Irish citizens honoured in Queen's honours list

Movie director and British council chairman, Alan Parker, is to receive a knighthood. The director of the Irish films ‘The Commitments’ and ‘Angela’s Ashes’ is said to be overwhelmed at receiving the honour.

A professor of English at Dublin’s Trinity College is being honoured for his services to British-Irish relations. Terence Brown is a council member of the Glencree Centre for reconciliation in Co Wicklow.