in all of us, whether we called Dublin or Denver home. We celebrate the achievements of our brothers and sisters across the globe and rejoice in that fact that though you can take a man or a woman out of Ireland, you can't take the Irish out of them, or their descendants...

For the year 2008:

The Irish

1. Barnes, Paddy
2. Bono
3. Byrne, Gabriel
4. Chieftains, The
5. Concern
6. Downey, Roma
7. Egan, Kenny
8. Flanagan, Fionnula
9. Flatley, Michael
10. Galway, James
11. Geldof, Bob
12. Gleeson, Brendan and Farrell, Colin
13. Harrington, Padraig
14. Heaney, Seamus
15. Kate’s Project
16. McCourt, Frank
17. Morrison, Van
18. Neeson, Liam
19. O'Brien, Edna
20. Robinson, Mary
21. Sutherland, Darren

The Argentinians

1. MacDonough, Pablo
2. MacLoughlin, Guillermo
3. Murray, Edmundo
4. O'Durnin, Santiago

The Australians

1. Cantwell, Billy
2. Fanning, Eugene "Mick"
3. Keating, Paul
4. Keneally, Thomas
5. Leith, Damien
6. Malcolm, Dr. Elizabeth
7. Power, Tom
8. Stynes, Jim
9. Sullivan, Eamon

The British

1. Boyle, Danny
2. Costello, Elvis
3. Dido
4. Elliott, Marianne
5. Friel, Anna
6. MacGowan, Shane
7. McCartney, Paul
8. McDonagh, Martin
9. Oasis

The Canadians

1. Burns, Pat
2. Chainnigh, Aralt Mac Giolla
3. Furlong, John
4. Kenneally, Michael
5. Leahy
6. Mulroney, Brian
7. Murphy, Wendy
8. O'Gallagher, Marianna
9. Shanahan, Brendan

The Mexicans

1. Fox, Vincente
2. Hogan, Michael
3. Kelly, Phil

The Irish Americans

1. Barrington, Owen
2. Blake, Seamus
3. Cahill, Thomas
4. Collins, Gail
5. Coughlin, Natalie
6. Cunningham, Tara
7. Dargan, Fiona
8. Disney, Abigail and Reticker, Gini
9. Donovan, Shaun
10. Dooner, John
11. Dwyer, Jim
12. Fallon, Jimmy and O’Brien, Conan
13. Farrow, Mia
14. Feeney, Chuck
15. Flanagan, Shalane
16. Gallagher, Cyndi
17. Gallagher, Lori Meghan
18. Gibbons, Michael
19. Glucksman, Loretta Brennan
20. Heslin, George
21. Keaton, Michael
22. Keenan, Don
23. Kelleher, Denis
24. Kelly, Mary Pat
25. Kennedy, Dr. John and Mullen, Flip
26. Kennedy, Edward
27. Keough, Donald
28. Kowalik, Trent
29. Lahey, John
30. McComiskey, Billy
31. McEvoy, Bill
32. McKeever, Teri
33. Mitchell, George
34. Moran, Ellen
35. Moran, Tom, Mulcahy, Anne and O'Brien, Dennis
36. Mother Margaret and The Little Sisters of The Poor
37. Niall Mellon Township Trust
38. O'Hara, Kelli
39. O'Reilly, Heather
40. O’Rourke, Mary Alice
41. Philbin, Regis
42. President Obama and Vice President Biden
43. Quinn, Peter
44. Rafferty, Mike
45. Rooney, Major Dan
46. Rourke, Mickey
47. Ryan, Kay
48. Shanley, John Patrick
49. The Aisling Center
50. Tobin, Vanessa
51. Trinity and Claddagh
52. Walsh, Kerri