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This is a list of notable Irish people.

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See also: Demographics and politics of Northern Ireland
Demographics and politics of Northern Ireland

General demographics PopulationThe population of Northern Ireland has increased annually since 1978.Place of birth*UK**Northern Ireland: 1,534,268 ...
See also: Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

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Architecture

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Tommy Duggan (actor)

Tommy Duggan was an Irish actor who contributed to British television and film from the 1940s to the 1980s. He appeared in Superman II as a diner owner and in The Omen as a priest....
 - actor

ee also :Category:Irish comedians




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Music - Individuals - L to P



Music - Individuals - Q - Z



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Music - Groups - A to C



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Music - Groups - L to P



Music - Groups - Q to Z





Writing - D to K


Writing - L to P
Mary Lavin
Mary Lavin

Mary Josephine Lavin was a noted Irish people short story writer and novelist. She is regarded as a pioneering female author in the traditionally male-dominated world of Irish letters....
 - Saoi
Saoi

Saoi , is the highest honour that members of Aosd?na, an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts, can bestow upon a fellow member....
 of Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Francis Ledwidge
Francis Ledwidge

Francis Ledwidge was an Ireland poet from County Meath, sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", killed in action near Ypres, Belgium during World War I....
 - poet Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic Literature tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development of this genre in the Victorian era....
 - gothic novelist C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist....
 - author of the Chronicles of Narnia Michael Longley
Michael Longley

Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet.Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus ....
 - Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Seosamh Mac Grianna
Seosamh Mac Grianna

Seosamh Mac Grianna was an Ireland writer, under the pen-name Iolann Fionn. He was born into a family of poets and storytellers, which included his brothers S?amus ? Grianna and Se?n B?n Mac Grianna, in Ranafast, County Donegal, at a time of linguistic and cultural change....
 - Gaelic author Walter Macken
Walter Macken

Walter Macken , was born in Galway, Ireland. He was a writer of short stories, novels and plays. Originally an actor, principally with the Taibhdhearc in Galway, and The Abbey Theatre, he played lead roles on Broadway theatre in M....
 - novelist James Clarence Mangan
James Clarence Mangan

James Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan was an Irish poetry....
 - poet Malachi Martin
Malachi Martin

Fr. Malachi Brendan Martin Doctor of Philosophy Jesuit was a former Jesuit priest, theologian, writer on the Roman Catholic church and professor at the Vatican Pontifical Biblical Institute....
 - horror writer Edward Martyn
Edward Martyn

Edward Martyn of Tullira Castle, Ardrahan, Co. Galway, Ireland. Ireland political and cultural activist, playwright, last of the senior branch of the Martyn family of Tullira, one of The Tribes of Galway....
 - playwright, art patron and political activist Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt

Francis "Frank" McCourt is an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, best known as the author of Angela's Ashes. Brother of author and actor Malachy McCourt ....
 - writer Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh is a contemporary English-born Irish people playwright and film director....
 - playwright John McGahern
John McGahern

John McGahern was an Irish ethnicity author....
 - novelist, Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Frank McGuinness
Frank McGuinness

Frank McGuinness is an award-winning Irish playwright, translation and poet....
 - Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Gerard McKeown
Gerard McKeown

Gerard McKeown is a writer from Ballymena, Northern Ireland. A graduate of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, he is best known for his performance poetry, which draws as much from disciplines such as stand up comedy and bardic story telling as it does poetry....
 - writer John Montague
John Montague (poet)

John Montague is an Irish poet. He was born in New York and brought up in Tyrone. He has published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and a two volumes of memoir....
 - poet Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was an Irishman poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer....
 - poet Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University....
 - poet Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy (poet)

Richard Murphy is an Irish poetry. He was awarded the ? Memorial Award ; first prize, Guinness Awards, Cheltenham ; British Arts Council Awards ; Marten Toonder Award ; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ; and American-Irish Foundation Award ....
 - poet, Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan (author)

Christopher Nolan was an Ireland poet and author, son of Joseph and Bernadette Nolan. He grew up in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin to attend college....
 - poet, Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien is an Irish novelist and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men and to society as a whole....
 - novelist, Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Seán O'Casey
Seán O'Casey

Se?n O'Casey was a major Irish theatre dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes....
 - playwright Frank O'Connor
Frank O'Connor

Frank O?Connor was an Irish author of over 150 works, who was best known for his short story and memoirs....
 - short story writer Ulick O'Connor
Ulick O'Connor

Ulick O'Connor is an Irish literature writer, historian and critic.Born in Rathgar, County Dublin, he attended St. Mary's College, Rathmines and later University College Dublin, and read law and philosophy, becoming known as a keen sporting participant , as well as a distinguished debater, during his time there ...
 - Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Máirtín Ó Díreáin
Máirtín Ó Direáin

M?irt?n ? Dire?in born in Sruth?n on Inishmore in the Aran Islands was an Irish language poet.The son of a small-farmer, M?irt?n ? Dire?in spoke only Irish language until his mid-teens....
 - Irish-language poet,Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Harry O'Donovan
Harry O'Donovan

Harry O'Donovan was an Ireland comedy scriptwriter, stage manager and actor....
 - scriptwriter Seán Ó Faoláin
Seán Ó Faoláin

Se?n Proinsias ? Faol?in was an Irish short story writer. He was elected Saoi of Aosd?na in 1986.Born as John Francis Whelan in Cork , Sean ? Faol?in wrote his first stories in the 1920s....
 - Saoi
Saoi

Saoi , is the highest honour that members of Aosd?na, an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts, can bestow upon a fellow member....
 of Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Liam O'Flaherty
Liam O'Flaherty

Liam O'Flaherty was a significant Ireland novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Celtic Revival.Liam was born in the remote village of Gort na gCapall, on Inishmore , county Galway....
 - novelist, short story writer Brian O'Nolan
Flann O'Brien

Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist and satirist, best known for his novels An B?al Bocht, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman written under the pen name Flann O'Brien....
 (aka Myles na gCopaleen - Flann O'Brien
Flann O'Brien

Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist and satirist, best known for his novels An B?al Bocht, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman written under the pen name Flann O'Brien....
) - novelist/columnist Philip O'Sullivan Beare
Philip O'Sullivan Beare

Philip O'Sullivan Beare was an Irish soldier who became more famous as a writer.He was son of Dermot O'Sullivan and nephew of Donal O'Sullivan Beare, Lord of Dunboy....
- writer, historian James Plunkett
James Plunkett

James Plunkett was the pen-name adopted by James Plunkett Kelly , an Irish writer. He was educated at Synge Street CBS.Plunkett grew up among the Dublin working class and they, along with the petty bourgeoisie and lower intelligentsia, make up the bulk of the dramatis personae of his oeuvre....
- Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....


Writing - R to Z
George William Russell
George William Russell

Not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell .George William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym ? , was an Irish people Irish Nationalism, writer, editor, critic, poet, and painter....
 - (known under the pen-name AE), writer and critic Maurice Scully
Maurice Scully

Maurice Scully is an Irish poetry and editor who works in the Modernist poetry tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus ....
 - poet George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish people playwright.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays....
 - novelist, playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright and British Whig Party statesman....
 - playwright James Simmons - poet Michael Smith
Michael Smith (poet)

Michael Smith is an Irish people poet, author and translator. He was one of the founders of New Writers Press in Dublin . He is possibly most noted for his works on James Clarence Mangan, as well as his Spanish language to English language poetry translations....
 - poet Paul Smith
Paul Smith (Irish writer)

Paul Smith was an Irish writer and playwright....
 - novelist, playwright Annie P.






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This is a list of notable Irish people.

It covers
  • People who were born on the island of Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
     and/or who have lived there for most of their lives.
  • People who, though not necessarily ever having been born or lived in Ireland, have been raised as Irish, and/or have adopted Irish citizenship (e.g., Daniel Day-Lewis
    Daniel Day-Lewis

    Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an England actor who also became an Republic of Ireland citizen in 1993. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles....
    ).


See also: Demographics and politics of Northern Ireland
Demographics and politics of Northern Ireland

General demographics PopulationThe population of Northern Ireland has increased annually since 1978.Place of birth*UK**Northern Ireland: 1,534,268 ...
See also: Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

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Art


Architecture

  • George Ashlin
    George Ashlin

    George Coppinger Ashlin was an Ireland architect, particularly noted for his work on churches and cathedrals....
  • George Drumgoole Coleman
    George Drumgoole Coleman

    File:Coleman Bridge, Dec 05.JPGGeorge Drumgoole Coleman , also known as George Drumgold Coleman, was an Ireland Civil engineering architect who played an instrumental role in the design and construction of many of the civil infrastructure in Singapore, after the island was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819....
  • Sir Thomas Drew
    Sir Thomas Drew

    Sir Thomas Drew was an Irish architect.He was trained under Charles Lanyon before moving to work in Dublin. There he was responsible for the design of the Ulster Bank on Dame Street, Rathmines Town Hall and the Graduates' Building at Trinity College Dublin....
  • Eileen Gray
    Eileen Gray

    Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray was an Irish furniture designer and architect and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture....
  • James Hoban
    James Hoban

    James Hoban was an Irish people architect, best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C.....
     - designer of White House
    White House

    The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian architecture and has been the executive residence of every U.S....
  • Francis Johnston
    Francis Johnston (architect)

    Francis Johnston was an Ireland architect, best known for building the General Post Office, Dublin on O'Connell street, Dublin....
  • James Joseph McCarthy
    J. J. McCarthy

    James Joseph McCarthy was an Ireland architect, often referred to as the 'Irish Pugin'....
  • Thomas Parke
    Thomas Parke

    Thomas Parke was an architect, builder, journalist and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in County Wicklow in Ireland in 1793 and came to York in 1820....
  • Edward Lovett Pearce
    Edward Lovett Pearce

    Sir Edward Lovett Pearce was an Irish people architect, and the chief exponent of palladianism in Ireland. A cousin of Sir John Vanbrugh, under whom he is thought to have studied, his principal works include the Irish Houses of Parliament in Dublin....
  • Kevin Roche
    Kevin Roche

    Kevin Roche is an award-winning twentieth century Irish-born American architect. He is famous for his creative work with glass.Born in Dublin, Roche graduated from University College Dublin in 1945....
  • Michael Scott
    Michael Scott (architect)

    Michael Scott was an Ireland architect whose buildings included the Bus?ras building in Dublin, the Abbey Theatre, and Tullamore Hospital.He was born in Drogheda in 1905....
  • Michael Stapleton
    Michael Stapleton

    Michael Stapleton is regarded as having been the most skilled stuccodore working in the neoclassical or Robert Adam style that dominated Dublin interior decoration in the final decades of the 18th century....


Actors

  • Jonas Armstrong
    Jonas Armstrong

    Jonas Armstrong is an Republic of Ireland born England actor, raised in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire best known for his appearances on television in the United Kingdom, where he has played the title role in the BBC One drama series Robin Hood ....
     - actor , star of the BBC series Robin Hood
  • Spranger Barry
    Spranger Barry

    Spranger Barry was an Ireland actor....
     - actor
  • Patrick Bergin
    Patrick Bergin

    Patrick Connolly Bergin is an Republic of Ireland actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the menacing husband of Julia Roberts' character in the thriller Sleeping with the Enemy ....
     - film actor
  • Stephen Boyd
    Stephen Boyd

    Stephen Boyd , born William Millar, was an Ireland-born actor from Glengormley, Northern Ireland, who appeared in 60 films, most notably in the role of Messala in the 1959 film Ben-Hur ....
     - film actor
  • Kenneth Branagh
    Kenneth Branagh

    Kenneth Charles Branagh is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated actor and film director from Northern Ireland....
     - actor on stage, film and TV, The Harry Potter
    Harry Potter

    Harry Potter is a Heptalogy fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the eponymous adolescent wizard Harry Potter , together with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his friends from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry....
     movies
  • Brid Brennan
    Brid Brennan

    Brid Brennan is an Northern Ireland Tony Award-winning actress known for her role as the character Agnes in the stage and film versions of Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa....
     - actress
  • George Brent
    George Brent

    George Brent was an Ireland film and television actor in Cinema of the United States....
     - Hollywood actor
  • Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brosnan

    Pierce Brendan Brosnan, Order of the British Empire is an Republic of Ireland actor, film producer and environmentalist, who holds both Ireland and United States citizenship....
     - actor, best known as James Bond
    James Bond

    James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
     from 1994 to 2005
  • Gabriel Byrne
    Gabriel Byrne

    Gabriel James Byrne is a Golden Globe Awards-winning, Emmy Awards- and Tony Award-nominated Irish people actor, film director, Academy Award-nominated film producer, and writer, as well as a Grammy-nominated audiobook narrator....
     - TV and film actor
  • Todd Carty
    Todd Carty

    Todd Carty is an Irish-born UK-based actor and director, who has grown up on television screens in a variety of roles in the UK. His stage work has varied from pantomime to serious drama, as well as radio plays, voice overs, commercials, and narrations....
     - TV stage film actor and director
  • Elaine Cassidy
    Elaine Cassidy

    Elaine Cassidy is a multiple award-winning and nominated Republic of Ireland actress....
     - Film actress
  • Kerry Condon
    Kerry Condon

    Kerry Condon is a television and film actress.She was born in Tipperary, Ireland. She grew up in Thurles and studied at The Dublin Theatre Arts School....
     - actress
  • Michael Colgan (actor)
    Michael Colgan (actor)

    Actor Michael Colgan was born in Keady, Northern Ireland and educated at Saint Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he read English....
     - actor
  • Ada Dyas
    Ada Dyas

    Ada Dyas was an Ireland actress. She made her London debut in 1861 in Henry IV, Part 1, and became famous in the 1871 play based on Wilkie Collins's novel The Woman in White ....
     - actress
  • D'Arcy Corrigan
    D'Arcy Corrigan

    D'Arcy Corrigan was an Irish-born lawyer who became a character actor, playing some 49 film roles, typically very brief but impressive, such as his ominously silent, darkly shrouded Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in the popular 1938 version of the film A Christmas Carol ....
     - Hollywood actor
  • Catherine Cusack
    Catherine Cusack

    Catherine Cusack is a British people/Irish people actress.She was born and raised in London. She is the half sister of the actresses Sin?ad Cusack, Sorcha Cusack and Niamh Cusack, and the fourth daughter of the late actor Cyril Cusack and his second wife Mary Rose Cunningham's only child....
     - stage and TV actor, daughter of Cyril Cusack
  • Cyril Cusack
    Cyril Cusack

    Cyril James Cusack was an Irish people Shakespearean actor, who appeared in more than 90 films....
     - actor of stage, film and TV (born in South Africa
    South Africa

    The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
    )
  • John Cusack
    John Cusack

    John Paul Cusack is an United States film actor and screenwriter. He won the 1990 Most Promising Actor CFCA Award for Say Anything..., the 1998 Favorite Supporting Actor Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Con Air, and the 2000 Commitment to Chicago Award....
     - actor
  • Niamh Cusack
    Niamh Cusack

    Niamh Cusack is an Ireland actress. The daughter of late Irish actor Cyril Cusack, she is sister to Sin?ad Cusack and Sorcha Cusack, and half sister to Catherine Cusack....
     - TV actress, daughter of Cyril Cusack
  • Sinéad Cusack
    Sinéad Cusack

    Sin?ad Moira Cusack is an Ireland actress....
     - stage, film and TV actress, daughter of Cyril Cusack, married to Jeremy Irons
    Jeremy Irons

    Jeremy John Irons is an England film, television and stage actor. He has won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards....
  • Sorcha Cusack
    Sorcha Cusack

    Sorcha Cusack is an Ireland actress. She is the daughter of the late Irish actors Cyril Cusack and Maureen Cusack, and sister of Sin?ad Cusack, Niamh Cusack, and half sister to Catherine Cusack....
     - Film and TV actress, daughter of Cyril Cusack
  • Daniel Day-Lewis
    Daniel Day-Lewis

    Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an England actor who also became an Republic of Ireland citizen in 1993. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only four films since 1997, with as many as five years between roles....
     - British
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    -born Oscar
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
     winner
  • Thomas Doggett
    Thomas Doggett

    Thomas Doggett , , was an Ireland actor.Doggett was born in Dublin, and made his first stage appearance in London in 1691 as Nincompoop in Thomas D'Urfey's Love for Money....
     - actor?
  • Patrick Dempsey
    Patrick Dempsey

    Patrick Galen Dempsey is an actor.Who first became prominent in Hollywood during the late 1980s. He is also known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr....
     - actor, best known for his role in Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey?s Anatomy is an American primetime medical drama. It debuted on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives....
  • Alison Doody
    Alison Doody

    Alison Doody is an Irish actress and model....
     - actress, best known for her role in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas....
  • Roma Downey
    Roma Downey

    Roma Downey is an Irish people actress and Television producer, best known as Touched by an Angel#Cast, the main character of the TV series Touched by an Angel....
     - actor, best known for her role as Monica in the TV series Touched By An Angel
    Touched by an Angel

    Touched by an Angel is an United States drama television series that chronicles the missions of a group of angels sent by God. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson , it ran on CBS for nine seasons, from September 21, 1994 to April 27, 2003, and aired in many countries all around the world....
Tommy Duggan (actor)
Tommy Duggan (actor)

Tommy Duggan was an Irish actor who contributed to British television and film from the 1940s to the 1980s. He appeared in Superman II as a diner owner and in The Omen as a priest....
 - actor
  • Hilton Edwards
    Hilton Edwards

    Hilton Edwards , was an Ireland actor and theatrical producer.Edwards was born in London. He appeared in 15 films, including Captain Lightfoot , David and Goliath , Victim and Half a Sixpence ....
     - co-founder of the Gate Theatre
    Gate Theatre

    The Gate Theatre, in Dublin, was founded in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Miche?l MacLiammoir, initially using the Abbey Theatre's Peacock studio theatre space to stage important works by Europe and American dramatists....
    , born in UK
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  • Kate Fahy
    Kate Fahy

    Katherine Fahy is an Ireland theatre and film actress from Dublin. She studied drama at Bristol's Old Vic, and then joined its "Young Vic Theatre Company"....
     - stage actress
  • Colin Farrell
    Colin Farrell

    'Colin James Farrell' is a Golden Globe Award-winning Irish people actor, who has appeared in several high-profile Hollywood, Los Angeles, California films including Tigerland, Daredevil , Miami Vice , Minority Report , Phone Booth , Alexander and S.W.A.T....
     - Hollywood actor
  • Michael Fassbender
    Michael Fassbender

    Michael Fassbender is a Germans-Irish people actor, born in Heidelberg, Germany, and raised in Killarney, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland.He played Azazeal in the Sky One television series Hex ....
     - Hollywood actor
  • Barry Fitzgerald
    Barry Fitzgerald

    Barry Fitzgerald was an Academy Award winning Ireland stage, film and television actor....
     - Abbey Theatre
    Abbey Theatre

    The Abbey Theatre , also known as the National Theatre of Ireland , is a theatre located in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The Abbey first opened its doors to the public on 27 December 1904, and despite losing its original building to a fire in 1951, has remained active to the present day....
     actor turned Hollywood star
  • Fionnula Flanagan - actress
  • Brenda Fricker
    Brenda Fricker

    Brenda Fricker is an Academy Awards-winning Irish actress....
     - Oscar
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
     winner
  • Bronagh Gallagher
    Bronagh Gallagher

    Bronagh Gallagher is an Irish singer and actress from Derry City, Northern Ireland.During her teens she got involved, through school, in drama and music activities, and joined a local amateur dramatics group, the Oakgrove Theatre Company....
     - actress
  • Sir Michael Gambon
    Michael Gambon

    Michael John Gambon, Order of the British Empire is a British Academy Television Awards-winning Irish people-born United Kingdom actor who has worked in theatre, television and film....
     - Theatre, TV and film actor, e.g. Harry Potter (film series)Harry Potter films
  • Charles K. Gerrard
    Charles K. Gerrard

    Charles K. Gerrard, also known as Charles Kavanagh was an Ireland motion-picture actor, and the elder brother of actor and film director Douglas Gerrard....
     - Hollywood actor
  • Douglas Gerrard
    Douglas Gerrard

    Douglas Gerrard , was an Irish actor and film director of the silent film. He appeared in 116 films between 1913 in film and 1949 in film. He also directed 23 films between 1916 in film and 1920 in film....
     - Hollywood actor
  • Paul Giamatti
    Paul Giamatti

    'Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti' is an Emmy_Award, Golden_Globe_Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States actor. He began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts , before earning lead roles in several critically acclaimed projects in the 2000s including American Splend...
     - actor, Irish ancestry (his mother is half Irish)
  • Brendan Gleeson
    Brendan Gleeson

    Brendan Gleeson is a Golden Globe award-nominated Irish people actor who has starred in many high profile Irish, American and British films. His best-known movies include the Harry Potter , Kingdom of Heaven , Beowulf, Troy , Gangs of New York, 28 Days Later, In Bruges, Braveheart, The General and the ro...
     - actor, e.g. Harry Potter films
    Harry Potter (film series)

    The Harry Potter films are a fantasy film series based on the Harry Potter novels by United Kingdom writer J. K. Rowling.At the time of release, the five films currently released became the List of highest-grossing films#Highest grossing film series of all time when not adjusted for inflation, with $4.48 billion in worldwide receipt...
  • Richard Harris
    Richard Harris

    Richard St. John Harris was a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Grammy Award-winning Ireland actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer....
     - actor, e.g. Harry Potter films
    Harry Potter (film series)

    The Harry Potter films are a fantasy film series based on the Harry Potter novels by United Kingdom writer J. K. Rowling.At the time of release, the five films currently released became the List of highest-grossing films#Highest grossing film series of all time when not adjusted for inflation, with $4.48 billion in worldwide receipt...
  • Forrester Harvey
    Forrester Harvey

    Forrester Harvey , was an Ireland-born film actor. He appeared in 117 films between 1922 in film and 1946 in film, including two films directed by Alfred Hitchcock....
     - Hollywood actor
  • Brendan Kelly (actor)
    Brendan Kelly (actor)

    Brendan Kelly is an actor and artist who has appeared mostly in TV series. Kelly has starred and guest-appeared in series like Acapulco H.E.A.T., Tarzan, NY Undercover, Oz , NYPD Blue, and countless others....
     - actor
  • David Kelly
    David Kelly (actor)

    David Kelly is an Irish actor, who has been in regular film and television work since the 1950s.The unusual looking David Kelly became a familiar face on British television during the 1970s with a long running role as the one armed dish washer Albert Riddle in Robin's Nest and the as inept builder Mr O'Reilly in the Fawlty Towers episode T...
     - actor
  • Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco - actress, princess
  • J. M. Kerrigan
    J. M. Kerrigan

    Joseph Michael Kerrigan , better known as J. M. Kerrigan, born in Dublin, Ireland, was an Ireland character actor....
     - Abbey actor
  • Joanne King
    Joanne King

    Joanne King is an Irish actress. She attended St. Brigid's Girls School in Cabinteely and St Joseph of Cluny Killiney. She trained at the Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin....
     - actress
  • Evanna Lynch
    Evanna Lynch

    Evanna Lynch is an Republic of Ireland actress, known for playing Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ....
     - actress, e.g. Harry Potter films
    Harry Potter (film series)

    The Harry Potter films are a fantasy film series based on the Harry Potter novels by United Kingdom writer J. K. Rowling.At the time of release, the five films currently released became the List of highest-grossing films#Highest grossing film series of all time when not adjusted for inflation, with $4.48 billion in worldwide receipt...
  • Joe Lynch - TV actor
  • Sarah Ryan
    Sarah Ryan

    Sarah Michelle RyanOrder of Australia is a former Australian sprint Freestyle swimming, who won relay medals at three consecutive Olympics from the 1996 Summer Olympics to the 2004 Summer Olympics, but who was perhaps best known in Australia for her colourful long fingernails....
     - actor, appeared in Nora
    Nora (film)

    Nora is a 2000 movie directed by Pat Murphy about Ireland author James Joyce. It stars Ewan McGregor as Joyce and Susan Lynch as the title character of Nora Barnacle....
    , The Secret of Roan Inish
    The Secret of Roan Inish

    The Secret of Roan Inish is an United States independent film written and directed by John Sayles, and released in 1994 in film. It's based on the novel The Secret of Ron Mor Skerry, by Rosalie K....
    , Waking Ned
    Waking Ned

    Waking Ned, titled Waking Ned Devine in North America, is a 1998 in film comedy film starring Ian Bannen, David Kelly and Fionnula Flanagan....
  • F. J. McCormick
    F. J. McCormick

    F. J. McCormick was an Irish ethnicity actor who came to fame as part of Dublin's Abbey Theatre. He was also in four films; most famously Carol Reed's Odd Man Out , in which he played the opportunistic Shell....
     - Abbey actor
  • Micheál MacLiammóir
    Micheál MacLiammóir

    Miche?l MacL?amm?ir was an England-born Ireland actor, Irish theatre, impresario, writer, Irish poetry and Painting. MacL?amm?ir was born to a Protestant family living in the Kensal Green neighbourhood of London....
     - co-founder of the Gate Theatre
    Gate Theatre

    The Gate Theatre, in Dublin, was founded in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Miche?l MacLiammoir, initially using the Abbey Theatre's Peacock studio theatre space to stage important works by Europe and American dramatists....
    , born in UK
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  • Patrick McGoohan
    Patrick McGoohan

    Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an American-born actor, raised in Ireland and England, with an extensive stage and film career, most notably in the 1960s television series Danger Man , and the Cult television classic The Prisoner....
     - actor and creator of The Prisoner
    The Prisoner

    The original The Prisoner was a 17-episode, British Dramatic programming broadcast in the late 1960s....
  • Barry McGovern
    Barry McGovern

    Barry McGovern is an Irish people Stage , film and television actor. He was educated at Castleknock College, Dublin....
     - Stage, Film and TV actor
  • Colm Meaney
    Colm Meaney

    Colm J. Meaney is an Irish people actor widely known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as well as roles in many films and television shows....
     - Hollywood actor
  • Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Film and TV actor
  • Charles Mitchel
    Charles Mitchel

    Charles Mitchel was an Irish people actor and television News presenter.Charles Mitchel was born in Dublin in 1920. He was educated at Clongowes Wood and Trinity College Dublin....
     - actor and newsreader
  • Edward Mulhare
    Edward Mulhare

    Edward Mulhare was an Irish people popular television leading man from 1956 to 1995.Born in Carrigaline, County Cork, Ireland, and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers, Mulhare intended to study medicine, but was sidetracked by a growing interest in acting....
     - actor, Captain Daniel Gregg in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a romantic film fantasy film starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. It is based on a 1945 novel written by Josephine Leslie under the pseudonym of R....
     and Knight Rider
    Knight Rider

    Knight Rider is an United States television series that originally ran from September 26, 1982, to August 8, 1986. The series was broadcast on NBC and starred David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, a high-tech modern-day knight fighting crime....
  • Cillian Murphy
    Cillian Murphy

    Cillian Murphy is an Republic of Ireland film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles...
     - actor
  • Derek Murphy (actor)
    Derek Murphy (actor)

    Derek Murphy is an Irish actor from Cork. He has appeared in the RTE show Killinaskully and also appeared in the RT? pilot 'We watch you watch'. He will be appearing in the film 'Next' due to be released in summer 2009....
     - actor
  • Richard Murray
    Richard Murray

    Richard Alan Murray is British people businessman and the current chairman of Charlton Athletic F.C.Murray founded Avesco plc, the specialist services provider to the entertainment & sports industry in 1984, where he was Chairman for almost 20 years; he is the Chairman of Investinmedia plc and has other non-executive directorships which inc...
     - actor, Seamus Finnigan in the first five Harry Potter
    Harry Potter

    Harry Potter is a Heptalogy fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the eponymous adolescent wizard Harry Potter , together with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his friends from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry....
     movies
  • Liam Neeson
    Liam Neeson

    William John "Liam" Neeson Order of the British Empire is an Irish people actor. He is well known for his roles as Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and as Qui-Gon Jinn in George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and as the Voice acting of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series....
     - actor
  • Jim Norton
    Jim Norton (actor)

    Jim Norton is an Irish people Tony Award-winning character actor....
     - Character actor
    Character actor

    A character actor is one who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading actor ones. Character actor roles can range from bit parts to leading actor....
  • Ardal O'Hanlon
    Ardal O'Hanlon

    Ardal O'Hanlon is an Republic of Ireland comedian and actor, best known for his roles in television situation comedy as Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted and George Sunday in My Hero ....
     - actor and comedian
  • Maureen O'Hara
    Maureen O'Hara

    Maureen O'Hara is an Irish people film actor and singer.Born to Charles Stewart Parnell FitzSimons and Marguerita Lilburn in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland not long before partition, the famously red hair O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude....
     - actress
  • Milo O'Shea
    Milo O'Shea

    Milo O'Shea is an Irish people character actor, recognisable for his bushy eyebrows, resounding voice and impish smile.He was raised in Dublin and educated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers at Synge Street CBS, along with his friend Donal Donnelly....
     - actor
  • Maureen O'Sullivan
    Maureen O'Sullivan

    Maureen Paula O?Sullivan was an Ireland actor who was considered Ireland's first film star....
     - actor, mother of Mia Farrow
    Mia Farrow

    Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow , better known as Mia Farrow, is an United Statesn actress, singer and former Model . Farrow has appeared in more than forty films and won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe award , three British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, and a win for best actress at the San Sebastian Inter...
  • Peter O'Toole
    Peter O'Toole

    Peter Seamus O'Toole is an Irish people actor of stage and screen who achieved instant stardom in 1962 playing T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia ....
     - Oscar
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
     winner
  • Jason Priestley
    Jason Priestley

    Jason Bradford Priestley is a Canadian-born American actor and film director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role which catapulted him to fame in the early 1990s....
     - actor
  • Glenn Quinn
    Glenn Quinn

    Glenn Martin Christopher Francis Quinn was an Irish people actor in television and film. As well as having a role as a major character in the television series Angel , he also had a recurring role as Mark Healy in the comedy Roseanne and the short-lived UK series Covington Cross....
     - actor
  • Stephen Rea
    Stephen Rea

    Stephen Rea is an Irish People actor, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 in film film The Crying Game....
     - actor
  • Fiona Shaw
    Fiona Shaw

    Fiona Shaw, Order of the British Empire is a leading Ireland actor and theatre director. Although to international audiences she is probably most familiar for her minor role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films, she is regarded as one of the finest classical actresses of her generation....
     - actress, The Harry Potter
    Harry Potter

    Harry Potter is a Heptalogy fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the eponymous adolescent wizard Harry Potter , together with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his friends from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry....
     movies
  • Arthur Shields
    Arthur Shields

    Arthur Shields was an Ireland stage and film actor.Born into an Irish Church of Ireland family in Portobello, Dublin, he started acting in the Abbey Theatre when still a young man....
     - actor (younger brother of Barry Fitzgerald)
  • Niall Toibin
    Niall Toibin

    Niall T?ib?n is an Ireland comedian and actor. Born in Cork on November 21, 1929 into an Irish language speaking family, T?ib?n grew up on the north-side of the city in Bishop's Field....
     - actor and comedian
  • Stuart Townsend
    Stuart Townsend

    Stuart Townsend is an Irish people actor and director....
     - actor and boxer
    Boxing

    Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....


Comedians

See also :Category:Irish comedians

  • Dave Allen - comedian
  • Ed Byrne
    Ed Byrne

    Ed Byrne is a Perrier Award-nominated, Ireland stand up comedian and voice over artist. He has presented television shows Uncut! Best Unseen Ads and Just For Laughs, and is a regular guest on various television panel games....
     - comedian
  • Risteard Cooper
    Risteárd Cooper

    'Riste?rd Cooper' is an Republic of Ireland actor, comedian, Impressionist and writer, famous as one of the stars of Apr?s Match. He also starred, alongside Hector ? hEochag?in, in Chasing The Lions, a programme about the 2005 British and Irish Lions 2005 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand of New Zealand and Chasing the Blue...
     - comedian
  • Neil Delamere
    Neil Delamere

    Neil Delamere is an Ireland comedian from Edenderry,County Offaly in Republic of Ireland. He has a degree. He is the voice of the green man in the Lottery ads....
     - comedian
  • Brendan Grace
    Brendan Grace

    Brendan Grace is an Ireland comedian. He played the part of Murphy in the 1995 movie Moondance, and in 1996 he appeared in the Ireland TV sitcom Father Ted as Father Fintan Stack....
     - comedian
  • Sean Hughes
    Sean Hughes (comedian)

    Sean Hughes is an Irish people stand-up comedian, writer and actor, noted for his black comedy, sarcasm sense of humour....
     - comedian
  • John Kenny
    John Kenny

    John Kenny is a United Kingdom trombonist, actor, composer and multi-faceted performer of contemporary solo repertoire, modern jazz and early music....
     - comedian
  • Denis Leary
    Denis Leary

    Denis Colin Leary is a Golden Globe Award- and Emmy Award-nominated United States actor, comedian, writer and film director. He is known for his often angry comedic style, and his chain smoking....
     - comedian
  • Andrew Maxwell
    Andrew Maxwell

    Andrew Maxwell is an Ireland stand-up comedian. He was raised in Kilbarrack in the Northside of Dublin....
     - comedian
  • Dylan Moran
    Dylan Moran

    Dylan Moran is a BAFTA and Perrier Comedy Award-winning Ireland comedian, actor and writer. He is most famous for his stand up comedy, the television sitcom Black Books which he co-wrote and starred in, and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run....
     - comedian
  • Colin Murphy
    Colin Murphy

    Colin Murphy is a Winger currently playing in the American Hockey League for the Portland Pirates....
     - comedian
  • Dara Ó Briain
    Dara Ó Briain

    Dara ? Briain, is an award winning Republic of Ireland comedian and television presenter.O'Briain has hosted and appeared on a number of successful panel shows including The Panel , Don't Feed the Gondolas, Mock the Week and QI....
     - comedian
  • Conan O'Brien
    Conan O'Brien

    Conan Christopher O'Brien is an Emmy Award-winning United States television host, television writer and comedian, best known as host of NBC Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993-2009....
     - comedian
  • Ardal O'Hanlon
    Ardal O'Hanlon

    Ardal O'Hanlon is an Republic of Ireland comedian and actor, best known for his roles in television situation comedy as Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted and George Sunday in My Hero ....
     - comedian
  • Hector Ó hEochagáin
    Hector Ó hEochagáin

    Hector ? hEochag?in [IPA: o: ho:xagan?], is a popular Ireland television presenter from Navan, County Meath, Republic of Ireland.? hEochag?in attended St....
     - comedian
  • Jimmy O'Dea
    Jimmy O'Dea

    James Augustine O'Dea was an Irish actor and comedian....
     - comedian
  • David O'Doherty
    David O'Doherty

    David Nicholas O'Doherty is an Republic of Ireland Stand-up comedy, author, musician, actor and playwright. He stand-up has won two awards at the Edinburgh Fringe, Best Newcomer first of all and the if.comedy award in 2008 for his show Let's Comedy....
     - comedian
  • Pat Shortt
    Pat Shortt

    Pat Shortt is an award-winning comedian and entertainer.Pat Shortt started in comedy when he left Art College. With Jon Kenny he createdD'Unbelievables, Ireland's most popular comedy duo....
     - comedian
  • Tommy Tiernan
    Tommy Tiernan

    Tommy Tiernan is an Ireland comedian, actor and writer. He spent the first 3 years of his life there. He then moved to Africa with his family. He later returned to Ireland and attended school in Navan....
     - comedian
  • Harry Bailey
    Harry Bailey

    Harry Bailey was a controversial Australian psychiatrist. He bore the primary responsibility for treatment of mental patients via Deep Sleep Therapy, and other methods, at a Sydney mental hospital....
     - comedian


Music


Music - Individuals

Music - Individuals - A to C
  • Gerald Barry
    Gerald Barry

    Gerald Barry is an Irish composer.Born in Clarecastle, County Clare, Republic of Ireland, he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel....
     - Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Derek Bell
    Derek Bell (musician)

    Derek Bell, Order of the British Empire was an Ireland harpist and composer....
     - harpist
  • Mary Bergin
    Mary Bergin

    Mary Bergin is an Irish people folk musician who is widely acknowledged as one of the great masters of the tin whistle.Born in Shankill, County Dublin, she started learning to play the tin whistle at the age of nine....
     - tin whistler
  • Wallis Bird
    Wallis Bird

    Wallis Bird is an Republic of Ireland musician. She lives and works in London, Dublin and Mannheim....
     - singer, songwriter
  • Frances Black
    Frances Black

    Frances Black is an award-winning Ireland singer. A pure vocal tone and an energetic stage presence has made Black one of Ireland?s most popular singers....
     - singer
  • Mary Black
    Mary Black

    Mary Black is an Ireland singer. She is well-known as an interpreter of both folk and contemporary material which has made her a major recording artist in her native Ireland, and in many other parts of the world....
     - singer
  • Paul Brady
    Paul Brady

    Paul Joseph Brady is an Irish people singer-songwriter, whose work straddles folk music and popular music. He was into a wide variety of music from an early age....
     - singer
  • Bill Twomey
    Bill Twomey

    Bill Twomey Jr. was an Australian rules footballer, who played in the Australian Football League .Twomey had fourteen season, 189 game league career that spanned a Copeland Trophy in 1956, membership of Collingwood Football Club's 1953 premiership side, and regular interstate selection for the VFL....
     -guitarist, singer, drummer
  • Big Tom
    Big Tom

    Big Tom from Oram, Castleblayney, County Monaghan, Ireland is an Irish people country music singer, guitarist, and saxophone player. Established since 1966 he is currently front man of the Irish showband Big Tom and The Mainliners....
     - lead singer of Big Tom And The Mainliners
    Big Tom and The Mainliners

    Big Tom and The Mainliners is a Country and Irish Showband from the Castleblayney area of County Monaghan, Ireland....
  • Bono
    Bono

    Paul David Hewson , also known by his stage name Bono, is the main vocalist of the Ireland rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2....
     (real name: Paul Hewson) - lead singer of U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
  • Ciaran Bourke
    Ciaran Bourke

    Ciar?n Bourke was one of the original founding members of the Ireland folk band The Dubliners, his versatility was his hallmark which included the playing of the tin whistle, harmonica, and guitar, as well as singing....
     - singer/guitarist
  • Brídín Brennan
    Brídín Brennan

    Br?d?n Brennan is an Ireland Pop music singer from Gweedore, County Donegal. She comes from the same family that produced legendary music acts, such as Clannad and Enya, her sister....
     - singer
  • Moya Brennan
    Moya Brennan

    M?ire N? Bhraon?in, better known as M?ire Brennan or Moya Brennan , is a Grammy Award-nominated Celtic music folk singer, songwriter, harpist and philanthropist....
     - musician
  • Joe Burke - accordionist
  • Kevin Burke
    Kevin Burke

    Kevin Burke is an Ireland fiddler. He was born in London to parents from County Sligo in 1950. He took up the fiddle at age eight, eventually acquiring a virtuosic technique in the Sligo fiddling style....
     - fiddler
  • Nicky Byrne
    Nicky Byrne

    Nicholas Bernard James Adam Byrne is the oldest member of the popular Irish people pop music band , Westlife....
     - singer of Westlife
    Westlife

    Westlife is an Irish pop band that was formed on July 3, 1998.The group's original lineup comprised Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden....
    , songwriter
  • Eamonn Campbell
    Eamonn Campbell

    Eamonn Campbell in Drogheda, County Louth, Republic of Ireland, has been a member of The Dubliners since 1987. He was also in the Dubliners when they recorded their 25th anniversary show on The Late Late Show hosted by Gay Byrne....
     - guitarist/producer
  • Vivian Campbell
    Vivian Campbell

    Vivian Patrick Campbell is a Northern Ireland Rock guitarist and a member of Def Leppard. Prior to joining the band in April 1992, he had been a member of the Ireland rock band Sweet Savage , and other bands, including Dio, Trinity , Whitesnake, Riverdogs, and Shadow King ....
     - co-lead guitarist of Def Leppard
    Def Leppard

    Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
  • Sean Cannon
    Seán Cannon

    Se?n Cannon is an Ireland musician, who since 1982 has been lead vocal and guitarist for the Dubliners....
     - singer/guitarist
  • Paddy Casey
    Paddy Casey

    Patrick "Paddy" Casey is an Ireland singer-songwriter from Dublin. From an early age he spent a great deal of his time learning his craft by busking on the streets of Dublin and Galway....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Patrick Cassidy
    Patrick Cassidy (composer)

    Patrick Cassidy is an Ireland European classical music composer.He has worked in many various formats, including TV and films. In 2004, he cowrote the album Immortal Memory with Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance....
     - composer
  • Willie Clancy
    Willie Clancy

    Willie Clancy was an Ireland uilleann pipes.Clancy was born into a musical family in Miltown Malbay, County Clare. His parents both sang and played concertina, and his father also played the flute....
     - uilleann piper
  • Julia Clifford
    Julia Clifford

    Julia Clifford was a fiddler and Ireland traditional musician.Julia Murphy was born at Lisheen, Gneeveguilla, County Kerry, part of an area in Munster known as Sliabh Luachra one of eight children....
     - traditional fiddle
    Fiddle

    The term fiddle refers to a violin; it is a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including European classical music....
     player
  • Michael Coleman
    Michael Coleman (musician)

    Michael Coleman was an Irish fiddling....
     - fiddler
  • Finghin Collins
    Finghin Collins

    Finghin Collins is an Ireland pianist. He won first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1999, and has performed with many of the world's finest orchestras and conductors....
     - pianist
  • Tadhg Cooke
    Tadhg Cooke

    Tadhg Cooke is a singer/songwriter from just outside Dublin, Ireland.Born in Dublin and raised in Dunboyne, Co Meath, he showed musical promise from an early age and began writing his own music in school....
     - singer
  • Phil Coulter
    Phil Coulter

    Phil Coulter is an Irish people songwriter, pianist and music producer, arranger, and director. With his writing partner Bill Martin he penned numerous hit record songs for a variety of popular singers in the 1960s and 1970s, and in the 1980s scored major successes performing his own material....
     - composer


Music - Individuals - D to K

  • Damien Dempsey
    Damien Dempsey

    Damien Dempsey is an Irish people singer and songwriter who mixes traditional Irish folk stylism with contemporary lyrics to deliver social comment on the positive and negative aspects arising from Ireland's Celtic Tiger society....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Dana Rosemary Scallon
    Dana Rosemary Scallon

    Dana Rosemary Scallon is better known simply as Dana, an Irish people and former politician. Her career began when, as an Advanced Level student, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything", a subsequent worldwide million-seller....
     - MEP
    Member of the European Parliament

    A Member of the European Parliament is the English name for a person who has been elected to the European Parliament, of of the the European Union's two legislative bodies....
    -singer turned politician
  • Chris de Burgh
    Chris de Burgh

    Chris de Burgh is an Irish-based musician and singer-songwriter who holds British nationality . A musician who writes a variety of mixed instrumental material, Chris de Burgh had huge success in Ireland, Britain and the United States with the 1986 hit "The Lady in Red "....
     - musician
  • Joe Derrane
    Joe Derrane

    Joe Derrane is an Irish-American button accordion player, the greatest exponent of the D/C# system diatonic accordion.Derrane's parents were Irish immigrants....
     - button & piano accordions
  • Ronnie Drew
    Ronnie Drew

    Ronnie Drew was an Ireland singer and folk musician who achieved international fame during a fifty year career recording with The Dubliners. He was born in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin....
     - singer/guitarist
  • Kian Egan
    Kian Egan

    Cian John Francis Egan, more commonly known as Kian Egan is one of four members of Irish boy band Westlife....
     - singer of Westlife
    Westlife

    Westlife is an Irish pop band that was formed on July 3, 1998.The group's original lineup comprised Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden....
    , songwr iter
  • Séamus Ennis
    Séamus Ennis

    S?amus Ennis was an Irish people piper, singer and folk music collector....
     - uilleann piper
  • Enya
    Enya

    Enya is an Ireland singer, instrumentalist and composer. She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad, before leaving to pursue her solo career....
     (real name: Eithne Ní Bhraonáin) - singer/songwriter
  • Órla Fallon
    Órla Fallon

    ?rlagh Fallon , professionally known as ?rla Fallon, is a Celtic music soloist and former member of the group Celtic Woman. She plays the harp and sings traditional Irish language music, most often in the Goidelic languages....
     - singer, harpist
  • Ciarán Farrell
    Ciarán Farrell

    Ciar?n Farrell is an Irish people composer who has been active in his field since graduating from Trinity College Dublin in 1997. He composes works for orchestra, ensemble, choir, and solo instruments, which have been performed by several ensembles and performers including guitarist John Feeley, Cantique, and the Concorde Contemporary Music...
     - composer
  • Mark Feehily
    Mark Feehily

    Mark Michael Patrick Feehily , better known as Mark Feehily, is a member of the popular Music of Ireland vocal pop group, Westlife.He has two younger brothers named Barry and Colin ....
    , singer of Westlife
    Westlife

    Westlife is an Irish pop band that was formed on July 3, 1998.The group's original lineup comprised Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden....
     - songwriter
  • Angela Feeney
    Angela Feeney

    Angela Feeney is a Northern Ireland opera singer.She made her professional singing debut with the Irish National Opera as Cherubino in "The Marriage of Figaro" in 1977 and continued her studies at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium in Munich from which she received a first class honours degree....
     - opera singer
  • John Field
    John Field (composer)

    John Field was an Irish composer and pianist. He is best known for being the first composer to write nocturnes....
     - composer (creator of the nocturne
    Nocturne

    A nocturne is usually a musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night. Historically, nocturne is a very old term applied to night Divine Office and, since the Middle Ages, to divisions in the Canonical hours of Matins....
    )
  • Shane Filan
    Shane Filan

    Shane Steven Filan is the lead singer of Irish Pop music band Westlife. Filan is one of the four original Westlife members, along with other current members Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Nicky Byrne....
     - singer of Westlife
    Westlife

    Westlife is an Irish pop band that was formed on July 3, 1998.The group's original lineup comprised Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden....
    , songwriter
  • Jem Finer
    Jem Finer

    Jeremy "Jem" Finer is an England musician and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Pogues. He was primarily a banjoist, but he played a handful of other instruments as well, including mandola, saxophone, hurdy-gurdy, and guitar....
     - banjoist and guitarist
  • Mick Flannery
    Mick Flannery

    Mick Flannery is a folk music singer and songwriter from Blarney, Ireland. He is a former member of the Rock band Black Orange....
     - singer/songwriter
  • John Fogerty
    John Fogerty

    John Cameron Fogerty is an United States Rock music singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival....
     - singer/songwriter best known for his work with Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  • John Francis
    John Francis

    John Francis may refer to:*John Francis , folk-rock-Americana singer-songwriter*John Francis , English cricket player*John Francis , American environmentalist...
     - singer/songwriter - (full name John Francis Maher)
  • Gavin Friday
    Gavin Friday

    Gavin Friday is an Ireland singer and songwriter, composer and Painting....
     - singer
  • Bobby Gardiner - accordionist
  • Mark Geary
    Mark Geary

    Mark Geary, born in Dublin, Ireland in 1973 to a large family with seven siblings. In 1992, Geary emigrated to New York at the age of 19. He gradually established himself as a respected and popular singer-songwriter in that area, playing frequently in venues such as Sin ?....
     - singer
  • W. H. Grattan Flood
    W. H. Grattan Flood

    Legion of Honor William Henry Grattan Flood , renowned musicologist and historian, was born in Lismore, County Waterford in 1857. As a writer and ecclesiastical composer, his personal contributions to Irish musical form produced enduring works....
     - author and musicologist
  • Rory Gallagher
    Rory Gallagher

    Rory Gallagher was an Irish ethnicity blues/Rock and roll guitarist. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, he grew up in Cork City in the south of the country....
     - blues/rock guitarist
  • James Galway
    James Galway

    Sir James Galway Order of the British Empire is a Northern Ireland–born virtuoso flautist from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man With the Golden Flute"....
     - flautist
  • Frankie Gavin
    Frankie Gavin

    Frankie Gavin is an Ireland fiddle and flute player, from Corrandulla, County Galway. He is a founder member of 1970s Irish traditional group De Dannan....
     - fiddler
  • Bob Geldof
    Bob Geldof

    Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof KBE, known as Bob Geldof , is an Republic of Ireland singer, songwriter, actor and political activist who became famous as a member of the Rock music The Boomtown Rats....
     - songwriter, singer of the Boomtown Rats, activist
  • Bernadette Greevy
    Bernadette Greevy

    Bernadette Greevy was an Irish people mezzo-soprano. She was founder and artistic director of the Anna Livia Dublin International Opera Festival....
     - mezzo-soprano
    Mezzo-soprano

    A mezzo-soprano is a type of European classical music female voice type whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above ....
  • Marc Gunn
    Marc Gunn

    Marc Gunn is a musician and podcaster. As the autoharp-playing half of the Brobdingnagian Bards, Gunn and partner Andrew McKee developed a following with weekly performances on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin....
     - autoharper, singer/songwriter, and podcaster, formerly of the Brobdingnagian Bards
    Brobdingnagian Bards

    The Brobdingnagian Bards are a Celtic music group from Austin, Texas....
  • Carmel Gunning
    Carmel Gunning

    Carmel Gunning TTCT is an Irish people composer and musician, from Sligo, Ireland. Gunning is one of Ireland's most accomplished tin whistle players who is also known for her singing and flute playing....
     - tin whistler
  • Lisa Hannigan
    Lisa Hannigan

    Lisa Hannigan is an Republic of Ireland singer, actress and multi-instrumentalist who plays the electric guitar, bass guitar and drums. Her music has led to much success, critical praise, airplay and award nominations in her native land and, more recently, in the United States....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Glen Hansard
    Glen Hansard

    Glen Hansard is an Academy Award for Best Original Song#2001 - winning songwriter, actor, and vocalist/guitarist for Ireland rock and roll group The Frames....
     - Oscar winning singer/songwriter
  • Hamilton Harty
    Hamilton Harty

    Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty was an Irish and British composer, conducting and accompanist.Harty was born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland, the fourth of ten children of church organist William Michael Harty and his wife, Annie Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph Hamilton Richards, a soldier from Bray....
     - composer and arranger
  • Catherine Hayes
    Catherine Hayes

    Catherine Hayes [married name Bushnell] was the first Irish people-born opera diva to achieve international acclaim.She was born at 4 Patrick Street, Limerick, Ireland, but her father deserted the family, causing great financial distress....
     - opera singer
  • Gemma Hayes
    Gemma Hayes

    Gemma Hayes is a renowned singer-songwriter born on 11 August 1977 in Ballyporeen, County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland....
     - singer
  • George Harrison
    George Harrison

    George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
     - singer/songwriter and founding member of The Beatles
  • Christie Hennessy
    Christie Hennessy

    Christie Hennessy was an Ireland folk music singer-songwriter....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Paul David Hewson - also known as Bono
    Bono

    Paul David Hewson , also known by his stage name Bono, is the main vocalist of the Ireland rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2....
    , lead singer and principal lyricist of U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
  • Brian Irvine
    Brian Irvine

    Brian Irvine is a composer from Northern Ireland. He has written several film scores and his piece Interrupting Cutler, partly based on the work of Ivor Cutler, was a winner in the 2003 BBC Jazz Awards....
     - composer
  • Markéta Irglová
    Markéta Irglová

    Mark?ta Irglov? is an Academy Award-winning songwriter, musician, actress and singer. As of 2008, she resides in Dublin.Irglov? began playing music at age seven, and began playing piano at the age of 8 when her parents bought her a piano and sent her to lessons....
     - Oscar winning singer/songwriter
  • Fergus Johnston
    Fergus Johnston

    Fergus Johnston . Irish composer and member of Aosd?na. He studied for both a degree in music and a Master's Degree in Music and Media Technology at Trinity College Dublin....
     - Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Dolores Keane
    Dolores Keane

    Dolores Keane is an Irish folk music singer. She was a founding member of the successful group De Dannan, and has since embarked on a very successful solo career, establishing herself as one of the most loved interpreters of Irish music....
     - singer
  • Ronan Keating
    Ronan Keating

    Ronan Keating is an Republic of Ireland Pop music singer who has had hits with boyband Boyzone and as a solo artist....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Paddy Keenan
    Paddy Keenan

    Paddy Keenan is an Irish player of the uilleann pipes....
     - uilleann piper
  • Lisa Kelly
    Lisa Kelly

    Lisa Kelly is a singer of both Classical music and Celtic music. She has taken part in many musical theatre productions and concerts, and is currently a member of the musical group Celtic Woman....
     - singer
  • Luke Kelly
    Luke Kelly

    Luke Kelly, was an Ireland singer and folk musician from Dublin, Ireland, notable as a founding member of the band The Dubliners....
     - singer
  • Brian Kennedy
    Brian Kennedy (singer)

    Brian Edward Patrick Kennedy is an Ireland singer-songwriter and author, known for his ballads....
     - singer
  • Paddy Killoran
    Paddy Killoran

    Paddy Killoran was an Ireland musician.Killoran was born near Ballymote, County Sligo, Ireland. He is regarded, along with his mentor James Morrison and the great Michael Coleman, as one of the finest exponents of the south Sligo fiddle style in the "golden age" of the ethnic recording industry of the 1920s and '30s....
     - fiddler
  • Dave King - singer/songwriter
  • David Kitt
    David Kitt

    David Kitt is an Republic of Ireland Choice Music Prize Choice Music Prize#Irish Album of the Year 2006 musician.He has released five albums, Small Moments, The Big Romance, Square One, The Black and Red Notebook and Not Fade Away ....
     - musician


Music - Individuals - L to P

  • Lil Wyte
    Lil Wyte

    Patrick Lanshaw, better known by his stage name Lil Wyte, is an United States rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. He is a member of the rap collective Hypnotize Minds....
     born Patrick Lanshaw -
  • Damien Leith
    Damien Leith

    Damien Leo Leith is an Irish Australian singer/songwriter. He was the winner of the Network Ten music contest Australian Idol 2006.He was born in Ireland and now lives in Australia with his Australian wife, Eileen Stapleton, and their two sons, Jarvis Dion and Jagger Ramone....
     - singer/songwriter, winner of Australian Idol 2006
  • Josef Locke
    Josef Locke

    Josef Locke was the stage name of Joseph McLaughlin , a tenor singer who was enormously popular in United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s....
     - singer
  • Johnny Logan
    Johnny Logan (singer)

    Johnny Logan , is an Republic of Ireland singer and composer....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Cora Venus Lunny
    Cora Venus Lunny

    Cora Venus Lunny is an Irish musician. Her father is the musician D?nal Lunny and she is the niece of Manus Lunny.Established as one of Ireland's leading classical musicians since her teens, Cora Venus Lunny is active as a soloist, chamber musician, interpreter of contemporary classical music, improvising violinist and composer....
     - violinist
  • Dónal Lunny
    Dónal Lunny

    D?nal Lunny is an Ireland folk musician. Lunny has been at the cutting edge of the evolution of Irish music for more than thirty-five years and is generally regarded as having been central to the renaissance of traditional Irish music in that time period....
     - musician
  • Phil Lynott
    Phil Lynott

    Philip Parris Lynott was an Irish singer, bassist, instrumentalist, and songwriter, who first came to prominence as the frontman of Thin Lizzy....
     - Thin Lizzy
    Thin Lizzy

    Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Republic of Ireland in 1969. The band were led throughout their recording career by Bass guitar, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott, and are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak " and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major international hits still played regula...
     frontman
  • Mickey McConnell - singer/songwriter
  • Geraldine MacGowan
  • Shane MacGowan
    Shane MacGowan

    Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan is an Irish people musician and singer best known as the original singer and songwriter of The Pogues. His voice has been described by Jools Holland as a voice that touches the heart and soul....
     - English born singer/songwriter
  • Sean Mackin
    Sean Mackin

    Sean/Se?n Mackin may refer to:*Se?n Mackin , Northern Irish activist, fundraiser for the Friends of Sinn F?in*Sean Mackin , American musician...
     - backup vocals and violinist of Yellowcard
  • Sean Maguire
    Sean Maguire

    This article is about the English actor and singer. For the Irish fiddler, see Sean McGuire .Sean Martin Michael Maguire is an England actor and singer, who rose to fame in 1988 when at the age of 11 he took on the role of "Tegs" Ratcliffe on the BBC children's drama Grange Hill , in which he remained until 1992....
     - violinist
  • Sarah Makem
    Sarah Makem

    Legendary source singer Sarah Makem was a native of Keady, County Armagh, Ireland.She was the wife of fiddler Peter Makem, mother of musicians Tommy Makem and Jack Makem, and grandmother of musicians The Makem Brothers....
     - singer
  • Tommy Makem
    Tommy Makem

    Thomas 'Tommy' Makem was an internationally celebrated Ireland folk music musician, artist, poet and storyteller, best known as a member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem....
     - singer-songwriter
  • Enda Markey
    Enda Markey

    Enda Markey , is a stage and television actor. He made his professional stage debut aged eleven in Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas In Wales at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin....
     - singer
  • Philip Martin
    Philip Martin (pianist)

    Philip Martin is an Republic of Ireland pianist and composer.Philip Martin was born in Dublin and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, under Franz Reizenstein, Lennox Berkeley, Richard Rodney Bennett and Louis Kentner....
     - pianist, Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • John Count McCormack
    John McCormack

    John McCormack , was a world-famous Ireland tenor and recording artist, celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repertoires, and renowned for his diction and breath control....
     - singer
  • Eleanor McEvoy
    Eleanor McEvoy

    Eleanor McEvoy is one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary singer/songwriters. McEvoy composed the song Only A Woman's Heart, title track of A Woman's Heart, the biggest-selling Irish album in Irish history....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Brian McFadden
    Brian McFadden

    Brian Nicholas McFadden is an Ireland singing and songwriter, who rose to fame with Irish boy band Westlife before quitting the band to forge his own solo career....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Barney McKenna
    Barney McKenna

    Barney McKenna or Banjo Barney as he is known amongst his fellow musicians, is an Ireland musician who plays the tenor banjo, mandolin, and melodeon....
     - banjo player
  • John McSherry (musician)
    John McSherry (musician)

    John McSherry is an Ireland musician who plays the Uilleann pipes and tin whistle. He is known for being a founding member of Lunasa and has performed on recordings by a number of well-known artists in Music of Ireland....
     - uilleann piper
  • Paul McSherry
    Paul McSherry

    Paul McSherry, hailing from west Belfast, began playing guitar in 1982 at the age of 14. Inspired by two other great guitarists from west Belfast, Maurice McHugh and Mark Kane, he was self-taught on DADGAD tuning....
     - guitarist
  • Patrick Monahan
    Patrick Monahan

    Irish American singer Patrick "Pat" Monahan is the lead singer and songwriter for the Grammy award winning band Train . He is a successful solo artist, and has collaborated with multiple artists....
     - singer/songwriter, solo artist/member of Train
  • Christy Moore
    Christy Moore

    Christopher Andrew 'Christy' Moore is a popular Irish folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is well known as one of the founding members of Planxty....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Gary Moore
    Gary Moore

    Gary Moore is a Northern Irish guitarist. In a career dating back to the 1960s, he has played with artists including Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, Greg Lake and the Blues-rock band Skid Row , as well as having a successful solo career....
     - guitarist/singer/songwriter
  • Van Morrison
    Van Morrison

    George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Lee Mulhern
    Lee Mulhern

    Lee Mulhern is a singer who won awards at the World Championships for Performing Arts competition at age 11. The song that won him a gold medal there, "I May Be Young", later became used as a peace song, in particular with memorials of the September 11, 2001 attacks....
     - singer/songwriter, member of Streetwize
  • Samantha Mumba
    Samantha Mumba

    Samantha Tamania Anne Cecilia Mumba is a singer and actor of Zambian and Irish descent from Ireland. Mumba is a Contralto.Her first album was released in 2000....
     - singer, actress
  • Mundy
    Mundy

    Mundy is an Ireland singer-songwriter. "Mundy" is a nickname given to Enright, as it not only refers to his name Edmund, but it is how he pronounces the word "Mundy"....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Ruby Murray
    Ruby Murray

    Ruby Murray , from Northern Ireland, was one of the most popular singing in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. In the year of 1955 alone, she secured seven Top 10 UK hit singles....
     - singer
  • Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
    Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh

    Mair?ad N? Mhaonaigh , is the fiddler and lead vocalist for the famed Irish traditional band Altan....
     - musician
  • Turlough O'Carolan
    Turlough O'Carolan

    Turlough Carolan was a blind, itinerant early Irish harper, composer and singer whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition. He was the last great Irish harper-composer and is considered by many to be Ireland's national composer....
     - 17th century harpist and composer ("Last of the Bards")
  • Maura O'Connell
    Maura O'Connell

    Maura O'Connell is a Grammy Award-nominated Ireland singer and actress. She is known for her contemporary interpretation of Irish folk songs, strongly influenced by United States country music....
     - singer
  • Martin O'Connor - accordionist
  • Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor

    Sin?ad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is a Grammy Award-winning Ireland singer-songwriter....
     - singer
  • Daniel O'Donnell
    Daniel O'Donnell (Irish singer)

    Daniel Francis Noel O?Donnell, MBE is an Irish people singer. He has sold over 10 million records to date.ng his schooling years, Daniel considered pursuing a career in the bank....
     - country-and-western singer
  • Mary O'Hara
    Mary O'Hara

    For the author of the 'Flicka' books, see Mary O'Hara Mary O'Hara is a singer and harpist with a pure soprano voice.Born in County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, O'Hara achieved fame on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1950s and early 1960s....
     - harpist/singer
  • Liam O'Flynn
    Liam O'Flynn

    Liam O'Flynn is a well known Ireland folk musician.He was born in Kill County Kildare to musical parents; his father played the fiddle and his mother played the piano....
     - uilleann piper
  • Seán Ó Riada
    Seán Ó Riada

    Se?n ? Riada , was a composer and bandleader, and perhaps the single most influential figure in the renaissance of Music of Ireland from the 1960s, through his participation in Ceolt?ir? Chualann, his compositions, his writings and his broadcasts on the topic....
     - composer and musician
  • Dolores O'Riordan
    Dolores O'Riordan

    Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan is an Ireland singer and songwriter. She led The Cranberries to worldwide success and fame for thirteen years before the band took a hiatus in 2003....
     - singer/songwriter/guitarist
  • Gilbert O'Sullivan
    Gilbert O'Sullivan

    Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish people singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hit record "Alone Again ", "Clair " and "Get Down". His unusual image - Shorts, flat cap and Bowl cut Hairstyle - helped to launch the successful international career of the performer....
     - pop singer/songwriter/pianist
  • Tommy Peoples
    Tommy Peoples

    Tommy Peoples is an Ireland Fiddle.He was born near St. Johnston, County Donegal, Ireland. He has been a member of well known traditional Irish music groups, including 1691 and The Bothy Band as well as performing solo since the late 1960s....
     - fiddler


Music - Individuals - Q - Z

  • Carmel Quinn
    Carmel Quinn

    Carmel Quinn is an Ireland entertainer, who has appeared on Broadway theatre, television, and radio since coming to United States in 1954.She began her career in her native Dublin as a teenager singing with local bands....
     - singer
  • Paddy Reilly
    Paddy Reilly

    Patrick 'Paddy' Reilly is an Ireland folk music singer and guitarist. He is one of Ireland's most famous balladeers and is best known for his renditions of "The Fields of Athenry" and "The Town I Loved So Well"....
     - singer/guitarist
  • Damien Rice
    Damien Rice

    Damien Rice is an Irish people rock music singer.So far, he has released two studio albums: O in 2002, and 9 in 2006....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Leo Rowsome
    Leo Rowsome

    Leo Rowsome was an Irish people teacher performer and maker of uilleann pipes.Rowsome was born in April 1903 in Harold's Cross in Dublin City....
     - uilleann piper
  • Frank Ryan
    Frank Ryan (tenor)

    Frank Ryan was born in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland in October 1900 and moved to Tallow, County Waterford, Ireland at an early age, where his parents ran a victualling business....
     – tenor
    Tenor

    The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
  • Sharon Shannon
    Sharon Shannon

    Sharon Shannon is an Irish people. She is best known for her work with the accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon....
     - traditional musician
  • John Sheahan
    John Sheahan

    For the Australian field hockey coach with the same name see John Sheahan John Sheahan is a notable Ireland violinist, folk musician, composer and member of the folk band The Dubliners....
     - fiddler
  • Chris Singleton
    Chris Singleton

    Chris Singleton is a singer/songwriter from Dublin, Republic of Ireland....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Bruce Springsteen
    Bruce Springsteen

    Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss", is an American songwriter, singer and musician. He has recorded and toured with the E Street Band....
     - singer/songwriter, Irish ancestry
  • Carly Smithson
    Carly Smithson

    Carly Smithson , is a Meteor Award-winning Irish Rock music/Soul music singer-songwriter, who was born in Dublin. In 2001 Smithson released her first studio album for MCA Records called Ultimate High....
     - singer
  • Patsy Touhey
    Patsy Touhey

    Patrick J. Touhey was a celebrated American player of the uilleann pipes. His innovative technique and phrasing, his travels back and forth to play on the variety and vaudeville stage, and his recordings made his style influential among Irish-American pipers....
     - piper
  • Paddy Tunney
    Paddy Tunney

    Paddy Tunney was an Irish traditional singer, poet, writer, raconteur, lilter and songwriter.. He was affectionately known as the Man of Songs....
     - singer
  • Liam Weldon
    Liam Weldon

    Liam Weldon was a singer and songwriter in the Irish folk tradition....
     - singer, songwriter
  • Andy White
    Andy White (singer-songwriter)

    Andy White is an Ireland singer/songwriter and poet, born in Belfast. He started writing poetry and music from a young age, penning a poem called "Riots" at the age of 9....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Freddie White
    Freddie White

    Freddie White is an Irish singer-songwriter born in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland in 1951 into a musical family. By age 13 White was playing in school bands and by 17 playing professionally....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Ian Wilson
    Ian Wilson (composer)

    Ian Wilson is a prolific, award-winning Irish composer of European classical music. He also serves as the music director of the Sligo New Music Festival, a role he first undertook in 2002....
     - Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • James Wilson
    James Wilson (composer)

    James Wilson was a notable Ireland composer. Though born in England, Wilson was a resident of Ireland for over 50 years....
     - Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....


Music - Groups

Music - Groups - A to C

  • Abaddon Incarnate
    Abaddon Incarnate

    Abaddon Incarnate are an Republic of Ireland blackened death metal deathgrind band....
  • Afro-Celt Sound System
  • Agnelli & Nelson
    Agnelli & Nelson

    Agnelli & Nelson is the collective name of Northern Ireland music producers Christoper James Agnew and Robert Frederick Nelson, writers and producers of dance music, who are notable for helping to define the genre of Trance music since 1997....
  • Altan
    Altan

    Altan are an Irish people folk and traditional Irish music music group, who formed in County Donegal in 1987. The popular outfit, who are led by the world-renowned fiddler and vocalist Mair?ad N? Mhaonaigh, have been driven by many critically acclaimed albums and a relentless touring schedule....
  • An Emotional Fish (cf Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club
    Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club

    Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club is an alternative rock musical group from Dublin, Ireland. An Emotional Fish were formed in 1988 and consisted of Gerard Whelan , Martin Murphy , David Frew , and Enda Wyatt ....
    )
  • An Góilín
    An Góilín

    An G?il?n Traditional Singer's Club is the forerunner of thetraditional singing clubs and the most respected traditional singing club inDublin, Ireland....
  • The Answer
    The Answer (band)

    The Answer are an Irish people hard rock and blues rock band from Newcastle, County Down and Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. They have achieved success with their debut album Rise selling in excess of 30,000 copies in the UK & Europe, 10,000 on day one in Japan and 100,000 worldwide on the whole....
  • Anúna
    Anúna

    An?na is an Ireland choral group. In 1987 Dublin composer Michael McGlynn founded An Uaithne, a name which describes the three ancient types of Celtic music, Suantra? , Geantra? and Goltra? ....
  • Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Ash
    Ash (band)

    Ash are an alternative rock band that formed in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1992. The media originally pegged Ash's music as Britpop when the band first found mainstream success....
  • Aslan
    Aslan (rock band)

    Aslan are an Irish rock band from Dublin, well-known for their rock melodies and introspective lyrics. The band consists of:*Christy Dignam *Joe Jewell ...
  • The Bachelors
    The Bachelors

    The Bachelors is a popular music band , originating from Dublin, Ireland....
  • Bad Habitz
  • Bad Haggis
    Bad Haggis

    Bad Haggis is a Celtic music band with roots in Scottish music. The American group is led by piper Eric Rigler, who has played on dozens of movie soundtracks....
  • Barley Bree
    Barley Bree

    Barley Bree was an Irish-Canadian band active in the 1980s and ?90s. They comprised Tom Sweeney and Jimmy Sweeney , Donegal fiddler P.V. O?Donnell and Brian Doherty ....
  • Bell X1
  • Bellefire
    Bellefire

    Bellefire was an Ireland girl group, best known for their 2002 cover version of the U2 song "All I Want Is You #Cover versions". They originally consisted of Kelly Kilfeather , Tara Lee , Cathy Newell and Ciara Newell ....
  • Black 47
    Black 47

    Based in New York City, Black 47 is a Celtic rock band made up of Irish ethnicity expatriates, formed in the Bronx by Larry Kirwan and Chris Byrne in 1989....
  • Black Family
    The Black Family (band)

    The Black Family are a Celtic music ensemble, composed of Mary Black and Frances Black and their siblings, Shay, Michael, and Martin. The family has been called "one of the most important musical clans in Ireland"....
  • Blink
    Blink (band)

    Blink is a pop/rock band from Ireland, but now based in the USA. They are noted for their mixture of humour and melancholy. They have released three albums to date: A Map Of the Universe by Blink , The End Is High and Deep Inside The Sound Of Sadness ....
  • The Blizzards
    The Blizzards

    The Blizzards are an Republic of Ireland band from Mullingar in County Westmeath. They were formed by Niall Breslin in late 2004, and also feature Dec Murphy , Anthony Doran and Aidan Lynch ....
  • Blue in Heaven
    Blue in Heaven

    Blue in Heaven was a 1982-1989 Irish rock quartet from Churchtown, Dublin, Ireland led by singer Shane O'Neill . They reformed in 1990 as the Blue Angels ....
  • The Boomtown Rats
    The Boomtown Rats

    The Boomtown Rats were an Republic of Ireland rock music musical ensemble, that scored a series of United Kingdom hit record between 1977 and 1980, and were led by singing Bob Geldof, who organized the Ethiopian famine relief efforts, Band Aid and Live Aid....
  • Boss Volenti
    Boss Volenti

    Boss Volenti are a Rock music quartet based in Dublin, Ireland. They formed in 2003. Rob Daly and Dan O'Connor first met while playing in bands around Dublin....
  • The Bothy Band
    The Bothy Band

    The Bothy Band was an Irish traditional band which emerged at the tail end of 1974 from a musical event celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Gael-Linn Records record label....
  • The Boys of the Lough
    The Boys of the Lough

    The Boys of the Lough is a Scottish-Irish band playing Celtic music since the 1970s....
  • Boyzone
    Boyzone

    Boyzone are an Irish people boy band who had popular mainstream success during the 1990s. They were most successful in the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom and they also had differing levels of success in parts of Central Europe....
    , boy band
  • The Brent Flood
    The Brent Flood

    The Brent Flood is a four piece band based in London, England....
  • The Brilliant Trees
    The Brilliant Trees

    The Brilliant Trees are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1990 the band consists of:*Alan Hoey *Tony Barrett *Sid Barrett *Dave Farrell ...
  • Brobdingnagian Bards
    Brobdingnagian Bards

    The Brobdingnagian Bards are a Celtic music group from Austin, Texas....
  • Bulraga
    Bulraga

    Bulraga is an Ireland vocal quartet founded in Dublin in 2003 by Dublin based singer and composer Aengus ? Maol?in. One of the group's main aims is to promote contemporary music by presenting it in a context with vocal music from around the world and some popular music within the same performance....
  • B*Witched
    B*Witched

    B*Witched were an Republic of Ireland girl group who enjoyed success in both Europe and North America between 1998 and 2000, releasing two albums and eight singles, all of which made the UK Top 20....
  • Cactus World News
    Cactus World News

    Cactus World News were an Republic of Ireland rock band formed in Dublin in 1984. Founded by Frank Kearns and Eoin Mc Evoy the original members were: Frank Kearns, Eoin McEvoy, Wayne Sheehy, and Fergal MacAindris....
  • Celtic Legacy
    Celtic Legacy

    Celtic Legacy is a Heavy metal music band from Ireland formed in late 1997, often styled as a cross between Thin Lizzy/Iron Maiden.The line-up of this band has changed on numerous occasions but the original founder members continue to write and record material....
  • Celtic Tenors
    Celtic Tenors

    The Celtic Tenors debuted as the Three Irish Tenors on RTE's Theatre Nights on October 1995. The group at that time consisted of James Nelson, Niall Morris and Paul Hennessey....
  • Celtic Thunder
    Celtic Thunder

    Celtic Thunder is a Celtic music group, composed of five Celtic male soloists who perform both solos and ensemble numbers. Celtic Thunder debuted in August 2007 at the Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland....
  • Celtic Woman
    Celtic Woman

    Celtic Woman is a musical ensemble comprising five Irish female artists: vocaliists Chlo? Agnew, Lynn Hilary, Lisa Kelly, Alex Sharpe and fiddler M?ir?ad Nesbitt....
  • Ceoltóirí Chualann
    Ceoltóirí Chualann

    Ceolt?ir? Chualann was an Ireland traditional band, led by Se?n ? Riada, which included many of the founding members of The Chieftains. Ceolt?ir? is the Irish Language word for musicians, and Cualann is the name of an area just outside Dublin where ? Riada lived....
  • The Chalets
    The Chalets

    The Chalets were an indie music five-piece from Dublin, Ireland, active from 2001 to 2008....
  • Channel One
    Channel One (Ireland)

    Channel One are an Republic of Ireland emotive electronic rock band....
  • Cherish the Ladies
    Cherish the Ladies

    Cherish the Ladies is an all-female Irish-American musical group. The group was formed in 1985 in New York. The leader, Joanie Madden, plays flute, tin whistle and sings....
  • The Chieftains
    The Chieftains

    The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Ireland musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Folk music of Ireland popular around the world....
     - traditional music group
  • The Clancy Brothers
    The Clancy Brothers

    The Clancy Brothers were an Ireland folk music singing group, most popular in the 1960s, who are often credited with popularizing Folk music of Ireland in the United States....
     - Irish folk band
  • Clannad
    Clannad

    Clannad are a Grammy Award-winning Irish Musical ensemble, from Gweedore , County Donegal. Their music has been variously described as bordering on folk music and folk rock, Music of Ireland, Celtic music and New Age music....
  • The Commitments
    The Commitments

    The Commitments is a novel by Ireland writer Roddy Doyle, and is the first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy. It is a tale about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul music band....
  • Compulsion
    Compulsion (band)

    Compulsion was an Ireland punk rock band. They formed in the 1990 by Josephmary and Sid Rainey as Thee Amazing Colossal Men. They signed a contract with Virgin Records, but after winning a lawsuit against their record label, they became "Compulsion" in 1992....
  • The Conway Sisters
    The Conway Sisters

    The Conway Sisters were a semi-professional singing group from County Sligo, Ireland who have achieved a measure of fame through their appearances on The X Factor television programme....
  • The Corrs
    The Corrs

    The Corrs are a Celtic music folk rock band from Dundalk, County Louth, Republic of Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea Corr ; Sharon Corr ; Caroline Corr ; and Jim Corr ....
  • The Cranberries
    The Cranberries

    The Cranberries are an Republic of Ireland Rock music band formed in Limerick in 1990 under the name The Cranberry Saw Us, later changed by vocalist Dolores O'Riordan....
  • Cruachan
    Cruachan (band)

    Cruachan is a heavy metal music band from Dublin, Ireland that has been active since the 1990s. They have been acclaimed as having "gone the greatest lengths of anyone in their attempts to expand" the genre of folk metal....
  • Cyclefly
    Cyclefly

    Cyclefly were an alternative rock band from Cork, Ireland. The band had a cult underground following across the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States, and were famous amongst fan for lead singer Declan O'Shea's wild on-stage persona and intense live presence....


Music - Groups - D to K

  • Dagda
    Dagda (band)

    Dagda is an Ireland New Age music band. It comprises Red Keating and Phillip O'Rely. The band is named after The Dagda, an Ireland god. They released their first album Hibernia: The Story of Ireland - OWL in 1997....
  • Danú
    Danú

    Dan? are an Republic of Ireland traditional music band.Dan? were formed in Waterford in Southeastern Ireland in 1996. After performing in the Festival Interceltique de Lorient, the then thrown-together group decided to consolidate as a band, and the rest is history....
  • Déanta
    Déanta

    D?anta was a traditional group from Northern Ireland, based in County Antrim who played together until 1997, and regrouped in 2008. Their first performance after the initial break took place in October 2008 for BBC's Blas Ceoil series....
  • De Dannan
    De Dannan

    De Dannan was an Ireland folk music group. They were formed by Frankie Gavin , Alec Finn , Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh and Charlie Piggott as a result of sessions in Hughes's Pub in Spiddal, County Galway, subsequently inviting Dolores Keane to join the band....
  • Director
    Director (band)

    Director are a Choice Music Prize Choice Music Prize#Irish Album of the Year 2006 pop rock quartet from Malahide, County Fingal, Republic of Ireland....
  • The Divine Comedy
    The Divine Comedy (band)

    The Divine Comedy are a pop music from Northern Ireland fronted by Neil Hannon....
  • Dr. Strangely Strange
    Dr. Strangely Strange

    Dr. Strangely Strange were an experimental Music of Ireland folk group formed in Dublin in 1967 by Tim Booth and Ivan Pawle bass guitar and keyboard instruments)....
  • D:Ream
    D:Ream

    D:Ream was a Northern Irish pop rock / synthpop and dance music band of the 1990s. They had one United Kingdom chart-topper hit record with the re-release of "Things Can Only Get Better "; two Top 40 hits coupled with four Top 20 hits: the re-release of "U R The Best Thing", "Take Me Away", "Party Up the World", and the second re-release of "...
  • The Dropkick Murphys
  • The East Coast Angels
    The East Coast Angels

    The East Coast Angels were one of Ireland's early punk rock band , forming in Dublin in the 1970s. Their output has been cronicled in Henrik Poulsen's book, 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave....
  • Energy Orchard
    Energy Orchard

    Energy Orchard were an Irish people guitar-based Rock and roll musical ensemble of the late 1980s and early 1990s, from Belfast. Fronted by Bap Kennedy , their style drew heavily on the influence of Van Morrison and other rhythm and blues, but incorporated traditional elements of Irish folk music....
  • The Fat Lady Sings
  • Fatima Mansions
    Fatima Mansions

    The Fatima Mansions were an art rock musical ensemble formed in 1988 by Cork singing/keyboardist Cathal Coughlan . They took their name from a downmarket housing estate in Rialto ....
  • Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band
    Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band

    The Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band is a Pipe band#Competition .26 The World Pipe Band Championships pipe band based in the city of Lisburn, Northern Ireland and named in honour of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein....
  • Fish Go Deep
    Fish Go Deep

    Fish Go Deep are an Ireland production duo consisting of Greg Dowling and Shane Johnson from Cork. They have been releasing house records under this name since 1997 and in 2006 they reached number 1 on both the Number-one dance hits of 2006 and List of number-one indie hits of 2006 with their track "The Cure & the Cause"....
  • Flogging Molly
    Flogging Molly

    Flogging Molly is a seven-piece Irish American Celtic punk band that formed in Los Angeles, California and is currently signed to SideOneDummy Records....
  • Flook
  • Foster & Allen
    Foster & Allen

    Foster and Allen are a musical duo from Ireland consisting of Mick Foster and Tony Allen....
  • Four Men and a Dog
    Four Men and a Dog

    Four Men and a Dog is an Ireland traditional band that emerged in 1990 during the Belfast Folk Festival. The band plays Irish traditional music with a mixture of different other genres, including rock, jazz, blues, bluegrass, swing, salsa, polka and even rap....
  • The 4 Of Us
    The 4 of Us

    The 4 Of Us are a rock music band from Ireland. Of the four founding members, only brothers Brendan and Declan Murphy have remained continuously part of the group; the occupants of the other two positions have varied....
  • Four to the Bar
    Four to the Bar

    Four to the Bar was an influential and popular Music of Ireland in New York City during the early- to mid-1990s.From its beginnings as one more hard-drinking pub band from the boroughs, it ventured into a neotraditional fusion of pop, rock, and Irish and American folk....
  • The Frames
    The Frames

    The Frames are an influential Ireland musical band based mainly in Dublin. Founded in 1990, the group has released six albums and appeared in numerous music videos....
  • Fred
    Fred

    Fred may refer to:People:*Fred , the pen name of French comics creator Fred Othon Aristid?s*Fred, the apelido of the former Olympique Lyon Brazilian footballer Frederico Chaves Guedes now playing in Fluminense...
  • The Fureys
    The Fureys

    The Fureys are an Ireland male folk music band . They also sometimes record as the The Fureys and Davey Arthur.The group formed in 1978 and consisted initially of four brothers ....
  • Future Kings of Spain
    Future Kings of Spain

    Future Kings of Spain is an Ireland rock music band, from Dublin.Future Kings Of Spain on 28 September 2007 released their highly anticipated sophomore album "Nervousystem" ....
  • God Is an Astronaut
    God Is an Astronaut

    God Is an Astronaut are an instrumental/post-rock three piece band hailing from the Glen of the Downs, County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland. They formed in 2002 and released their debut album The End of the Beginning on their own Revive Records label....
  • God Talking Soul
    God Talking Soul

    God Talking Soul is an Ireland rock band hailing from Strabane, Northern Ireland which Nick McCallan formed in 2000. They were the winners of the 'Hot Press' Band of the Year in 2002 and Budweiser N.I....
  • The Golden Horde
    The Golden Horde (band)

    The Golden Horde were a psychedelic pop, rock, punk band based in Dublin, Ireland.Their first recording, Dig That Crazy Grave, was released in 1983 on the Hotwire record label....
  • Gráda
    Gráda

    Gr?da is a traditional Irish music band.Gr?da are based in Dublin and Galway, Ireland, where they began playing together in 2001. The group draws from a wide range of influences, which has seen them working with Dave Hingerty ; Vyviene Long ; and, as a producer, Trevor Hutchinson ....
  • The Groovin' Reels
    The Groovin' Reels

    The Groovin' Reels are an Irish Traditional band from various areas of Ireland, who believe in modernization of Music of Ireland Folk music. The first met at Machaire Rabhartaigh, Donegal on a Summer Gaeltacht course....
  • Hal
    Hal (band)

    Hal are a critically acclaimed Ireland band composed of brothers Dave Allen and Paul Allen , Stephen O'Brien and Steve Hogan who formed in 2003....
  • The High Llamas
    The High Llamas

    High Llamas is a London-based musical project created by Irish guitarist and songwriter Sean O'Hagan after the demise of his group Microdisney. It derives its name from a character played by Michael Nesmith in the Monkees....
  • The Hitchers
  • Horslips
    Horslips

    Horslips were a 1970s Ireland Celtic rock band that composed, arranged and performed their music based on traditional Irish jigs and Reel . They were one of the first, if not the first, of the Celtic rock bands....
  • Hothouse Flowers
    Hothouse Flowers

    The Hothouse Flowers are an Ireland rock and roll group that combines traditional Irish music with influences from Soul music, Gospel music and rock music....
  • Kerbdog
    Kerbdog

    Kerbdog were an Alternative rock band from Kilkenny in the Republic of Republic of Ireland who began writing in 1991....
     - rock band
  • InFOCUS
    InFocus

    InFocus Corporation , founded 1986, is a United States-based company that develops, manufactures, and distributes digital projectors and accessories....
  • In Tua Nua
    In Tua Nua

    In Tua Nua was an Ireland rock group who achieved a modicum of fame and success in both Ireland and Europe throughout the late 1980s....
  • The IRS
    The IRS

    The IRS , were a County Kildare rock hip hop act. The group was formed in 1988 by Robbie Robinson, Steve Mangan, John Byrne, Mick O'Rourke and Sean McMahon....
  • JJ72
    JJ72

    JJ72 were an indie rock band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland....
  • The Jane Bradfords
    The Jane Bradfords

    The Jane Bradfords are a four-piece indie band from Belfast, Northern Ireland that have drawn comparisons to The Cure, New Order and Talking Heads....
  • Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club
    Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club

    Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club is an alternative rock musical group from Dublin, Ireland. An Emotional Fish were formed in 1988 and consisted of Gerard Whelan , Martin Murphy , David Frew , and Enda Wyatt ....
  • Jetplane Landing
    Jetplane Landing

    Jetplane Landing is a four piece band from Derry and London . They comprise Andrew Ferris , Jamie Burchell , Cahir O?Doherty and Raife Burchell ....
  • The Johnstons
    The Johnstons

    The Johnstons were an Music of Ireland close-harmony folk band, originally founded in London, England, consisting of Adrienne, Lucy and Michael Johnston....
  • Kíla
    Kíla

    K?la are an Irish folk music/world music group. The original lineup for the band was Eoin Dillon; Uileann pipes, Colm Mac Con Iomaire; fiddle, Rossa ? Snodaigh; Whistle, Bones, R?n?n ? Snodaigh; Bodhr?n, Karl Odlum; Bass, David Odlum, Guitar....


Music - Groups - L to P

  • Language of Flowers
    Language of Flowers (band)

    Language of Flowers are a five piece indie-pop band originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland signed to San Francisco indie label Shelflife Records....
  • LeperKhanz
    LeperKhanz

    File:LitUp.jpgThe LeperKhanz are an experimental troupe of musicians that mix ancient sea shantys, Irish fiddle, reggae, classical, Hip hop music, disco and rock ....
  • Lluther
    Lluther

    Lluther is an Industrial music rock music band founded in 2004 by former Skindive songwriter Gerry Owens in Dublin, Ireland....
  • Vyvienne Long
    Vyvienne Long

    Vyvienne Long from County Wicklow, is an Irish people musician, most famous for playing cello on the Damien Rice albums O & 9 , and as part of his live band....
  • Lucid Druid
    Lucid Druid

    Lucid Druid is a Celtic fusion band that formed in Clearwater, Florida in 2003. The band self-proclaims their sound as "Traditional Celtic Music of the early 21st century," and "Eclectic World-Fusion Music," describing their multi-faceted and jam-induced music....
  • Lúnasa
    Lúnasa (band)

    L?nasa is a traditional Ireland music group....
  • Mama's Boys
    Mama's Boys

    Mama's Boys were a 1980s hard rock/heavy metal music group from County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland featuring the three McManus brothers Pat, a.k.a....
  • Marxman
    Marxman

    Marxman were a Marxism hip hop music band with two MCs. Their lyrics expounded socialism and an end to economic and social injustice. Their first single , "Sad Affair", caused particular controversy for calling for support for the Irish Republicanism campaign in Northern Ireland....
  • The Mascara Story
    The Mascara Story

    The Mascara Story were a three piece rock band from Derry, Northern Ireland, consisting of Daveit Ferris , Sean Keddy and Jay Dickson ....
  • Mellow Candle
    Mellow Candle

    Mellow Candle were a Progressive folk music folk rock band . Principally Irish, the members were also unusually young, Clodagh Simonds being only 15 and Alison Bools and Maria White 16, and still at school, at the time of their first single, "Feelin' High", released in 1968 on Simon Napier-Bell's SNB Records....
  • Microdisney
    Microdisney

    Microdisney was an Republic of Ireland musical duet , formed in 1980 by Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan ....
  • The Middlewich Paddies
    The Middlewich Paddies

    The Middlewich Paddies are an Ireland Folk music band formed in 1979, and based around the town of Middlewich in Cheshire. Although not widely known outside of folk music circles, two members of the band were instrumental in setting up the Middlewich folk and boat festival which has now become a recognised festival on the folk circuit....
  • Minor Detail
    Minor Detail

    Minor Detail were an Irish New Wave music/electro synthpop band from Blackrock, Dublin....
  • Mooncoyne
    Mooncoyne

    Mooncoyne is a critically-acclaimed Celtic music band from Tacoma, Washington. Their music ranges from traditional Music of Ireland jigs and reels to contemporary Celtic ballads....
  • The Moondogs
    The Moondogs

    The Moondogs are a Northern Irish band formed in 1979, and consisting of Gerry McCandless, Austin Barrett and Jackie Hamilton. Self confessed "Pop Punk", "New Wave" and "Powerpop," the band has spanned a career with five records, four singles, seven CDs and two TV shows to date...
  • Mourning Beloveth
    Mourning Beloveth

    Mourning Beloveth is an Ireland doom metal band along the lines of early Anathema and My Dying Bride, but without violins or keyboards. They started in the winter of 1992....
  • Moving Hearts
    Moving Hearts

    Moving Hearts is an Irish folk-rock band formed in 1981. They followed in the footsteps of Horslips in combining music of Ireland with rock and roll, and also added elements of jazz to their sound....
  • The Mumbles
    The Mumbles

    The Mumbles were a small band that were based in Dublin, Ireland in the early 1980s. Fronted by charismatic singer, Killian Devitt, The Mumbles achieved moderate success, and had a number of successful releases in the UK and Ireland....
  • My Bloody Valentine
  • Na Casaidigh
    Na Casaidigh

    Na Casaidigh or The Cassidys in English are an Ireland traditional group. They have been based in Dublin for many years, but they originally hail from Gweedore, County Donegal....
  • Nightnoise
    Nightnoise

    Nightnoise was a music ensemble active during the 1980s and 1990s. Their original blend of Celtic, jazz, and classical chamber music inspired a generation of Irish musicians....
  • The Nolans
    The Nolans

    The Nolans are a group of sisters from the Republic of Ireland and England, who performed as a pop vocal act. The group, best-known for their song "I'm In The Mood For Dancing", gained prominence as guest performers on numerous UK television shows....
  • Oppenheimer
    Oppenheimer (band)

    Oppenheimer are an indie pop electronica band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The band is made up of musicians Shaun Robinson and Rocky O'Reilly....
  • OTT
    OTT (boyband)

    OTT were a short lived 4-piece Ireland boyband of the late 1990s who released one album This One's For You in 1997. The album featured two singles but was not successful and the band were soon dropped by their record label....
     - boyband
  • Owen's
    Owen's

    Owen's may refer to:*Owen's Defense, a chess opening*Owen's Market, an Indiana grocery chain owned by Kroger...
  • Panda Kopanda
    Panda Kopanda

    Panda Kopanda is a band from Belfast, Northern Ireland.Panda Kopanda combines the contrasting talents of classically-trained siblings Jonny Agnew and David Agnew with self-taught musicians Gavin Reid and John Mills ....
  • Patrick Street
    Patrick Street

    Patrick Street is an Ireland folk group.The band was formed in Dublin in 1986 with Kevin Burke on fiddle, Jackie Daly on button accordion, Andy Irvine on bouzouki and vocals, and Arty McGlynn on guitar....
  • Pay*Ola
    Pay*Ola

    Pay*Ola are a Northern Irish hard rock band formed in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1998 in music.The band consists of:*Philip McCarroll *Nick Joseph ...
  • Picturehouse
    Picturehouse

    Picturehouse was a specialty film production company formed in 2005 as a joint-venture of New Line Cinema and HBO Films, both divisions of Time Warner....
  • Planxty
    Planxty

    Planxty is an Ireland folk music band formed in the 1970s, consisting, in its original configuration, of Christy Moore , D?nal Lunny , Andy Irvine , and Liam O'Flynn ....
  • Podracer
  • The Pogues
    The Pogues

    The Pogues are a band of mixed Irish and English background, playing traditional Irish music with influences from punk rock and jazz, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan....
  • The Popes
    Shane MacGowan and The Popes

    Shane MacGowan and The Popes is a band formerly led by Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, who play a blend of rock music, and Irish folk music, sometimes referred to as Paddy Beat, borrowing from World Beat, a popular genre name in the 1980s....
  • Poor Man's Fortune
    Poor Man's Fortune

    Poor Man?s Fortune is a band from Austin, Texas, USA, who play traditional Irish music, traditional Scottish music and traditional Breton music....
     - traditional Irish band
  • Power of Dreams
    Power of Dreams

    Power of Dreams were a Dublin-based pop/rock band, built around Craig and Keith Walker. They released their critically acclaimed Extended play "A Little Piece of God" on Keith Cullen's Setanta Records in 1989....
  • Primordial
    Primordial (band)

    Primordial is a black metal band formed in 1991 in Skerries, Dublin, Ireland, by P?l MacAmlaigh and Ciar?n MacUiliam . The band's roots stretch back to 1987 when P?l and Ciar?n first began playing together with P?l's brother, Derek....
  • The Punters


Music - Groups - Q to Z

  • The Radiators From Space
    The Radiators From Space

    The Radiators From Space are an Republic of Ireland punk rock band . The band formed in 1976 in Dublin, consisting of Philip Chevron , Pete Holidai, Steve Rapid, Jimmy Crashe and Mark Megaray....
  • Rare
    Rare (band)

    Rare were a band in the 1990s from Derry, Northern Ireland. The line-up consisted of singer Mary Gallagher, Locky Morris, John O'Neill and David Whiteside, Morris and ?'N?ill being the main songwriters....
  • Real Friends Break Chairs
    Real Friends Break Chairs

    Real Friends Break Chairs are an alternative rock band based in Derry, Northern Ireland.They consist of Emmet Colton , Daniel Douglas , Paul McAdams , and Peter Baber ....
  • The Redneck Manifesto
    The Redneck Manifesto (band)

    The Redneck Manifesto are an instrumental rock band from Dublin, Ireland. Its members are Mervyn Craig , Richard Egan , Niall Byrne , Matthew Bolger and Neil O'Connor ....
  • Republic of Loose
    Republic of Loose

    Republic of Loose is an Ireland funk rock band....
  • Rodrigo y Gabriela
    Rodrigo y Gabriela

    Rodrigo y Gabriela are a Mexican musical duo who specialize in playing fast, rhythmic classical guitars. The duo's members are Rodrigo S?nchez, lead guitar, and Gabriela Quintero, rhythm guitar ....
  • Rollerskate Skinny
    Rollerskate Skinny

    Rollerskate Skinny were an Ireland Musical band that enjoyed its greatest success during the 1990s....
  • Ryan's Fancy
    Ryan's Fancy

    Ryan?s Fancy was a musical group active from the 1960s until the 1980s, all three of whose members were Ireland immigrants to Canada.Denis Ryan , Fergus O'Byrne, and Dermot O'Reilly, were originally members of the Sons of Erin....
  • Sack
    Sack (band)

    Sack is a Dublin-based 5-piece band. To date they have released 3 albums, You Are What You Eat, Butterfly Effect & Adventura Majestica. The band was formerly known as "Lord John White"...
  • St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band
    St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band

    The St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band is a Grade One pipe band based in Dublin, Ireland. The band was established in 1910.It has been competing for many years and features regularly in the top six prize list at the major pipe band championships including the European, British, Scottish and World Pipe Band Championships....
  • The Saw Doctors
    The Saw Doctors

    The Saw Doctors are a folk-rock band from Tuam, County Galway in the west of Ireland. Taking their name from itinerant craftsmen who once traveled from sawmill to sawmill sharpening and repairing saws, the Saw Doctors have a fervent following, especially in Ireland and among Irish-Americans in the United States....
  • The Script
  • Self Aid
    Self Aid

    Self Aid was a benefit concert held in Dublin, Republic of Ireland on 17 May 1986. The concert performances were primarily by Irish musicians, although Elvis Costello and Chris Rea were designated "honorary Irishmen" for the day....
  • Seraphim
    Seraphim (Irish group)

    Seraphim is an Ireland classical music, Jazz and Music of Ireland vocal group.In concert, Seraphim have performed Britten Ceremony of Carols, Haydn Missa St Aloysii, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Stabat Mater....
  • Six
    Six (band)

    The Ireland band Six was formed on the television programme Irish Popstars in 2002. The programme aired on RT? One on Sunday nights in the autumn and winter of 2001-02....
  • Sixstarhotel
    Sixstarhotel

    Sixstarhotel, are an alternative rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 2001. The group have released three self-financed EP's Circus Music, Everyone's a Critic, These Rosewood Theories and released their debut album A Kind of Crusade in January 2007....
  • Skara Brae
  • Skelpin
    Skelpin

    Skelpin is an Irish folk music group based in San Diego, California. They perform a fusion of Music of Ireland and Spanish Flamenco, with Middle-Eastern percussion....
  • Skid Row
    Skid Row (blues-rock band)

    Skid Row was a Dublin Rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s fronted by Brush Shiels . It was guitarist Gary Moore's first professional band....
  • Skindive
    Skindive

    Skindive are an Ireland Electronica/rock music band formed in the late 1990s in Dublin. The band incorporates electronic music sounds into often harsh and Ambient music music and comparisons are often drawn to the band Garbage because of the juxtaposition of heavily distorted guitars and clean female vocals....
  • Snow Patrol
    Snow Patrol

    Snow Patrol are an Ireland alternative rock band which formed in Dundee, Scotland. They are based in Glasgow and are signed to Polydor Records....
     - rock band
  • Solas (group)
  • Solas (liturgical)
    Solas (liturgical)

    Solas is an Irish liturgical music group and resource entity formed in 1991, performing, recording and distributing original church music by local, and mostly Roman Catholic, composers....
  • Something Happens
    Something Happens (band)

    Something Happens were an Ireland pop-rock band whose heyday was the late 1980s ? early 1990s. The band?s line-up comprised Tom Dunne , Ray Harman , Alan Byrne and Eamonn Ryan .They shot to prominence with the single Burn Clear which was featured on the soundtrack of 1988 Irish movie the Courier....
  • Stalag 17
    Stalag 17 (band)

    Stalag 17 were an anarcho-punk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland that existed from 1980 to 1987....
  • The Starjets
    The Starjets

    The Starjets were a late 1970s power pop/punk rock musical ensemble from Belfast, Northern Ireland.The band consisted of guitarist/vocalist Terry Sharpe, guitarist/vocalist Paul Bowen, bassist Sean Martin and drummer Liam L'Estrange....
  • Stiff Little Fingers
    Stiff Little Fingers

    Stiff Little Fingers are a Punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk....
     - punk
    Punk rock

    Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
     band
  • Stockton's Wing
    Stockton's Wing

    Stockton's Wing is an Ireland band formed in 1977 by four All-Ireland champion musicians - Paul Roche flute/whistle, Maurice Lennon fiddle, Tommy Hayes bodhran, and Kieran Hanrahan banjo/mandolin, along with Tony Callinan on guitar and vocals....
  • The Sultans Of Ping FC
    The Sultans Of Ping FC

    The Sultans of Ping FC are an Republic of Ireland musical ensemble formed in 1988 by Niall O'Flaherty, Pat O'Connell, Paul Fennelly and Ger Lyons....
  • Surly
    Surly (band)

    Surly is an Ireland alternative rock band from Limerick City. Mike Noonan, Kieran Nunan, Liam O'Byrne and Kevin Quigley met when attending Crescent College....
  • Sweeney's Men
    Sweeney's Men

    Sweeney's Men was an Ireland traditional band. They were a part of the late 1960s Irish roots revival, along with groups like The Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers....
  • Sweet Savage
    Sweet Savage

    Musical Style Sweet Savage's music is a mixture of hard rock & heavy metal, with its heaviness of two guitars, thundering bass & powerhouse drums....
  • Tamalin
    Tamalin (band)

    Tamalin is a family-based band from west Belfast who originally began playing Music of Ireland in the early 1980s under the name The McSherrys. Toward the end of the 1980s they were joined by long term friend Kevin Dorris on bouzouki and subsequently changed the name of the group to Tamalin....
  • Taste
    Taste (band)

    Taste was an Irish rock band formed in the 1960s and is most noted for the fact that musician Rory Gallagher was an original member....
  • Téada
    Téada

    T?ada is a traditional Irish music group from Ireland. The band comprises five members. The members are Ois?n Mac Diarmada who plays the fiddle and sings vocals, Paul Finn on button accordion, Damien Stenson on the flutes and various whistles, Se?n Mc Elwain on the bouzouki and the guitar and Tristan Rosenstock who plays the bodhr?n....
  • That Petrol Emotion
    That Petrol Emotion

    That Petrol Emotion was a Northern Ireland, London based musical ensemble with an United States singing, Steve Mack....
  • Them
    Them (band)

    Them was a Northern Ireland group formed in Belfast in April 1964 in music, most prominently known for the garage rock standard "Gloria " and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career....
  • Therapy?
    Therapy?

    Therapy? are an alternative metal musical ensemble from Northern Ireland. The band was formed in 1989 by guitarist/vocalist Andy Cairns from Ballyclare and drummer Fyfe Ewing from Larne, Northern Ireland....
  • The Thrills
    The Thrills

    The Thrills are an Ireland indie rock musical ensemble, formed in 2001 in Dublin. The band is made up of lead vocalist Conor Deasy, guitarist Daniel Ryan, guitarist and bass player P?draic McMahon, pianist Kevin Horan and drummer Ben Carrigan....
  • Those Nervous Animals
    Those Nervous Animals

    Those Nervous Animals is an Irish rock band formed in Sligo in 1981....
  • Thin Lizzy
    Thin Lizzy

    Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Republic of Ireland in 1969. The band were led throughout their recording career by Bass guitar, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott, and are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak " and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major international hits still played regula...
  • Tír na nÓg
    Tír na nÓg (band)

    T?r na n?g are an Republic of Ireland Folk music band formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969 by Leo O'Kelly and Sonny Condell. They are often considered as one of the first progressive folk music bands with other artists like Nick Drake or group like Pentangle ....
  • Toasted Heretic
    Toasted Heretic

    Toasted Heretic was an Ireland rock group who attracted a cult following in the late 1980s and 1990s....
  • Toxic Waste
    Toxic Waste (band)

    Toxic Waste were an Anarcho punk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland....
  • Trinití
    Trinití

    Trinit? was a Dublin-based female vocal trio....
  • Turn
    Turn (band)

    Turn were an Ireland musical ensemble. They formed in 1998 when lead singer/guitarist Ollie Cole and drummer Ian Melady joined forces with Dublin bass player Gavin Fox, who they met at a Dublin recording studio....
  • The Undertones
    The Undertones

    The Undertones are a Northern Irish punk rock/power pop band formed in Derry in 1976.The original line-up released four recording studio albums — The Undertones , Hypnotised , Positive Touch and The Sin of Pride — before disbanding in 1983....
  • U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
  • The Answer
    The Answer (band)

    The Answer are an Irish people hard rock and blues rock band from Newcastle, County Down and Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. They have achieved success with their debut album Rise selling in excess of 30,000 copies in the UK & Europe, 10,000 on day one in Japan and 100,000 worldwide on the whole....
  • The Vipers
    The Vipers

    The Vipers were one of the leading Republic of Ireland New Wave music groups of the late 1970s. An incendiary live act fronted by Paul Boyle and virtuoso guitarist George Sweeney, they built up a loyal following in their home country and gigged with the likes of The Clash and The Jam....
  • The Virgin Prunes
    The Virgin Prunes

    The Virgin Prunes was an Ireland gothic rock band. The band formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1986 after the departure of member Gavin Friday. The rest of the band continued on without him for a while as The Prunes, but they too ended activities by 1990....
  • VNV Nation
    VNV Nation

    VNV Nation are an electronic music band originally from Wexford and London, now based in Hamburg, that combines elements of trance , synthpop and electronic body music , into what they call futurepop....
  • The Waterboys
    The Waterboys

    The Waterboys are a band formed in 1983 by Mike Scott . The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland and England....
  • Waylander
    Waylander (band)

    Waylander is an Ireland band influential in the realms of Celtic metal folk metal. Formed in 1993, the band blends historical Irish folk with 1990s Heavy metal music....
  • Westlife
    Westlife

    Westlife is an Irish pop band that was formed on July 3, 1998.The group's original lineup comprised Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden....
  • Whipping Boy
    Whipping Boy (Irish band)

    Whipping Boy were an influential Republic of Ireland rock music band who were active in the 80s and 90s, and who reformed in 2005 in music....
  • Whoopsadaisies
    Whoopsadaisies

    Whoopsadaisies were a short-lived rock band from Dublin, Ireland. They released a 3-track CD single, Forget You, on Hunter S. Records in 1995 and promptly disappeared from the scene....
  • Wilt
    Wilt

    * Wilt May is Greg May's son* Wilting is the loss of rigidity of non-woody plants, usually in the leaves.* Wilt is a 1976 in literature novel by Tom Sharpe....
  • Wolfe Tones
    Wolfe Tones

    The Wolfe Tones are an Irish rebel music band deeply rooted in Folk music of Ireland. They are named after the Irish rebel and patriot Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double entendre that a wolf tone is a spurious sound that can affect instruments of the violin family....
  • Wreck of the Hesperus
    Wreck of the Hesperus

    Wreck of the Hesperus are a doom metal band from Ireland, based in Dublin. The band first played together in January 2004 and they recorded their first demo, a four-track effort entitled Terminal Dirge in June 2004....


Dance

  • Jean Butler
    Jean Butler

    Jean Butler , is an United States Irish dancer and choreographer whose mother is from Co. Mayo in Ireland. She began training in Irish dance at the age of four with the widely respected teacher Donny Golden....
     - Irish Dancer
  • Michael Flatley
    Michael Flatley

    Michael Ryan Flatley is an Irish-American Irish dance, flautist and choreographer who became internationally known through his theatre musicals, Riverdance, Lord of the Dance and others....
     - Irish/American step dancer
  • Gene Kelly
    Gene Kelly

    Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an United States dancer, actor, singer, film director, Film producer, and choreographer.A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen....
     - Irish/American dancer, actor, singer, director, choreographer
  • Lola Montez
    Lola Montez

    Eliza Rosanna Gilbert , better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Ireland-born dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Countess of Landsfeld....
     (Eliza Gilbert) - dancer, courtesan
  • Dame Ninette de Valois
    Ninette de Valois

    Dame Ninette de Valois, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an Irish dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet....
     - ballet
  • Bill Whelan
    Bill Whelan

    Bill Whelan, is the Ireland composer who was asked to compose a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The end result, Riverdance, was a seven-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish dancing and celtic music....
     - composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....


Writing


Writing - A to C
  • Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander
    Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander

    Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander , was a hymn-writer and poetess.She was born in Dublin, the daughter of Major John Humphreys and Elizabeth ....
  • William Allingham
    William Allingham

    William Allingham was an Ireland man of letters and poet.He was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent....
     - poet
  • John Banville
    John Banville

    John Banville is an Ireland novelist and journalist. His novel, The Book of Evidence , was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award....
     - novelist
  • George Barrington
    George Barrington

    George Barrington was an Ireland pickpocket and later a policeman.Barrington was born at Maynooth, was the son of a working silversmith named Waldron, or Captain Barrington, English troop commander....
  • Sebastian Barry
    Sebastian Barry

    Sebastian Barry is an Ireland playwright, novelist, and poet. He is the son of the late Irish actress Joan O'Hara....
     - novelist, Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Samuel Beckett
    Samuel Beckett

    Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish people writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalism....
     - Saoi
    Saoi

    Saoi , is the highest honour that members of Aosd?na, an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts, can bestow upon a fellow member....
  • Brendan Behan
    Brendan Behan

    Brendan Francis Behan was an Irish literature poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also a committed Irish Republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army ....
     - playwright, novelist
  • Maeve Binchy
    Maeve Binchy

    Maeve Binchy is an Ireland novelist, columnist and Orator. Educated at University College Dublin, she worked as a teacher, then a journalist at The Irish Times and later become a writer of novels and short stories....
     - novelist
  • Dermot Bolger
    Dermot Bolger

    Dermot Bolger is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet born in Finglas, a suburb of Dublin.His work is often concerned with the articulation of the experiences of working-class characters who, for various reasons, feel alienated from society....
     - novelist, Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Clare Boylan
    Clare Boylan

    File:BoylanClare.jpgClare Boylan was an Irish people author, journalist and critic for newspapers, magazines and many international broadcast media....
     - Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Patrick Brontë
    Patrick Brontë

    Reverend Patrick Bront? was an Ireland Anglican curate and writer, who spent most of his adult life in England and was the father of the writers Charlotte Bront?, Emily Bront? and Anne Bront?, and of Patrick Branwell Bront?, his only son....
     - poet
  • Stephen Brown (author)
    Stephen Brown (author)

    Stephen James Meridith Brown was an Ireland Roman Catholic Church priest, writer, bibliographer and librarian. He founded the Central Catholic Library in Dublin....
     - writer, bibliographer
  • J. B. Bury
    J. B. Bury

    John Bagnell Bury , known as J.B. Bury, was an eminent Ireland historian, classics, :Category:Byzantinists and philologist....
     - historian
  • William Carleton
    William Carleton

    William Carleton was an Ireland novelist.Carleton's father was a tenant farmer, who supported fourteen children on as many acres, and young Carleton passed his early life among scenes similar to those he later described in his books....
     - novelist
  • Marina Carr
    Marina Carr

    Marina Carr is an Ireland playwright.Born in Tullamore, County Offaly, Carr attended University College Dublin before holding posts as writer-in-residence at the Abbey Theatre and Trinity College Dublin....
     - Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Seathrún Céitinn
    Geoffrey Keating

    Seathr?n C?itinn, known in English language as Geoffrey Keating, was a 17th century Ireland Roman Catholic Church priest, poet and historian....
     (Geoffrey Keating)
  • Austin Clarke
    Austin Clarke (poet)

    Austin Clarke was one of the leading Irish poetry of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote Play , novels and memoirs. Clarke's main contribution to Irish poetry was the rigour with which he used technical means borrowed from classical Irish language poetry when writing in English....
  • Brian Cleeve
    Brian Cleeve

    Brian Brendon Talbot Cleeve, was a prolific writer and popular TV broadcaster. Son of an Irish father and English mother, he was born and raised in England....
     - author
  • Brian Coffey
    Brian Coffey

    Brian Coffey was an Ireland poet and publisher. His work was informed by his Catholicism and by his background in science and philosophy, and his connection to surrealism....
     - poet
    Poet

    A poet is a person who writes poetry....
  • Eoin Colfer
    Eoin Colfer

    Eoin Colfer is an Republic of Ireland author and comedian. He is most famous as the creator of the Artemis Fowl , but he has also achieved success with other books....
     - author
  • Florence Conry
    Florence Conry

    Florence Conry ; in Irish Flaithri O'Maolconaire ) was an Irish Franciscan and theologian, founder of the Irish College of St. Anthony at Louvain, and Archbishop of Tuam....
     (Flaithri O'Maolconaire) - writer, translator
  • Eoghan Corry
    Eoghan Corry

    Eoghan Corry is an Ireland columnist, author of sports history, and founding story-editor of the Gaelic Athletic Association Museum at Croke Park, Dublin, Republic of Ireland....
     - journalist and author
  • Anthony Cronin
    Anthony Cronin

    Anthony Cronin is an Irish poetry. He received the Marten Toonder Award for his contribution to Irish literature.He is a founding member of Aosd?na, was elected Saoi of Aosd?na in 2003 and is a member of its governing body, the Toscaireacht....
     - Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....


Writing - D to K
  • Thomas Osborne Davis
    Thomas Osborne Davis

    Thomas Osborne Davis may refer to:*Thomas Osborne Davis , Saskatchewan parliamentarian*Thomas Osborne Davis , Young Ireland writer and politician...
     - writer, poet
  • Seamus Deane
    Seamus Deane

    Seamus Deane is an Irish people poet, critic and novelist.Deane was born into a Roman Catholic Irish nationalism family. He attended the well known St....
     - Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Eamon Delaney
    Eamon Delaney

    Eamon Delaney is an Ireland author and journalist.Delaney was a student in University College Dublin. He was Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society from 1985 to 1986....
  • Denis Devlin
    Denis Devlin

    Denis Devlin was, along with Samuel Beckett and Brian Coffey, one of the generation of Ireland modernist poetry poets to emerge at the end of the 1920s....
     - poet
    Poet

    A poet is a person who writes poetry....
  • Roddy Doyle
    Roddy Doyle

    Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991 in film....
     - novelist
  • Margaretta Eagar
    Margaretta Eagar

    Margaretta Alexandra Eagar, also known as Margaret Eagar, , was a nanny for the four daughters of Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse, known collectively as OTMA: The Grand Duchesses Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia ; Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia ; Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ;...
     - memoirist
  • Garth Ennis
    Garth Ennis

    Garth Ennis is an Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the DC Comics/Vertigo Comics series Preacher , co-created with artist Steve Dillon, and his successful revival of Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise....
     - comic writer
  • Sir Samuel Ferguson
    Samuel Ferguson

    Sir Samuel Ferguson was an Irish poetry, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. Perhaps the most important Ulster-Scot poet of the 19th century, because of his interest in Irish mythology and early History of Ireland he can be seen as a forerunner of William Butler Yeats and the other poets of the Celtic Twilight....
     - poet
  • Roderick Flanagan
    Roderick Flanagan

    Roderick Flanagan was an Australian historian, anthropologist, poet, newspaper proprietor, and journalist. He was born in Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland and died when he was 34 years of age in East London, after spending 22 years in Australia....
     - Historian
  • Brian Friel
    Brian Friel

    Brian Friel is an Irish people dramatist and theatre director from Northern Ireland....
     - playwright
    Playwright

    A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
    , Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an United States writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself....
     - ((novelist))
  • Oliver Goldsmith
    Oliver Goldsmith

    Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield , his pastoral poem The Deserted Village , and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer ....
     - novelist and dramatist
  • Oliver St. John Gogarty
    Oliver St. John Gogarty

    Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty was an Ireland physician and ear surgery, poet and author, one of the most prominent Dublin wits. He was also a football player for Bohemian F.C....
  • Augusta, Lady Gregory - playwright and founder of the Abbey Theatre
    Abbey Theatre

    The Abbey Theatre , also known as the National Theatre of Ireland , is a theatre located in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The Abbey first opened its doors to the public on 27 December 1904, and despite losing its original building to a fire in 1951, has remained active to the present day....
  • Hugo Hamilton
    Hugo Hamilton

    Hugo Hamilton is an Irish people writer....
     - author
  • Dermot Healy
    Dermot Healy

    Dermot Healy is an Ireland novelist, playwright, and poet. He has won the Hennessy Award , the Tom Gallon Award , and the Encore Award .Healy is a member of Aosd?na and of its governing body, the Toscaireacht, and lives in Sligo, Ireland....
     - Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Randolph Healy
    Randolph Healy

    Randolph Healy is an Irish poetry and publisher.Healy was born in Scotland and moved to Dublin at the age of 18 months. After leaving school at the age of 14 to work in a number of jobs, he returned to full-time education and graduated in mathematical sciences from Trinity College, Dublin....
     - Poet
    Poet

    A poet is a person who writes poetry....
  • Seamus Heaney
    Seamus Heaney

    Seamus Heaney is an Irish people poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin....
     - Saoi
    Saoi

    Saoi , is the highest honour that members of Aosd?na, an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts, can bestow upon a fellow member....
     of Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
    , Nobel Laureate
    Nobel Prize in Literature

    The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" ....
  • Aidan Higgins
    Aidan Higgins

    Aidan Higgins is an Ireland writer.His upbringing in a landed family Catholic family in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, provided material for his first experimental novel, Langrishe, Go Down ....
     - Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Pat Ingoldsby
    Pat Ingoldsby

    Pat Ingoldsby is an Republic of Ireland poet. He has hosted children's TV shows, written plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories, and been a newspaper columnist....
     - poet, playwright, television performer
  • Jennifer Johnston
    Jennifer Johnston

    Jennifer Johnston is an Ireland novelist, winner of the Whitbread Book Awards for The Old Jest in 1979, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in [1977]....
     - Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Neil Jordan
    Neil Jordan

    Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
     - author, film director, Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • James Joyce
    James Joyce

    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
     - novelist
  • Trevor Joyce
    Trevor Joyce

    Trevor Joyce is an Ireland poet, born in Dublin.He co-founded New Writers' Press in Dublin in 1967 and was a founding editor of NWP's The Lace Curtain; A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism in 1968....
     - poet
    Poet

    A poet is a person who writes poetry....
  • Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
    Herminie Templeton Kavanagh

    Herminie T. Kavanagh was an Irish ethnicity-American writer, most known for her short stories.She was born Herminie McGibney, the daughter of Major George McGibney of County Longford, Ireland....
     - author
  • Patrick Kavanagh
    Patrick Kavanagh

    Patrick Kavanagh was an Ireland poet and novelist. He is regarded as one of the foremost poets of the 20th Century, and his best known works include the novel Tarry Flynn and the poem On Raglan Road....
     - poet
  • Phil Kelly - author
  • Benedict Kiely
    Benedict Kiely

    Benedict "Ben" Kiely was an Irish author and broadcaster from Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland....
     - Saoi
    Saoi

    Saoi , is the highest honour that members of Aosd?na, an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts, can bestow upon a fellow member....
     of Aosdána
    Aosdána

    Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
  • Caitlín R. Kiernan
    Caitlin R. Kiernan

    Caitl?n Rebekah Kiernan is the author of many science fiction and dark fantasy works, including six novels, many comic books, more than one hundred published short stories, novellas, and Vignette s, and numerous scientific papers....
     - American novelist and paleontologist
  • Sister Mary Frances Cusack - the "Nun of Kenmare", patriot and controversialist


Writing - L to P
Mary Lavin
Mary Lavin

Mary Josephine Lavin was a noted Irish people short story writer and novelist. She is regarded as a pioneering female author in the traditionally male-dominated world of Irish letters....
 - Saoi
Saoi

Saoi , is the highest honour that members of Aosd?na, an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts, can bestow upon a fellow member....
 of Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Francis Ledwidge
Francis Ledwidge

Francis Ledwidge was an Ireland poet from County Meath, sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", killed in action near Ypres, Belgium during World War I....
 - poet Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic Literature tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and had a seminal influence on the development of this genre in the Victorian era....
 - gothic novelist C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist....
 - author of the Chronicles of Narnia Michael Longley
Michael Longley

Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet.Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus ....
 - Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Seosamh Mac Grianna
Seosamh Mac Grianna

Seosamh Mac Grianna was an Ireland writer, under the pen-name Iolann Fionn. He was born into a family of poets and storytellers, which included his brothers S?amus ? Grianna and Se?n B?n Mac Grianna, in Ranafast, County Donegal, at a time of linguistic and cultural change....
 - Gaelic author Walter Macken
Walter Macken

Walter Macken , was born in Galway, Ireland. He was a writer of short stories, novels and plays. Originally an actor, principally with the Taibhdhearc in Galway, and The Abbey Theatre, he played lead roles on Broadway theatre in M....
 - novelist James Clarence Mangan
James Clarence Mangan

James Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan was an Irish poetry....
 - poet Malachi Martin
Malachi Martin

Fr. Malachi Brendan Martin Doctor of Philosophy Jesuit was a former Jesuit priest, theologian, writer on the Roman Catholic church and professor at the Vatican Pontifical Biblical Institute....
 - horror writer Edward Martyn
Edward Martyn

Edward Martyn of Tullira Castle, Ardrahan, Co. Galway, Ireland. Ireland political and cultural activist, playwright, last of the senior branch of the Martyn family of Tullira, one of The Tribes of Galway....
 - playwright, art patron and political activist Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt

Francis "Frank" McCourt is an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, best known as the author of Angela's Ashes. Brother of author and actor Malachy McCourt ....
 - writer Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh is a contemporary English-born Irish people playwright and film director....
 - playwright John McGahern
John McGahern

John McGahern was an Irish ethnicity author....
 - novelist, Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Frank McGuinness
Frank McGuinness

Frank McGuinness is an award-winning Irish playwright, translation and poet....
 - Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Gerard McKeown
Gerard McKeown

Gerard McKeown is a writer from Ballymena, Northern Ireland. A graduate of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, he is best known for his performance poetry, which draws as much from disciplines such as stand up comedy and bardic story telling as it does poetry....
 - writer John Montague
John Montague (poet)

John Montague is an Irish poet. He was born in New York and brought up in Tyrone. He has published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and a two volumes of memoir....
 - poet Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was an Irishman poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer....
 - poet Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University....
 - poet Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy (poet)

Richard Murphy is an Irish poetry. He was awarded the ? Memorial Award ; first prize, Guinness Awards, Cheltenham ; British Arts Council Awards ; Marten Toonder Award ; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ; and American-Irish Foundation Award ....
 - poet, Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan (author)

Christopher Nolan was an Ireland poet and author, son of Joseph and Bernadette Nolan. He grew up in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin to attend college....
 - poet, Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien is an Irish novelist and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men and to society as a whole....
 - novelist, Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Seán O'Casey
Seán O'Casey

Se?n O'Casey was a major Irish theatre dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes....
 - playwright Frank O'Connor
Frank O'Connor

Frank O?Connor was an Irish author of over 150 works, who was best known for his short story and memoirs....
 - short story writer Ulick O'Connor
Ulick O'Connor

Ulick O'Connor is an Irish literature writer, historian and critic.Born in Rathgar, County Dublin, he attended St. Mary's College, Rathmines and later University College Dublin, and read law and philosophy, becoming known as a keen sporting participant , as well as a distinguished debater, during his time there ...
 - Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Máirtín Ó Díreáin
Máirtín Ó Direáin

M?irt?n ? Dire?in born in Sruth?n on Inishmore in the Aran Islands was an Irish language poet.The son of a small-farmer, M?irt?n ? Dire?in spoke only Irish language until his mid-teens....
 - Irish-language poet,Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Harry O'Donovan
Harry O'Donovan

Harry O'Donovan was an Ireland comedy scriptwriter, stage manager and actor....
 - scriptwriter Seán Ó Faoláin
Seán Ó Faoláin

Se?n Proinsias ? Faol?in was an Irish short story writer. He was elected Saoi of Aosd?na in 1986.Born as John Francis Whelan in Cork , Sean ? Faol?in wrote his first stories in the 1920s....
 - Saoi
Saoi

Saoi , is the highest honour that members of Aosd?na, an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts, can bestow upon a fellow member....
 of Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Liam O'Flaherty
Liam O'Flaherty

Liam O'Flaherty was a significant Ireland novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Celtic Revival.Liam was born in the remote village of Gort na gCapall, on Inishmore , county Galway....
 - novelist, short story writer Brian O'Nolan
Flann O'Brien

Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist and satirist, best known for his novels An B?al Bocht, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman written under the pen name Flann O'Brien....
 (aka Myles na gCopaleen - Flann O'Brien
Flann O'Brien

Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist and satirist, best known for his novels An B?al Bocht, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman written under the pen name Flann O'Brien....
) - novelist/columnist Philip O'Sullivan Beare
Philip O'Sullivan Beare

Philip O'Sullivan Beare was an Irish soldier who became more famous as a writer.He was son of Dermot O'Sullivan and nephew of Donal O'Sullivan Beare, Lord of Dunboy....
- writer, historian James Plunkett
James Plunkett

James Plunkett was the pen-name adopted by James Plunkett Kelly , an Irish writer. He was educated at Synge Street CBS.Plunkett grew up among the Dublin working class and they, along with the petty bourgeoisie and lower intelligentsia, make up the bulk of the dramatis personae of his oeuvre....
- Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....


Writing - R to Z
George William Russell
George William Russell

Not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell .George William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym ? , was an Irish people Irish Nationalism, writer, editor, critic, poet, and painter....
 - (known under the pen-name AE), writer and critic Maurice Scully
Maurice Scully

Maurice Scully is an Irish poetry and editor who works in the Modernist poetry tradition. Scully was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited the student literary magazine, Icarus ....
 - poet George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish people playwright.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays....
 - novelist, playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright and British Whig Party statesman....
 - playwright James Simmons - poet Michael Smith
Michael Smith (poet)

Michael Smith is an Irish people poet, author and translator. He was one of the founders of New Writers Press in Dublin . He is possibly most noted for his works on James Clarence Mangan, as well as his Spanish language to English language poetry translations....
 - poet Paul Smith
Paul Smith (Irish writer)

Paul Smith was an Irish writer and playwright....
 - novelist, playwright Annie P. Smithson - novelist Geoffrey Squires
Geoffrey Squires

Geoffrey Squires is an Irish poetry who works in what might loosely be termed the Modernist poetry tradition....
 - poet Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne was an Ireland-born England novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published Sermons of Laurence Sterne, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics....
 - novelist Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Ireland novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Horror fiction novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, London in London, which Irving owned....
 - author of Dracula
Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 in literature novel by Irish people author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature....
 Francis Stuart
Francis Stuart

Henry Francis Montgomery Stuart was an Ireland writer. His novels have been described as having a thrusting modernism iconoclasm. Awarded the highest artistic accolade in Ireland before his death in 2000, his unwillingness to take a clear moral stance with regard to his years spent in Nazi Germany has led to a great deal of controversy....
 - Saoi
Saoi

Saoi , is the highest honour that members of Aosd?na, an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts, can bestow upon a fellow member....
 of Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satire, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Dublin....
 - Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, formally known as The National Cathedral and Collegiate Church of Saint Patrick, Dublin or in the Irish language as ?rd Eaglais Naomh P?draig, founded in 1191, is the larger of Dublin's two Church of Ireland cathedrals, and the largest church in Ireland....
, Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
, novelist and satirist John Millington Synge
John Millington Synge

Edmund John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre....
 - dramatist William Trevor
William Trevor

Sir William Trevor, Order of the British Empire is an Ireland author and playwright....
 - writer, Aosdána
Aosdána

Aosd?na is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland....
 William Wall
William Wall

William Wall is an Ireland novelist, poet and short story writer. He was born in Cork City in 1955, but grew up in the coastal village of Whitegate....
 - novelist, poet Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
 - novelist, poet, satirist William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats

File:William Butler Yeat by George Charles Beresford.jpgWilliam Butler Yeats was an Irish people poet and dramatist and one of the foremost figures of 20th century in literature....
 - poet and Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" ....


Business

Donie Cassidy
Donie Cassidy

Donal Cassidy is an Irish people businessman and Fianna F?il politician. He is currently a member of the 23rd Seanad ?ireann, elected in the 2007 election....
 - businessman and TD
Teachta Dála

A Teachta D?la is a member of D?il ?ireann, the lower chamber of the Oireachtas of Republic of Ireland. The official translation of Teachta D?la is Deputy to the D?il, a more literal translation is...
 Bill Cullen
Bill Cullen (businessman)

Bill Cullen is an Ireland businessman and philanthropist. He owned the Renault franchise until it was taken under more direct control by Renault in 2007....
 - businessman and television personality Niall FitzGerald
Niall FitzGerald

Niall FitzGerald, Order of the British Empire is an Irish businessman. Niall grew up in Limerick, Ireland and was educated at St Munchin's College in Limerick and he graduated with a degree in Commerce from University College Dublin....
 - honorary KBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
, chief executive Unilever
Unilever

Unilever is a multi-national corporation, formed of United Kingdom-Netherlands parentage that owns many of the world's consumer product brand names in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
 Arthur Guinness
Arthur Guinness

Arthur Guinness was an Irish people brewer and the founder of the Guinness Brewery business and Guinness family....
 - brewer Eddie Hobbs
Eddie Hobbs

Eddie Hobbs is an Irish celebrity financial advisor....
 - financial guru, presenter of Show Me the Money and Rip-Off Republic
Rip-Off Republic

Rip-Off Republic was an RT? Television program highlighting the cost of living and working in Ireland. It was presented by Eddie Hobbs and was broadcast on Mondays at 21:30 on RT? One during late August and early September 2005....
 Phil Kelly - multi-millionaire entrepreneur, Author " Asia 360 -The Culture of Building Business in Asia" Pat McDonagh
Pat McDonagh

Patrick "Pat" McDonagh is the founder of Supermac's - a major Irish fast food franchiser. A former school teacher, he is now a multi-millionaire....
 - founder of Supermac's
Supermac's

Supermac's is a major Ireland fast food restaurant chain. Their restaurants are in the Republic of Irelandand Northern Ireland....
 J.P. McManus - businessman Dermot Mannion
Dermot Mannion

Dermot Mannion is the Chief executive officer of Aer Lingus, Republic of Ireland's national airline.Mannion was born in 1958 in Sligo, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, one of eight children ....
 - CEO
Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking Corporate title or Administration in charge of total management of a corporation, company, non-profit organization, or government agency, reporting to the board of directors....
 of Aer Lingus
Aer Lingus

Aer Lingus is the flag carrier airline of Republic of Ireland. Based at Dublin Airport, it operates 46 Airbus aircraft serving Europe, Africa and North America....
 Denis O'Brien
Denis O'Brien

Denis O'Brien, , is an Irish ethnicity entrepreneur. An Arts graduate of University College Dublin, O'Brien received an MBA in corporate finance from Boston College in 1982 and holds an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin....
 - highly successful entrepreneur and founder of Esat Telecom Michael O'Leary
Michael O'Leary (Ryanair)

Michael O'Leary is Chief Executive Officer of the Irish airline Ryanair. He is one of Republic of Ireland's wealthiest businessmen....
 - colourful CEO of Ryanair
Ryanair

Ryanair is an Ireland Low-cost carrier airline, with headquarters in Dublin International Airport and its largest operational bases at Dublin International Airport and London Stansted Airport....
 David J. O'Reilly
David J. O'Reilly

David J. O'Reilly is the chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation. He graduated from University College, Dublin, in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and went to work with Chevron Research Co....
 - CEO of Chevron
Chevron

Chevron may refer to:*The general shape of a V character, or a triangular shape pointing up or more often, down.*The punctuation mark seen in Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages , used to enclose vertically-written titles, acting as quotation mark....
 Anthony J F O'Reilly
Tony O'Reilly

Anthony Joseph Francis O'Reilly also known as Tony O'Reilly and Dr A.J.F. O'Reilly, is an Irish businessman and former rugby union player....
 - Independent Newspapers
Independent Newspapers

This article refers to the New Zealand company. For the Ireland company formerly of the same name, see Independent News and Media.Independent Newspapers Limited was a media concern in New Zealand....
 and head of Heinz
H. J. Heinz Company

H. J. Heinz Company , commonly known as Heinz, famous for its "57 Varieties" slogan, is an American processed-food product company with its world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
, 1979-1996 Seán Quinn
Seán Quinn

Se?n Quinn is an entrepreneur from Derrylin, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was born 5 December 1947, the son of a small farmer, and left school at 14 years of age....
 - multi-millionaire entrepreneur Tony Ryan
Tony Ryan

Thomas Anthony "Tony" Ryan was an Ireland millionaire, philanthropist and businessman.He was a founder of Guinness Peat Aviation and co-founder of Ryanair with Christy Ryan and Liam Lonergan....
 - founder of Ryanair
Ryanair

Ryanair is an Ireland Low-cost carrier airline, with headquarters in Dublin International Airport and its largest operational bases at Dublin International Airport and London Stansted Airport....
 and Guinness Peat Aviation
Guinness Peat Aviation

Guinness Peat Aviation was a Commercial Aircraft Sales and Leasing company set up in 1975 by Aer Lingus, the Guinness Peat Group and Tony Ryan, then an Aer Lingus executive....
 Peter Sutherland
Peter Sutherland

Peter Denis Sutherland, KCMG is an Republic of Ireland businessman and former politician, associated with the Fine Gael party. He is a barrister by profession, and is also Senior Counsel....
 - Chairman of BP
BP

BP plc , is the third largest global energy corporation, a multinational corporation oil company with headquarters in London. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ....
 Plc, and Chairman of Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs , is a bank holding company that engages in investment banking, Security services, and investment management....
 International and formerly Ireland's representative at the European Commission
European Commission

The European Commission is the executive of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Treaties of the European Union and the general day-to-day running of the Union....


Politics


Science, Education and Technology


Thomas Andrews
Thomas Andrews (scientist)

Thomas Andrews Royal Society , was a chemistry and physics who did important work on phase transitions between gases and liquids....
 - chemist & physicist Francis Beaufort
Francis Beaufort

Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society was a hydrographer and officer in Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland's Royal Navy....
 (1774-1857) - hydrographer, developed a scale for classifying wind strength John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell

John Stewart Bell was a physicist, and the originator of Bell's Theorem, one of the most important theorems in quantum mechanics....
 (1928-1990) - atomic physicist, 'Bell's Inequalities' John Desmond Bernal
J. D. Bernal

John Desmond Bernal Fellow of the Royal Society was an Irish-born scientist known for pioneering X-ray crystallography....
 (1901-1971) - X-ray crystallography George Boole
George Boole

George Boole was anEngland mathematician and philosopher.As the inventor of Boolean Logic, which is the basis of modern digital computer logic, Boole is regarded in hindsight as one of the founders of the field of computer science....
 (1815-1864) - inventor of Boolean algebra Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle was an Irish People theologian, natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and early gentleman scientist, noted for his work in physics and chemistry....
 (1627-1691) - pioneer scientist, 'Boyle's Law' Louis Brennan
Louis Brennan

Louis Brennan was an Irish Australian mechanical engineer and inventor.Brennan was born in Castlebar, Ireland, and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1861 with parents....
 (1852-1932) - principle of a guided missile, wire-guided torpedo Pádraig de Brún
Pádraig de Brún

Monsignor P?draig de Br?n was an Irish clergyman, mathematician and classical scholar, who served as President of University College Galway.De Br?n was born at Grangemockler, County Tipperary, in 1889, the son of a primary school teacher....
 (1889-1960) - scholar and mathematician Lucien Bull
Lucien Bull

Lucien Bull was a pioneer in chronophotography.External links...
 (1876-1972) - high speed photography, modern electrocardiogram (ECG) Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Dame of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society is a British astrophysics who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis advisor Antony Hewish, for which he won a Nobel Prize....
 (1943- ) - discovered pulsars Nicholas Callan
Nicholas Callan

Father Nicholas Joseph Callan was a Ireland priest and scientist from Darver, County Louth, Ireland. He was Professor of Natural Philosophy in St Patrick's College, Maynooth near Dublin from 1834, and is best known for his work on the induction coil....
 (1799-1864) - inventor of the induction coil
Induction coil

An induction coil or "spark coil" is a type of disruptive discharge coil. It is a type of electrical transformer used to produce high-voltage pulses from a low-voltage Direct current supply....
 and discoverer the principle of the dynamo (See link: http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/callan.html) Aeneas Coffey
Aeneas Coffey

Aeneas Coffey was born in Calais, France, where he spent his early years. His family returned to Dublin , where he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin....
 (1780-1852) - heat exchanger, inventor of the Coffey still William Monad Crawford
William Monad Crawford

William Monad Crawford was an Ireland Indian Civil Service in India and entomologist.William Monad Crawford's father was a wealthy linen manufacturer....
 - entomologist William Dargan
William Dargan

William Dargan , an engineer, often seen as the father of Irish railways came from County Laois, Ireland. Born in 1799, he constructed Ireland's first railway from Dublin to D?n Laoghaire in 1833....
 - railway engineer
Engineer

An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of engineering. Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints....
 Frederick G. Donnan
Frederick G. Donnan

Frederick George Donnan Fellow of the Royal Society was an Irish people chemist who spent most of his career at University College London. He served as Head of Department from 1928 to 1937....
 - chemist
Chemist

A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape....
 Michael Everson
Michael Everson

Michael Everson is a linguistics, Character encoding, typesetting, and font designer. His central area of expertise is with writing systems of the world, specifically in the representation of these systems in formats for computer and digital media....
 - expert in writing system
Writing system

A writing system is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language....
s and Unicode
Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
, born in USA Henry George Ferguson - engineer, designer of the modern farm tractor, inventor of the three-point hitch George Francis FitzGerald (1851-1901) - theoretical physicist, 'Fitzgerald-Lorenz Contraction' John Robert Gregg
John Robert Gregg

John Robert Gregg is the creator of the eponymous shorthand system Gregg Shorthand....
 (1868-1948) - Gregg shorthand system William Rowan Hamilton
William Rowan Hamilton

Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Ireland physicist, astronomer, and mathematician, who made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra....
 - quaternions; mathematical physics John Phillip Holland (1841-1914) - submarine designer Ellen Hutchins
Ellen Hutchins

Ellen Hutchins was an Ireland botanist.Hutchins was from Ardnagashel, Ballylickey, where her family has a small estate on the shores of Bantry Bay, County Cork....
 (1785-1815) - botanist John Joly
John Joly

John Joly was an Irish physicist, possibly most famous for his development of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer. He is also known for developing techniques to accurately estimate the age of a geology period, based on radioactive elements present in minerals....
 (1857-1933)- photometer, colour photography Lord Kelvin - see William Thomson Richard Kirwan
Richard Kirwan

Richard Kirwan Fellow of the Royal Society was an Ireland scientist. He is remembered today, if at all, for being one of the last supporters of the theory of phlogiston....
 (1733-1812) - meteorologist Robert Mallet
Robert Mallet

Robert Mallet FRS , Ireland geologist, civil engineer, and inventor who distinguished himself in research on earthquakes and is sometimes called the father of seismology....
 (1810-1881) - seismology Alexander Mitchell
Alexander Mitchell (engineer)

Alexander Mitchell, was an Irish people engineer who from 1802 was blindness. He is known as the inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse. He was a native of Dublin, and received his formal education at Belfast Academy where he excelled in mathematics....
 (1780-1868) - lighthouse and marine engineer Richard O'Keefe
Richard O'Keefe

Dr Richard A. O'Keefe is a computer science, currently working in Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.He concentrates on languages for logic programming and functional programming ....
 - computer scientist Frank Pantridge
Frank Pantridge

James Francis "Frank" Pantridge, Doctor of Medicine, CBE was a physician and cardiologist from Northern Ireland who transformed emergency medicine and paramedic services with the invention of the portable defibrillator....
 - Inventor of the mobile defibrilator George Stokes (1819-1903) - mathematician, physicist, 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations' George Johnstone Stoney
George Johnstone Stoney

George Johnstone Stoney was an Ireland physicist most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity"....
 (1826-1911) - atomic physicist, named the 'electron' and measured its charge John Lighton Synge
John Lighton Synge

John Lighton Synge was an Ireland mathematician and physicist....
 (1897-1995) - mathematician William Thomson
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , Order of Merit , Royal Victorian Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Presidents of the Royal Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, was an Ireland-born United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Mathematical physics and engineer....
 - Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), physicist John Tyndall
John Tyndall

John Tyndall Fellow of the Royal Society was a prominent 19th century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism....
 (1820-1893) - physicist Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton - physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
 Mary Ward
Mary Ward

Mary Ward may refer to:* Mary Ward , 1585 - 1645, foundress of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, an order of Roman Catholic nuns ** Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School, a high school in Toronto, Canada, named after her...
 (1827-1869)- microscopist John Walker
John Walker

| |}John Walker may refer to:...
 (1841-1910) - principle and forerunner of the caterpillar track John Richardson Wigham
John Richardson Wigham

This article concerns the Irish-based inventor and lighthouse engineer, not his cousin the shipbuilder John Wigham RichardsonJohn Richardson Wigham was one of the greatest figures in lighthouse engineering....
 (1829-1906) - inventor and lighthouse engineer

Sport

Packie Bonner
Packie Bonner

Patrick Joseph Bonner is a former football goalkeeper for the Republic of Ireland national football team, who earned 80 cap after making his debut on his 21st birthday....
 - soccer player George Best
George Best

George Best was a Northern Irish professional association football player, best known for his years with Manchester United F.C.. He was a winger whose game combined pace, acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to beat defenders....
 - soccer player Andre Botha (cricketer)
Andre Botha (cricketer)

Andre Cornelius Botha , is a South African-born Ireland cricket team...
 - cricketer Tom Brady
Tom Brady

Thomas Edward "Tom" Brady, Jr. is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. After playing college football at University of Michigan, Brady was drafted by the Patriots in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft....
 - quarterback for the New England Patriots of the NFL Jeremy Bray (cricketer)
Jeremy Bray (cricketer)

Jeremy Paul Bray is an Australian-born Ireland cricketer. He is a left-handed top order batsman. Bray was the Player of the Championships at the 1992-93 Australian Under-19 Cricket Championships in Brisbane and was selected for the Australian Under-19 side, playing two Youth Tests and one Youth ODI....
 - cricketer Andrew Bree
Andrew Bree

Andrew Bree is a breaststroke swimmer from Helen's Bay, Co. Down Northern Ireland.He became the first Irish person to win a medal at the European SC Championships at the National Aquatic Centre, Dublin in December 2003....
 - swimmer Brian Burke
Brian Burke

Brian Thomas Burke was Labor premier of Western Australia from 25 February 1983 until his resignation on 25 February 1988. Burke was imprisoned for seven months in 1994, after being convicted of rorting travel expenses....
 - general manager of the Anaheim Ducks (National Hockey League) John Pius Boland
John Pius Boland

John Mary Pius Boland was an Nationalist Party politician, and Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party for South Kerry 1900-1918....
 - double Olympic medal-winner/tennis,1896 Nicky Byrne
Nicky Byrne

Nicholas Bernard James Adam Byrne is the oldest member of the popular Irish people pop music band , Westlife....
 - soccer player, singer of Westlife
Westlife

Westlife is an Irish pop band that was formed on July 3, 1998.The group's original lineup comprised Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden....
 Kenny Carroll
Kenny Carroll

Kenneth Edward Desmond Carroll is an Ireland cricketer. Educated at , Stillorgan, and currently works for the Irish postal service, An Post. He is a right-handed batsman and a slow left-arm chinaman bowler....
 - cricketer Michael Carruth
Michael Carruth

Michael Carruth is a southpaw Irish people Olympic Games Boxing from Dublin, Ireland who won the welterweight gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona....
 - Olympic gold medal winner/boxing Eamonn Coghlan
Eamonn Coghlan

Eamonn Christopher Coghlan is a 3-time Olympic Games and world championship winning athlete. Coghlan an Irishman was born in Drimnagh, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland and later also became a naturalized United States citizen....
 - runner Enda Colleran
Enda Colleran

Enda Colleran was a famous Republic of Ireland sports person who played Gaelic football for Mountbellew and County Galway in the 1960s.Enda Colleran is considered one of the outstanding players of Gaelic football in the 20th Century....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Ray Cummins
Ray Cummins

Ray Cummins is a retired Irish people sportsperson. A dual player at the highest levels, he played hurling with his local club Blackrock GAA and was a member of the Cork GAA senior inter-county team from 1969 until 1982....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Liam Daish
Liam Daish

Liam Sean Daish is an Republic of Ireland former association football player who played as a defender . Since 2005 he has been head coach of Conference National team Ebbsfleet United F.C....
 - soccer player Gordon D'Arcy
Gordon D'Arcy

Gordon William D'Arcy is an Irish rugby team player, more specifically an Rugby union positions#12. Inside centre & 13. Outside centre. He plays his club rugby for the Irish provincial and Magners League side Leinster....
 - rugby union
Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
 player Paul Darragh
Paul Darragh

Paul Darragh was an Republic of Ireland Equestrianism who competed in the sport of show jumping. He was on the winning team in the Aga Khan three years in a row from 1977 to 1979 with the mare Heather Honey....
 - showjumper Ronnie Delany - Olympic medal winner/athletics Ken Doherty
Ken Doherty

Ken Doherty is an Republic of Ireland professional snooker player. He is the only player ever to have been world amateur and World Snooker Championship champion ....
 - former World Snooker champion John Doyle
John Doyle (hurler)

John Doyle , is a former Republic of Ireland sportsperson. He played hurling with his local Holycross-Ballycahill GAA club from the 1940s until the 1970s and was a member of the Tipperary GAA senior inter-county team from 1949 until 1967....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Mick Doyle
Mick Doyle (rugby player)

Mick Doyle was an Ireland national rugby union team player and coach.Doyle was born in Castleisland, County Kerry, and began playing rugby union at Newbridge College, County Kildare....
 - rugby union
Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
 player Mick Doyle
Mick Doyle (kickboxer)

Mick Doyle was an Ireland Muay Thai trainer and coach.Michael J. Doyle was born in Dublin Ireland in 1967. Raised in a tough neighborhood, Mick?s father, Robbie, thought it would be a good idea that his son had some training in the Martial Arts....
 - Muay Thai
Muay Thai

Muay Thai is a form of hard martial art practiced in large parts of the world, including Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. The art is similar to others in Southeast Asian such as: pradal Serey in Cambodia, lethwei in Myanmar, tomoi in Malaysia, and Lao boxing in Laos....
 and kickboxing Damien Duff
Damien Duff

Damien Anthony Duff is an Republic of Ireland Association football. He currently plays as a Midfielder#Winger for Premier League club Newcastle United F.C....
 - soccer player Kieran Dynes
Kieran Dynes

Kieran Dynes, born in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, is a former NASCAR driver. He made his Nascar debut in Oct 2000. This came in the Busch Series race at Memphis Motorsports Park in Memphis, Tennessee....
- NASCAR Driver Eamon Dunphy
Eamon Dunphy

Eamon Martin Dunphy is a controversial Republic of Ireland media personality and former professional Association football player. He is best known for performing complicated analytical techniques as part of Radio Telef?s ?ireann's coverage of the UEFA Champions League, for which he has gained widespread popularity among his peers....
 - former soccer player, media commentator and broadcaster Seamus Elliott
Seamus Elliott

Seamus 'Shay' Elliott was an Ireland road bicycle racer.Shay Elliott was the first Irish cyclist to make a mark as a professional rider in continental Europe....
 - professional cyclist Dave Finlay
Dave Finlay

David Edward Finlay, Jr. is a Professional wrestling and Road agent . He currently wrestles on the Extreme Championship Wrestling brand of World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring name Finlay....
 - current WWE
World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated arts and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales....
 wrestler Seán Flanagan
Seán Flanagan

Se?n Flanagan was a senior Fianna F?il politician and Gaelic footballer in Ireland. He served under Taoiseach Jack Lynch as Minister for Health and Children and Minister for Lands ....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Sharon Foley
Sharon Foley

Sharon Foley is an Irish former Athletics from Lifford, County Donegal from 1989 to 2003. Competing for Lifford A.C., she specialised in the High Jump and was outdoor national champion in 1989, 1990, 1993 and 1995....
 - track and field athlete Mick Galwey - rugby player and coach Edmond Gibney
Edmond Gibney

Edmond Gibney, originally from Kilskyre, Kells, Co. Meath, Ireland , is an Irish Olympic Three Day Eventing rider who represented Ireland in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
 - equestrian Shay Given
Shay Given

S?amus John James "Shay" Given , is an Republic of Ireland Association football who plays as a Goalkeeper for Manchester City and the Republic of Ireland national football team....
 - soccer player Johnny Giles
Johnny Giles

Michael John Giles is an Republic of Ireland former association football midfielder who played for Leeds United A.F.C. in the 1960s and 1970s, and is now known as a football pundit....
 - soccer player Peter Gillespie
Peter Gillespie

Peter Gerard Gillespie is an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm Fast bowling Bowler , he had played for the Ireland cricket team 116 times up to the start of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, including twelve first-class cricket matches and 35 List A cricket matches, four of which were One Day International....
 - cricketer Pádraig Harrington
Padraig Harrington

P?draig Harrington is an Irish people professional golfer. He has won three men's major golf championships; The Open Championship in 2007 Open Championship and 2008 Open Championship and the PGA Championship, also in 2008 PGA Championship....
 - golfer Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed
Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed

Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed was a United Kingdom pioneer of mountaineering in a time when it was almost unheard of for a woman to climb mountains....
 - 19th century mountaineer Kevin Heffernan
Kevin Heffernan (Gaelic footballer)

Kevin Heffernan is a former Republic of Ireland sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with the Dublin GAA senior inter-county team in the 1940s and 1950s....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Denis Hickie
Denis Hickie

Denis Anthony Hickie born 13 February 1976 in Dublin, Ireland is a retired professional rugby union footballer employed by the Irish Rugby Football Union....
 - rugby player Ray Houghton
Ray Houghton

Raymond James Houghton is a retired Scotland footballer who represented the Republic of Ireland national football team at international level, qualifying through his Ireland father....
 - soccer player Ellen Hutchins
Ellen Hutchins

Ellen Hutchins was an Ireland botanist.Hutchins was from Ardnagashel, Ballylickey, where her family has a small estate on the shores of Bantry Bay, County Cork....
 - botanist Eddie Jordan
Eddie Jordan

Edmund "Eddie" Jordan is the founder and former owner of Jordan Grand Prix, a Formula One constructor which operated from 1991 to 2005....
 - racing driver and Formula 1 team owner Trent Johnston
Trent Johnston

David Trent Johnston usually known as Trent Johnston is an Australian-born Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm Fast bowling Bowler , he had played for the Ireland cricket team 49 times as of 18 April 2007 and has continued to represent them since that date, playing in five Friends Provident Trophy matches in 2007...
 - cricketer John Keane
John Keane (hurler)

John Keane was an Republic of Ireland sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Mount Sion GAA and with the Waterford GAA senior inter-county team in the 1930s and 1940s....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Robbie Keane
Robbie Keane

Robert David "Robbie" Keane is an Republic of Ireland football , currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur F.C.. He is also the current Captain and all-time record goalscorer for the Republic of Ireland national football team....
 - soccer player Roy Keane
Roy Keane

Roy Maurice Keane is an Republic of Ireland former professional Association football and the former Coach of England Premier League club Sunderland A.F.C.....
 - soccer player Eddie Keher
Eddie Keher

Edward Peter Keher , better known as Eddie Keher, is a retired Irish people sportsperson. He played hurling with his local Rower-Inistioge GAA club from the 1950s until the 1980s and was a member of the Kilkenny GAA senior team from 1959 until 1977....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Seán Kelly
Seán Kelly (cyclist)

Se?n James Kelly is an Republic of Ireland former professional road bicycle racer. Kelly was one of the most successful road cyclists of the 1980s, and one of the finest Classic cycle races riders of all time....
 - cyclist Andy Keogh
Andy Keogh

Andrew Declan "Andy" Keogh is an Republic of Ireland Republic of Ireland national football team Association football Forward , currently playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C....
 - soccer player Joe Keohane
Joe Keohane

Joe Keohane can refer to the following people:* Joe Keohane , former editor of the Weekly Dig* Joe Keohane , former Republic of Ireland Gaelic footballer for the Kerry GAA...
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Michael Kinane
Michael Kinane

Michael J. Kinane is a flat racing jockey. His father, Tommy Kinane was a leading National Hunt jockey who won the Champion Hurdle on Monksfield....
 - jockey Ham Lambert
Ham Lambert

Noel Hamilton "Ham" Lambert was an Irish cricketer and Rugby Union player. By profession a Veterinary Surgeon, he was noted for being the first in Ireland to own a practice devoted to the care of companion animals....
 - rugby union
Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
 and cricket
Cricket

Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
 player Tommy Langan
Tommy Langan

Tommy Langan was an Irish Gaelic footballer from County Mayo. He played for the Ballycastle club and the Mayo GAA county team....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of he Football Team of the Millennium Dave Langford-Smith
Dave Langford-Smith

David "Dave" Langford-Smith is an Australian-born Irish cricketer who, on 13 June 2006, became the first man to take a wicket in a One Day International for Ireland, when he dismissed Ed Joyce at Belfast....
 - cricketer Jim Langton
Jim Langton

Jim Langton was an Republic of Ireland sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club ?ire ?g GAA and with the Kilkenny GAA senior inter-county team from 1939 until 1954....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Alan Lewis
Alan Lewis

David Alan Lewis is an Irish former cricketer and current Rugby Union referee. His father Ian Lewis also played cricket for Ireland....
 - rugby referee Jack Lynch
Jack Lynch

John Mary "Jack" Lynch was the fourth Taoiseach of Republic of Ireland, serving two terms in office; 1966 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979.Lynch was first elected to D?il ?ireann as a Teachta D?la for Cork in 1948, and was re-elected at each general election until his retirement in 1981....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium , politician Eddie Macken
Eddie Macken

Eddie Macken is a legendary Republic of Ireland equestrianism show jumping, who was a member of the famed Irish team - along with Paul Darragh, Capt....
 - horse showjumper Mick Mackey
Mick Mackey

Michael ?Mick? Mackey was a famous Irish people sportsperson. He played hurling with the famous Ahane GAA club from 1930 until 1948 and was a member of the Limerick GAA senior inter-county team from 1930 until 1947....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Owen Madden
Owen Madden (footballer)

Owen Madden is a former Irish football who played for as a forward in the Football League of Ireland and the Football League. Madden was a dual Irish international footballers and played for both Ireland teams - the Ireland national football team and the Ireland national football team ....
 - soccer player Daniel Marten
Daniel Martin (cyclist)

Daniel Martin is a Republic of Ireland racing cyclist who currently rides for Team Garmin-Chipotle. In 2004 he was the British National Junior Road Race Champion, before deciding to ride for Ireland....
 - cyclist Dave McAuley
Dave McAuley

Dave McAuley, born June 15 1961 in Larne, Northern Ireland is a former professional Boxing. During his professional career he held the International Boxing Federation world title in the Flyweight category.He was arguably the UK's greatest ever Flyweight....
 - boxer
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 Kevin McBride
Kevin McBride

Kevin Martin McBride is an Republic of Ireland boxing, who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.The 6'6" McBride debuted in December 1992, with a victory against Gary Charlton....
 - boxer Willie John McBride
Willie John McBride

William James McBride, Member of the Order of the British Empire, better known as Willie John McBride is a former rugby union footballer who played as a for Ireland national rugby union team and the British and Irish Lions....
 - rugby union
Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
 player Kyle McCallan
Kyle McCallan

William Kyle McCallan, usually known by his middle name is an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and off spin Bowler , he has played more times for the Ireland cricket team than any other player, more than 40 caps ahead of the next player in the table, the retired Peter Gillespie....
 - cricketer David McCann
David McCann

David McCann is an Ireland professional road bicycle racer for the Taiwan-based UCI Continental team Giant Asia Racing team.McCann was the Ireland National Cycling Championships in 2000, 2001 and 2006....
 - cyclist Mick McCarthy
Mick McCarthy

Michael Joseph "Mick" McCarthy is an English-born Irish former professional football , who is currently the Coach of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.....
 - former Republic of Ireland soccer manager Wayne McCullough
Wayne McCullough

Wayne William McCullough is a professional Boxing. During his professional career, which spans back to 1993, he held the World Boxing Council world title in the Bantamweight category....
 - Olympic Silver Medalist/Boxing John McEnroe
John McEnroe

John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is an American former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player. McEnroe won seven Grand Slam title singles titles?three at Wimbledon Championships and four at the U.S....
 - former World's No. 1 tennis player Paul McGinley
Paul McGinley

Paul McGinley is an Republic of Ireland professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He is most famous for holing the winning putt for the European team in the 2002 Ryder Cup....
 - golfer Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath (footballer)

Paul McGrath is a former Association football Defender , a long-time member of the Republic of Ireland national football team. He was one of the first Irish people celebrities of Multiracial background....
 - soccer player Barry McGuigan
Barry McGuigan

Finbar Patrick McGuigan Order of the British Empire, more commonly known as Barry McGuigan , nicknamed the Clones Cyclone, is a former professional boxing who became a world Featherweight champion....
 - former world Featherweight
Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing and wrestling ....
 boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 champion Catherina McKiernan
Catherina McKiernan

Catherina McKiernan is a long-distance Running from Ireland, who competes in the marathon , Long-distance track event and Cross-country running....
 - athlete
Athletics (track and field)

Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping....
 Jimmy McLarnin
Jimmy McLarnin

James Archibald McLarnin, known as Jimmy McLarnin , was an Irish Canadian professional boxing who became two time List of welterweight boxing champions and an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee....
 - boxer
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 Lory Meagher
Lory Meagher

Lorenzo Ignatius Meagher , better known as Lory Meagher, was a famous Irish Free State sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Tullaroan GAA and was a member of the Kilkenny GAA senior inter-county team from 1924 until 1937....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium John Mooney
John Mooney (cricketer)

John Francis Mooney is an Ireland cricketer....
 - cricketer Paul Mooney
Paul Mooney (cricketer)

Paul John Kevin Mooney is an Irish people cricketer.A member of the successful North County Cricket Club, Mooney is a medium-pace Bowler and competent Batting order batsman....
 - cricketer Eoin Morgan
Eoin Morgan

Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan is an Irish cricketer. He is a batsman, part-time right-arm medium bowler and an occasional wicket-keeper. He plays in English county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club....
 - cricketer Geordan Murphy
Geordan Murphy

Geordan Edward Andrew Murphy is an Ireland rugby union rugby player and plays Rugby union positions#15. Full back or Rugby union positions#14....
 - rugby union
Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
 player Seán Murphy
Seán Murphy (footballer)

Se?n Murphy is an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning Gaelic footballer from County Kerry in Ireland....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Tommy Murphy
Tommy Murphy (Gaelic Footballer)

Tommy Murphy was a famous Gaelic footballer for County Laois, Ireland.Tommy Murphy was born in Graiguecullen, County Laois in 1921. He was educated in the nearby Knockbeg College in Carlow....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Kevin O'Brien
Kevin O'Brien (cricketer)

Kevin Joseph O'Brien in Dublin is an Ireland cricket team cricketer educated in Marian College, Ballsbridge. An allrounder, O'Brien is a hard hitting right-handed middle to lower order batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler....
 - cricketer Niall O'Brien
Niall O'Brien (cricketer)

Niall John O'Brien is an Irish cricketer educated at Marian College, Ballsbridge. He is a left-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. O'Brien's brother Kevin O'Brien plays with him in the Irish team....
 - cricketer Vincent O'Brien
Vincent O'Brien

Dr. Michael Vincent O'Brien is a retired Ireland horse racing horse trainer. He was born in Churchtown, County Cork, County Cork, Ireland. He is no relation to his namesake, Aidan O'Brien, another Irish race horse trainer....
 - Voted Greatest horse trainer of all time by Racing Post Pat O'Callaghan
Pat O'Callaghan

Dr. Patrick O'Callaghan , was an Irish people Athletics and Olympic Games Olympic Gold Medal. He was the first person from an independent Ireland to win an Olympic medal and is regarded as one of Ireland's greatest-ever athletes....
 - Olympic gold medal/hammer, 1928, 1932 Martin O'Connell
Martin O'Connell (footballer)

Martin O'Connell played Gaelic football for the Meath GAA in the 1980s and 1990s. He also played club football for St. Michaels.He made his Championship debut in 1984 against Westmeath GAA He won three All-Ireland Senior Football Championship titles under Sean Boylan, in 1987, 1988 and 1996, six Leinster titles, three National League titles...
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Mick O'Connell
Mick O'Connell

Mick O?Connell is a former Republic of Ireland sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with the Kerry GAA senior inter-county team from 1956 until 1973....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Patrick O'Connell
Patrick O'Connell (1887-1959)

Patrick Joseph O'Connell , also known as Paddy O?Connell or Patricio O'Connell, was an Irish football and manager. He played as a defender, most notably, for Sheffield Wednesday F.C., Hull City A.F.C....
 - Real Betis
Real Betis

Real Betis Balompi? is a Spanish football club in Seville founded in 1907. The team currently plays in La Liga. Its home stadium is the 52,700-seat Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera and its home colours are green and white....
/FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona , also known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Bar?a , is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
 manager, 1930s Paul O'Connell
Paul O'Connell

Paul O'Connell is an Republic of Ireland rugby union player who plays Rugby union positions#4. & 5. Lock for Munster Rugby and Ireland national rugby union team....
 - rugby player Cian O'Connor
Cian O'Connor

Ci?n O'Connor is an Republic of Ireland equestrianism who won a Show Jumping gold medal at the 2004 Olympics, which was later List of stripped Olympic medals from him due to Doping ....
 - show jumper who had Olympic gold medal taken from him Nick O'Donnell
Nick O'Donnell

Nick O'Donnell was an Republic of Ireland sportsperson. He played hurling at various times with his local clubs ?ire ?g GAA in Kilkenny and St....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Brian O'Driscoll
Brian O'Driscoll

Brian Gerald O'Driscoll is an Irish professional rugby union player. He is currently the captain of the Ireland national rugby union team and captained Leinster Rugby until the start of 2008 season....
 - rugby union
Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
 player Ronan O'Gara
Ronan O'Gara

Ronan John Ross O'Gara is a Republic of Ireland rugby union rugby player, occupying the position for both Munster Rugby and Ireland national rugby union team....
 - rugby union
Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
 player Dan O'Keefe
Dan O'Keefe

Daniel "Danno" O'Keeffe was an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning Gaelic footballer for Kerry GAA and for the Kerins O'Rahillys club....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Malcolm O'Kelly
Malcolm O'Kelly

Malcolm O'Kelly is an Irish rugby union player who currently plays as a Rugby union positions#4. & 5. Lock for Ireland national rugby union team and Leinster Rugby....
 - rugby union
Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
 player Jonjo O'Neill
Jonjo O'Neill

Jonjo O'Neill is an Ireland National Hunt horse racing Horse trainer and former jockey. He is a native of Castletownroche, County Cork in Ireland....
 - jockey
Jockey

In sport, a jockey is one who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing; however, camel jockey profession is slowly being replaced by robotics....
 Seán O'Neill
Seán O'Neill

Se?n O'Neill was a Gaelic footballer with Down GAA. He was born in Newry, County Down....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Tony O'Reilly
Tony O'Reilly

Anthony Joseph Francis O'Reilly also known as Tony O'Reilly and Dr A.J.F. O'Reilly, is an Irish businessman and former rugby union player....
 - rugby union
Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
 player Derval O'Rourke
Derval O'Rourke

Derval O'Rourke is an Irish Sprint hurdles Athletics . She competes internationally in the 60 metres hurdles and 100 metres hurdles, and is the Irish national record holder in both events....
 - World Indoor Champion and European Silver Medalist William Porterfield
William Porterfield

William Thomas Stuart Porterfield in Donemana, Northern Ireland, is an Ireland cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and has played for the Ireland cricket team since 2006, having lined up for the Under-19s since 2003....
 - cricketer J. J. O'Reilly - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Peter O'Sullevan - horse racing
Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrianism sport that has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot racing of Ancient Rome are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology....
 commentator Eddie O'Sullivan
Eddie O'Sullivan

Eddie O'Sullivan is the head coach of the USA national rugby union team rugby union team.former head coach of the Ireland national rugby union team rugby union team....
 - rugby coach Gillian O'Sullivan
Gillian O'Sullivan

Gillian O'Sullivan is an Republic of Ireland race walking. She has held the world record in the 5000m walk since 2002 and won a silver medal at the world championship in 2003 over 20km....
 - World Championships Silver Medalist Sonia O'Sullivan
Sonia O'Sullivan

Sonia O'Sullivan is an Republic of Ireland runner from Cobh, County Cork. She was one of the world's leading female 5000m runners for most of the 1990s and early 2000s....
 - Olympic silver medalist Paddy Phelan
Paddy Phelan

Paddy Phelan was an Republic of Ireland sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Tullaroan GAA and with the Kilkenny GAA senior inter-county team in the 1930s....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Seán Purcell
Seán Purcell

Se?n Purcell , nicknamed "The Master", was a famous Gaelic football for County Galway.Best known as a centre half forward, his versatility saw him used in virtually all outfield positions throughout an illustrious career....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Niall Quinn
Niall Quinn

Niall John Quinn Order of the British Empire is a former Republic of Ireland national football team international football er, and the current chairman of Sunderland A.F.C.....
 - soccer player Bobby Rackard
Bobby Rackard

Bobby Rackard was a famous Republic of Ireland sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Rathnure GAA and with the Wexford GAA senior inter-county team from 1945 until 1957....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Boyd Rankin
Boyd Rankin

William Boyd Rankin is an Irish cricketer. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler.Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, he is a tall bowler who stands at 6ft 8 inches and has a distinctive bouncing action in his bowling....
 - cricketer Tony Reddin
Tony Reddin

Martin Charles Reddington , better known as Tony Reddin, is a retired Irish people sportsperson. He played hurling at various times with his local clubs Mullagh GAA in Galway and Lorrha-Dorrha GAA in Tipperary fromthe 1930s until the 1950s....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Christy Ring
Christy Ring

Nicholas Christopher Michael Ring , better known as Christy Ring, was a famous Irish people sportsperson. He played hurling with the famous Glen Rovers GAA club from 1941 until 1967 and was a member of the Cork GAA senior inter-county team from 1939 until 1963....
 - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Nicholas Roche
Nicholas Roche

Nicolas Roche is an Ireland professional road bicycle racer. He turned professional at the end of 2004, one of the youngest Pro tour racers. Roche was told by French officials to choose between nationalities....
 - cyclist Stephen Roche
Stephen Roche

Stephen Roche is a retired professional road racing cyclist. In a 13-year professional career, he peaked in 1987, becoming only the second cyclist to win the Triple Crown of Cycling of victories in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia stage races, plus the world cycling championship....
 - cyclist Alain Rolland
Alain Rolland

Alain Colm Pierre Rolland is a former Ireland rugby union footballer and current international referee.Rolland had a French father and speaks fluent French language, supposedly making him an 'ideal neutral' referee for matches involving teams from Anglophone countries and France....
 - rugby referee Glenn Ross
Glenn Ross

Glenn Ross is a irish International Strongman and Powerlifter who has represented Ireland and the UK in three World's Strongest Man competitions and various World Grand Prix and European Team competitions....
- Strongman
Strongman (strength athlete)

In the 19th century, the term strongman or Justin Siedle referred to an exhibitor of strength or circus performers of similar ilk who displayed feats of strength such as the bent press , supporting large amounts of weight held overhead at arm's length, steel bending, chain breaking, etc....
 Mark Scanlon
Mark Scanlon

Mark Scanlon is an Ireland former professional road racing cyclist. Scanlon first came to prominence when he won the Junior race at the 1998 World Cycling Championship, on his 18th birthday....
- cyclist Tom Sharkey
Tom Sharkey

"Sailor" Tom Sharkey was a boxer who fought two fights with heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries. Sharkey's recorded ring career spanned from 1893 to 1904....
 - boxer
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 Mikey Sheehy
Mikey Sheehy

Mikey Sheehy is an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning Gaelic footballer from County Kerry in Ireland.Born in Tralee, Mikey Sheehy played for the Kerry GAA in the late 1970s and 1980s and was considered to be an extraordinary athlete, who could have played a variety of sports with success....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith is a retired Ireland swimmer. She was a triple gold medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, for the 400 m individual Medley swimming, 400 m Freestyle swimming and 200 m individual medley....
 - Multi gold medalist 1996 Olympics Des Smyth
Des Smyth

Des Smyth is an Republic of Ireland professional golfer.Smyth was born in in Drogheda, County Louth. He turned professional in 1974 and was a member of the PGA European Tour for over a quarter of a century....
 - golfer. Pat Spillane
Pat Spillane

Patrick Gerard "Pat" Spillane is a former Republic of Ireland sportsperson. He played senior Gaelic football with Kerry GAA from 1975 until 1991....
 - Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium Steve Staunton
Steve Staunton

Stephen Staunton is an Republic of Ireland former professional association football. He enjoyed a distinguished career with Liverpool F.C. and Aston Villa F.C., and became the Republic of Ireland national football team's most capped player....
 - soccer player Jim Stynes
Jim Stynes

Jim Stynes Order of Australia is a well known Irish Australian who came to fame as a gaelic footballer who converted to Australian rules football at the age of eighteen....
 - Champion Australian rules football
Australian rules football

Australian football, or simply known as football, footy, Aussie rules or as AFL, is a team sport played between two teams of 18 players with a football in the shape of a prolate spheroid....
er Bob Tisdall
Bob Tisdall

Robert Morton Newburgh Tisdall was an Irish athlete of English origin who won a gold medal in the 400 metre hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California....
 - Olympic gold medal/400mH, 1932 John Treacy
John Treacy

John Treacy is a former Irish Athletics and Olympic medalist.Treacy went to school at Cappoquin, Co. Waterford. He graduated from Providence College....
 - Olympic silver medal/marathon, 1984 Ruby Walsh
Ruby Walsh

Ruby Walsh is the reigning Ireland National Hunt champion jockey. He is the second child, and eldest son, of former champion amateur jockey Ted Walsh and his wife Helen....
 - jockey Ronnie Whelan
Ronnie Whelan

Ronald 'Ronnie' Andrew Whelan is a former Republic of Ireland national football team soccer midfielder who was an integral part of the dominant Liverpool F.C....
 - soccer player Brian Whelehan - member of the hurling
Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic Culture origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar....
 Team of the Millennium Andrew White
Andrew White (cricketer)

Andrew Roland White is an Ireland cricketer, who played in the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies, where Ireland reached the Super 8 stage....
 - cricketer Keith Wood
Keith Wood

Keith Gerard Mallinson Wood and educated at St Munchin's College, Limerick is a former international rugby union footballer who played for Ireland national rugby union team, the British and Irish Lions, Garryowen Football Club, Harlequin F.C....
 - rugby union
Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
 player Eddie Irvine
Eddie Irvine

Edmund "Eddie" Irvine, Jr. is a former racing driver from Northern Ireland. He grew up in Conlig, County Down, and was influenced by his parents, who were also involved in motor racing....
 - Formula 1 driver

Criminals

Martin Brennan
Martin Brennan

Martin Brennan may refer to:*Martin Brennan , Australian police superintendent and author of Australian Reminiscences.*Martin Brennan , Irish medical practitioner and Fianna F?il politician, TD from 1938?1948 ...
 - member of The Gopher Gang James J. Bulger
James J. Bulger

James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger, Jr. is a wanted fugitive and alleged leader of the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish American crime family operating in the region of Boston, Massachusetts....
 - mobster and fugitive Frank James Burke
Frank James Burke

Frank James Burke-Conway was the son of mobster Jimmy Burke and a Gambino crime family mob associate....
 - mobster son of Jimmy Burke Jimmy Burke - mobster associate in New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 John Connolly
John Connolly

John Connolly may refer to:*John Connolly *John P. Connolly , actor*John Connolly , Irish author whose best-known novels revolve around former policeman Charlie Parker...
 - FBI agent turned mobster associate James Coonan
James Coonan

James "Jimmy C" Coonan is an Irish-American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who is currently serving a 75 year prison term....
 - leader of The Westies Vincent Coll - mobster assassin John Gilligan
John Gilligan

John Gilligan is an Republic of Ireland criminal. A career criminal who was first convicted at age 15, it was after a 1993 prison stint that he began an organization that illegally imported cigarettes and later drugs....
 - drug-dealer Danny Greene
Danny Greene

Daniel "Danny" J. Patrick Greene was an Irish American mobster and associate of Cleveland, Ohio John Nardi during the gang war for the city's criminal operations during the late 1970s....
 - mobster associate Henry Hill
Henry Hill (mobster)

Henry Hill is a former United States mobster, Lucchese crime family associate, and FBI informant whose life was immortalized in the book Wiseguy , written by crime journalist Nicholas Pileggi, and the 1990 in film Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas, in which Hill was played by Ray Liotta....
 mobster associate of Jimmy Burke Owney Madden
Owney Madden

Owney "The Killer" Madden was a leading underworld figure in Manhattan, most notable for his involvement in organized crime during Prohibition....
 - mobster and Al Capone
Al Capone

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone , commonly nicknamed "Scarface", was an Italian-American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and Rum-running of alcoholic beverage and other illegal activities during the Prohibition in the United States Era of the 1920s and 1930s....
 rival William H. Bonney - better known as Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid

Henry McCarty , better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney, was a 19th-century American frontier outlaw and gunman who participated in the so-called Lincoln County War....
 Edward McLaughlin
Edward McLaughlin

Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin was a former boxer and a member of the "The McLaughlin Brothers" gang of Charlestown, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. After his brother Bernard McLaughlin was murdered in October 1961 by their former friend, "Winter Hill Gang" leader James "Buddy" McLean , Punchy and brother George McLaughlin murdered Russell Nichols...
 - brother of George, mobster Hughie Mulligan
Hughie Mulligan

Hughie Mulligan was a New York mobster and bookmaker who headed criminal activities of the "Irish Mob" in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan during the 1950s....
 - member of The Westies Bernard "Bernie" McLaughlin- brother of George and Edward, mobster Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane

Frank Morrison Spillane , better known as Mickey Spillane, was an United States author of crime fiction, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer....
 - independent Irish mobster William Walker
William Walker

William Walker may refer to:* William Walker , Australian rules footballer for University* William Walker * William Walker , an early governor of British Guiana...
 - member of The Westies Kevin Weeks
Kevin Weeks

Kevin "Two" Weeks is a former Irish-American mobster, and former lieutenant to Mob boss James Bulger of the Winter Hill Gang, an organized crime family from South Boston, Massachusetts....
 - Irish mobster Howie Winter
Howie Winter

Howie Winter is an United States mobster. He was the second leader of the infamous Winter Hill Gang....
 - leader of the Winter Hill Gang

Others

John Jameson
John Jameson

John Jameson was an United States farmer, lawyer, and politician from Fulton, Missouri. He represented Missouri in the United States House of Representatives....
 - inventor St. Aidan of Lindisfarne - saint Steve Allen
Steve Allen

Steve Allen may refer to:*Steve Allen , American musician, comedian, and writer*Steve Allen , presenter on the London-based talk radio station LBC 97.3...
 - Irish/American musician, comedian, writer and first host of The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show is a long-running American late-night talk show and variety show airing on NBC whose The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has been hosted by Jay Leno since 1992....
 Eamonn Andrews
Eamonn Andrews

Eamonn Andrews, Order of the British Empire was an Ireland-born television presenter based in England.Andrews was born in Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland, the same street as playwright George Bernard Shaw....
 - TV personality, producer and businessman Todd Andrews
Todd Andrews

Christopher Stephen "Todd" Andrews was an Irish public servant.Andrews was born in Dublin, but soon acquired the nickname "Todd", because of his perceived resemblance to an English comic strip hero....
 - civil servant Sir Alfred Chester Beatty
Alfred Chester Beatty

Sir Alfred Chester Beatty was a mining magnate and millionaire, often called the "King of Copper". United States-born, he was naturalised United Kingdom in 1933, and made an honorary citizen of Ireland in 1957....
 - mining magnate George Berkeley
George Berkeley

George Berkeley , also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an Irish people philosopher. His primary philosophical achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" ....
 - philosopher Jim Boyle
Jim Boyle

James Boyle is an United States politician in the State of Ohio, affiliated with the Democratic Party . He has served on the city council of South Euclid, Ohio, and is currently a candidate for the Ohio State Senate....
 - American politician Seán Brady
Seán Brady

Se?n Baptist Brady is the current Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. Comprising 61 parishes, 147 churches serving 210,000 Catholics, the Archdiocese of Armagh stretches from Magherafelt in the north to Drogheda in the south and includes most of counties County Armagh and County Louth and parts of counties Count...
 - Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
Primate of All Ireland

Primate of All Ireland is a title held by the Archbishop of Armagh , in both the Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland traditions, and signifies that within their respective churches they are the senior churchmen in the island of Ireland....
 St. Brigid - Irish saint and bishop Amanda Byram
Amanda Byram

Amanda Byram is an Irish television personality, originally from Castleknock in Dublin, Ireland.Formerly a Model , she started her career on television in 1999 presenting the TV3 Ireland morning show Ireland AM with Mark Cagney, during which she met her then boyfriend comedian Patrick Kielty....
 - broadcaster Gay Byrne
Gay Byrne

Gabriel Mary "Gay" Byrne is an Republic of Ireland broadcaster. He was the presenter of the The Late Late Show, from 1962 to 1999 except for one year....
 - broadcaster and presenter of the Late Late Show (1962-1999) Nellie Cashman
Nellie Cashman

Ellen Cashman , better known as Nellie Cashman, was a native of County Cork, Ireland, who became famous across the United States and Canadian west as a nurse and gold prospector....
 - gold prospector in the United States; born in County Cork Harry Clarke
Harry Clarke

Harry Clarke was an Ireland stained glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement....
 - stained glass
Stained glass

For the Blackford Oakes novel, see Stained Glass The term stained glass can refer to the material of coloured glass or the craft of working with it....
 artist Desmond Connell - Roman Catholic Cardinal
Cardinal (Catholicism)

A cardinal is a senior Ecclesiology official, usually a Bishop , of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope....
 of Ireland Tom Crean - explorer Jose de Ribas
José de Ribas

Jos? Pascual Domingo de Ribas y Boyons known in Russia as Osip Mikhailovich Deribas was a Russian admiral of Spanish-Irish origin. Son of the Spanish consul in Naples, he had been born in that city -then under Spanish rule- but he joined Russian Army as "member of the Spanish nobility" in 1772....
 - Imperial Russian Admiral, wars with Ottomans Moya Doherty
Moya Doherty

Moya Doherty is a Dublin-raised entrepreneur and the producer and co-founder of Riverdance, the worldwide acclaimed theatrical phenomenon, which premiered in Dublin?s Point Theatre in February 1995....
 - impressario Bishop James Doyle - bishop Jim Duffy
Jim Duffy (author)

Jim Duffy is an Ireland historian, political commentator and a policy advisor to the Irish leader of the Opposition, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny....
 - Irish advisor to Australia's Republic Advisory Committee
Republic Advisory Committee

The Republic Advisory Committee was a committee established by the then Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating in May 1993 to examine the constitutional and legal issues that would arise were Australia to become a republic....
 Saint Dymphna - Irish saint Margaretta Eagar
Margaretta Eagar

Margaretta Alexandra Eagar, also known as Margaret Eagar, , was a nanny for the four daughters of Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse, known collectively as OTMA: The Grand Duchesses Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia ; Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia ; Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ;...
 - Limerick Born Governess to the last Russian Royal Family Robin Eames
Robin Eames

Robin Henry Alexander Eames, Baron Eames, Order of Merit was the Anglican Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006....
 - Church of Ireland
Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating across the island of Ireland. Like other Anglican churches, it considers itself to be both Catholicism and Protestant Reformation....
 Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
Primate of All Ireland

Primate of All Ireland is a title held by the Archbishop of Armagh , in both the Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland traditions, and signifies that within their respective churches they are the senior churchmen in the island of Ireland....
 Johannes Scotus Erigena - theologian (b. 810) Michael Anthony Fleming
Michael Anthony Fleming

Michael Anthony Fleming was Roman Catholic Church bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland. He was principally responsible for changing a small mission with several priests in four parishes into a large diocese with over 40,000 congregants and was the single most influential Ireland immigrant to come to Colony of Newfoundland in the 19th century...
 - Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland Brian Gibbons
Brian Gibbons

Dr Brian Gibbons, Assembly Member, FRCGP has been the Wales Labour Party Assembly Member for Aberavon since May 1999. He was appointed Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Social Justice and Local Government in July 2007....
 - Welsh politician Glenda Gilson
Glenda Gilson

Glenda Gilson is an Irish people Model and television presenter from Castleknock, Dublin.Glenda Gilson grew up in the north-west Dublin suburb of Castleknock and began modelling from a young age to become one of Ireland's most well-known faces....
 - Irish model Veronica Guerin
Veronica Guerin

Veronica Guerin was an Ireland crime reporter who was murdered in 1996 by drug dealers, turning her into "a modern-day Irish saint"....
 - journalist, murdered by drug-dealers in 1996 Lady Mary Heath
Lady Mary Heath

Mary, Lady Heath , the Republic of Ireland aviation, began life as Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans in Knockaderry, County Limerick, in the town of Newcastlewest....
 - early aviator Sir William Johnson - pioneer settler of America Pat Kenny
Pat Kenny

Patrick "Pat" Kenny is a veteran Presenter in Republic of Ireland. He is the current presenter of The Late Late Show on RT? One and Today with Pat Kenny on RT? Radio 1 on weekdays between 10:00 and 12:00 midday....
 - broadcaster & presenter of the Late Late Show (1999-present) Lord Killanin
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin

Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Order of the British Empire, Territorial Decoration was an Irish journalism, author,, , sports official, the sixth president of the International Olympic Committee ....
 - former head of the International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
 Peter Lacy
Peter Lacy

Count Peter von Lacy, or Pyotr Petrovich Lacy , as he was known in Russia , was one of the most successful Russian imperial commanders before Rumyantsev and Suvorov....
 - Russian Field Marshal
Field Marshal

Field marshal is a military officer rank. Today it is the highest rank in the armies in which it is used, one step above a general or colonel-general....
 James Larkin
James Larkin

James Larkin , an Irish trade union leader and socialist activist, was born to Ireland parents in Liverpool, England in 1875. He and his family later moved to a small cottage in Burren, southern County Down....
 - labour leader Eliza Lynch
Eliza Lynch

Eliza Lynch was the mistress of Francisco Solano L?pez, the president of Paraguay....
 - mistress of Francisco López
Francisco López

Francisco L?pez or Francisco Lopez may refer to:*Francisco L?pez 16th century, Spanish Renaissance painter*Francisco L?pez , Spanish Renaissance painter...
, Paraguayan dictator Catherine McAuley
Catherine McAuley

The Venerable Mother Catherine Elizabeth McAuley was an Ireland nun, who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831. The Order has always been associated with teaching, especially in Ireland, where the nuns taught Catholics at a time when education was mainly reserved for members of the established Church of DUBLIN....
 - founder the Sisters of Mercy
Sisters of Mercy

The Religious Order of the Sisters of Mercy is an order of Roman Catholic Church women founded by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland in 1831....
 Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh - scribe, translator, historian and genealogist Catherine McGuinness
Catherine McGuinness

Catherine McGuinness , is President of the Law Reform Commission and a former justice of the Supreme Court . She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and educated in Belfast and Dublin ....
 - Justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland, President of the Law Reform Commission - Edward McLysaght - Chief Herald of Ireland, 1943-54 Martin Maher
Martin Maher

Martin "Marty" Maher, Jr. was an Irish immigrant from Ballycrine, County Tipperary, Ireland, who joined the United States Army in 1898 and rose to the rank of Master Sergeant#United States....
 - Famed cadet instructor at United States Military Academy at West Point Diarmuid Martin
Diarmuid Martin

Diarmuid Martin is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. He was born in Dublin....
 - Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin
Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic)

Archbishop of Dublin is the title of the senior cleric who presides over the Archdiocese of Dublin . The Church of Ireland has a similar role, heading the Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough....
 and Primate of Ireland
Primate of Ireland

Primate of Ireland is a title possessed by the Roman Catholic and the Anglican Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. It does not however indicate that the Archbishop is the most senior clergyman of his Chistian denomination in Ireland but rather he is the second-most senior figure, the most senior figure in both denominations, the Archbi...
 Edward Martyn
Edward Martyn

Edward Martyn of Tullira Castle, Ardrahan, Co. Galway, Ireland. Ireland political and cultural activist, playwright, last of the senior branch of the Martyn family of Tullira, one of The Tribes of Galway....
 - co-founder of the Irish Literary Theatre
Irish Literary Theatre

The Irish Literary Theatre was a precursor to the Abbey Theatre. Founded by W. B. Yeats, Isabella Augusta Gregory, George A. Moore and Edward Martyn in 1899, this theatre had presented a number of plays by the founders and other writers, including Padraic Colum....
 John McKenna
John McKenna

John McKenna , born in County Monaghan, Ireland, was a self-made businessman and former rugby player, who was the first manager of Liverpool F.C.....
 - Liverpool FC manager John Moore - film director Michael Moore
Michael Moore

Michael Francis Moore is an Academy Award-winning United States filmmaker, author and Modern liberalism in the United States political commentator....
 - Oscar winning Irish/American documentary filmmaker Dermot Morgan
Dermot Morgan

Dermot John Morgan was an Republic of Ireland comedian, actor and former schoolteacher, who achieved international renown as Father Ted Crilly in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted....
 - satirist and star of Father Ted
Father Ted

Father Ted was an Irish situation comedy television programme produced by Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4. The show depicts the lives of three Roman Catholicism in Ireland priests on the remote fictional Craggy Island off the west coast of Ireland....
 Kevin Murphy
Kevin Murphy (Irish ombudsman)

Kevin Murphy was appointed Ombudsman by the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, upon nomination by both Houses of the Oireachtas. His term of office began November 1, 1994....
 - Ombudsman
Ombudsman

An ombudsman is an official, usually appointed by government or by a non-governmental public body, who is charged with investigating complaints by citizens and, where possible, resolving them, usually by making recommendations but sometimes through mediation....
 and Information Commissioner
Information Commissioner

The role of Information Commissioner differs from nation to nation. Most commonly it is a title given to a government regulator in the fields of freedom of information and the protection of personal data in the widest sense....
 Graham Norton
Graham Norton

Graham William Walker is an Irish people actor, comedian and television presenter. He is known by his stage name Graham Norton....
 - TV personality and actor Grace O'Malley
Grace O'Malley

Gr?inne N? Mh?ille , also known as Granuaile or Gr?inne Mhaol, known in English language as Grace O'Malley , is an important figure in Irish folklore, but was in fact a larger-than-life real person from 16th century Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691....
 - Granuaile, pirate queen Dermot O'Neill
Dermot O'Neill (gardener)

Dermot O'Neill is a well known Ireland gardener and editor of Garden Heaven magazine, who has appeared on many radio and television programmes for both RT? and the BBC Northern Ireland and has contributed regular columns for the RT? Guide and numerous Irish newspapers and magazines including Northern Ireland Homes & Lifestyle and...
 - magazine editor, author of gardening books, presenter of TV gardening shows Emily O'Reilly
Emily O'Reilly

Emily O'Reilly is a former journalist and author who became Ireland's first female Ombudsman in 2003 in politics, succeeding Kevin Murphy .She was educated at University College, Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, and Harvard University, where she was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in journalism....
 - journalist, Ombudsman
Ombudsman

An ombudsman is an official, usually appointed by government or by a non-governmental public body, who is charged with investigating complaints by citizens and, where possible, resolving them, usually by making recommendations but sometimes through mediation....
 and Information Commissioner
Information Commissioner

The role of Information Commissioner differs from nation to nation. Most commonly it is a title given to a government regulator in the fields of freedom of information and the protection of personal data in the widest sense....
 Kitty O'Shea - mistress of Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish people Church of Ireland landowner, Irish Nationalism politician, Irish Land League agitator, Irish Home Rule bills Member of Parliament in the Palace of Westminster of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party....
 St. Patrick - British born Irish patron saint Sir Horace Plunkett - founder of co-operative movement Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton Royal Victorian Order Order of British Empire, was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration....
 - explorer Gerard Slevin
Gerard Slevin

Gerard Slevin was born in Cork , Ireland. Slevin was assistant to Edward McLysaght, the Chief Herald of Ireland, from 1944 to 1954, at which time he succeeded McLysaght....
 - Chief Herald of Ireland, 1954-81 Ed Sullivan
Ed Sullivan

Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan was an United States entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of a popular TV variety show called The Ed Sullivan Show that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s....
 - Irish/American entertainment writer and television host Timothy Smiddy
Timothy Smiddy

Timothy Smiddy was an Ireland academic, economist, and diplomat. He is best known as Ireland's first Ambassador/overseas Minister, serving as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the United States of America for the Irish Free State from 1924 to 1929....
 - academic, economist, Ireland's first ambassador Philip Treacy
Philip Treacy

Philip Treacy is one of the world's foremost hat designers or Millinery.Born near Ballinasloe in County Galway, Ireland, lived with his seven brothers and sister....
 - milliner Ryan Tubridy
Ryan Tubridy

Ryan Tubridy, is a Meteor Music Awards-winning Republic of Ireland writer and Radio Telef?s ?ireann presenter of radio and television. He presents The Tubridy Show on weekday mornings on RT? Radio 1 and the Saturday night chat show Tubridy Tonight on RT? One, currently in its fifth season....
 - entertainer Louis Walsh
Louis Walsh

Louis Walsh is an Ireland music manager and judge on the British television talent show The X Factor .As of November 2006, his acts have totalled 29 UK #1 singles, the 29th being 'The Rose' by Westlife....
 - music manager and television personality Terry Wogan
Terry Wogan

Sir Michael Terence Wogan, Order of the British Empire Deputy Lieutenant more commonly known as Terry Wogan, is a veteran Irish people radio and television broadcaster, who has worked for the BBC in the United Kingdom for most of his career....
 - TV and radio "personality" Nina Williams
Nina Williams

is a video game character from Namco's Tekken game series. She is known to be a cold-blooded assassin who had made her very first appearance in the original Tekken game and since has appeared in every Tekken game released....
 - An assassin from the Tekken series.

See also

Irish cities
Cities in Ireland

There are officially ten cities in Ireland, five of these in Northern Ireland and five of them in the Republic of Ireland . The majority of these cities were established as cities before the partition of Ireland in 1921 and only in Northern Ireland have new cities been created since this partition....
 and Towns *List of Cork people
List of Cork people

Cork is the second city and largest County Cork of the Republic of Ireland, and has produced several noted artists, entertainers, politicians and business-people....
 *List of Donegal people
List Of Donegal People

This is a list of people from County Donegal....
 *List of Dublin people
List of Dublin people

Dublin, as the capital city of the Republic of Ireland and the largest city in Ireland as produced many noted artists, entertainers, politicians and businesspeople....
 *List of Galway people
List of Galway people

*Patrick Flood*Emily Anderson*Margaret Athy, founder of St. Augustine's Convent in Galway*Nora Barnacle, wife of James Joyce*Francis Barrett , professional boxer...
 *List of Kilkenny people
List of Kilkenny people

This is a list of notable persons from or related to Kilkenny , Ireland...
 *List of Limerick people
List of Limerick people

This is a list of notable people of Limerick, Ireland....
 *List of Sligo people
List of Sligo people

Sligo is a large town in the North West of the Republic of Ireland and the county town of County Sligo, and has produced several noted artists, entertainers, politicians and business-people....
Irish universities
List of universities in the Republic of Ireland

This is a list of colleges and university in the Republic of Ireland, some colleges are constituent colleges of universities....
 *List of Dublin City University people
List of Dublin City University people

This is a list of notable alumni of Dublin City University, Ireland:...
 *List of National University of Ireland, Galway people
List of National University of Ireland, Galway people

This list is a list of notable alumni of the National University of Ireland, Galway and its forunners; Queen's College, Galway created in 1845 as a college of the Queen's University of Ireland and University College, Galway chartered in accordance with the Irish Universities Act, 1908 as a university college of the National University o...
 *List of Queen's University, Belfast people (Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

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) *List of University College Dublin people
List of University College Dublin people

The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty members of University College Dublin, a constituent university of the National University of Ireland....
 *List of University of Dublin people
Other lists List of Irish botanical illustrators
List of Irish botanical illustrators

Botanical Art involves the painting, drawing and illustration of plants and ecosystems. Often meticulous observed, the botanical art tradition combines both science and art, and botanical artists throughout the centuries have been active in the collecting and cataloguing a huge variety of species....
 *List of people on stamps of Ireland
List of people on stamps of Ireland

This is a list of people on the postage stamps of the Irish Free State between 1922 and 1937 and on the postage stamps ofRepublic of Ireland since 1937, including the years when they appeared on a stamp....
 *List of people by nationality
List of people by nationality

There are a variety of articles listing people of a particular nationality. People on these lists should be notable in some way and should ideally have articles of their own....
 *Lists of Irish-Americans
Lists of Irish-Americans

This is a list of notable Irish Americans.To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Irish American or must have references showing they are Irish American and are notable....
 *Irish American
Irish American

Irish Americans are citizens of the United States who can claim ancestry originating in Ireland. A total of 36,495,800 Americans reported Irish ancestry in the 2006 American Community Survey....
 *Irish Australian
Irish Australian

Irish Australians are the third largest ethnic group in Australia, after Australian and English. In the 2006 Australian Census, 1,803,741 residents identified themselves as having Irish ancestry either alone or in combination with another ancestry ....
 *Irish Canadian
Irish Canadian

Irish Canadians are immigrants and descendants of immigrants who origninated in Ireland. The 2006 census by Statcan, Canada's Official Statistical office revealed that the Irish people were the 4th largest ethnic group with 4,354,155 Canadians with full or partial Irish descent or 14% of the nation's total population....
 *Irish Quebecers
Irish Quebecers

Irish Quebecers are residents of the Canada province of Quebec who have Irish people ancestry. In 2006, there were 406,085 Quebecers who identified themselves as having partial or exclusive Irish people descent in Quebec, representing 5.5% of the population....


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