- Matt Molloy
Matt Molloy (born 12 January 1947, Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon) is an Irish musician, from a region known for producing talented flautists. As a child, he began playing the flute early, and won the All-Ireland Flute Championship at only seventeen years old. Considered as one of the most brilliant Irish musicians, his style that adapts piping techniques to the flute has influenced many contemporary Irish flute players. - Denis Naughten
Denis Naughten is an Irish Fine Gael politician, he is currently a Teachta Dála (TD) for the constituency of Roscommon-South Leitrim and Fine Gael Spokesperson for Agriculture. Naughten was born in Drum County Roscommon. He was educated St. Aloysius College, Athlone, University College Dublin and University College Cork where he did a research project in Food Microbiology. Naughten was appointed to Seanad Éireann in 1997 to the seat vacant since the death of his father, … - William Wilde
Sir William Robert Wills Wilde (1815-April 19, 1876) was an Irish eye and ear surgeon, as well as an author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland. He is now best known as the father of Oscar Wilde. William Wilde was born at Kilkeevin, near Castlerea, in County Roscommon and received his initial education at the Elphin Diocesan School in Elphin, County Roscommon and subsequently, in 1837, … - Patrick Ireland
Patrick Ireland is an Irish American sculptor, conceptual artist, and installation artist. He was born in County Roscommon in 1934 and lives and works in the United States. Patrick Ireland is not his original name; he changed his name from Brian O'Doherty in reaction to the Bloody Sunday killings in Derry in 1972. In "The modern art collection, Trinity College Dublin", … - Seán Doherty
Seán Doherty, known informally as "The Doc", was a popular and controversial Irish Fianna Fáil politician and former Irish Minister for Justice. - Thomas Flynn
Thomas Flynn (born 8 July, 1931 is a Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Achonry. Bishop Flynn is the longest serving of all the Irish bishops. He was born in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon Ireland. He was ordained a priest on 17 June, 1956 for the diocese and was appointed bishop of the diocese on 30 December, 1976. He was ordained a bishop on 20 February, 1977. - Chris O'Dowd
Chris O'Dowd is an Irish actor from Boyle, County Roscommon. He graduated from University College Dublin and subsequently attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He contributed to The University Observer and was active in UCD DramSoc and the Literary and Historical Society Currently starring in BBC 2's "Roman's Empire" he is known in the UK for starring in Channel 4's comedy "The IT Crowd", … - James Coleman
James Coleman, born in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon in 1941, is an Irish installation and video artist associated with slide-tape works: sequences of still images fading one into the other with synchronized sound. Often, social situations are depicted with a precision which, paradoxically, creates a narrative ambiguity. James Coleman studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and at University College, … - Christopher Jones
Christopher "Christy" Jones (born 3 March, 1936) is the Bishop of the Diocese of Elphin. He was born in County Roscommon, Ireland. He was ordained a priest on 17 June, 1962 for his home diocese. On 24 May, 1994 he was appointed Bishop for the Diocese. He was ordained a bishop on 15 August, of the same year. The Principal Consecrator was Archbishop Emanuele Gerada, the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland; his Principal Co-Consecrators were Archbishop Joseph Cassidy, … - Edward J. Flanagan
The Reverend Fr. Edward Joseph Flanagan (July 13, 1886 - May 15, 1948) was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He was the founder of what is arguably the most famous orphanage, the present-day Girls and Boys Town in Nebraska. Originally called "Boys Town", the campus is not just an orphanage anymore but rather now a center for troubled youth. Father Flanagan was born in Ballymoe, County Galway, Ireland. - James Curley
James Curley (26 October 1796 - 24 July 1889) was an Irish-American astronomer. He was born at Athleague, County Roscommon, Ireland. His early education was limited, though his talent for mathematics was discovered, and to some extent developed, by a teacher in his native town. He left Ireland in his youth, arriving in Philadelphia on 10 October 1817. Here he worked for two years as a bookkeeper and then taught mathematics at Frederick, Maryland. - Charles French
Charles French (21 October 1851 - 27 October 1925) was a politician in Ireland, serving as Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The eldest son of Charles French, 3rd Baron de Freyne by his wife Catherine Maree, French was born before his parents' marriage on 17 May 1854 and so was not eligible to succeed to the title of Baron de Freyne, which passed to his younger brother, Arthur, in 1868. He married Constance Eleanor Chichester on 21 January 1880. - John Keogh
John Keogh was a leading Irish campaigner who struggled to get Irish Roman Catholics the right to vote and the repeal of the Penal Laws. He was of an obscure family and made his considerable fortune in land speculation, brewing, and silk trading. He owned land in Dublin, County Sligo, County Roscommon, and County Leitrim, and by the 1790's he had an income of around £6,000 per year. He became involved in the political struggle for Roman Catholic rights in the 1780s, … - Arthur Murphy
Arthur Murphy (December 27, 1727 - June 18, 1805), was an Irish writer, known by the pseudonym, Charles Ranger. He was born at Clooniquin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French. A barrister, journalist, actor, and playwright, he edited "Gray's Inn Journal" between 1752 and 1754. As Henry Thrale's oldest and dearest friend, it was he who introduced Samuel Johnson to the Thrales in January 1765. - Michael Barrett
Michael Barrett was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. A native of Loughglynn, County Roscommon, who worked in An Foras Taluntais, Barrett was elected to the 22nd Dáil as a TD for the Dublin North West constituency on his first attempt at the 1981 general election and re-elected until retiring at the 1992 general election when he was succeeded by Noel Ahern. He was elected to Dublin Corporation in 1979 and also served as chairperson of the Eastern Health Board. - Arthur French 1st Baron de Freyne
Arthur French, 1st Baron de Freyne (1786 - 29 September 1856), was an Anglo-Irish peer and Member of Parliament. De Freyne was the eldest son of Arthur French, of French Park. The French family had been major landowners in County Sligo and County Roscommon for many years. He was elected to Parliament for Roscommon in 1821, a seat he held until 1832. In 1839 he was raised to the peerage as Baron de Freyne, of Artagh in the County of Roscommon, … - Brian Mullooly
Brian Mullooly is a former Irish Fianna Fáil party politician. Brian Mullooly was born in Strokestown, County Roscommon in 1935. He was educated at Summershill College, Sligo and St. Patricks Teacher Training College in Dublin. He worked as a national school teacher before becoming involved in politics. He served in Seanad Éireann for over twenty years, holding the post of Cathaoirleach on two occasions. - John G. Downey
John Gately Downey (June 24, 1827 - March 1, 1894) was an Irish-American politician and Governor of California from January 14, 1860 to January 10, 1862. Until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003, Downey was California's only foreign-born governor. Downey is also the first Southern Californian to assume the governorship. - Lucy Cometina Kurtz
Lucy Cometina Kurtz was born in 1861 in West Derby, Lancashire, England, and christened on 4 September 1861 at St. Peter in Liverpool. She was the wife of Douglas Hyde, the first President of Ireland. Lucy died on 31 December 1937 at Ratra in Frenchpark, County Roscommon , Ireland. - Denis O'Conor
Denis O'Conor, the O'Conor Don (1794-1847) of Clonalis, County Roscommon, was an Irish nobleman and member of the British House of Commons. He married, in 1824, Mary Anne, daughter of Major Blake, of Towerbill, County Mayo, and was the father of Charles Owen and Denis Maurice. He was MP for Roscommon from 1831 to 1847. He became a Junior Lord of the Treasury in Lord John Russell's government but died the next year. - Arthur French 5th Baron de Freyne
Arthur Reginald French, 5th Baron de Freyne (July 3, 1879 - May 9, 1915) was born in London, to Arthur French of Frenchpark, County Roscommon (1855-1913), 4th Baron de Freyne, and his wife Lady Laura Octavia Dundas (d. 1881). A graduate of Sandhurst and lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers, he incurred the wrath of his father when on November 18, 1902 he married Annabelle Angus (the daughter of an innkeeper in Banffshire and the divorced wife of a brother officer, … - John MacBride
Major John MacBride (sometimes mistranscribed as McBride) (7 May 1865 - 5 May 1916) was an Irish republican executed for his leading role in the 1916 Easter Rising. John MacBride was born was born at The Quay, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland to Patrick MacBride, a shopkeeper and trader, and the former Honoria Gill, who survived her son. He was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, Westport and at St. Malachy's College, Belfast. - Andrew Beirne
Andrew Beirne was a Congressman from Virginia; born in Dangan, County Roscommon, Ireland, to Andrew Beirne, Dangan's Hereditary Chieftain, and Mary Plunkett Beirne, daughter of Edward Plunkett, 12th Baron Dunsany, received a classical education and was graduated from Trinity University, Dublin, Ireland; immigrated to the United States in 1793 and settled in Union, Monroe County, … - John Blake Dillon
John Blake Dillon (5 May 1814 - 15 September 1866) was an Irish writer and Politician who was one of the founding members of the Young Ireland movement. John Blake Dillon was born in the town of Ballaghaderreen, on the border of Co. Mayo and Co. Roscommon. He was educated at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth and Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) before being called to the Irish Bar in 1841. It was during his time at TCD that he first met and befriended Thomas Davis. - Maurice Harron
Maurice Harron is a sculptor, born in 1946 in Derry, Northern Ireland, where he grew up. He studied sculpture at the Ulster College of Art and Design in Belfast. Much of his work is public art sculpture and he has works sited in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland. Two of his most acclaimed commissions are "Reconcilition/Hands Across the Divide" in Carlisle Square, Derry, overlooking the Craigavon Bridge crossing the River Foyle, … - John Plunkett
John Hubert Plunkett (1 June 1802 - 9 May 1869) was Attorney-General of New South Wales and elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly. John Hubert Plunkett, son of George Plunkett, was born at Mount Plunkett, County Roscommon, Ireland. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in November 1819, graduated B.A. in 1824 and in 1826 was called to the Irish bar. He practised as a barrister with success, fought for Catholic Emancipation, … - Patsy McGarry
Patsy McGarry is the Religious Affairs correspondent of The Irish Times in the Republic of Ireland. He succeeded Andy Pollack as editor in the mid-1990s. He also is the commissioning editor for articles which are published in the paper's "Rite and Reason" column every Monday. McGarry also writes occasionally on social issues for the newspaper. A native of Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon, he is a graduate of University College Galway, … - Charles P. Gillen
Charles Pawel. Gillen (b. County Roscommon, Ireland on August 6 1876, d. June 30 1956 in New Jersey) was the Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 1917 to 1921. He was the son of Thomas and Mary A. (Conry) Gillen, Irish Catholic immigrants from County Roscommon. He married Margaret Carey in 1923. He had a real estate business before entering politics. He was the mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 1917 to 1921. - William Griffiths
William Griffiths VC (1841 - 22 January 1879) was born County Roscommon and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. - Matthew Harris
Matthew Harris (also Mat or Matt was an Irish Fenian, Land Leaguer, and Member of Parliament. Born in Athlone, he lived most of his adult life in Ballinasloe, Co Galway, where he worked as a building contractor. His grandfather, Peter Harris, was executed in Monasterevin by British forces for his role in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. He was involved in all the major 19th-century political movements of Irish nationalism, … - Matthew O'Conor
Matthew O Connor of Ballinagare, County Roscommon, Ireland, 1773-1844 was an Irish historian and "de jure" King of Connacht. O'Conor was the grandson of Charles O'Conor (1710-1791) the famed Irish antiquarian of the 18th century. His brother the Rev. Charles O'Conor (1767-1828) was likewise a historian. Matthew was educated for the priesthood in Rome, but changed his mind and became by profession a lawyer. - Saint Berach
Saint Berach of Termonbarry, (d. 595). Berach was a disciple of Saint Kevin and a celebrated Irish saint, whose memory is still celebrated in County Roscommon. Berach was of the tribe of Cinel Dobtha, or O'Hanley of Doohey Hanley, to which also belong the MacCoilidh family. Most of his life was spent in the Diocese of Elphin where he built the church at Cluain Coirpthe, now known as Termonbarry or Kilbarry. - James Joseph O'Kelly
James Joseph O'Kelly (born sometime in 1845, died 22 December 1916) was an Irish politician and journalist. His grandparents on his father's side came from County Roscommon. His father, John O'Kelly, ran a blacksmith's shop and dray making business in Dublin's Peterson's Lane, which connects Townsend Street with City Quay. He also owned the Cumberland cottages off Westland Row. He was educated in Dublin. - Edward Robinson
Edward Robinson (1829 -) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Kent West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1879 to 1883. He was born in County Roscommon, Ireland in 1829 and educated at Trinity College in Dublin. He came to Toronto in 1854 as head of the mathematics department of the Toronto Grammar School. Robinson later articled in law, was admitted as an attorney in 1863 and became a partner of Walter McCrea at Chatham. - Henry George Gore-Browne
Henry George Gore-Browne(VC) (30 September 1830 - 15 November 1912) was born in Newtown, County Roscommon and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. - Seamus O'Donovan
Seamus (James or Jim) O'Donovan was a leading member (volunteer) within the Irish Republican Army. A native of County Roscommon, he was an explosives expert and reputedly invented the "Irish Wallflower" and "Irish Cheddar" devices. He subsequently became IRA Director of Chemicals in 1921. During the Irish War of Independence he was imprisoned in Mountjoy and Kilmainham prisons and later interned in Newbridge, County Kildare. - Tassac
St. Tassac, also known as St. Tassach was an Irish saint, born in the first decade of the fifth century, died c. 495 and whose feast day falls on the 14 April. He was one of Saint Patrick's disciples, and when St Patrick founded the "Church of Raholp" he placed St Tassac in charge of it. - Maine Of Tethba
Maine of Tethba or Maine mac Néill was a supposed son of Niall Noigiallach. His existence is very doubtful. Writing of him in 1973, Irish historian Francis John Byrne stated his belief that: :"We may suspect then that eastern Maine was so successfully absorbed into the Uí Néill ambit that their kings, by a polite fiction, … - William Caulfeild 1st Viscount Charlemont
William Caulfeild, 1st Viscount Charlemont PC (1624 - April 1671) was an Irish politician and peer. Born in Donamon Castle in County Roscommon, he was a younger son the 2nd Lord Caulfeild, Baron of Charlemont and Mary King. In 1644, he succeeded to his older brother's title. Being firstly a leading Parlamentarian under Oliver Cromwell, he captured Sir Phelim O'Neil in 1653 and executed him for rebellion. - Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd
Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd (VC, KCB) (1 January 1854-5 July 1941) was born in County Roscommon and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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