- Bridget Irish
Bridget Irish, born March 17, 1966 is an American performance artist, lesbian feminist and Marxist. She was a contributor to "Free to Fight", the interactive self defense project for women, released by Candy Ass Records in 1995. Her work has been featured at the Tollbooth Gallery in Tacoma, Washington, among other places. She appeared in "Dr.
- Carolyn Tanner Irish
The Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish is the 10th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah. At the time of her election and consecration in 1996 she became the fourth woman in the Episcopal Church to hold the office of Bishop.
- Ned Irish
Edward S. "Ed" Irish (b. May 6, 1905 in Lake George, New York - d. January 21, 1982) was a basketball promoter and one of the key figures in popularizing professional basketball. He was the president of the New York Knicks from 1946 to 1974. He was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1964.
- George Irish
James Alfred George Patrick Irish, generally known as George Irish is a Montserratian academic, community leader and activist. A graduate of the University of the West Indies, and the first recipient of that institution's Ph.D. degree in Spanish. He has taught at UWI, where he headed the Department of Spanish, …
- Ronald Irish
Sir Ronald Irish attended Fort Street High School in the 1930's. He later became Chairman of Rothmans of Pall Mall (Australia), now British American Tobacco Australia. He is also the author of several books on auditing.
- Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, is known as the first Baby Boomer president.
- Michael Jackson
The Right Reverend Dr. Michael Jackson (born 24 May 1956) has been the Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher since 2002. His father, the late Roy Jackson, was an archdeacon. Jackson was born in Lurgan, and educated at Ballinamallard Primary School, Portora Royal School, Enniskillen and Trinity College, Dublin, before going on to do postgraduate studies in Cambridge. He married Inez Cooke, a medical doctor who was born in County Fermanagh, and they have one daughter, …
- James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel "Ulysses" (1922) and its highly controversial successor "Finnegans Wake" (1939), as well as the short story collection "Dubliners" (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916).
- Bertie Ahern
Bertie Ahern , Prime Minister
- Charlie Bird
Charles "Charlie" Bird is an Irish journalist and broadcaster. He is currently the Chief News Correspondent with RTÉ News.
- Miriam O'Callaghan
Miriam O'Callaghan is a television current affairs broadcaster on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland. Miriam O'Callaghan was born in Foxrock, south Dublin, the second child in a family of five. She was educated by the Sisters of Charity in Milltown, south Dublin, and studied law at University College Dublin before spending a year at Blackhall Place and working for a short time at a Dublin legal firm. She met her first husband, broadcaster and journalist Tom McGurk, …
- Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick was a Christian missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba. Patrick was born in Roman Britain. When he was about sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He entered the church, as his father and grandfather had before him, becoming a deacon and a bishop. He later returned to Ireland as a missionary, …
- 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".
- Gerry Adams
Gerard Adams
- Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus August 25, 1954 in London) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. His full given name is often listed as Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus; however, Aloysius was not one of his names at birth, being added years later, around the time of the release of "King of America" (typically, it was a tongue-in-cheek gesture, …
- Ian Paisley
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley MP MLA (born 6 April 1926) is the current First Minister of Northern Ireland. Styled as "The Reverend", "Right Honourable" or as "Doctor", depending upon his current role and location, Paisley is a veteran politician and church leader in Northern Ireland. As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the largest single grouping in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, …
- Danny Boy
Daniel O’Connor, better known as Danny Boy, is a former member of the Irish-influenced rap group House of Pain where he served as hype man and second MC on stage.
- Van Morrison
Van Morrison was born in Belfast in 1945, the son of a shipyard worker who collected American blues and jazz records. Van grew up listening to the music of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson , Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker . As a teenager he played guitar, sax and harmonica with a series of local Irish showbands, skiffle and rock'n'roll groups before forming an r&b band called Them in 1964.
- Brian Cowen
Brian Cowen is a senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician and the current Tánaiste of Ireland. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the constituency of Laois-Offaly since 1984 and since September, 2004 he has served as Minister for Finance. He has previously worked as Minister for Labour (1992–1993), Minister for Energy (1993), Minister for Transport, Energy & Communications (1993–1994), …
- 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".
- Bryan Dobson
Bryan Dobson is a newsreader with Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland. Dobson was raised in Clontarf in North Dublin where he attended the local Church of Ireland church. He was involved in youth work and was an executive member of the Church of Ireland Youth Council where he was the Public Relations Officer (PRO). He has worked in the media for over twenty years, joining RTÉ News as a reporter in 1992. Dobson previously worked for the Dublin pirate station Radio Nova, …
- Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell (born May 31, 1976) is an Irish actor who has appeared in several high-profile Hollywood films including "Daredevil", "Miami Vice", "Minority Report", "Phone Booth" and "S.W.A.T."
- Michael Collins
Michael John ("Mick") Collins (16 October, 1890 - 22 August, 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance in the Irish Republic, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations, both as Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army. He was shot and killed in August 1922, during the Irish Civil War.
- Michael Collins
Michael Collins (born 1964) is an Irish-born author of novels and short stories. The film rights to several of his books have been purchased, and he has also written a screenplay titled "Julia". He was born in Tipperary, Ireland and is a distant relative of the Irish patriot Michael Collins. He grew up in Ireland, where he was a distance runner.
- Michael Collins
Michael Collins (born 30 April 1986) is a professional footballer currently playing for Huddersfield Town in Coca-Cola League One. Having come through Town's academy, Collins made his first team debut in 2004, but has found it hard to cement a place in the side, with a lot of competition from captain Jon Worthington, Mark Hudson and Adnan Ahmed amongst others, but he has already produced several superb displays in the early part of this season.
- Michael Collins
Michael J. Collins was a Fianna Fáil and Independent Teachta Dála (TD) for Limerick West from 1997 to 2007. Michael Collins was born in Abbeyfeale, County Limerick in 1940. He is the son of James Collins and a brother of Gerard Collins, both Fianna Fáil members of Dáil Éireann. Collins was involved in local politics for many years, serving as a councillor and chairman of the Limerick County Council.
- William Henry
William Henry, informally known as Willie Henry, is a Galway based author and historian. His topics usually concern natives of Galway or a Galway-related topic.
- Boy George
George Alan O'Dowd, better known as Boy George (born June 14, 1961 in Eltham) is a pop singer-songwriter. George grew up in a large, working-class Irish family, which originated in Thurles, in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. O'Dowd gained fame with his group Culture Club during the 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, since he was heavily influenced by Rhythm and Blues and reggae.
- John Carroll
John Carroll VC (16 August 1891 - 4 October 1971) was an Australian 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. Born in Brisbane, Queensland to Irish parents, he moved to Western Australia while still a child. He worked as a labourer and railway guard before enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force as a private in April 1916.
- 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.
- 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.
- John Carroll
John Carroll (born 16 January, 1978) is an Irish sportsman. He plays hurling with his local club Roscrea and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team. He usually plays in the half-forward line.
- John Carroll
John Carroll was a Provisional Sinn Féin member and stood in Laois Offaly in numerous elections. He also contested seats for Offaly County Council, and for "Birr Urban District Council" (now "Birr Town Council"). Today he is not a Sinn Féin member, but sits as an independent on the Birr Town Council.
- Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. Beckett's work is stark, fundamentally minimalist, and, according to some interpretations, deeply pessimistic about the human condition. His work grew increasingly cryptic and attenuated over his career. The perceived pessimism in Beckett's work is mitigated both by a great and often wicked sense of humour, and by the sense, for some readers, …
- Neal McCoy
Neal McCoy (born on July 30, 1958 in Jacksonville, Texas) is an American country singer of mixed Irish and Filipino descent. He stepped into the scene in the early 1990s, and currently lives in Longview, Texas.
- David Byrne
David Byrne (born 6 April 1947) is an Irish senior counsel, former Attorney-General of Ireland and former EU Commissioner. In December 2006 Byrne was appointed as Chancellor of Dublin City University. Byrne was educated at Newbridge College, Co. Kildare, University College Dublin and King's Inns, Dublin. He was called to the Bar in 1970 and practised law in the Irish and European Courts. During his student days in Dublin, he founded the Free Legal Advice Centre, …
- Alex Rodriguez
Alex Rodriguez (March 16, 1978) is the drummer for Post-Hardcore band Saosin. He was born in Miami, Florida to a Cuban immigrant father and Irish mother. He fell in the hardcore scene as a teen and hit the road at 17 with his band, Never Falling. The group relocated in Los Angeles in 1997 and soon broke up. Rodriguez stayed in the Orange County because of the hardcore scene, founding Open Hand three years later. Rodriguez left Open Hand to join Saosin in 2003.
- Martin McGuinness
Martin McGuinness was born in Derry and educated locally. He left school at the age of fifteen without any formal qualifications to begin work as a butcher's assistant. Following the widespread unrest in Northern Ireland in the wake of the emergence of the civil rights movement at the end of the 1960s, McGuinness became involved in the republican movement.
- David Byrne
David Byrne (born November 14, 1979) in Dublin is an Irish footballer who currently plays in midfield for Longford Town. Byrne started his career with Shelbourne before a move to Scottish Premier League side Dundee United. During his season with United he made just one substitute appearance, playing the final few minutes at Parkhead in a 4-1 defeat to Celtic. Byrne moved back to Shelbourne, where he played for three years, picking up a league winners' medal.
- Twenty Major
Twenty Major is an award winning Irish blogger. The name Twenty Major is a reference to a brand of cigarettes called Major, available in packs of twenty. He lives in Dublin, Ireland and says he still smokes in bars despite the smoking ban. His blog features often foul-mouthed tirades about life in Ireland and stomach churning puns based on 80s pop music.