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Pete Hamill (b. 1935), a novelist, essayist, journalist, and Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. Raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, the son of immigrants from Belfast, he was editor-in-chief of both the New York Post and the New York Daily News, and a columnist for both as well as for New York Newsday, the Village Voice, New York magazine and Esquire. His 1994 memoir, A Drinking Life, was on the same New York Times best-seller list for 13 weeks.

Tom Hanley (b. Jersey City, New Jersey, 1939), raised in Hoboken and a longshoreman since age 17, has been very involved with waterfront union politics. At age 14 he made an appearance in the film classic On the Waterfront (1954), directed by Elia Kazan.

Odette Harrington was born in 1960 in San Francisco, California.  In 1962, her family returned to Ireland and settled in Ballintubbert, Athy, County Kildare, Ireland.  She worked at the Irish International Immigrant Center in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1980s and 1990s.

Daniel Hartigan, Jr. (born 1926), is an Irish immigrant, born in Limerick, whose father was an ardent follower of Eamon De Valera. His dad's allegiance to De Valera through the 1920s and 1930s cost him and the family dearly. Hartigan Sr.'s political choices led to financial and social reverses for the family and ultimately the migration of Daniel, Jr. and most of his siblings. Life for this IRA family in the west of Ireland during the 20s and through World War II offered few other options.

Philip C. Haughey (b. Waltham, MA, 1935) has served as Chair of Celtic Studies at his alma mater, Harvard University, on the board of University College Dublin's Smurfit School of Business in Ireland, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2005 from the University of Ulster, Coleraine, for his contribution to business and support for philanthropic organizations.

Catriona Hayes (b. Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry, Ireland, 1974), a homemaker and a student nurse, emigrated to New York in 2000 after spending a period studying and working in London. She is married to Eddie Hayes.

Eddie Hayes (b. Co. Limerick, Ireland, 1966), a narcotics detective with the New York City Police Department, emigrated in 1989. After service with the U.S. Navy, he joined the NYPD in 1996. He is married to Catriona Hayes.

Thomas F. Hayes (b. Co. Limerick, 1925, d. San Francisco, 2010) emigrated to California in 1949 and in 1958 started his own business there, Tom Hayes Plastering. He was a founding member of the All Ireland Social Club and the United Irish Cultural Club, as well as a longtime member of the San Francisco Gaelic Athletic Association. He was appointed a Director of the Bay Area Rapid Transit by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto in 1974. He is the father of the San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes- White.

Anne Hearn (b. Co. Longford, Ireland, 1943) emigrated to the United States in 1961 and began working at Verizon Communications until she retired in 1997. She is very involved in both the Longford Association and the United Irish Counties Association of New York.

Eileen Reilly Heffernan (b. Bronx, New York, 1962), a former member of the Peace Corps, has taught in Washington State and in the Bronx. She is the daughter of Eileen Reilly Mescall.

Seamus Henchy (b. Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland, 1954) came to the United States in 1983 and has established a niche business in New York managing museum and gallery renovations.

Brigid Higgins (b. Loughrea, Co. Galway, 1935), a former Dominican nun and New York City school teacher, emigrated to America twice: at age 9 and at age 53. She lived in Ireland between 1972-88, then returned to New York where she completed her MA in Education at Manhattan College in 1992 and became a bedside educator for Memorial Sloane Kettering.

Patrick Hurley (b. Wellington, New Zeland, 1962), raised in County Cork, was a member of the New Irish generation who found himself in New York City in the 1980s as an "illegal" alien with few options to succeed in America without proper documentation. Along with a core group of partners, he helped to found the Irish Immigration Reform Movement in 1987 and lobbied successfully to change immigration law in the US with the passage of the Immigration Act of 1990 HR-4300 which granted thousands of non-preference visas to immigrants considered unfairly disadvantaged by previous legislation, many of whom were Irish.