The Society is governed by a committee elected at its Annual General Meeting in accordance with a written Constitution. There are twenty-four committee members including those holding honorary positions, executive positions and ordinary committee membership.
Executive Committee 2023
| Chairperson | Patrick Donnelly |
| Vice Chairperson | Fr Tom Murray PP |
| Hon. Secretary | Roger Timlin |
| Assistant Secretary | Colm Harte |
| Treasurer | John Farrell |
| Assistant Treasurer | Maureen Mulryan |
| PRO and journal editor | Martin Morris |
| President | James MacNerney |
| Vice Presidents | Luke Baxter
Kitty Hughes |
General Committee
Marie Butler
John Casey
Breege Cassidy
Margaret Connolly
Hugh Farrell
Annette Kane
John McGagh
Doreen McHugh
Michael McLoughlin
Patrick O’Doherty
Josephine O’Donnell
Fergus Reynolds
Carmel Ward
Patron
- Bishop Emeritus Colm O’Reilly
Trustees
- Anne Courtney
- Canon Owen Devaney
- Denis Glennon
- Mary Carleton Reynolds
Presidents
- Novena Mc Gaver
- Sylvia Dawson
- Jude Flynn
Past Chairpersons
- 1967 Dick Higgins
- 1968 Fr Frank Kelly
- 1970 Pat Murphy
- 1971 Fr Patrick Kearney
- 1973 Sylvia Dawson
- 1974 Larry O’Mahoney
- 1976 Fr Francis Gilfillan
- 1978 Tommy Kiernan
- 1981 Dan Kennedy
- 1983 Fr Owen Devaney
- 1985 Canon John Corkery
- 1988 Edwin Jeffers
- 1990 Jimmy Donoghue
- 1992 Paddy Egan
- 1994 Matt Fox
- 1996 Jimmy Bennett
- 1998 Luke Baxter
- 2001 Fr Tom Murray
- 2004 James MacNerney
- 2009 Ann Donohoe
- 2012 Patrick O’Doherty
- 2014 Hugh Farrell
- 2019 Camilla Kelly
- 2021 Patrick Donnelly