Recipients in entertainment have included filmmakers John Ford and John Huston, Irish actresses Siobhan McKenna, Anna Manahan and Maureen O'Hara, Irish poet Seamus Heaney, and musicians The Chieftains and Tommy Makem.
Tommy Common and Tommy Makem took turns as series host with vocal group Sweet Majic as regulars.
The Irish folksong Coast of Malabar, performed by Tommy Makem and The Chieftains among others, is a lilting romantic air.
Visiting artists included John Allan Cameron, Shirley Eikhard, Bob Carpenter, Fraser & DeBolt, Tom Gallant, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Dee Higgins, Tommy Makem, Colleen Peterson, Jack Schechtman, Stringband and Brent Titcomb.
Tommy Dorsey | Tommy Hilfiger | Tommy Thompson | Tommy | Tommy Steele | Tommy Lee | Tommy Lee Jones | Tommy Emmanuel | Tommy Sheridan | Tommy Robredo | Tommy Chong | Tommy Douglas | Tommy Makem | Tommy Cooper | Tommy Boy Entertainment | Tommy Mottola | Tommy Henrich | Tommy Flanagan | Tommy Tune | Tommy Lyons | Tommy LiPuma | Tommy James and the Shondells | Tommy Franks | Tommy Tutone | Tommy Tuberville | Tommy Spinks | Tommy Smyth | Tommy Overstreet | Tommy McCook | Tommy Haas |
Around the same time, Pat founded Tradition Records with folk-song collector and heiress Diane Hamilton, and in 1956 the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem released their first album, The Rising of the Moon, with only Paddy's harmonica as musical accompaniment.