- Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of "gross indecency". - Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like "Gulliver's Travels", "A Modest Proposal", "A Journal to Stella", "The Drapier's Letters", "The Battle of the Books", and "A Tale of a Tub". Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is less well known for his poetry. - George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than sixty plays. He was uniquely honoured by being awarded both a Nobel Prize (1925) for his contribution to literature and an Oscar (1938) for "Pygmalion". He was a strong advocate for socialism and women's rights, a vegetarian and teetotaller, and a harsh critic of formal education. - William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and together with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded Abbey Theatre and served as its chief playwright during its early years. Yeats was a pillar of the Irish literary establishment and was as an Irish Senator for two terms. - Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution. - Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Bowen was born in Dublin and later brought to Bowen’s Court in County Cork where she spent her summers. When her father became mentally ill in 1907, she and her mother moved to England, eventually settling in Hythe. After her mother died in 1912, Bowen was brought up by her aunts. She was educated at Downe House. - Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth (January 1, 1767-May 22, 1849) was an Anglo-Irish novelist. Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, the second child of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Anna Maria Edgeworth nee Elders. On her father's second marriage in 1773, she went with him to Ireland, where she eventually was to settle on his estate, Edgeworthstown, in County Longford. - 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. - Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was an Irish figurative painter. He was a collateral descendant of the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon. His artwork is well known for its bold, austere, and often grotesque or nightmarish imagery. - Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel "Dracula". In his honor, the Horror Writers Association recognizes "superior achievement" in horror writing with the Bram Stoker Award. - C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism and fiction. He is best known today for his series "The Chronicles of Narnia". Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of "The Lord of the Rings". - Maud Gonne
Maud Gonne MacBride was an English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, best remembered for her turbulent relationship with William Butler Yeats. Of Anglo-Irish stock and birth, she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of evicted people in the Land Wars. Active in Home Rule activities afterwards, she was widely admired for her courage and beauty. Edith Maud Gonne was born near Farnham, Surrey, … - William Trevor
William Trevor was born in 1928, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, in 1976 with his novel The Children of Dynmouth , in 1991 with Reading Turgenev and in 2002 with The Story of Lucy Gault . He has written many novels and was awarded an honorary CBE in recognition of his valuable services to literature in 1977. - Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Irish explorer, knighted for the success of the "British Antarctic Expedition" (1907 - 09) under his command, but now chiefly remembered for his Antarctic expedition of 1914-1916 in the ship "Endurance", which is colloquially known as "Shackleton's Expedition" or "The Shackleton Expedition". Along with Roald Amundsen, Douglas Mawson, and Robert Falcon Scott, … - Thomas Pakenham
Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (born 14 August 1933), known simply as Thomas Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has written several prize-winning books on the diverse subjects of Victorian and post-Victorian British history and trees. He is the son of Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, a Labour minister and human rights campaigner, and Elizabeth Longford; his sister, Antonia Fraser, … - John Butler Yeats
John Butler Yeats (Born Tullylish, County Down, 16 March 1839, died 3 February 1922) was an Irish artist and the father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. He is probably best known for his portrait of the young William Butler Yeats which is one of a number of his pictures in the Yeats museum in the National Gallery of Ireland. His portrait of John O'Leary (1904) is considered to be his masterpiece (Raymond Keaveney 2002). - Jennifer Johnston
Jennifer Johnston is an Irish novelist. She was born in Ireland on January 12, 1930, and educated at Trinity College Dublin. She is the daughter of Irish actor/director Shelah Richards and the playwright Denis Johnston, and a cousin of the late actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, via Fitzgerald's mother, Edith. She currently lives in Derry, Northern Ireland. Many of her novels deal with the fading of the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy in the 20th century. - Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 1 May 1769 - 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish British Army soldier and statesman, widely considered one of the leading military and political figures of the first half of the nineteenth century. Commissioned an ensign in the British Army, he rose to prominence in the Napoleonic Wars, eventually reaching the rank of field marshal. - Earl Of Cork
Earl of the County of Cork, usually shortened to Earl of Cork, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1620 for the Anglo-Irish politician Richard Boyle, 1st Baron Boyle. He had already been created Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal, in the County of Cork, in 1616, and was made Viscount of Dungarvan, in the County of Cork, at the same time he was given the earldom. These titles are also in the Peerage of Ireland. - William Thompson
William Thompson (1775 - 28 March 1833 Rosscarbery, Co. Cork) was an Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the Cooperative, Trade Union and Chartist movements as well as Karl Marx. Born into the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy of wealthy landowners and merchants of Cork society, … - 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, … - William King
William King (1809-1886), an Anglo-Irish anatomist at Queen's College Galway was the first (in 1864) to propose that the bones found in Neanderthal, Germany in 1856 were not of human origin, but of a distinct species, "Homo neanderthalensis". - Lennox Robinson
Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson was an Irish dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre. Robinson was born and raised in County Cork in a Protestant and Unionist family. His father was a middle-class stockbroker who in 1892 decided to become a clergyman in the Church of Ireland. A sickly child, Robinson was educated by private tutor and at Bandon Grammar School. - George William Russell
George William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, was an Anglo-Irish supporter of the Nationalist movement in Ireland, a critic, poet, and painter. He was also a mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy in Dublin, for many years. He is not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell (1853 - 1919). - Ernest Walton
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (October 6, 1903 - June 25, 1995) was an Irish physicist and the winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics (along with Sir John Douglas Cockcroft). Walton is the only Irishman to have won a Nobel Prize for Physics. Walton was born at Epworth Cottage, in Strandside South, Abbeyside, Dungarvan, County Waterford to a Methodist minister father, Rev. John Walton (1874 - 1936) and Anna Sinton (1874 - 1906). - John Nelson Darby
John Nelson Darby, (November 18, 1800 - April 29, 1882) was an Anglo-Irish evangelist, an influential figure among the original Plymouth Brethren, and founder of the Darbyites. He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism. - Mary Kenny
Mary Kenny is an Anglo-Irish author, broadcaster, playwright and journalist. She was a founder member of the Irish feminist movement. She has written for a large number of UK and Irish broadsheet newspapers, including The Irish Independent, The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and the Spectator and has authored books on William Joyce and Catholicism in Ireland. She is known in the UK as a Catholic journalist. - Jack Butler Yeats
Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) was an Irish artist. Yeats's early style was that of an illustrator and almost a cartoonist (he produced the first cartoon strip version of Sherlock Holmes in 1894); he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906. His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from the west of Ireland (especially his boyhood home of Sligo). There is a certain element of Romanticism in this work, … - Tyrone Guthrie
Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 - 15 May 1971) was a Tony Award-winning Anglo-Irish theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, at his family's home, Annaghmakerrig, in County Monaghan, Ireland Guthrie was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, the son of Dr. Thomas Guthrie (a grandson of the Scottish preacher, … - Hubert Butler
Hubert Marshal Butler (1900-1991) was an Anglo-Irish essayist who wrote on a wide-range of topics, from local history and archaeology to the politics of pre-war Eastern Europe. Throughout his writings was a thread of radical ideas that the convention of the time found unsettling. Born at the family home Maidenhall outside the village of Bennettsbridge in County Kilkenny, Ireland, Butler graduated from St John's College, Oxford, where he studied classics, in 1922. - Róisín Murphy
Róisín Marie Murphy is a Wicklow-born Irish electronic singer. She was brought up in the nearby resort town of Arklow, further south down Ireland's eastern coast, in County Wicklow. She gained fame as the lead vocalist for Anglo-Irish electronic duo Moloko before moving on as a solo artist. - Aidan Higgins
Aidan Higgins (born March 3, 1927) is an Irish writer. His upbringing in a landed Catholic family in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, provided material for his first experimental novel, "Langrishe, Go Down" (1966), and was later adapted for television by British playwright Harold Pinter. His 1972 novel, "Balcony of Europe" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Various writings have been collected and reprinted by the Dalkey Archive Press, … - John Keane
John Keane, Baron Keane of Ghuznee, (1781 - 1844) was a British soldier. Keane was born in Belmont, Ireland, in 1781. He joined the British Army as an Ensign at age 11 in 1792. He rose the the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 60th Foot and commanded a brigade in the Peninsular War. Promoted to Major-General, Keane commanded the British 3rd brigade at the Battle of New Orleans where he was wounded twice. - Charles Maturin
Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C.R. Maturin (born September 25, 1782 in Dublin; died October 30, 1824 in Dublin) was an Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained by the Church of Ireland) and a writer of gothic plays and novels. Descended from a Huguenot family, he attended Trinity College, Dublin. Shortly after being ordained as curate of Loughrea in 1803, he married acclaimed singer Henrietta Kingsbury, a sister of Sarah Kingsbury, whose daughter, … - Shayne Ward
Shayne Thomas Ward (born 16 October 1984 in Clayton, Manchester) is an English pop singer of Irish descent who rose to prominence in the UK and Ireland after becoming the winner of the 2005 series of the talent show "The X Factor". - George Gabriel Stokes
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (13 August 1819-1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier-Stokes equations), optics, and mathematical physics (including Stokes' theorem). He was secretary, then president of the Royal Society. - Edward Plunkett 18th Baron Dunsany
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (24 July 1878 - 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. He was born to one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, lived much of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara, and died in Dublin. - Eamonn Duggan
Eamonn S. Duggan was an Irish lawyer, nationalist and politician. Born in Longwood, County Meath, Duggan's father was a RIC officer from County Armagh serving in the village, his mother a local woman by the name of Dunne. Duggan qualified as a solicitor and soon became involved in politics. He became a supporter of Sinn Féin and fought in the Easter Rising in 1916. He was subject to court-martial following the Rising and sentence to three years penal servitude. - James Butler 1st Duke of Ormonde
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde (October 19, 1610 - July 21 1688), was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier. He is best known for his involvement in the Irish Confederate Wars of the 1640s, when he commanded the English Royalist forces in Ireland. - Philip Francis
Sir Philip Francis (22 October 1740 - 23 December 1818), English politician and pamphleteer, the probable author of the "Letters" of Junius, and the chief antagonist of Warren Hastings.
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