Michael Flatley Awards and recognition

Flatley was the first American to win the World Irish Dance Championships. He also won numerous All-Ireland Flute Championships.Flatley received the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship in 1988 and was named one of National Geographic Society's Living Treasures in 1991 for mastery of a traditional art form by a living person - the youngest person at that time ever to receive this accolade.

In May 1989, Flatley set a Guinness Book world record for tapping speed at 28 taps per second; he broke his own record in February 1998, by achieving 35 taps per second.The current record holder is Michael Donnellan, at 40 taps per second. The dancer also received Guinness Book recognition in both 1999 and 2000 for being the highest paid dancer, earning $1,600,000 per week and for having the highest insurance premium placed on a dancer's legs at $40,000,000. Lord of the Dance performed a record-breaking run of 21 shows at the legendary Wembley Arena in London in 1998.

In December 2001, Flatley became the first recipient of the Irish Dancing Commission Fellowship award, an honorary degree in Irish dance, and was simultaneously made a Fellow of the American Irish Dance Teachers’ Association. Irish America magazine named Flatley Irish American of the Year in March 2003.

In 2004 Flatley received an honorary doctorate degree from University College Dublin and that same year received the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor in New York On the 3rd June 2007 The Freedom of the City of Cork was conferred on the entertainer at a ceremony in Cork's City Hall. In 2008, he was conferred with the Freedom of the Borough of Sligo at a ceremony in Sligo City Hall.In 2008 the Variety Club of Ireland presented Flatley with their Entertainer of the Decade Award.


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