Awards, Distinctions etc.:
2004: Delivered the annual Jonathan Swift address in Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
1999: Elected a Foundation Fellow of the English Association.
1996: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London.
1992: Laszlo Kory Memorial Prize (Budapest).
1990-1992: Founding Director, Jonathan Swift Seminar, Celbridge.
1988: Hungarian Ministerial Prize for Verse Translation.
1984: Elected (as Hugh Maxton) a life member of Aosdana (= Irish Academy of Writers, Composers, and Visual Artists). See linked website.
1983: British Council Scholar, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest.
1980: Una Ellis-Fermor Memorial Fund grant.
1976: British Academy grant for research; Poetry Book Society Choice (for The Noise of the Fields, see linked website).