The mark consists of the black and white photographic image of the head and shoulders of a bearded man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe, beneath which appears a gray circle reflecting a compass with a smaller gold concentric circle within the gray circle outlined in black, with black hash marks appearing around the gold concentric circle's black outline and within the silver circle and the stylized letter N in black appearing in the top right portion of the silver circle between the black hash marks and the stylized letter S in black appearing in the bottom left portion of the silver circle between black hash marks, with a black and silver needle appearing perpendicular through the center of the circles between the letters N and S, with the stylized words A TRUE IRISH HERO appearing in black curving around the top portion of the interior gold circle and the three black lines arching around the bottom portion of the interior gold circle, with another smaller black concentric circle on the interior of the gold circle with the stylized word TOM appearing in gold horizontally in the top portion of the interior black circle and the stylized terms 18/35 appearing in gold horizontally in the bottom portion of the interior black circle with the stylized word CREAN'S in white with a black background running across the middle of and bisecting all three of the concentric circles.