List of people on stamps of Ireland

List of People On Stamps of Ireland

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List of people on stamps of Ireland

This is a list of people on the postage stamp
Postage stamp

A postage stamp is adhesive paper evidence of a fee paid for Mail services. Usually a small rectangle attached to an envelope, the stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery....
s of the Irish Free State
Irish Free State

The Irish Free State was the state established as a Dominion on 6 December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed by the British government and Irish representatives exactly twelve months beforehand....
between 1922 and 1937 and on the postage stamps of Ireland
Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
since 1937, including the years when they appeared on a stamp.

Because no postage stamps had been designed, the first Irish stamps issued were the current British definitive

Definitive stamp

A definitive postage stamp is a regular issue stamp that is part of a definitive issue or definitive series consisting of a range of denominations sufficient to cover all postal rates usefully....
postage stamps depicting a portrait of George V

George V of the United Kingdom

George V was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha....
that were overprint

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George V of the United Kingdom

George V was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha....
that were overprint

Overprint

This article concerns overprints on stamps and currency, for the use of the term in printing see OverprintingAn overprint is the addition of text to the face of a postage stamp after it has been printed ....
ed Rialtas Sealadac na hÉireann 1922 (Provisional Government of Ireland 1922) and issued on 17 February, 1922. The overprint was later changed to Saorstát Éireann 1922 (Irish Free State 1922).

The Irish Free State issued the first commemorative stamps depicting a person on June 22, 1929 when Ofig an Phoist, the Irish Post Office, a section of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, issued a set of three stamps showing Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O'Connell , known as The Liberator, or The Emancipator, was an Ireland political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century....
.

The Department of Posts and Telegraphs and, after 1984, An Post

An Post

An Post is the State-owned provider of mail services in Republic of Ireland. An Post provides a universal postal service to all parts of the country as a member of the Universal Postal Union....
designed stamps showing statesmen, religious, literary and cultural figures, athletes, etc. Until the mid-1990s it was usual policy not to issue stamps showing living persons, the only exceptions being Douglas Hyde (stamp 1943, d. 1949) and Louis le Brocquy (stamp 1977, still alive in 2007), but this policy has been put aside and there have recently been several issues showing living persons. For the Millennium

Millennium

A millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years . The term may implicitly refer to calendar millenniums; periods tied numerically to a particular calendar, specifically ones that begin at the starting point of the calendar in question or in later years which are whole number multiples of a thousand years after it....
, 30 Millennium stamp

Millennium Stamp

A Millennium stamp is a postage stamp issued by a postal administration commemorating a millennium associated with that country's history but several countries issued stamps for the beginning of the 3rd millennium in same cases depicting some of their country's achievements over the preceding years....
s were issued showing living Irish sportsmen.

1929-1949

1929 Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell , known as The Liberator, or The Emancipator, was an Ireland political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century....	1943 Sir 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....
1937 Saint Patrick Saint Patrick Saint Patrick , said to have been born Maewyn Succat , was a Roman Britain-born Christianity missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba....	1944 Edmund Ignatius Rice Edmund Ignatius Rice Beatification Edmund Ignatius Rice , was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. Edmund was the founder of two religious order of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers....
1939 George Washington George Washington George Washington was the leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States of the United States of Americas ....	1948 Wolfe Tone
1943 Douglas Hyde Douglas Hyde Douglas Hyde was an Anglo-Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. He founded the Gaelic League, one of the most influential cultural organisations in Ireland....	1949 James Clarence Mangan James Clarence Mangan James Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan was an Irish poetry....

1950s

1952 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....	1957 Admiral William Brown William Brown (admiral) Admiral William Brown was born in Foxford, County Mayo, Ireland on June 22, 1777 and died in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 3, 1857. Brown's victories in the Argentine War of Independence, the Argentina-Brazil War, and the History of Uruguay#The "Guerra Grande" 1839-1852 earned the respect and appreciation of the Argentine people, and toda...
1953 Robert Emmet Robert Emmet Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalism rebel leader. He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803 and was captured, tried and executed....	1957 Father Luke Wadding Luke Wadding Luke Wadding , Ireland Franciscan friar and historian,...
1954 Cardinal John Henry Newman	1958 Mother Mary Aikenhead Mary Aikenhead Mother Mary Aikenhead was the founder of the Roman Catholic religious order, the Sisters of Charity.The daughter of David Aikenhead, a physician, member of the Protestant Church of Ireland, and Mary Stacpole, a Roman Catholic....
1956 Commodore John Barry	1958 Thomas J. Clarke
1957 John Redmond John Redmond John Edward Redmond was an Irish nationalism politician, barrister, Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 to 1918....	1959 Arthur Guinness Arthur Guinness Arthur Guinness was an Irish people brewer and the founder of the Guinness Brewery business and Guinness family....
1957 Thomas O'Crohan Tomás Ó Criomhthain Tom?s ? Criomhthain [Thomas O'Crohan] was a native of the Irish Language-speaking Great Blasket Island three kilometres off the coast of County Kerry in Ireland....

1960s

1965 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....	1966 Éamonn Ceannt Éamonn Ceannt ?amonn Ceannt...
1966 Thomas Clarke	1966 Joseph Mary Plunkett Joseph Mary Plunkett Joseph Mary Plunkett was an Ireland nationalist, poet, journalist, and leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. His father, George Noble Plunkett, was a papal count and curator of the National Museum of Ireland....
1966 Seán Mac Diarmada	1966 Roger Casement Roger Casement Roger David Casement , , was an Ireland patriot, poet, revolutionary and Irish nationalism. He was a United Kingdom consul by profession famous for his reports and activities against human rights abuses in the Congo Free State and Peru, but better known for his dealings with Germany before Ireland's Easter Rising in 1916....
1966 Pádraig Pearse Patrick Pearse Patrick Henry Pearse was a teacher, barrister, Irish poetry, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916....	1967 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....
1966 James Connolly James Connolly James Connolly was an Ireland socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but despite this he would become one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day....	1968 Countess Markievicz
1966 Thomas MacDonagh Thomas MacDonagh Thomas MacDonagh was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising....	1969 Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha?resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence?which led India to Indian independence movement and inspired movements for civi...

1970s

1970 Kevin Barry Kevin Barry Kevin Gerard Barry was the first Republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising. Barry was sentenced to death for his part in an Irish Republican Army operation which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers....	1977 Jack Butler Yeats Jack Butler Yeats Jack Butler Yeats was an Irish people artist.He was born in London and died in Dublin.Yeats's early style was that of an illustrator and almost a cartoonist ; he only began to work regularly in Oil paint in 1906....
1970 Terence MacSwiney Terence MacSwiney Terence Joseph MacSwiney was born in Cork , Ireland. Elected as Sinn F?in Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920, MacSwiney was arrested by the British on charges of sedition and imprisoned in Brixton prison in England....	1977 Johannes Scottus Eriugenus Johannes Scotus Eriugena Johannes Scotus Eriugena , was an Ireland theologian, Neoplatonism philosopher, and poet. He is known for having translated and made commentaries upon the work of Pseudo-Dionysius....
1970 Thomas MacCurtain	1977 Louis le Brocquy Louis le Brocquy Louis le Brocquy is an Irish painter born in Dublin. Louis le Brocquy's work has received much international attention and many accolades in a career that spans seventy years of creative practice....
1971 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....	1978 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....
1974 Edmund Burke Edmund Burke Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosophy who, after relocating to Great Britain, served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the British Whig Party party....	1978 William Orpen William Orpen File:William Orpen photo by George Charles Beresford 1903.jpgMajor Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, Order of the British Empire, Royal Academy, Royal Hibernian Academy was an Irish portrait painter....
1974 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 ....	1979 Pádraig Pearse Patrick Pearse Patrick Henry Pearse was a teacher, barrister, Irish poetry, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916....
1976 Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, Innovation and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work....	1979 Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II John Paul II is widely acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century. He has been Pope_John_Paul_II#Role_in_the_fall_of_Communism in bringing down communism in Eastern Europe, as well as significantly improving the Roman Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and A...
1976 Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....	1979 Rowland Hill
1976 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....

1980s

1980 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....	1984 St. Brendan
1980 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....	1985 Charles Stanford Charles Villiers Stanford Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer, resident in England for much of his life....
1980 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....	1985 Turlough 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....
1980 Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle	1985 George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel was an England Baroque music composer of Germany birth who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerto grosso. His life and music may justly be described as "cosmopolitan": he was born in Germany, trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England....
1981 Charles Parsons Charles Algernon Parsons Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, O.M. was a British engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine. He worked as an engineer on dynamo and turbine design, and power generation, with great influence on the naval and electrical engineering fields....	1985 Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti Domenico Scarlatti Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti , son of the composer Alessandro Scarlatti, was an Italy composer who spent much of his life in Spain and Portugal....
1981 Harry Ferguson Harry Ferguson Henry George Ferguson was an United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland engineer and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor, becoming the first Irishman to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-wheel drive Formula One car, the Ferguson P99....	1985 Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
1981 James Hoban James Hoban James Hoban was an Irish people architect, best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C.....	1985 Thomas Ashe Thomas Ashe Thomas Patrick Ashe born in Lispole, County Kerry, Ireland, a teacher, was a member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers....
1981 Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa , was an Ireland Fenian leader and prominent member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. His life as an Irish fenian is well documented but is perhaps known best in death for the Ireland unfree shall never be at peace given at his funeral by Padraig Pearse....	1985 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" ....
1981 John Holland John Philip Holland John Philip Holland was an engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the United States Navy and the first ever Royal Navy submarine, the Holland 1....	1986 Arthur Griffith Arthur Griffith Arthur Griffith was the founder and third leader of Sinn F?in. He served as President of D?il ?ireann from January to August 1922, and was head of the Irish delegation at the negotiations in London that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921....
1981 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....	1986 William Mulready William Mulready William Mulready was an Ireland genre painter living in London. He is best known for his romanticizing depictions of rural scenes.William Mulready was born in Ennis, County Clare....
1982 St. Francis of Assisi	1987 Canon John Hayes Canon John Hayes Very Rev. John Canon Hayes , founder of Muintir na T?re, was born in 1887, in a Land League hut at Murroe, Co Limerick. Five of his brothers and sisters died of malnutrition and disease before he reached seven years of age....
1982 Francis Makemie Francis Makemie Francis Makemie is considered to be the founder of Presbyterianism in United States of America.Born in County Donegal, Ireland, he became a clergyman and was ordained by the Presbytery of Laggan in Ireland in 1682....	1987 Mother Mary Martin
1982 Pádraic Ó Conaire Pádraic Ó Conaire P?draic ? Conaire was an Irish writer and journalist whose production was primarily in the Irish language....	1987 Cathal Brugha Cathal Brugha Cathal Brugha was an Ireland revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War and was the first Ceann Comhairle of D?il ?ireann....
1982 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....	1988 Sidney Nolan Sidney Nolan Sir Sidney Robert Nolan Order of Merit, Order of Australia was one of Australia's best-known Paintings and printmakers.Nolan was born in Carlton, Victoria....
1982 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 ....	1988 Robert O'Hara Burke Robert O'Hara Burke Robert O'Hara Burke was an Ireland soldier and police officer, who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria...
1982 Charles Kickham Irish fiction Although the epics of Celtic Ireland were written in prose and not verse, most people would probably consider that Irish fiction proper begins in the 18th century....	1988 Barry Fitzgerald Barry Fitzgerald Barry Fitzgerald was an Academy Award winning Ireland stage, film and television actor....
1982 Éamon de Valera Éamon de Valera ?amon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in 20th century Ireland. His political career spanned over half a century, from 1917 to 1973; he served multiple terms as head of government and head of state, and is credited with a leading role in the authorship of the present-day Constitution of Ireland....	1988 W. T. Cosgrave
1983 Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha P?draig ? Siochfhradha and his brother M?che?l ? Siochfhradha were writers, teachers and Irish language storytellers, from County Kerry, Ireland....	1988 John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
1983 Seán Mac Diarmada	1989 Seán T. O'Kelly Sean T. O'Kelly Se?n Thomas O'Kelly was the second President of Ireland . He was a member of D?il ?ireann from 1918 until his election as President. During this time he served as Minister for Local Government and Minister for Finance ....
1983 St. Vincent de Paul	1989 Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru The son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal Nehru, Nehru became a leader of the left-wing of the Indian National Congress at a remarkably young age....
1983 Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . He was List of governors of Florida of Florida , commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans , and eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy....	1989 Margaret Burke Sheridan Margaret Burke Sheridan Margaret Burke-Sheridan was an Irish opera singer. Born in Castlebar, Ireland, she was known as Maggie from Mayo and is regarded as Ireland's first prima donna....
1984 John 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....

1990s

1990 Michael Collins Michael Collins (Irish leader) Michael John Collins was an Ireland revolutionary leadership, Minister for Finance and Member of Parliament for South Cork in the First D?il of 1919, Director of Military intelligence for the Irish Republican Army, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations....	1994 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....
1991 General Godart van Ginkel Godert de Ginkell, 1st Earl of Athlone Godert de Ginkell, 1st Earl of Athlone, or Godart van Ginkel, and in the Netherlands known as Godard, Baron van Reede was a Dutch general in the service of England....	1995 Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi Marchese Guglielmo Marconi was an Italy inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide....
1991 Patrick Sarsfield	1995 Bartholomew Mosse Bartholomew Mosse Bartholomew Mosse , was an Irish Surgery and impresario responsible for founding the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin....
1991 John A. Costello John A. Costello John Aloysius Costello , a successful barrister, was one of the main legal advisors to the government of the Irish Free State after independence, Attorney General of Ireland from 1926–1932 and Taoiseach from 1948–1951 and 1954–1957....	1996 Louie Bennett Louie Bennett Louie Bennett was an Irish people suffragette, Trades Unionist and Journalism and writer born in Ireland. In 1927 she was the first woman to be elected President of the Irish Trades Union Congress and in the same year was elected to the executive committee of the Labour Party ....
1991 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....	1996 Lady Augusta Gregory
1993 Edward Bunting Edward Bunting Edward Bunting was an Ireland musician and Folk music of Ireland collector....	1996 Stanley Woods Stanley Woods Stanley Woods Dublin, an Irish Motorcycle sport famous for 29 motorcycle Grand Prix wins and winning the Isle of Man TT races 10 times in his career....
1994 Edmund Ignatius Rice Edmund Ignatius Rice Beatification Edmund Ignatius Rice , was a Roman Catholic missionary and educationalist. Edmund was the founder of two religious order of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers....	1996 Artie Bell Artie Bell Arthur James Bell Belfast, Ireland was an Irish motorcycle Road racing became known for his short, yet brilliant, post-World War II Isle of Man TT career that came to notice with his second place finish in the 1947 Isle of Man TT on a second-hand 500cc Norton he bought himself on which he lead for three of the seven laps....
1994 Edmund Burke Edmund Burke Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosophy who, after relocating to Great Britain, served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the British Whig Party party....	1996 Alec Bennett Alec Bennett Alec Bennett was an Ireland-Canada Motorcycle sport famous for motorcycle Grand Prix motorcycle racing wins and five career wins at the Isle of Man TT Races....
1994 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....	1996 Robert Dunlop Robert Dunlop Robert Dunlop , was a Northern Irish motorcycle racer, the younger brother of fellow road racer, the late Joey Dunlop, and like Joey he died after a crash while racing.... & Joey Dunlop Joey Dunlop William Joseph "Joey" Dunlop, OBE was a world champion motorcyclist, best known for road racing. In 2005 he was voted the fifth greatest motorcycling icon in history by Motorcycle News....
1994 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....	1996 Michael Davitt Michael Davitt Michael Davitt was an Ireland Irish republicanism and Irish nationalism agarian agitator, a Social movement , Trades union, journalist, Irish Home Rule Bill constitutional politician and Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, who founded the Irish National Land League....
1994 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....	1996 Thomas A. McLoughlin
1994 Seán McBride

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Brenda Fricker

Brenda Fricker

Brenda Fricker is an Academy Awards-winning Irish actress....
as Mrs Brown in My Left Foot

My Left Foot (film)

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 in film drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It tells the story of Christy Brown, an Ireland born with cerebral palsy, who could only control his left foot....

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema 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....
as Christy Brown in My Left Foot

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Robert Arkins

Robert Arkins

Robert Arkins is an Irish people actor best known for his role as Jimmy Rabbitte, manager of the eponymous soul band, in the 1991 film The Commitments by director Alan Parker....
as Jimmy Rabbitte in The Commitments
The Commitments (film)

The Commitments is a 1991 in film film adaptation of the The Commitments by Roddy Doyle, which tells the story of some unemployed Dubliners who form a soul music band....

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Angeline Ball

Angeline Ball

Angeline Ball is an award-winning Irish people actress who currently resides in London. Her breakthrough role came in 1991 when she starred alongside Maria Doyle Kennedy and Bronagh Gallagher as back-up singer Imelda Quirke in Alan Parker's The Commitments ....
as Imelda Quirke in The Commitments

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Maria Doyle Kennedy as Natalie Murphy in The Commitments

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema 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....
as Bernie McGloughlin in The Commitments

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Richard Harris as 'Bull' McCabe in The Field
The Field

The Field is a play written by John B. Keane, first performed in 1965. It was adapted into a film in 1990 by Jim Sheridan. It tells the story of the hardened farmer "Bull" McCabe and his love for the land he rents....

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Sean Bean

Sean Bean

Shaun Mark Bean is an England film and theatre actor. Bean has also acted in a number of television productions as well as performing voice work for computer games and television adverts....
as Tadgh McCabe in The Field

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema John Hurt

John Hurt

'John Vincent Hurt', Order of the British Empire is an England actor. Hurt initially came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons , and has since retained a career as a leading actor and supporting actor of many popular motion pictures, including: Watership Down , Midnight Exp...
as The 'Bird' O'Donnell in The Field

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Colman 'Tiger' King as A Man of Aran in Man Of Aran
Man of Aran

Man of Aran is a documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, a docufiction on life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters who live in premodern conditions and their hardships, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil, and hunting for hu...

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Maggie Dirrane as His Wife in Man Of Aran

1996 Centenary of Irish Cinema Michael Dirrane as Their Son in Man Of Aran

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Linda Martin

Linda Martin

Linda Martin is an Irish people singing and television presenter, working almost exclusively across the border in the Republic of Ireland. She is best known in Europe as the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, with the song "Why Me? ", and in Ireland as a member of the 1970s/1980s musical ensemble, Chips....
Singer

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State 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....
Athlete

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Alan Gough

Alan Gough

Alan Gough is the current Longford Town F.C. manager.His clubs included Portsmouth FC, Galway United, Fulham FC, Shelbourne FC, Glentoran FC and Derry City FC and Bray Wanderers....
Soccer Player

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Damien Hogan Garda

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Marie Egan Garda

1997 75th Anniversary of Irish Free State Brendan Walsh Garda

1997 Kate O'Brien Kate O'Brien Kate O'Brien , was an Irish people novelist and playwright. After the success of her play, Distinguished Villa in 1926, she took to full-time writing and was awarded the 1931 James Tait Black Prize for her novel Without My Cloak....	1999 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 .... Millennium GAA Team
1997 St. Columcille Columba Early life in IrelandColumba was born to Fedlimid and Eithne of the Cenel Conaill in Gartan, near Lough Gartan, County Donegal, in Ireland. On his father's side he was great-great-grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, an High King of Ireland of the 5th century....	1999 Sean Murphy Seán Murphy (footballer) Se?n Murphy is an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning Gaelic footballer from County Kerry in Ireland.... Millennium GAA Team
1997 Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell , known as The Liberator, or The Emancipator, was an Ireland political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century....	1999 J. J. O'Reilly Millennium GAA Team
1997 John Wesley John Wesley John Wesley was an Anglican cleric and Christian Christian theologian who founded the Arminianism Methodism. The Wesley Methodist Movement began when Wesley took over open-air preaching started by George Whitefield at Hanham, Kingswood, and Bristol....	1999 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... Millennium GAA Team
1998 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.... nee Sophie Catherine Pierce	1999 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.... Millennium GAA Team
1998 Col. James Fitzmaurice James Fitzmaurice (pilot) James Fitzmaurice was an aviator pioneer. He was a member of the crew of the Bremen , which made the first successful Trans-Atlantic aircraft flight from East to West on April 12, 1928 – April 13, 1928....	1999 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.... Millennium GAA Team
1998 J.P. "Paddy" Saul	1999 Seán O'Neill Seán O'Neill Se?n O'Neill was a Gaelic footballer with Down GAA. He was born in Newry, County Down.... Millennium GAA Team
1998 Capt. Charles Blair	1999 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.... Millennium GAA Team
1998 Theobald Wolfe Tone Theobald Wolfe Tone Theobald Wolfe Tone, commonly known as Wolfe Tone was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence movement and is regarded as the father of Irish republicanism....	1999 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.... Millennium GAA Team
1998 Henry Joy McCracken Henry Joy McCracken Henry Joy McCracken was a cotton manufacturer and industrialist, Presbyterian, radical Irishman, and a founding member, along with Theobald Wolfe Tone, James Napper Tandy, and Robert Emmet, of the Society of the United Irishmen....	1999 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.... Millennium GAA Team
1999 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....	1999 Tom Langan Tom Langan This article is about an American televistion producer and writer. For the Irish Gaelic footballer, please see Tommy LanganTom Langan is an American television producer and writer.... Millennium GAA Team
1999 Siobhán McKenna Siobhán McKenna Siobh?n McKenna , was an Irish people stage and screen actress.Born Siobh?n Giollamhuire Nic Cionnaith in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she grew up in Galway City and in County Monaghan, Ireland speaking fluent Irish Language....	1999 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.... Millennium GAA Team
1999 Noel Purcell Noel Purcell (actor) Noel Purcell was an Ireland film and television actor.Purcell was born in Dublin. He began his show business career at the age of 12 in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre, Dublin....	1999 Grace Kelly Grace Kelly Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning United States film and Stage actor and fashion icon. Upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, she became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco.... of Monaco
1999 Seán Lemass Seán Lemass Se?n Francis Lemass was one of the most prominent Irish politicians of the 20th century. He served as Taoiseach from 1959 until 1966.A veteran of the Easter Rising, the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, Lemass was first elected as a Sinn F?in Teachta D?la for the Dublin South constituency in a Dublin South by-election, 1...	1999 Jesse Owens Jesse Owens James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an United States Athletics athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 metres relay team....
1999 St. Francis Xavier Francis Xavier Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jaso y Azpilicueta was a Kingdom of Navarre pioneering Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus....	1999 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1999 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.... Millennium GAA Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation mainly focused on promoting Gaelic games: the traditional Ireland sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball and rounders.... Team	1999 Mother Teresa Mother Teresa Mother Teresa , born Agnes? Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian people Roman Catholic Church nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata , India in 1950....
1999 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.... Millennium GAA Team	1999 John 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....
1999 Joe Keohane Joe Keohane (footballer) Joe Keohane was an award-winning Gaelic footballer from County Kerry.Born in Kerry, he played for the Kerry GAA and club football for John Mitchells.... Millennium GAA Team	1999 Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first President of South Africa of South Africa to be elected in a universal suffrage democratic election, serving in the office from 1994?99....

2000-2004

2000 Irish Independence W. T. Cosgrave	2001 Padraic Cummins
2000 Irish Independence Éamon de Valera Éamon de Valera ?amon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in 20th century Ireland. His political career spanned over half a century, from 1917 to 1973; he served multiple terms as head of government and head of state, and is credited with a leading role in the authorship of the present-day Constitution of Ireland....	2001 Jack O'Shea Jack O'Shea Jack O'Shea is an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning Gaelic footballer from County Kerry. He is renowned as one of the best players of all time....
2000 Irish Independence John A. Costello John A. Costello John Aloysius Costello , a successful barrister, was one of the main legal advisors to the government of the Irish Free State after independence, Attorney General of Ireland from 1926–1932 and Taoiseach from 1948–1951 and 1954–1957....	2002 Packie Bonner
2000 Irish Independence Seán Lemass Seán Lemass Se?n Francis Lemass was one of the most prominent Irish politicians of the 20th century. He served as Taoiseach from 1959 until 1966.A veteran of the Easter Rising, the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, Lemass was first elected as a Sinn F?in Teachta D?la for the Dublin South constituency in a Dublin South by-election, 1...	2002 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.....
2000 Rev 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....	2002 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....
2000 Thomas Alva Edison Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb....	2002 David O'Leary David O'Leary David Anthony O'Leary is an Irish people football Coach and former player. He is currently without a job, after leaving his position as manager of Aston Villa F.C....
2000 Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....	2002 Padre Pio
2000 Marie Curie Marie Curie Marie Sklodowska Curie was a physicist and chemist of Poland upbringing and, subsequently, France citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes, and the first female professor at the University of Paris....	2002 Peter Mc Dermot
2000 Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei was a Grand Duchy of Tuscany physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution....	2002 Jimmy Smyth Jimmy Smyth Jimmy Smyth is an Irish people guitarist, composer and record producer.He was a guitarist/singer with The Bogey Boys from 1979 to 1983 and recorded several singles and two albums....
2000 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....	2002 Matt Connor
2000 Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....	2002 Seanie Duggan Seánie Duggan Se?nie Duggan is a retired Republic of Ireland sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Liam Mellows GAA and with the Galway GAA senior inter-county team from 1943 until 1953....
2000 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....	2002 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.... : 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....
2000 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 ....	2002 U2: The Edge The Edge David Howell Evans , more widely known by his nickname and stage name The Edge , is a British people Irish people musician known best as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist for the Ireland rock band U2....
2000 Lady Lavery	2002 U2: Adam Clayton Adam Clayton Adam Charles Clayton , is the Bass guitar of the rock music band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965....
2000 William Shakespeare William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....	2002 U2: Larry Mullen Jr. Larry Mullen Jr. Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Mullen, Jr. is the drummer for the Irish rock music band U2. He is the founder of U2, which was originally known as "The Larry Mullen Band" at its inception....
2000 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....	2002 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....
2000 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....	2002 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....
2000 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....	2002 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....
2000 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....	2003 St. Patrick
2000 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....	2003 Shauna Bradley
2000 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....	2003 Michael Breen Michael Breen Michael Breen may refer to:* Michael Breen wrote The Koreans* Mike Breen * Michael Breen from Montreal, Canada who was nominated at the Juno Awards of 1989...
2000 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....	2003 Ezra Canty
2000 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....	2003 Michael Mullins
2000 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....	2003 Robert Emmet Robert Emmet Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalism rebel leader. He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803 and was captured, tried and executed....
2000 Jimmy Doyle Jimmy Doyle James 'Jimmy' Doyle , is a retired Irish people hurling Manager and former player. He played hurling with the famous Thurles Sarsfields GAA club from 1956 until 1975 and was a member of the Tipperary GAA senior inter-county team from 1957 until 1973....	2003 Thomas Russell Thomas Russell (rebel) Thomas Paliser Russell was a co-founder and leader of the United Irishmen who was executed for his part in Robert Emmet rebellion in 1803....
2000 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....	2003 Anne Devlin Anne Devlin Anne Devlin was an Irish republican who acted as housekeeper to Robert Emmet and who was also a cousin of two leading Society of United Irishmen rebels, Michael Dwyer and Arthur Devlin....
2000 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....	2003 James Barry James Barry (painter) James Barry , Ireland Painting, best remembered for his six part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts....
2000 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....	2003 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....
2000 Brian Whelehan	2003 Ernest Walton Ernest Walton Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Ireland physicist and Nobel Prize for Physics for his work with John Cockcroft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s....
2000 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....	2003 Admiral William Brown William Brown (admiral) Admiral William Brown was born in Foxford, County Mayo, Ireland on June 22, 1777 and died in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 3, 1857. Brown's victories in the Argentine War of Independence, the Argentina-Brazil War, and the History of Uruguay#The "Guerra Grande" 1839-1852 earned the respect and appreciation of the Argentine people, and toda...
2001 Charles Lindbergh Charles Lindbergh Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an United States aviator, author, inventor and explorer.On May 20?21, 1927, Lindbergh emerged instantaneously from virtual obscurity to world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in New York City to Paris - Le Bourget Airport in Paris in the s...	2003 Commodore John Barry
2001 James Cook James Cook Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....	2003 Captain Robert Halpin Robert Halpin Robert Charles Halpin, Captain , born...
2001 Robert O'Hara Burke Robert O'Hara Burke Robert O'Hara Burke was an Ireland soldier and police officer, who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria...	2003 Captain Richard Roberts
2001 Marco Polo Marco Polo Marco Polo was a trader and exploration from the Venetian Republic who gained fame for his worldwide travels, recorded in the book Il Milione also known as Oriente Poliano and the Description of the World....	2003 Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II John Paul II is widely acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century. He has been Pope_John_Paul_II#Role_in_the_fall_of_Communism in bringing down communism in Eastern Europe, as well as significantly improving the Roman Catholic Church's relations with Judaism, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and A...
2001 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....	2004 St. Patrick
2001 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....	2004 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....
2001 Éamon de Valera Éamon de Valera ?amon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in 20th century Ireland. His political career spanned over half a century, from 1917 to 1973; he served multiple terms as head of government and head of state, and is credited with a leading role in the authorship of the present-day Constitution of Ireland....	2004 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....
2001 Micheál Ó Hehir	2004 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....
2001 Peter Lalor Peter Lalor Peter Fintan Lalor was the leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion, one of Australia's few armed uprisings and often characterised controversially as the "birth of democracy" in Australia....	2004 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....
2001 Ned Kelly Ned Kelly Edward "Ned" Kelly was an Australian bushranger, and, to some, a folk hero for his defiance of the Colony authorities. Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish Convictism in Australia father, and as a young man he clashed with the police....	2004 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....
2001 Nicky Rackard Nicky Rackard Nicholas Rackard better known as Nicky or Nickey Rackard, was a famous Republic of Ireland sportsperson. He played hurling with his local Rathnure GAA club and was a member of the Wexford GAA senior inter-county team from 1940 until 1956....	2004 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....
2001 Frank Cummins Frank Cummins Frank Cummins is a retired Irish people sportsperson. He played hurling at various times with his local clubs Knocktopher GAA in Kilkenny and Blackrock GAA in Cork....	2004 George Fox George Fox George Fox was an English Dissenters and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.The son of a Weaver from rural England, Fox was apprenticed to a Shoemaker....

2005 onwards

2005

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....
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
Erskine H. Childers
Erskine Hamilton Childers

Erskine Hamilton Childers served as the fourth President of Ireland from 1973 until his death in 1974. He was a Teachta D?la from 1938 until 1973....
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....
—Ryder Cup
2006 Ryder Cup

The 36th Ryder Cup Matches were held 22?24 September 2006 at The Kildare Hotel and Golf Club, Straffan, County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. Team Europe won the competition by a score of 18? to 9? points, equalling their record winning margin of 2004 Ryder Cup....
Darren Clarke
Darren Clarke

To see the baseball player see Darren Clarke Darren Christopher Clarke is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who plays on both the PGA Tour and the European Tour....
—Ryder Cup
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....
—Ryder Cup
Eamonn Darcy
Eamonn Darcy

Eamonn Darcy is one of the most successful golfers produced by the Republic of Ireland.Darcy turned professional in 1968 and played on the PGA European Tour from 1972, winning four European Tour tournaments....
—Ryder Cup
Philip Walton
Philip Walton

Philip Walton is an Republic of Ireland professinal golfer.Walton attended Oklahoma State University in the United States and played for Great Britain & Ireland in the Walker Cup in 1981 and 1983....
—Ryder Cup
Christy O'Connor Jnr
Christy O'Connor Jnr

Christy O'Connor Jnr is an Republic of Ireland golfer. He is known as "Junior" because he is the nephew of another leading Irish golfer Christy O'Connor Snr....
—Ryder Cup
Ronan Rafferty
Ronan Rafferty

Ronan Rafferty is a Northern Ireland professional golfer, who formerly played on the PGA European Tour.Rafferty was born in Newry, Northern Ireland....
—Ryder Cup
Harry Bradshaw
Harry Bradshaw (golfer)

Harry Bradshaw was a leading Ireland professional golfer of the 1940s and 1950s.Bradshaw was born in Delgany, Wicklow. He was the son of the Delgany professional golfer Ned Bradshaw and he and his three brothers Jimmy, Eddie and Hughie all became professional golfers....
—Ryder Cup
Christy O'Connor Snr
Christy O'Connor Snr

Christy O'Connor is a former Republic of Ireland professional golferO'Connor was born in Knocknacarra, Galway. He turned professional in 1946....
—Ryder Cup
Arthur Griffith
Arthur Griffith

Arthur Griffith was the founder and third leader of Sinn F?in. He served as President of D?il ?ireann from January to August 1922, and was head of the Irish delegation at the negotiations in London that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921....

2006

Paddy "the Cope" Gallagher
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....
Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Máirtín Ó Cadhain

M?irt?n ? Cadhain was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century....
Johann Caspar Zeuss
Ronnie Delany
Ron Delany

Ronald Michael Delany , better known as Ron or Ronnie is a former Irish Athletics , who specialised in middle distance running.Born in Arklow, Delany moved with his family to Dublin when he was 6....
Michael Cusack
Michael Cusack

Michael Cusack was an Ireland teacher and founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association....
Michael Davitt
Michael Davitt

Michael Davitt was an Ireland Irish republicanism and Irish nationalism agarian agitator, a Social movement , Trades union, journalist, Irish Home Rule Bill constitutional politician and Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, who founded the Irish National Land League....
Gerhard Markson (principal conductor) & National Symphony Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

The RT? National Symphony Orchestra is the concert music orchestra of Radio Telef?s ?ireann. Considered one of Europe's major symphonies it is the primary symphony orchestra of Dublin and, true to its name, the leading orchestra of the Republic of Ireland....
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....
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
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....
The Dubliners
The Dubliners

The Dubliners are an Music of Ireland band founded in 1962 in music....

2007

Luke Wadding
Luke Wadding

Luke Wadding , Ireland Franciscan friar and historian,...
Hugh O’Neill
Rory O’Donnell
Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell

Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell was the last T?r Conaill. An apparent original of the Letters Patent of the Earldom are in the possession of Count O'Donell von Tyrconnell in Austria, although that family did not inherit the title, nor the related territorial Lordship of Tyrconnell, the remainders of which were destined elsewhere....
Saint Charles of Mount Argus
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra,
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

The RT? National Symphony Orchestra is the concert music orchestra of Radio Telef?s ?ireann. Considered one of Europe's major symphonies it is the primary symphony orchestra of Dublin and, true to its name, the leading orchestra of the Republic of Ireland....
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet

RT? Vanbrugh Quartet is the resident string quartet to Radio Telef?s ?ireann, Ireland's national broadcasting service, and Artists in residence to University College Cork and founders of the internationally acclaimed West Cork Chamber Music Festival....
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
RTÉ Concert Orchestra

The Radio Telef?s ?ireann Concert Orchestra is one of the two full time professional orchestras in Ireland that are part of RT?, the national broadcasting station....
RTÉ Cór na nÓg
RTÉ Cór na nÓg

The RT? C?r na n?g was founded in 1987 and consists of 65 specially-selected children between the ages of 9 and 14 directed by conductor M?ire Mannion....
RTÉ Philharmonic Choir
RTÉ Philharmonic Choir

The RT? Philharmonic Choir was founded by Colin Mawby in 1985, and its current chorus master is Mark Duley.References ...
Coláiste Íosagáin
Coláiste Eoin

Col?iste Eoin is an all-Irish Catholic voluntary secondary Gaelscoil for boys, under the trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust located in Booterstown, County Dublin, Ireland....
Girls Choir
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....
Irish Rugby Team
Ireland national rugby union team

The Ireland rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union, which is a popular sport throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, though only dominant in limited geographical areas....
Fr. Joseph Mullooly
Fr. Joseph Mullooly

Joseph Mullooly, was an Irish Dominican Roman Catholic priest and archaeologist from Lehery, Lanesborough, County Longford, Ireland. Noted for excavating the temple of Mithras beneath the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome, he also wrote the book Saint Clement, Pope and Martyr, and His Basilica in Rome about the project....
James Fintan Lalor
James Fintan Lalor

James Fintan Lalor was an Irish revolutionary, journalist, and ?one of the most powerful writers of his day.? A leading member of the Irish Confederation , he was to play an active part in both the Rebellion in July 1848 and the attempted Rising in September of that same year....
Charles Wesley
Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley was a leader of the Methodist movement, the younger brother of John Wesley. Despite their closeness, Charles and his brother did not always agree on questions relating to their beliefs....

2008

Liam Whelan
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick , said to have been born Maewyn Succat , was a Roman Britain-born Christianity missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba....
Hugh Lane
Hugh Lane

Sir Hugh Percy Lane is best known for establishing Dublin's Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery and for his remarkable contribution to the visual arts in Ireland....
Lt. Col. Justin McCarthy - Irish UN peacekeeper
Comdt. Malachy Higgins - Irish UN peacekeeper
Capt. Patrick Lavelle - Irish UN peacekeeper
Comdt. Gerald Coghlan - Irish UN peacekeeper
Capt. Rory Henderson - Irish UN peacekeeper
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...
Bríd Ní Neachtáin
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....
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....

List of people on stamps of Ireland

1929-1949

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000-2004

2005 onwards

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