Awards
- 1988 Evening Standard Award for Best Play – Aristocrats
- 1989 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play – Aristocrats
- 1991 Laurence Olivier award for Best Play – Dancing at Lughnasa
- 1992 New York Drama Critics Circle award for best play– Dancing at Lughnasa
- 1992 Tony awards, including Best Play – Dancing at Lughnasa
- 1996 New York Drama Critics Circle award for best foreign play – Molly Sweeney
- 2010 Donegal Person of the Year
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Member of the British Royal Society of Literature
- Member of the Irish Academy of Letters
- Visiting Writer at Magee College (1970–71 academic year)
- Honorary doctorate from Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois (1974)
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