Ireland
People of this nationality
Barbara Hewson
1961 – 2021
barrister
Mark Sugden
1902 – 1990
cricketer
Cailín Ní Toibín
b. 1994
model
Paddy Carty
1929 – 1980
flautist
William Neill
1922 – 2010
poet
Sam Barry
b. 1992
tennis player
Edward Bransfield
1785 – 1852
explorer
Roebuck O'Shaughnessey
Denise Nolan
b. 1952
singer
Eoin MacNeill
1867 – 1945
politician
Michelle Massey
b. 1981
businessperson
Richie Kavanagh
b. 1949
singer
Martin Cahill
1949 – 1994
art thief
Cian McCarthy
b. 1989
hurler
Bernard Butler
1886 – 1959
politician
John O'Keeffe
b. 1951
Gaelic football player
Mark Farren
1982 – 2016
association football player
Kevin O'Reilly
b. 1987
hurler
Mary Black
b. 1955
singer
Matt Holland
b. 1974
association football player
Brendan Comiskey
1935 – 2025
Catholic priest
Roy McFadden
1921 – 1999
poet
William Larminie
1849 – 1900
writer
Michael Scott
b. 1959
writer
Humphrey Kelleher
1946 – 2005
Gaelic football player
John Kenyon
1812 – 1869
Catholic priest
John Henry Foley
1818 – 1874
sculptor
William Connolly
b. 1839
musician
Nance the Piper
musician
Francis Barker
1773 – 1859
physician
John Tierney
b. 1982
Australian rules football player
Robert Briscoe
1894 – 1969
politician
Anthony Cronin
1923 – 2016
poet
Jamie Osborne
b. 2001
rugby union player
Phil Kieran
record producer
Martin Haverty
1809 – 1887
author
Paul Byrne
b. 1986
association football player
Maud Aiken
1898 – 1978
musician
Paddy Ambrose
1928 – 2002
association football player
Kevin Foley
b. 1984
association football player
Jean Carroll
b. 1980
cricketer
Annie Jessy Curwen
1845 – 1932
pianist
Patrick McWalter
b. 1983
association football player
Phil O'Donnell
1932 – 1982
Brian Dowling
b. 1978
flight attendant
James McBratney
1941 – 1973
Fiona Plunkett
1896 – 1977
Brian O'Driscoll
b. 1976
hurler
Donal Lyons
b. 2000
politician
Gerry Murphy
1943 – 2025
association football player
George K. Miley
b. 1942
university teacher
Fiachra Lynch
b. 1987
Gaelic football player
Ronnie Dawson
1932 – 2024
rugby union player
James Nolan
b. 1977
middle-distance runner
Dara Ó Conaola
b. 1945
writer
Conn McCluskey
1914 – 2013
physician
Rory O'Loughlin
b. 1994
rugby union player
Jack Butler Yeats
1871 – 1957
painter
John Hodnett
b. 1999
rugby union player
Johnny Crowley
b. 1956
Gaelic football player
Gearóid McInerney
b. 1990
hurler
Declan Bonner
b. 1965
Gaelic football player
Joseph O'Connor
b. 1963
writer
John J. McGuinness
b. 1955
politician
Stanislaus Joyce
1884 – 1955
diarist
Colmán of Lindisfarne
605 – 676
Catholic priest
Gerard Cott
1940 – 2023
politician
Michelle Carey
b. 1999
field hockey player
James Larkin, Jnr
1904 – 1969
politician
Hugh Oge O'Neill
Pat McQuaid
b. 1949
sport cyclist
Martin Codd
1929 – 2008
hurler
Fidelma Healy Eames
b. 1962
politician
Melissa Scott-Hayward
b. 1990
cricketer
Eamonn O'Neill
1882 – 1954
politician
Johnny Darling
1887 – 1946
association football player
Natalya Coyle
b. 1990
athletics competitor
Éamonn Kelly
b. 1968
Gaelic football player
Patrick McGrath
1900 – 1956
politician
Louise Gavan Duffy
1884 – 1969
suffragist
Martin Crane
1818 – 1901
Catholic priest
Joyce Redman
1915 – 2012
television actor
Samantha Barry
b. 1982
journalist
Hubert James Willey
1897 – 1948
military personnel
Eleanor Shanley
singer
Méabh Deely
b. 2000
rugby union player
Mervyn Wall
1908 – 1997
writer
Aidan Davitt
b. 1978
politician
Thomas Andrews
1813 – 1885
physicist
Mary Elizabeth Byrne
1880 – 1931
journalist
Julia Samuel
b. 1959
psychotherapist
Father Michael Morrison
1908 – 1973
Catholic priest
Bronwen Maher
b. 1957
politician
Aidan Butler
b. 1975
hurler
Trevor Britton
b. 1982
cricketer
Nevill Coghill
1899 – 1980
linguist
Damien Fitzhenry
b. 1974
hurler
Caden McLoughlin
b. 2005
association football player
James Henry Reynolds
1844 – 1932
military physician
Noel Mannion
b. 1963
rugby union player