Join us for the annual IBO Summer Party on Monday, June 23rd starting at 6 pm at Tara Mór on 150 W 30th Street in Manhattan.  We are thrilled to be honoring Consul General of Ireland in NY Helena Nolan and Deputy Counsel General of Ireland in NY Gareth Hargadon as they complete their roles in New York and journey onward to their next assignments.

We will be presenting the 2025 Sean McNeill Award to both Helena and Gareth during this special event. The prestigious IBO award is extended annually to individuals who exemplify the positive values and behaviors that our colleague and former leader, the late Sean McNeill possessed: extraordinary generosity, community-building, and an unwavering commitment to diversity and inclusion. Helena and Gareth exemplify these traits and have been a remarkable inspiration to the Irish and Irish-American community throughout their service in New York. Our community has both deepened and expanded enormously under their thoughtful, energetic and devoted leadership.

Don’t miss this wonderful evening of celebration featuring music with Murphy’s Lawyer, inventive food and drink in The Mezzanine at Tara Mór - New York’s newly-opened sister bar to Tara Rose - and a silent auction!

Registration is required and space is limited.

IBO June Breakfast Meeting - Hybrid!

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM 

Fitzpatrick's at 57th and Lex. New York, NY AND on Zoom

Members $20 | Nonmembers $30 | Zoom FREE

The Irish Arts of Summer

Current arts activities this summer and how business organizations benefit from participation in the arts & entertainment world

Guest Speaker

Richard Humphrey

Producer/Author/Director/Co-CEO/CCO

For those joining us at Fitzpatrick's, you will enjoy a full Irish breakfast of eggs, Irish bacon, sausage, grilled tomato, black and white pudding along with tea, coffee and juice. For those of you who can not join in person, we will get together on Zoom with the link provided upon registration.

Both groups will network separately after our happy hybrid session with our special guest. There will be an opportunity to "network, communicate, reciprocate" as we gather to share our news and be together.

ABOUT RICHARD HUMPHREY

NOTE: Richard is joining the IBO as the Arts and Entertainment Chair and will be supporting the IBO by curating the multiple requests for participation, donations, and support of the arts from NY, domestic, and international organizations.

Richard Humphrey has over thirty years’ experience bridging the performing arts,

entertainment and business communities. He has an award winning and proven track

record in content creation and as an entrepreneur in developing innovative business

plans and sustainable business strategies for the arts and entertainment communities,

creating partnerships between the for profit and not-for-profit worlds, lobbying on the

federal and state level for the arts and arts education, and in realizing international

business collaborations.

He has nurtured and presented original work on Broadway and Off-Broadway including

as co-producer of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, “Buried Child,” and as a

2013 Drama Desk Nominee for Unique Theatrical Experience for producing and

directing THE Fazzino RIDE. His first Broadway triumph was in the cast of Ellis Rabb’s

star-studded, award-winning, histrionically-elegant “The Royal Family” which he later

directed for the first National Tour.

He has, as Executive Producer, built a copyrighted library of over 125 titles including his

interviews with some of the world’s greatest artists, performances and art history

documentaries. Many of these titles are currently being distributed through Discovery.

Richard’s unique vision for uniting the arts, arts education and technology communities

has led to frequent requests to keynote at industry conferences including “Connecting

All Americans for the 21St Century” hosted by Vice President Al Gore and the

Department of Commerce.

Richard co-founded Arts4All, Ltd./A4AMobile, an entrepreneurial digital company

focusing on the intersection of content creation and its distribution via emerging digital

technologies, with Hong Kong businessman/entrepreneur Daniel Ng. As CEO of

Arts4All, Ltd./A4AMobile and, later, as CEO of Redcloud Mobile, Inc., a partnership with

Telcordia Technologies, Richard utilized his fluency in digital media to develop a mobile

marketing platform and to introduce innovative campaigns for the arts and national ad

agencies with such clients as “Shrek: The Musical,” Bacardi Brands, Grey Goose,

Starbucks, U.S. Open and feature films with AlliedIM, to name a few.

As a pioneer in mobile applications, he and his colleagues at Redcloud Mobile

introduced Broadway to the potential of mobile marketing and became the national

mobile media partner for the Tony Awards from 2007 - 2010. Richard has created

visionary strategic partnerships for the arts with companies including Telcordia

Technologies, AT&T and Lucent Technologies and content provider partnerships with

such renowned institutions as Manhattan School of Music, Jazz at Lincoln Center,

Interlochen Center for the Arts, London Symphony Orchestra and a wide-variety of top

performing artists.

Via his mastery of videoconferencing, Richard has produced internationally over 100

real-time videoconference arts events and master classes with such notables as the

New York City Ballet lead dancer Peter Boal, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, Jose

Limon Dance Company, actor Matthew Broderick, and violinist Pinchus Zuckerman, and

the late Isaac Stern, to name a few.

Richard was the founder of Humphrey Fine Art, Ltd, a flagship gallery in New York’s

Soho and Midtown districts from 1986 - 1996. Representing emerging and mid-careers

artists, his gallery exhibited in nine countries and at major art fairs in Paris, Madrid,

Tokyo and Seoul. He curated the groundbreaking exhibition “Forces: Art for the End of

the Century” which represented artists at the end of the twentieth century utilizing non-

traditional materials such as light, time, planetary motion and technology. This critically

acclaimed exhibition travelled nationally to museums and public venues for two years.

Since 1985, Richard’s choice of public service and philanthropy has been his alma

mater Bucknell University. He was the President of the Bucknell University Alumni

Association and its Board of Directors for two terms (2006-2010) and served as a Board

and Executive Committee member for three years prior. He was a two-term President

of the Emeritus Board of the Bucknell Association for the Arts and served on its Board

for eight years. In 2010, Bucknell presented him with its highest honor for the arts,

induction into Bucknell’s prestigious Academy of Artistic Achievement.