PAST CHAIRS OF HOSPITALITY ULSTER
Hospitality Ulster was founded in 1872 as the Belfast and Ulster Licensed Vintners Association, and ever since then it has has been guided by a continuous lineage of voluntary Chairpersons. These are their names.
1870s
1872–74 Sir Edward Porter Cowan
1874–76 James Colligan W. Com.
1876–77 Robert M. Laverty
1877–78 John Joseph Duffy
1878–79 Francis Mclvenny
1879–80 Michael Shiels J.P.
1880s
1880–81 Henry Burns
1881–82 James Colligan W. Com.
1882–83 John Joseph Duffy
1883–84 Bernard McGlade
1884–86 Patrick Flanigan
1886–87 Henry M. Shannon
1887–88 Michael Kernan
1888–89 John McKibbin
1889–90 Philip Duffy
1890s
1890–91 John McKibbin
1891–92 Thomas Milligan
1892–93 Joseph McDavid
1893–95 Michael Ward
1895–97 James McEntee T.C.
1897–98 H. McGuckin & H. Toner
1898–99 Francis O’Neill
1900s
1899–00 Christopher McGuigan
1900–02 Mathew McCusker T.C.
1902–04 James Kilpatrick J.P., T.C.
1904–05 Joseph Smyth T.C.
1905–06 Owen McMahon
1906–08 Charles Murray
1908–09 Peter Convery
1909–11 Hugh O’Neill
1910s
1911–12 P.P. McGlade
1912–15 Henry McKenna
1915–17 Henry Scullin
1917–20 Aldn. Richard Byrne M.P.
1920s
1920–24 Thomas Agnew T.E.
1924–28 Henry Leacock J.P., T.E.
1928–31 Thaddeus Lynch J.P., W. Com.
1930s
1931–34 Capt. G.L. Turner M.C., A.P.T.
1934–36 William Wilson
1936–38 Daniel McConaghy
1938–40 Aldn. John A. McGlade J.P.
1940s
1940–41 William Hastings J.P.
1941–43 John Bradley J.P.
1943–44 Daniel McConaghy
1944–45 W.J. Hendron J.P.
1945–47 John Cornett
1947–48 Francis O’Neill J.P.
1948–49 George C. Hall J.P.
1949–51 Samuel Casey
1950s
1951–54 Fred H. McNair
1954–56 Eugene Maguire
1956–58 Samuel Kirk
1958–61 Frank Donnelly J.P.
1960s
1961–62 William G. Hastings J.P.
1962–64 Thomas J McGurran J.P.
1964–66 Thomas N. Elkin J.P.
1966–68 Joseph H. McAlinden
1968–70 S.G. Elkin J.P.
1970–72 Frank Lavery
1972–74 Frank E. Hughes
1970s
1974–75 Charles Caldwell
1975–77 James Bryars
1977–79 Adrian A. Beagon
1979–81 James H. Stephens
1980s
1981–83 John J. McKenna
1983–85 Hugh Keenan
1985 Thaddeus McErlean
1985–86 James H. Stephens
1986–87 Augustus Allen
1987–89 S.G.M. Harvey
1990s
1989–91 Patrick Connolly
1991–93 Patrick J. McLogan
1993–95 Anne Diver
1995–97 John O’Kane
1997–99 Laurence P. Catney
2000s
1999–01 Maurice Regan
2001–02 Aidan O’Neill
2002–04 James Allen
2004–07 Philip McCann
2007–09 Stephen Reynolds
2009–12 Sorcha Wolsey
2010s
2012–15 Mark Stewart
2015–17 Olga Walls
2017–19 Mark Stewart
2019–21 Danny Coyles
2020s
2021–23 Tony O'Neill
2023–25 Stephen Magorrian
2025– Michael Cadden