Ireland
People of this nationality
Noel Synnott
b. 1951
association football player
Tony Byrne
1946 – 2016
association football player
James Boyle
politician
Glen Hansard
1970 – 2026
actor
Charles Barrington
1834 – 1901
mountaineer
Seán Milroy
1877 – 1946
politician
Jackie Healy-Rae
1931 – 2014
politician
Pauline Tully
b. 2000
politician
Evelyn Quigley
b. 1981
camogie player
James G. Douglas
1887 – 1954
politician
Sid Finney
1929 – 2009
ice hockey player
Anthony O'Riordan
b. 1966
hurler
Mary Cullen
b. 1982
athletics competitor
Robert Jephson
1736 – 1803
writer
Pat McGrath
b. 1960
hurler
Roland Tong
b. 1979
dressage rider
Rus Failge
sovereign
Mike Moloney
b. 1988
Gaelic football player
Brendan Ingle
1940 – 2018
boxer
Nicholas Furlong
1929 – 2022
writer
Deirdre Duke
b. 1992
association football player
Kieran Hanrahan
b. 1957
banjoist
Richie Malone
b. 1986
guitarist
John Doherty
1895 – 1980
fiddler
Kaye Don
1891 – 1981
racing automobile driver
Fred Horlacher
1910 – 1943
association football player
Ian Byrne
b. 1992
hurler
Scott Flanigan
b. 1992
athlete
Sharon Lynch
b. 1982
rugby union player
Patrick Kiernan
1929 – 2003
equestrian
Alex McHenry
b. 1997
rugby union player
Stephen Gough
b. 1981
association football player
James Graham
1819 – 1898
politician
Lily Yeats
1866 – 1949
designer
Brendan Balfe
b. 1945
radio personality
Aaron Cunningham
b. 1993
hurler
George Philip Farran
1876 – 1949
zoologist
Barry Teehan
b. 1982
hurler
Peter de Loughry
1882 – 1931
politician
Fred Kiernan
1919 – 1981
association football player
Howard Watkins
b. 1951
canoeist
David Hurley
b. 1998
John Talbot
politician
Joanne O'Callaghan
b. 1983
Lorna Reynolds
1911 – 2003
writer
Tommy Butler
1951 – 2020
hurler
Louise Shanahan
b. 1997
middle-distance runner
Derry Power
1935 – 2025
actor
Declan Fanning
b. 1979
Gaelic football player
Denis Bradley
chairperson
Will Sliney
b. 1982
cartoonist
Dudley Digges
1879 – 1947
actor
Jerome Murphy-O'Connor
1935 – 2013
theologian
Nicky Orr
b. 1947
hurler
Alison Spittle
b. 1989
comedian
Walter Burke
b. 1981
Sé O'Hanlon
1941 – 2026
sport cyclist
John Meighan
1891 – 1978
politician
Ian Bermingham
b. 1989
association football player
Bert Mehaffy
1895 – 1970
association football player
Peter Hanrahan
b. 1968
association football player
Patrick Daly
1891 – 1999
politician
Tony McGuinness
b. 1961
drummer
Adrian Cahill
1971 – 2020
hurler
Katie Corrigan
b. 2005
rugby union player
Declan Barron
b. 1951
Gaelic football player
Patrick Shannon
b. 1977
skeleton racer
James Dooge
1922 – 2010
politician
David J. Cooney
b. 1954
diplomat
Catherine Walsh
b. 1964
poet
Louise O'Neill
b. 1985
children's writer
Havelock Nelson
1917 – 1996
composer
Rodney Orpheus
b. 1960
musician
Evie Hone
1894 – 1955
painter
Kevin Costello
b. 1977
mathematician
Ted O'Sullivan
1920 – 1968
hurler
John Ireland
1838 – 1918
Catholic priest
Eoin O'Mahony
b. 1962
Gaelic football player
Camille Souter
1929 – 2023
painter
John O'Brien
b. 2000
Gaelic football player
Nicholas Robinson
b. 1946
author
Richard Montgomery
1738 – 1775
military officer
Jack O'Connor
b. 1998
hurler
Rachel Hardiman
b. 1961
cricketer
Eimear Richardson
b. 1986
cricketer
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
b. 1979
fiddler
Shane Griffin
b. 1994
association football player
Derek Holland
b. 1974
rower
Dan O'Sullivan
1927 – 2013
Gaelic football player
Nuala Nic Con Iomaire
1967 – 2010
linguist
Dan Kiely
b. 1940
politician
Joe Carr
1922 – 2004
golfer
Kirsten McGarry
b. 1985
alpine skier
Frankie Carroll
b. 1971
hurler
P. J. Kelly
1843 – 1908
politician
Keira Keogh
b. 1985
politician
Frank Burke
b. 1952
hurler
Jennifer Egan
b. 1987
kayaker
Jim Higgins
b. 1926
association football player
Homan Potterton
1946 – 2020
art historian