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 2025
| Chairperson | Patrick Donnelly |
| Vice Chairpersons | Colm Harte
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
Breege Cassidy |
General Committee
James Bannon
Marie Butler
John Casey
Margaret Connolly
Hugh Farrell
Kitty Hughes
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
Past 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