ITIA Honorary Members


2021	Maya Hess	Founder of Red T, a non-profit organization for the protection of translators and interpreters in high-risk settings (red-t.org); former forensic linguist in the terrorism arena.
2016	Eileen Battersby († 2018)	Literary correspondent of the Irish Times and champion of literature translated into English.
2014	Lorraine Leeson	Professor at Trinity College Dublin, head of Centre for Deaf Studies, Deaf Studies scholar.
2013	Edith Grossman († 2023)	Spanish-English translator of, among others, Miguel de Cervantes, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes.
2013	Giuliana Zeuli	Translator of Roddy Doyle, Catherine Dunne, Bernard MacLaverty and Irvine Welsh, former chairperson of the ITIA executive committee.
2012	Frank Wynne	French-English and Spanish-English translator of Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal and Alonso Cueto.
2011	Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta († 2016)	Translator and editor of Irish translation of the Bible in Irish published in 1982.
2007	Michael Cronin	Professor at Dublin City University, member of the Royal Irish Academy, Translation Studies scholar.
2006	Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin	Professor of Italian at Trinity College Dublin, translator of the Decameron into English, founding member of the ITIA.
2005	Máire Nic Mhaoláin	Translator of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and other works into Irish, former chairperson of the ITIA.
2004	Jin Di († 2008)	Translator into Chinese of Ulysses by James Joyce.
2003	Ciaran Carson († 2019)	Translator of Dante’s Inferno.
2003	Hans-Christian Oeser	Translator into German of works by Paul Muldoon, Scott Fitzgerald, Maeve Brennan.
2002	Seán Mac Mathghamhna († 2008)	Translator of poetry into Irish.
2002	Nicholas J.A. Williams,	Translator of the New Testament from Greek to Cornish.
2001	Helen Campbell	Conference interpreter and interpreter trainer at the Directorate General for Interpretation at the European Commission.
2000	Seamus Heaney († 2013)	Translator of Beowulf: A New Translation.
2000	Micheál Ó Cearúil	Translator from English to Irish.
1999	Máire Mhac an tSaoi († 2021)	Poet and translator from Middle to Modern Irish.
1999	William Weaver († 2013)	Translator of Umberto Eco, Primo Levi and Italo Calvino.
1997	Lar Cassidy († 1997)	Member of Arts Council, supporter of translation of poetry.
1994	Agnes Bernelle († 1999)	Actress, singer, translator of songs by Brecht and Weill into English.
1994	Rosangela Barone	Translator of Irish works (in English and Irish) into Italian.
1992	Gabriel Rosenstock	Poet and translator from Irish to English.
1992	Brian Gormley	One of the first translators to work in localisation.
1991	John F. Deane	Founding member of the Irish Translators’ Association, poet and translator of poetry.