- Dermot Earley
Major General Dermot Earley (born 1948), the current Deputy Chief of Staff (Support) of the Irish Defence Forces, was named on the 3rd April 2007 by the Irish Government to succeed in June 2007 as the new Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces. Major-General Dermot Earley will be appointed as Chief of Staff to succeed Lieutenant-General Jim Sreenan, who retires in June. He is also a former Gaelic footballer with Roscommon.
- John Connor
John Connor is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann in the 1981 general election as a TD for Roscommon. He lost his seat in general election of February 1982. He was nominated to the 17th Seanad by the Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. He was elected to the Agricultural Panel of the 18th Seanad in 1987.
- Jimmy Murray
Jimmy Murray (5 May, 1917 - 23 January, 2007) was a legendary Irish sportsperson who played Gaelic football with Roscommon in the 1940s.
- Michael Brennan
Michael Brennan was an Irish politician who served as a TD for fifteen years for the Roscommon constituency. Brennan was first elected as an independent TD to the 5th Dáil Éireann in the June 1927 general election and returned to the 6th Dail in the Irish general election, 1927 (September). After losing his seat in the 1932 general election, Brennan joined Cumann na nGaedhael and was returned to the 8th Dáil in the 1933 general election.
- James Burke
James Burke was an Irish Fine Gael politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD for the Roscommon constituency in the 1954 general election. He was re-elected at the 1957 general election and the 1961 general election. He died in office in 1964, the July 1964 by-election held for his seat was won by his widow Joan Burke.
- Terry Leyden
Terry Leyden is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. Formerly a Teachta Dála (TD), he is currently a Senator. Leyden was elected to Dáil Éireann on his first attempt, at the 1977 general election, when he was returned to the 21st Dáil as TD for Roscommon-Leitrim. He was returned for the new Roscommon constituency at the 1981 general election, …
- Wentworth Dillon 4th Earl of Roscommon
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (c. 1630 - 18 January 1685), English poet, was born in Ireland about 1630. He was a nephew of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, and was educated partly under a tutor at his uncle's seat in Yorkshire, partly at Caen in Normandy and partly at Rome. After the Restoration he returned to England, and was well received at court. In 1649 he had succeeded to the earldom of Roscommon, …
- Frank Harte
Frank Harte (Born 14 May 1933; died 27 June 2005) was born and lived in Chapelizod, a small village on the banks of the river Liffey, Dublin, Ireland. He worked as an architect professionally, but is honoured now as one of the greatest balladeers and song collectors in the Irish musical tradition. His introduction to Irish singing came, he said, from a chance listening to an itinerant who was selling ballad sheets at a fair in Boyle, County Roscommon.
- Roderic O'Conor
Roderic O'Conor Born in Roscommon Ireland, O’Conor studied at Ampleforth College, then at Dublin and Antwerp before moving to Paris where he was deeply influenced by the Impressionists. O'Conor attended the Metropolitan School and Royal Hibernian Academy early in his career. Like his classmate, Richard Moynan, O'Conor would travel to Antwerp then Paris to gain further experience.
- Tom Foxe
Tom Foxe was an Irish independent (non-party) and politician and TD. Foxe was elected to Dáil Éireann on his first attempt, at the 1989 general election, when he stood as an independent candidate in the Roscommon constituency. He unseated the sitting Fianna Fáil TD and former minister Seán Doherty and took his seat in the 26th Dáil. He was re-elected at the 1992 general election, for the new constituency of Longford-Roscommon, …
- Gerald Boland
Gerald Boland was a senior Irish politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 and was a founder-member of Fianna Fáil. Boland served as Minister for Posts & Telegraphs (1933–1936), Minister for Lands (1936–1939) and Minister for Justice (1939–1948 and 1951–1954). Gerald Boland was born in Manchester on May 25, 1885 to Irish parents. Shortly after his birth, the family returned to live in Ireland.
- Jarlath Fallon
Jarlath "Ja" Fallon is a Gaelic footballer for County Galway and Tuam Stars.He is widely regarded as one of the finest players to come from Tuam since the legendary Seán Purcell and Frank Stockwell.He has been an integral part of Galway County Football for the past 15 years Fallon was born in Tuam and played Gaelic Football in Secondary School with the successful St. Jarlaths of Tuam. He began his inter-county career with Galway in 1991, …
- Hugh Gibbons
Hugh Gibbons is a retired Irish Fianna Fáil party politician who sat in Dáil Éireann as a TD for twelve years, from 1965-1977. A medical doctor before entering politics, Gibbons was elected on his first attempt, when he stood as a Fianna Fáil candidate in the Roscommon constituency at the 1965 general election. After constituency changes under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1969, he was re-elected at the 1969 general election in the new Roscommon-Leitrim constituency.
- Joan Burke
Joan Burke, née Crowley (born 8 February, 1928) is a former Irish Fine Gael politician. She was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD for the Roscommon constituency in the July 1964 by-election caused by the death of her husband James Burke. She was re-elected at each successive election until she retired from politics at the 1981 general election.
- Packie Duignan
Patrick "Packie" Duignan (died 1992) was an Irish flute player, very well known by music lovers in his time. He was born at Colier road, Arigna, high up in the Iron Mountains of County Roscommon, Eire, and worked as a miner all his life. Duignan started learning to play on a clarkes whistle while listening to the 78's of John Mckenna. His deep diaphragm driven rhythm was strongly influenced by Mckenna.
- Michael McGovern
Michael McGovern (1848 - 1933) was a working-class poet who gained national recognition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was widely known as "the Puddler Poet", and his work reflected his support of labor unions. Born in Castlerea, Roscommon, Ireland, McGovern emigrated first to England and then to the United States. He eventually settled in Youngstown, Ohio, along with his wife, the former Anne Murphy, and secured work in the local steel mills.
- 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.
- Liam Naughten
Liam Naughten was an Irish Fine Gael politician, who was a TD for the constituency of Roscommon, first elected in 1982, and also served as a Senator. A farmer, he first contested the 1977 general election in Roscommon-Leitrim but was not elected. He was again unsuccessful in the 1981 election but was elected to the Seanad on the Agricultural Panel.
- 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.
- 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.
- Laurence Nugent
Laurence Nugent was an Irish Revolutionary. Born in Co. Roscommon, Nugent was a Lieutenant of 'K' Company, 3rd Battalion of the Irish Republican Army's Dublin Brigade.
- Jim Coffey
Jim Coffey (born January 16, 1891 in Roscommon, Ireland, died December 20, 1959) was an Irish boxer who defeated many notable opponents in the teens and 1920s. He died in Dublin, Ireland.
- George Noble Plunkett
George Noble Plunkett or Count Plunkett (1851 - 1948) was an Irish nationalist and father of Joseph Mary Plunkett, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916. Born in Dublin, Plunkett spent much time abroad, notably studying in Nice, France, and throughout Italy. In 1877 he was created a Papal Count by Pope Leo XIII for his work for the Papacy. From 1907 to 1916 he was curator of the National Museum in Dublin.
- Charles Owen O'Conor
Charles Owen O'Conor (7 May 1838 - 30 June 1906) was an Irish Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The eldest son of The O'Conor Don. O'Conor was educated at Downside School in England and became a Liberal MP for Roscommon from March 1860 until defeated in 1880. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Wexford (borough) in 1883.
- 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, …
- James Wills
James Wills, (January 1 1790 - November 1868), poet and miscellaneous writer, younger son of a Roscommon squire, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied law in the Middle Temple. Deprived, however, of the fortune destined for him and the means of pursuing a legal career by the extravagance of his elder brother, he entered the Church, and also wrote largely in "Blackwood's Magazine" and otherperiodicals.
- Luke Hayden
Luke Patrick Hayden was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for South Leitrim from 1885 to 1892 and for South Roscommon from 1892 until his death in 1897. He was Chairman of the Town Commissioners of the borough of Roscommon from 1880 until his death. He was also on the Commission of the Peace, and proprietor of the "Roscommon Messenger". He was the son of Luke Hayden, a blacksmith at Roscommon, and was educated locally.
- John Patrick Hayden
John Patrick Hayden (25 April 1863 - 3 July 1954) was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for South Co. Roscommon from 1897 to 1918. He was also editor and proprietor of the "Westmeath Examiner", published in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, and a member of the Irish Board of Agriculture. He was imprisoned four times by the British administration under different Coercion Acts. He was the seventh son of Luke Hayden of Roscommon, and was educated locally.
- Ciarán Of Clonmacnoise
Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise was an early Irish bishop. He is sometimes called Ciarán the Younger to distinguish him from Saint Ciarán Saighir. Born in 516 in Connacht, County Roscommon, Ciarán was the son of a chariotmaker. He was a student of Finian's at Clonard and in time became a teacher, himself. He also studied under Saint Enda of Aran, …
- Peregrine O'Duignan
Peregrine O'Duignan, Irish clergyman and historian, fl. 1627-1636. Born Cu Coigriche mac Tuathal O Duibhgeannain, presumably about or after 1590, his name was Latinized to Pereginus (anglicized Peregrine) when he took holy orders in the Franciscan Order based at Leuven. Cu Coigriche (also Cuchogry) means "hound [or hero] of the neighbouring[or foreign] land." His family, the Clan O Duibhgeannain, …
- Captain Gallagher
Captain Gallagher (d. 1818) was an Irish highwayman who, as one of the later Irish Rapparees, led a bandit group in the hills of the Irish countryside during the late 18th century. Born in Bonniconlon, he lived with his aunt in Derryronane, Swinford for much of his early life and raised near the woods of Barnalyra.
- Rose Ffrench 1st Baroness ffrench
Rose ffrench, 1st Baronses ffrench (died 8 December 1805) was an Irish peeress. Rose was the eldest daughter of Patrick Dillon of Roscommon. On 25 June 1761, she married Charles ffrench, who was later Mayor of Galway and created a baronet in 1779. Her husband died in 1784 and in 1798, she was created Baroness ffrench, of Castle ffrench, County Galway in recognition of the services of her son, Sir Thomas, who was a member of the Catholic Committee.
- Charles Ramsay Devlin
Charles Ramsay Devlin was a Canadian politician who was a member of the Canadian House of Commons, Legislative Assembly of Quebec, and the British House of Commons. Born in Aylmer, Lower Canada, the son of Charles Devlin and Ellen Roney, his father was a merchant from Roscommon in the Republic of Ireland. After attending the Petit Séminaire de Montréal from 1871 to 1877, he studied at the Université Laval in the faculty of arts from 1879 to 1881 but did not graduate.
- Walter de Burgh 1st Earl of Ulster
Walter de Burgh (c. 1230 - 28 July 1271 in Galway) was 2nd Lord of Connaught and 1st Earl of Ulster, the second son of Richard Mor de Burgh. He founded Athassel Priory. In 1243, he succeeded his father as Lord of Connacht, and was created Earl of Ulster as well in 1264. In 1270, he and Walter de Ufford, the Justiciar of Ireland, were defeated by Aedh mac Felim Ua Conchobair at Ath an Chip.
- Anne Crofton 1st Baroness Crofton
Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton (11 January 1751-12 August 1817), was an Irish "suo jure" peeress. Crofton was the wife of Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet, Member of the Irish Parliament for Roscommon. Sir Edward had been offered a peerage shortly before his death in December 1797. The honour was instead bestowed on his widow Anne, Lady Crofton, who in December 1797 was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baroness Crofton.
- Donal F. Early
Dr. Donal F. Early was an Irish and English psychiatrist. Early qualified LRCPI and LM from the College of Surgeons medical school in Dublin in 1941. In 1944 he joined the staff at Bristol Mental Hospital and was a consultant psychiatrist at Glenside from the 1950's. He founded the Glenside Museum. He had a particular interest in rehabilitation and industrial therapy, and became a World Health Organization advisor in Industrial Rehabilitation.
- Frank MacDermott
Frank MacDermott was born in Dublin. He qualified as a barrister and was an officer in the British Army during the First World War. He later emigrated to the USA and became a banker in New York City from 1919-27. He returned to Ireland in the late 1920s and stood unsuccessfully as an Independent Republican candidate for West Belfast in the 1929 Westminster Election.
- Doc Kane
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