Singer Maria Doyle Kennedy provided the entertainment and with many celebrities in attendance, including Orlando Bloom, organizer Trina Vargo pulled out all the stops in honor of an event which began as an alliance in film between Ireland and the US but has grown to represent a compassionate multicultural alliance.

In accepting their award, Ros and John Hubbard noted that several of the recipients over the years have been Jewish and expressed their belief that "Ireland is a lost tribe from Israel, but they got into the drink and stayed there."

There is no record of Oscar Wilde having visited Vancouver. In fact, at that time Vancouver was a settlement called Granville, which didn't become a city officially until 1886 when it was named after a Captain George Vancouver who charted the Pacific Coast in 1791. However, Wilde did visit Winnipeg and had this to say: "So this is Winnipeg. I can tell it's not Paris."

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