Ireland

Ray O'Brien

b. 1951

association football player

William Wall

b. 1955

poet

Carly Smithson

b. 1983

musician

Joseph Barron

1900 – 1968

politician

Barry Fitzgerald

b. 1975

ghost hunter

Michael Hurley

b. 1996

Gaelic football player

Dermot Nally

b. 1980

sport cyclist

Conor O'Sullivan

b. 1989

hurler

Timothy V. Murphy

b. 1960

actor

Fannie Gallaher

1854 – 1936

novelist

Ger Power

b. 1952

Gaelic football player

James MacLaine

1724 – 1750

highwayman

Gillian Bourke

b. 1984

rugby union player

Colman mac Duagh

550 – 632

Catholic priest

Norman Lockhart

1924 – 1993

association football player

Eddie Gannon

1921 – 1989

association football player

John Creed

1819 – 1872

Damien Rice

b. 1973

singer-songwriter

Enda Markey

b. 1976

actor

Pat Dolan

b. 1967

association football player

John Rothwell

b. 1951

hurler

Joe O'Boye

b. 1960

snooker player

Críostóir Ó Floinn

1927 – 2023

playwright

Peter Tyrrell

1916 – 1967

author

Martha Kearney

b. 1957

journalist

Hugh Coveney

1935 – 1998

politician

Raphael Keyes

politician

Louis Stewart

1944 – 2016

jazz musician

Tommy O'Connor

association football player

Gregg Fitzgerald

b. 1978

actor

Mella Carroll

1934 – 2006

judge

Aishah Akorede

b. 1999

model

Billy Gillespie

1891 – 1981

association football player

Michael Collins

b. 2000

politician

Jimmy Browne

b. 1960

Gaelic football player

Thomas Lane

1836 – 1889

military personnel

James White

1913 – 2003

author

Willie John Daly

1925 – 2017

hurler

Enda Williams

b. 1985

Gaelic football player

Hayley Nolan

b. 1997

association football player

David Gleeson

b. 1966

author

Benny Henderson

1926 – 1993

association football player

Veronica O’Brien

1905 – 1998

cloistered nun

Minjung Kim

b. 1962

artist

Edmund Charles Beard

1894 – 1974

military personnel

John Connolly

1751 – 1825

Catholic priest

Tom O'Reilly

1915 – 1995

Gaelic football player

Niall O'Brien

1939 – 2004

priest

Paddy Johnston

1933 – 2001

hurler

James Humbert Craig

1877 – 1944

painter

Mark Killilea, Jnr

1939 – 2018

politician

John Oulton Wisdom

1908 – 1993

philosopher

Ciarán Slevin

b. 1986

hurler

Sasha Harrison

b. 1975

equestrian

Rachel Rath

b. 1976

actor

Roddy Doyle

b. 1958

screenwriter

John J. Nash

politician

John Gibbons

columnist

Martin Conboy

1833 – 1909

Oliver Goldsmith

1728 – 1774

physician

Robbie Ryan

b. 1977

association football player

Colette Fitzpatrick

b. 1974

writer

Sarah Packiam

b. 1982

singer

Ciara Mageean

b. 1992

athletics competitor

Sean Boru

1953 – 2011

autobiographer

John Donnellan

b. 1937

Gaelic football player

Paudie Lynch

b. 1952

Gaelic football player

Ellen O'Leary

1831 – 1889

poet

Eugene Nugent

b. 1958

Catholic priest

George O'Connor

b. 1959

Gaelic football player

Ross Corrigan

b. 1999

rower

Patrick Byrne

1925 – 2021

politician

Cormac mac Ceithearnach

Ray Foley

b. 1980

disc jockey

Anna Kelly

1891 – 1958

journalist

Sharon Donnery

b. 1972

economist

Denis Horgan

1871 – 1922

athletics competitor

Martin Ashe

b. 1953

Catholic priest

John Moloney

b. 1949

rugby union player

Emily MacManus

1886 – 1978

nurse

John Spillane

b. 1961

singer

Patrick Aidan Heelan

1926 – 2015

physicist

Thomas Joseph Commons

b. 1950

police officer

Alan Farrell

b. 1977

politician

Dermot Curtis

1932 – 2008

association football player

Ron Delany

1935 – 2026

middle-distance runner

Patrick Boyle

1905 – 1982

writer

John Healy

1903 – 1995

politician

D'Arcy Wentworth

1762 – 1827

surgeon

Mary Anne Emmet

1773 – 1805

poet

Thomas Lawlor

politician

John Fitzgibbon

b. 1992

hurler

Eve O'Carroll

b. 2007

association football player

Alan Carey

b. 1968

canoeist

Barry Daly

b. 1990

hurler

Joe O'Sullivan

b. 1936

Gaelic football player

William Aird

b. 1960

politician

Richard Hayward

1892 – 1964

actor

Caolan Robertson

b. 1995

journalist

Patrick Hickey

b. 1945

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