Ireland
People of this nationality
Patricia Burke Brogan
1926 – 2022
poet
Enya
b. 1961
singer
Dickie Roche
1930 – 2017
rugby union player
George McManus
1806 – 1887
politician
Connie Kelly
1949 – 1985
hurler
Paul Brock
b. 1944
musician
Greg O'Shea
b. 1995
rugby union player
Seth Dunwoody
b. 2006
sport cyclist
Niall McInerney
b. 1941
photographer
Stephen Elliott
b. 1984
association football player
Paul McGee
b. 1954
association football player
Niamh Ní Charra
b. 1974
singer
Tony Hanahoe
b. 1945
Gaelic football player
Raymond Browne
b. 1957
Catholic priest
Denis Carey
composer
Ria Mooney
1904 – 1973
actor
Mick Cashman
1931 – 1990
hurler
Eoin Duffy
b. 1983
film director
Jim Ruttle
b. 1952
politician
SON
b. 1990
musician
Ruadhri Ua Flaithbertaigh
Thomas Walsh
1901 – 1956
politician
Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin
1954 – 2011
historian
George Johnston Allman
1824 – 1904
mathematician
Niamh Kavanagh
b. 1968
singer
Gerard McGinnity
b. 1946
Catholic priest
Ultan Conlon
b. 1980
singer-songwriter
Keith Swanick
b. 1974
politician
Michael Colgan
b. 1950
artistic director
Neil Jordan
b. 1950
film director
John Vincent Holland
1889 – 1975
military personnel
Francis Hughes
1956 – 1981
politician
Leo J. Enright
b. 1955
radio personality
Walter Crofton
1815 – 1897
prison officer
John Broderick
1924 – 1989
writer
Josie McDermott
1925 – 1992
composer
Fionnuala Carr
b. 1981
camogie player
St. George Richard Gore
1812 – 1871
politician
Martin Hayes
b. 1961
fiddler
David Gallagher
b. 1980
Gaelic football player
Donnacha Ryan
b. 1983
rugby union player
David Hanly
1944 – 2025
broadcaster
Kevin Murphy
1937 – 2012
Ombudsman (Ireland)
Patrick Walsh
Anne Bushnell
1939 – 2011
singer
Seán Ryan
1919 – 1985
fiddler
Ronan McCormack
b. 1977
rugby union player
Keith Hanlon
b. 1966
archer
William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor
1781 – 1850
author
Eileen Shields
b. 1970
designer
Dominick Joyce
b. 1981
cricketer
John Boland
1944 – 2000
politician
Siobhán McKenna
1922 – 1986
stage actor
Adrian Ryan
b. 1990
hurler
Kieran Purcell
b. 1945
hurler
Tom Hallifax
b. 1965
artist
Stephen Bennett
b. 1995
hurler
Shane Bennett
b. 1996
hurler
Emma O'Driscoll
b. 1982
dancer
Linda Nelson Murray
politician
Danny McGowan
1924 – 1994
association football player
Siobhán McCarthy
b. 1957
singer
Jimmy Byrne
b. 1941
hurler
Henry Stanistreet
1901 – 1981
Anglican priest
Pat Burke
b. 1973
basketball player
Aengus Finucane
1932 – 2009
missionary
John Walton
1957 – 2004
Ian Burke
Gaelic football player
Bridget of Fiesole
b. 850
nun
Simon Hillary
b. 1992
rugby union player
Louis Walsh
1880 – 1942
judge
Patrick Patterson
b. 1998
rugby union player
Rebecca Cooke
b. 2002
association football player
Seamus Heaney
1939 – 2013
playwright
Paul Shefflin
1980 – 2022
hurler
David Clarke
b. 1946
pastor
Anselmo García MacNulty
b. 2003
association football player
John Miskella
b. 1978
Gaelic football player
John Mitchel
1815 – 1875
politician
William Porterfield
b. 1984
cricketer
Jim Townsend
1937 – 2021
politician
Paul Doolin
b. 1963
association football player
Jennifer Guinness
1937 – 2016
socialite
Jimmy Hatton
1934 – 2023
Gaelic football player
Dick Hooper
b. 1956
long-distance runner
Míceál O'Rourke
pianist
John Leamy
b. 1964
hurler
Mark Feehily
b. 1980
singer
Timothy Sullivan
1874 – 1949
judge
David Clifford
b. 1999
Gaelic football player
Valentin Iremonger
1918 – 1991
poet
Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony
1850 – 1930
politician
Charlie Tobin
1919 – 1996
hurler
James Lalor
1829 – 1922
politician
Thomas Chamney
b. 1984
middle-distance runner
Jonno Devlin
b. 1976
rower
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin
b. 1983
singer
Charles Fanning
1736 – 1790
harpist
Patrick Cooney
1931 – 2025
politician
Anthony Caffry
Catholic priest