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• Maeve Binchy
  Maeve Binchy
  Maeve Binchy is an Irish novelist, newspaper columnist and speaker. Educated at University College Dublin, she worked as a teacher then a journalist at The Irish Times and later became a writer of novels and short stories.Many of her novels are set in Ireland, dealing with the tensions between...
  
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• Marina Carr
  Marina Carr
  Marina Carr is an Irish playwright.Born in Tullamore, County Offaly, Carr attended University College Dublin before holding posts as writer-in-residence at the Abbey Theatre and Trinity College Dublin. She served as Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2003...
  
  
• Austin Clarke
  Austin Clarke (poet)
  thumb|300px|Austin Clarke Bridge in [[Templeogue]]Austin Clarke was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs...
  
  
• Brian Cleeve
  Brian Cleeve
  Brian Brendon Talbot Cleeve was a prolific writer, whose published works include twenty-one novels and over a hundred short stories. He was also an award-winning broadcaster on RTÉ television. Son of an Irish father and English mother, he was born and raised in England...
  
  
• Brian Coffey
  Brian Coffey
  Brian Coffey was an Irish poet and publisher. His work was informed by his Catholicism and by his background in science and philosophy, and his connection to surrealism. For these reasons, he is seen as being closer to an intellectual European Catholic tradition than to mainstream Irish Catholic...
  
  
• Eamon Delaney
  Eamon Delaney
  Eamon Delaney is an Irish author, journalist and former diplomat.Delaney was a student in University College Dublin . He was Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society from 1985 to 1986. On leaving college he became an Irish diplomat. Having left the Irish diplomatic corp, he became a fulltime...
  
  
• Denis Devlin
  Denis Devlin
  Denis Devlin was, along with Samuel Beckett and Brian Coffey, one of the generation of Irish modernist poets to emerge at the end of the 1920s. He was also a career diplomat.-Early life and studies:...
  
  
• Emma Donoghue
  Emma Donoghue
  Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international bestseller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for...
  
  
• Roddy Doyle
  Roddy Doyle
  Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. He won the Booker Prize in 1993....
  
  
• Desmond Hogan
  Desmond Hogan
  Desmond Hogan is an Irish writer.Hogan was born in Ballinasloe in east County Galway, Ireland. His father was a draper. Educated locally at St. Grellan’s Boys’ National School and St. Josephs’s College, Garbally Park...
  
  
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets...
  
  
• John Jordan
  John Jordan (poet)
  John Jordan was an Irish poet born in Dublin on 8 April 1930. He was educated at Synge Street CBS, University College, Dublin and Pembroke College, Oxford. In his teens he acted on the stage of the Gate Theatre, Dublin, before winning a Scholarship in English and French to Oxford University from...
  
  
• James Joyce
  James Joyce
  James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
  
  , author of Ulysses
  Ulysses (novel)
  Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,...
  
  , considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century
• Trevor Joyce
  Trevor Joyce
  Trevor Joyce is an Irish poet, born in Dublin.He co-founded New Writers' Press in Dublin in 1967 and was a founding editor of NWP's The Lace Curtain; A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism in 1968....
  
  
• Thomas Kilroy
  Thomas Kilroy
  Thomas F. Kilroy is an Irish playwright and novelist.He was born in Green Street, Callan, County Kilkenny and studied at University College, Dublin. In his early career he was play editor at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin...
  
  
• Mary Lavin
  Mary Lavin
  Mary Josephine Lavin was a noted Irish short story writer and novelist. She is regarded as a pioneering female author in the traditionally male-dominated world of Irish letters. Her subject matter often dealt explicitly with feminist issues and concerns at a time when the primacy of the Roman...
  
  
• Hugh McFadden
  Hugh McFadden
  Hugh McFadden is an Irish poet, literary editor, executor and freelance journalist.-Early life:McFadden was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, where he lived briefly, and then moved to County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, before moving to Dublin...
  
  
• Conor McPherson
  Conor McPherson
  Conor McPherson is an Irish playwright and director.-Life and career:McPherson was born in Dublin, . He was educated at University College Dublin, McPherson began writing his first plays there as a member of UCD Dramsoc, the college's dramatic society, and went on to found Fly By Night Theatre...
  
  
• John McGahern
  John McGahern
  John McGahern was one of the most important Irish authors of the latter half of the twentieth century. Before his death in 2006 he was hailed as "the greatest living Irish novelist" by The Observer.-Life:...
  
  
• Frank McGuinness
  Frank McGuinness
  Professor Frank McGuinness is an award-winning Irish playwright and poet. As well as his own works, which include Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, he is recognised for a "strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the plays of Racine, Sophocles, Ibsen and...
  
  
• Flann O'Brien
  Flann O'Brien
  Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature. Best known for novels such as At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman and An Béal Bocht and many satirical columns in The Irish Times Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was...
  
  , writer (At Swim-Two-Birds
  At Swim-Two-Birds
  At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 novel by Irish author Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction....
  
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• Kate O'Brien
  Kate O'Brien
  Kate O'Brien , was an Irish novelist and playwright.-Biography:Kathleen "Kate" Mary Louie O'Brien was born in Limerick City at the end of the 19th century. Following the death of her mother when she was five, she became a boarder at Laurel Hill convent...
  
  
• Ulick O'Connor
  Ulick O'Connor
  Ulick O'Connor is an Irish writer, historian and critic.-Early life:Born in Rathgar, County Dublin in 1928, O'Connor attended St. Mary's College, Rathmines and later University College Dublin, where he studied law and philosophy, becoming known as a keen sporting participant, especially in boxing,...
  
  
• Sean O'Faolain
• Emily O'Reilly
  Emily O'Reilly
  Emily O'Reilly is an author and former journalist and broadcaster who became Ireland's first female Ombudsman in 2003, succeeding Kevin Murphy....
  
  
• Sarah Rees Brennan
  Sarah Rees Brennan
  Sarah Rees Brennan is an Irish young-adult fantasy author. Her first novel, The Demon's Lexicon, was released June 2009 by Simon & Schuster. Brennan's books are bestsellers in the UK.-Biography:...
  
  
• Keith Ridgway
  Keith Ridgway
  Keith Ridgway is a Dublin-born award-winning writer. He currently lives in Edinburgh.-Writings:Ridgway's first published fictional prose work was Horses, which appeared in Faber First Fictions Volume 13 in 1997. In 1998 The Long Falling, was published by Faber & Faber, London...
  
  
• Colm Tóibín
  Colm Tóibín
  Colm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.Tóibín is Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University in New Jersey and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the...
  
  
• William Wall
  William Wall
  William "Bill" Wall is an Irish novelist, poet and short story writer. He was born in Cork City in 1955, but grew up in the coastal village of Whitegate. He received his secondary education at the Christian Brothers School in Midleton. He progressed to University College Cork where he graduated in...
  
  

Journalism

• Vincent Browne
  Vincent Browne
  Vincent Browne is an Irish print and broadcast journalist. He is a columnist with The Irish Times and The Sunday Business Post and a part time barrister....
  
  
• Ruth Dudley Edwards
• Hugh McFadden
  Hugh McFadden
  Hugh McFadden is an Irish poet, literary editor, executor and freelance journalist.-Early life:McFadden was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, where he lived briefly, and then moved to County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, before moving to Dublin...
  
  
• Kevin Myers
  Kevin Myers
  Kevin Myers is an Irish journalist and writer. He writes for the Irish Independent and is a former contributor to The Irish Times, where he wrote the "An Irishman's Diary" opinion column several times weekly...
  
  
• Doireann Ní Bhriain
  Doireann Ní Bhriain
  Doireann Ní Bhriain is an Irish independent radio producer. She began her career as a radio and television journalist, and started out reading children's stories on television...
  
  
• Fintan O'Toole
  Fintan O'Toole
  Fintan O'Toole is a columnist, assistant editor and drama critic for The Irish Times. He has written for The Irish Times since 1988 and was drama critic for the New York Daily News from 1997 to 2001. He is a literary critic, historical writer and political commentator, with generally left-wing views...
  
  
• Maev-Ann Wren
  Maev-Ann Wren
  Maev-Ann Wren is an Irish economist, journalist, author and former economics editor of the Irish Times newspaper. She has written two books about the Irish health system and her writings have often been mentioned during Dáil and Seanad debates, and in parliamentary committee...
  
  
• Pat Leahy Political Editor of Sunday Business Post
• Declan Walsh of the Guardian
• Samantha Libreri of RTE
• Daniel McConnell
  Daniel McConnell
  Daniel McConnell is a former member of the West Coast Eagles Australian Football League club. He was taken at pick 26 in the 2003 AFL draft by the West Coast Eagles, a second round selection....
  
   of the Sunday Independent
• Enda Curran of the Dow Jones
• Emmet Oliver of the Irish Independent

Business

• Niall FitzGerald
  Niall FitzGerald
  Niall FitzGerald, KBE is an Irish businessman. FitzGerald grew up in Limerick, Ireland and was educated at St Munchin's College in Limerick. He graduated with a degree in Commerce from University College Dublin...
  
  , former CEO of Unilever
  Unilever
  Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
  
  
• Tony O'Reilly
  Tony O'Reilly
  Sir Anthony Joseph Francis O'Reilly is an Irish businessman and former international rugby union player. He is known for his involvement the Independent News & Media Group, which he led from 1973 to 2009, and as former CEO and Chairman of the H.J. Heinz Company. He was the leading shareholder of...
  
  , owner of Independent News and Media
• Denis O'Brien
  Denis O'Brien
  Denis O'Brien is an Irish businessman with international connections. An Arts graduate of University College Dublin, O'Brien has received a MBA in corporate finance from Boston College in 1982, and was later given an honorary doctorate by University College Dublin.O'Brien has involvement with...
  
  , owner of Communicorp and Digicell
  Digicell
  Digicell is a vehicle tracking and management company that serves the whole of South Africa and some regions of Botswana and Zimbabwe. The company, which is situated in Midrand in the heart of South Africa, provides vehicle management services to over 1000 small business owners throughout the whole...
  
  
• David J. O'Reilly
  David J. O'Reilly
  David J. O'Reilly , is former chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation. In 1968, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from University College, Dublin, from which he also received an honorary doctor of science degree in June 2002. He began his career with Chevron Research...
  
  , Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation.
• Peter Sutherland
  Peter Sutherland
  Peter Denis Sutherland, KCMG is an Irish international businessman and former Attorney General of Ireland, associated with the Fine Gael party . He is a barrister by profession, and is also Senior Counsel at the Irish Bar...
  
  , Former Director General of the World Trade Organization
  World Trade Organization
  The World Trade Organization is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which commenced in 1948...
  
  , Chairman of British Petroleum and Goldman Sachs
  Goldman Sachs
  The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
  
   Europe. Also served as Ireland's Attorney General and European Commissioner
  European Commissioner
  A European Commissioner is a member of the 27-member European Commission. Each Member within the college holds a specific portfolio and are led by the President of the European Commission...
  
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• Dalton Philips
  Dalton Philips
  Dalton Philips is an Irish businessman, the current CEO of UK retailer Morrisons.Born in Ireland, Philips is the son of a County Wicklow egg farmer. He attended from 1981 to 1986 Stowe School, Buckingham, the fee-paying English public school, where he was a border in Grafton House...
  
  , CEO of Morrisons
  Morrisons
  Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, headquartered in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The company is usually referred to and is branded as Morrisons formerly Morrison's, and it is part of the FTSE 100 Index of companies...
  
  
• Feargal Quinn
  Feargal Quinn
  Feargal Quinn is an Irish politician, businessman, television personality and an independent member of Seanad Éireann.-Early and personal life:...
  
  , former owner of Superquinn

Politics and government

Heads of State

• Douglas Hyde
  Douglas Hyde
  Douglas Hyde , known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn , was an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945...
  
  , 1st President of Ireland
• Éamon de Valera
  Éamon de Valera
  Éamon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth century Ireland, serving as head of government of the Irish Free State and head of government and head of state of Ireland...
  
  , 3rd President of Ireland
• Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
  Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
  Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh served as the fifth President of Ireland, from 1974 to 1976. He resigned in 1976 after a clash with the government. He also had a notable legal career, including serving as Chief Justice of Ireland.- Early life :Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, one of four children, was born on 12 February...
  
  , 5th president of Ireland
• Patrick Hillery
  Patrick Hillery
  Patrick John "Paddy" Hillery was an Irish politician and the sixth President of Ireland from 1976 until 1990. First elected at the 1951 general election as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for Clare, he remained in Dáil Éireann until 1973...
  
  , 6th President of Ireland
• V V Giri, 4th President of India

Heads of Government

• Éamon de Valera
  Éamon de Valera
  Éamon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth century Ireland, serving as head of government of the Irish Free State and head of government and head of state of Ireland...
  
  , 1st Taoiseach
  Taoiseach
  The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas , and must, in order to remain in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil.The current Taoiseach is...
  
   (Prime Minister) of Ireland
• John A. Costello
  John A. Costello
  John Aloysius Costello , a successful barrister, was one of the main legal advisors to the government of the Irish Free State after independence, Attorney General of Ireland from 1926–1932 and Taoiseach from 1948–1951 and 1954–1957....
  
  , 2nd Taoiseach
  Taoiseach
  The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas , and must, in order to remain in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil.The current Taoiseach is...
  
   (Prime Minister) of Ireland
• John Bruton
  John Bruton
  John Gerard Bruton is an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 1994 to 1997. A minister under two taoisigh, Liam Cosgrave and Garret FitzGerald, Bruton held a number of the top posts in Irish government, including Minister for Finance , and Minister for Industry, Trade,...
  
  , 9th Taoiseach
  Taoiseach
  The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas , and must, in order to remain in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil.The current Taoiseach is...
  
   (Prime Minister) of Ireland
• Garret FitzGerald
  Garret FitzGerald
  Garret FitzGerald was an Irish politician who was twice Taoiseach of Ireland, serving in office from July 1981 to February 1982 and again from December 1982 to March 1987. FitzGerald was elected to Seanad Éireann in 1965 and was subsequently elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD in 1969. He...
  
  , 7th Taoiseach
  Taoiseach
  The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas , and must, in order to remain in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil.The current Taoiseach is...
  
   (Prime Minister) of Ireland
• Charles Haughey
  Charles Haughey
  Charles James "Charlie" Haughey was Taoiseach of Ireland, serving three terms in office . He was also the fourth leader of Fianna Fáil...
  
  , 6th Taoiseach
  Taoiseach
  The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas , and must, in order to remain in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil.The current Taoiseach is...
  
   (Prime Minister) of Ireland
• Brian Cowen
  Brian Cowen
  Brian Cowen is a former Irish politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 7 May 2008 to 9 March 2011. He was head of a coalition government led by Fianna Fáil which until 23 January 2011 had the support of the Green Party and independent TDs.Cowen was also leader of Fianna Fáil from 7 May...
  
  , 11th Taoiseach
  Taoiseach
  The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas , and must, in order to remain in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil.The current Taoiseach is...
  
   (Prime Minister) of Ireland

Other

• Dermot Ahern
  Dermot Ahern
  Dermot Christopher Ahern is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Teachta Dála for the Louth constituency from 1987 to 2011...
  
  
• David Andrews
• Kevin Barry
  Kevin Barry
  Kevin Gerard Barry was the first Irish republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising. Barry was sentenced to death for his part in an IRA operation which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers.Barry's death is considered a watershed moment in the Irish...
  
  
• Richard Boyd-Barrett TD
• Séamus Brennan
  Séamus Brennan
  Séamus Brennan was a senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a Teachta Dála for Dublin South. He served as a Minister of State, Minister for Tourism and Transport , Minister for Tourism, Transport and Communications , Minister for Education , Minister for Transport , Minister for Social and...
  
  
• Richard Bruton
  Richard Bruton
  Richard Bruton is an Irish Fine Gael politician and has been a Teachta Dála for the Dublin North Central constituency since 1982. He was appointed as Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on 9 March 2011...
  
  
• Eibhlin Byrne
  Eibhlin Byrne
  Eibhlin Byrne is a former Fianna Fáil politician, and served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2008–09.Byrne has held a number of senior positions including Acting Director of the Daughters of Charity Child and Family Service, Head of Communication and Advocacy at Depaul Trust , and Chair of the...
  
  
• Mella Carroll
  Mella Carroll
  Mella Elizabeth Laurie Carroll was a judge of the High Court in the Republic of Ireland.Mella Carroll was born in Dublin, her parents were Patrick Carroll and Agnes Mary Caulfield...
  
  
• Willie O'Dea
  Willie O'Dea
  Willie O'Dea is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a Teachta Dála for the Limerick City constituency. He served as the Minister for Defence from September 2004 until 18 February 2010, when he resigned from his post due to controversy over a defamation case.-Early and private life:O'Dea was born...
  
  
• Mary Coughlan
• Ryan Crocker
  Ryan Crocker
  Ryan Clark Crocker is a Career Ambassador within the United States Foreign Service and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He currently is the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan. He was the United States Ambassador to Iraq until 2009; he previously served as the U.S...
  
  , Current United States Ambassador to Iraq
  United States Ambassador to Iraq
  This is a list of United States ambassadors, or lower-ranking heads of a diplomatic mission to Iraq.* Alexander K. Sloan - Chargé d'Affaires* Paul Knabenshue - Minister* Thomas M. Wilson - Minister* Loy W...
  
  , Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  Presidential Medal of Freedom
  The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with thecomparable Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of U.S. Congress—the highest civilian award in the United States...
  
  
• Catherine Day
  Catherine Day
  Catherine Day is the current Secretary-General of the European Commission. She has been in that position since 2005 during the Barroso Commission, having previously been the Director General for the Environment....
  
  , Secretary-General of the European Commission
  Secretary-General of the European Commission
  The Secretary-General of the European Commission is the senior civil servant of the European Commission. The Secretary-General, who is responsible to the President of the European Commission, is in charge of the various Directorates-General, headed by Directors-General.His/her personal staff form...
  
  
• Alan Dukes
  Alan Dukes
  Alan Dukes is a former Irish politician who served as leader of the Fine Gael political party and Teachta Dála for Kildare and Kildare South. He holds the distinction of being one of only five TDs to be appointed Minister on their first day in the Dáil. He lost his seat in the 2002 general election...
  
  
• Noel Dempsey
  Noel Dempsey
  Noel Dempsey is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Teachta Dála for the Meath and Meath West constituencies from 1987 to 2011...
  
  
• Síle de Valera
  Síle de Valera
  Síle de Valera , is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. She was first elected a Teachta Dála in 1977 serving as a member of Dáil Éireann until 1981, and then again from 1987 to 2007, as well as being a Member of the European Parliament for Dublin from 1979 to 1984...
  
  
• Professor James Dooge
  James Dooge
  James Clement Dooge was an Irish politician, engineer, climatologist, hydrologist and academic. Dooge had a profound effect on the debate on climate change, in the world of hydrology and in politics in the formation of the European Union.Dooge lived a multifaceted existence with his roles...
  
  , former Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union architect and climatologist. Was Professor of Civil Engineering at UCD for several years.
• Joe Higgins
  Joe Higgins
  Joe Higgins is an Irish Socialist Party politician. In the 2011 general election he was elected to Dáil Éireann as Teachta Dála for the Dublin West constituency, having previously served in that capacity from 1997–2007...
  
   (Socialist Party TD)
• Hugh Kennedy
  Hugh Kennedy
  Hugh Kennedy was the only Attorney-General of Southern Ireland and the first Attorney-General of the Irish Free State, and later the first Chief Justice of the Irish Free State. As a member of the Irish Free State Constitution Commission, he was also one of the constitutional architects of the...
  
  
• Noël A. Kinsella (46th Speaker of the Senate of Canada)
• Michael Kitt
• Brian Lenihan
• Thomas MacDonagh
  Thomas MacDonagh
  Thomas MacDonagh was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.-Early life:MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary...
  
  
• Charlie McCreevy
  Charlie McCreevy
  Charles "Charlie" McCreevy is a former Irish politician. He was the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services from 2004–2010. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD in 1977 and held the seat in Kildare until 2004 when he became Ireland's European Commissioner...
  
   (Former European Commissioner for Internal Market & Services
  European Commissioner for Internal Market & Services
  The Commissioner for Internal Market and Services is a member of the European Commission. The post is currently held by Commissioner Michel Barnier .-Responsibilities:...
  
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• Paul Murphy
  Paul Murphy (Irish politician)
  Paul Murphy is an Irish Member of the European Parliament for the Dublin constituency, representing the Socialist Party/United Left Alliance .-Early life:...
  
   Socialist Party MEP
• Michael McDowell
  Michael McDowell
  Michael McDowell is a Senior Counsel in the Bar Council of Ireland and a former politician. A grandson of Irish revolutionary Eoin MacNeill, McDowell was a founding member of the Progressive Democrats political party in the mid-1980s...
  
   (Former Tánaiste
  Tánaiste
  The Tánaiste is the deputy prime minister of Ireland. The current Tánaiste is Eamon Gilmore, TD who was appointed on 9 March 2011.- Origins and etymology :...
  
   and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform)
• John L. Murray
  John L. Murray
  John Loyola Murray is an Irish judge and served as the Chief Justice of Ireland from 2004 to 2011.Murray was born in Limerick in 1943 and educated at Crescent College, Limerick, Rockwell College, County Tipperary, University College Dublin, and the Honorable Society of King's Inns. He was...
  
  
• Michael Noonan
  Michael Noonan
  Michael Noonan is an Irish Fine Gael politician and has been the Minister for Finance since March 2011. He has been a Teachta Dála for the Limerick East and later Limerick City constituencies since 1981....
  
  
• Nora Owen
  Nora Owen
  Nora Owen , is a former Irish Fine Gael politician. She was a Teachta Dála for Dublin North from 1981 to 1987 and from 1989 to 2002. She also served as Minister for Justice from 1994 to 1997.-Early life:...
  
  
• Éamon Ó Cuív
  Éamon Ó Cuív
  Éamon Ó Cuív is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He has been a Teachta Dála for the Galway West constituency since 1992 and was previously a member of Seanad Éireann.-Early life:...
  
  
• Kevin O'Higgins
  Kevin O'Higgins
  Kevin Christopher O'Higgins was an Irish politician who served as Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice. He was part of early nationalist Sinn Féin, before going on to become a prominent member of Cumann na nGaedheal. O'Higgins initiated the An Garda Síochána police force...
  
  
• Mary O'Rourke
  Mary O'Rourke
  Mary O'Rourke is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. She is a former Teachta Dála for the Longford–Westmeath and Westmeath constituencies. She served as Minister for Education , Minister for Health and Minister for Public Enterprise...
  
  
• Patrick Pearse
  Patrick Pearse
  Patrick Henry Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916...
  
  
• James Ryan
• Francis Skeffington
• Michael Woods

Chief Justice of Ireland

• Ronan Keane
  Ronan Keane
  The Hon. Ronan Keane , S.C., was Chief Justice of Ireland from 2000 to 2004. Keane was educated at Blackrock College, Dublin, and graduated from University College Dublin in 1953 with a BA in Modern History. He was called to the Bar in 1954 and became a Senior Counsel in 1970. He was appointed...
  
  
• John L. Murray
  John L. Murray
  John Loyola Murray is an Irish judge and served as the Chief Justice of Ireland from 2004 to 2011.Murray was born in Limerick in 1943 and educated at Crescent College, Limerick, Rockwell College, County Tipperary, University College Dublin, and the Honorable Society of King's Inns. He was...
  
  , Current Chief Justice
• Hugh Kennedy
  Hugh Kennedy
  Hugh Kennedy was the only Attorney-General of Southern Ireland and the first Attorney-General of the Irish Free State, and later the first Chief Justice of the Irish Free State. As a member of the Irish Free State Constitution Commission, he was also one of the constitutional architects of the...
  
  , First Chief Justice of the State

Academia

• Remi Chandran
  Remi Chandran
  Remi Chandran is an environmental policy researcher who developed the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System while working with the United Nations University , Tokyo in 2005...
  
   (Researcher)
• Anthony Clare
  Anthony Clare
  Anthony Ward Clare was an Irish psychiatrist well known in the UK and Ireland as a presenter of radio and TV programmes.-Career:...
  
   (psychiatrist)
• John Coakley
  John Coakley
  John Coakley is an associate professor in the School of Politics & International Relations at University College Dublin. He specialises in the study of Irish politics, comparative politics and ethnic conflict...
  
   (political scientist)
• Arthur W. Conway
  Arthur W. Conway
  Arthur William Conway FRS was President of University College Dublin between 1940 and 1947.Born in Wexford, he received his early education in St Peter’s College, Wexford and proceeded to enter old University College, Dublin in 1892. He received his BA Degree from the Royal University of Ireland...
  
   (physicist)
• Deirdre Curtin
  Deirdre Curtin
  Deirdre M. Curtin is an Irish legal scholar who works in the area of law and governance of the European Union.Born in Dublin, Ireland, Curtin studied law at University College Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin. She was appointed to the faculty of the Europa Institute at Utrecht University...
  
   (lawyer)
• James Dooge
  James Dooge
  James Clement Dooge was an Irish politician, engineer, climatologist, hydrologist and academic. Dooge had a profound effect on the debate on climate change, in the world of hydrology and in politics in the formation of the European Union.Dooge lived a multifaceted existence with his roles...
  
   (engineer)
• Robert Dudley Edwards
  Robert Dudley Edwards
  Robert Walter Dudley Edwards was an Irish historian.-Biography:Robert Walter Dudley Edwards, known to his friends as Robin and his students as 'Dudley' was born in Dublin. His father was Walter Dudley Edwards, a journalist who came to Ireland with his wife, Bridget Teresa MacInerney from Clare,...
  
   (historian)
• John D. FitzGerald
  John D. FitzGerald
  John D. FitzGerald is head of the Macroeconomics and Resource economics Division and coordinator of the research programme of of the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland. He joined the ESRI in 1984, after 12 years at the Department of Finance...
  
   (economist)
• Roy C. Geary
  Roy C. Geary
  Dr. Robert Charles Geary was an Irish statistician and founder of both the Central Statistics Office and the Economic and Social Research Institute. He held degrees from University College Dublin and the Sorbonne. He lectured in mathematics at University College Southampton and in applied...
  
   (statistician
• Derek Hand (literary critic)
• Thomas Kettle
  Thomas Kettle
  Thomas Michael "Tom" Kettle was an Irish journalist, barrister, writer, poet, soldier, economist and Home Rule politician. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament for East Tyrone from 1906 to 1910 at Westminster...
  
   (economist)
• Eoin MacNeill
  Eoin MacNeill
  Eoin MacNeill was an Irish scholar, nationalist, revolutionary and politician. MacNeill is regarded as the father of the modern study of early Irish medieval history. He was a co-founder of the Gaelic League, to preserve Irish language and culture, going on to establish the Irish Volunteers...
  
   (Irish scholar)
• J.A. McClelland (physicist)
• Thomas Preston
  Thomas Preston (scientist)
  Thomas Preston was an Irish scientist whose research was concerned with heat, magnetism, and spectroscopy. He established empirical rules for the analysis of spectral lines, which remain associated with his name...
  
   (physicist)
• Frances P. Ruane
  Frances P. Ruane
  Frances P. Ruane is director of the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland. She succeeded Brendan Whelan in 2006, after 30 years of teaching economics at Trinity College, Dublin and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Previously, she worked at the Industrial...
  
   (economist)

Arts

• Gabriel Byrne
  Gabriel Byrne
  Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined Londo's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the...
  
  
• Graham Cantwell
  Graham Cantwell
  Graham Cantwell is an Irish film and television director. He is best known for directing feature film which achieved a three week domestic cinema release and was nominated for three Irish Film and Television Awards in 2009. His short film A Dublin Story was shortlisted for Academy Award Nomination...
  
  
• Cyril Cusack
  Cyril Cusack
  Cyril James Cusack was an Irish actor, who appeared in more than 90 films.-Early life:Cusack was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa, the son of Alice Violet , an actress, and James Walter Cusack, a sergeant in the Natal mounted police. His parents separated when he was young and his mother took...
  
  
• Brendan Gleeson
  Brendan Gleeson
  Brendan Gleeson is an Irish actor. His best-known films include Braveheart, Gangs of New York, In Bruges, 28 Days Later, the Harry Potter films, The Guard and the role of Michael Collins in The Treaty...
  
  
• Neil Jordan
  Neil Jordan
  Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :...
  
  
• Kevin Roche
  Kevin Roche
  Kevin Roche is an Irish-American architect known for his creative work with glass.Born in Dublin, Roche spent his formative years in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork before he graduated from University College Dublin in 1945. He then worked with Michael Scott from 1945-1946...
  
   (architect)
• Jim Sheridan
  Jim Sheridan
  Jim Sheridan is an Irish film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for his films My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, Get Rich or Die Tryin and In America.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Dan O'Herlihy
  Dan O'Herlihy
  Daniel O'Herlihy was an Oscar nominated Irish film actor.-Early life:O'Herlihy was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1919. His family moved to Dublin at a young age...
  
  , Academy Award nominated actor.
• Amy Huberman
  Amy Huberman
  Amy O'Driscoll, professionally known as Amy Huberman, is an Irish actress and writer who has starred in numerous productions since beginning her career in 2002 on RTÉ's On Homeground.-Early life:...
  
  

Clergy

• Desmond Connell
  Desmond Connell
  Desmond Connell is a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. He is a former Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. He was born in Dublin....
  
   (Cardinal, Archbishop of Dublin)
• Diarmuid Martin
  Diarmuid Martin
  Diarmuid Martin is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. He was born in Dublin.-Early life and education:...
  
   (Archbishop of Dublin)
• Fr. Malachi Martin S.J.
  Malachi Martin
  Malachi Brendan Martin Ph.D. was a Catholic priest, theologian, writer on the Catholic Church, and professor at the Vatican's Pontifical Biblical Institute. He held three doctorates and was the sole author of sixteen books covering religious and geopolitical topics, which were published in eight...
  
   - Author
• John Henry Newman (Cardinal, educator, writer)
• Tomás Ó Fiaich (Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh)
• Grace Margaret Coleman (Palmarian Church Bishop)

Rugby

• Patrick Casey (rugby player)
  Patrick Casey (rugby player)
  Patrick Joseph Casey , commonly called Pat Casey, was an Ireland rugby union player.He played for Lansdowne Football Club and provincially for Leinster. He made his international debut on January 16 1963 against France...
  
  , former Irish International
• Denis Hickie
  Denis Hickie
  Denis Anthony Hickie born 13 February 1976 in Dublin, Ireland is a retired professional rugby union footballer employed by the Irish Rugby Football Union. He played his club rugby for Leinster. His primary position was on the wing. He is also known as Disco Denis as a result of his quick feet...
  
  , former Irish rugby international, British and Irish Lions
• Brian O'Driscoll
  Brian O'Driscoll
  Brian O'Driscoll is an Irish professional rugby union player. He is the current captain of the Ireland Rugby team and captained Leinster Rugby until the start of 2008 season. He also captained the British and Irish Lions for their 2005 tour of New Zealand...
  
  , Captain of the Irish rugby team, British and Irish Lions
• Gordon D'Arcy
  Gordon D'Arcy
  Gordon William D'Arcy is an Irish rugby player, more specifically an inside centre. He is registered to Lansdowne RFC and plays for provincial and RaboDirect Pro12 side Leinster.-Career:...
  
  , Irish rugby international, British and Irish Lions
• Mick Doyle
  Mick Doyle (rugby player)
  Mick Doyle was an Irish rugby union international player and coach.Doyle was born in Castleisland, County Kerry, and began playing rugby union at Newbridge College, County Kildare. He went on to study veterinary science at University College Dublin, who he also represented at rugby...
  
  , Irish rugby international player and coach, British and Irish Lions
• Luke Fitzgerald
  Luke Fitzgerald
  Luke Matthew Fitzgerald is a Rugby Union footballer. He currently plays at winger or centre for Leinster. Having previously studied at Blackrock College he won two Leinster Schools Senior Cups, in 2004 and 2006. He won his first cap for Ireland in November 2006...
  
  , Ireland international and the British and Irish Lions
• Ray McLoughlin
  Ray McLoughlin
  Raymond John "Ray" McLoughlin is a former Ireland international rugby union prop. McLoughlin had a long and successful career playing for several clubs at club level, and played for Connacht at province level...
  
  , Ireland international and British and Irish Lions
• Conor O'Shea
  Conor O'Shea
  Conor Michael Patrick O'Shea is a former rugby union player who played at full back for Ireland, Lansdowne R.F.C. and London Irish. He is Director of Rugby at Harlequins F.C..-Early life and education:...
  
  , Irish rugby international and director of rugby at Harlequins F.C.
• Tony Ensor
  Tony Ensor
  Anthony Howard Ensor , commonly called Tony Ensor , was an Ireland rugby union player.Educated at Gonzaga College and UCD, he played for UCD and Wanderers. He made his international debut on March 10 1973 against Wales...
  
  , former Irish rugby international
• Jonathan Sexton
  Jonathan Sexton
  Jonathan Sexton , is a rugby union player for Leinster Rugby in the Celtic League and Heineken Cup. Sexton is a nephew of former Garryowen, Munster and Ireland rugby player Willie Sexton.Sexton is registered to St...
  
  , Irish International
• Fergus Slattery
  Fergus Slattery
  John Fergus Slattery is a former rugby union player who represented Ireland. He played schools rugby for Blackrock College and then moved on to play senior rugby for UCD, before earning a call up to the Ireland team in 1970. During his career Slattery earned 61 caps, 18 as captain, and scored 3...
  
  , Ireland international and the British and Irish Lions
• Cillian Willis
  Cillian Willis
  Cillian Willis is a professional rugby union footballer employed by Leinster Rugby for whom he plays his provincial rugby. He previously played for University College Dublin RFC...
  
  , currently playing for Connacht Rugby
  Connacht Rugby
  Connacht Rugby is an Irish professional rugby union team based in Connacht that competes in the RaboDirect Pro12 comprising teams from the Celtic nations plus Italy. Normally, it also competes in the second-tier pan-European club competition, the European Challenge Cup...
  
  

GAA

• Brian Dooher
  Brian Dooher
  Brian Dooher is an Irish Gaelic footballer who was a member for Tyrone between 1995 and 2011.He has won three All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals, five Ulster Senior Football Championship and two National League titles with the county...
  
  
• Cormac McAnallen
  Cormac McAnallen
  Cormac McAnallen was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for Tyrone. He won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship with the county in 2003, also winning the Ulster Senior Football Championship twice and two National League titles. At underage level he won an All-Ireland Minor and two...
  
  
• Kevin O'Flanagan
  Kevin O'Flanagan
  Kevin Patrick O'Flanagan , also referred to as Dr. Kevin O'Flanagan, is a former Irish sportsman, physician and sports administrator. An outstanding all-rounder, he represented his country at both soccer and rugby union...
  
  
• Derval O'Rourke
  Derval O'Rourke
  Derval O'Rourke is an Irish sprint hurdles athlete. She competes internationally in the 60 and 100 metres hurdles, and is the Irish national record holder in both events...
  
  
• Jason Sherlock
  Jason Sherlock
  Jason "Jayo" Sherlock is a former Irish Gaelic footballer who played for Dublin between 1995 and 2010 and is also a sales manager. He played most of his club football for Na Fianna in Glasnevin in the northern suburbs of Dublin. Sherlock was on the Na Fianna team which won the Dublin Championship...
  
  
• Michelle Smith
  Michelle Smith
  Michelle Smith is a retired Irish swimmer and practising Irish barrister. She was a triple gold medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, for the 400 m individual medley, 400 m freestyle and 200 m individual medley...
  
  

Entertainment

• Dave Fanning
  Dave Fanning
  Dave Fanning is an Irish rock journalist, DJ, retired film critic and veteran broadcaster. He currently hosts The 11th Hour on RTÉ Two and two radio shows: Drivetime with Dave on RTÉ Radio 1 and The Dave Fanning Show on RTÉ 2fm. He also fills in for other presenters on RTÉ Radio, including acting...
  
  , radio and television broadcaster
• Pat Kenny
  Pat Kenny
  Patrick "Pat" Kenny is an Irish broadcaster and former disc jockey and continuity announcer. He is employed by Raidió Teilifís Éireann and is their highest paid presenter. He presents Today with Pat Kenny on RTÉ Radio 1 each weekday morning between 10:00 and midday...
  
  , Broadcaster, former host of The Late Late Show
  The Late Late Show
  The Late Late Show, sometimes referred to as The Late Late, or in some cases by the acronym LLS, is the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster and the official flagship television programme of Irish broadcasting company RTÉ...
  
  
• Dermot Morgan
  Dermot Morgan
  Dermot John Morgan was an Irish comedian, actor and former schoolteacher, who achieved international renown for his roles as Father Ted Crilly in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted and a strip club MC in Taffin....
  
  , actor best known as Father Ted
  Father Ted
  Father Ted is a comedy series set in Ireland that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4. Written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May...
  
  
• Dara Ó Briain
  Dara Ó Briain
  Dara Ó Briain is an Irish stand-up comedian and television presenter, noted for hosting topical panel shows such as The Panel and Mock the Week....
  
  , comedian
• Chris O'Dowd
  Chris O'Dowd
  Chris O'Dowd is an Irish comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Roy Trenneman in British sitcom The IT Crowd...
  
  
• Ryan Tubridy
  Ryan Tubridy
  Ryan Tubridy , affectionately known as "Tubs", is an Irish broadcaster and writer, a presenter of live shows on radio and television in Ireland. He has been described as "one of Ireland's most gifted broadcasters"...
  
  , host of The Late Late Show
  The Late Late Show
  The Late Late Show, sometimes referred to as The Late Late, or in some cases by the acronym LLS, is the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster and the official flagship television programme of Irish broadcasting company RTÉ...
  
  
• Paul Brady
  Paul Brady
  Paul Joseph Brady is an Irish singer-songwriter, whose work straddles folk and pop. He was interested in a wide variety of music from an early age...
  
  

Fictional

• Stephen Dedalus
  Stephen Dedalus
  Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's Ulysses...
  
  
• Brother Barnabas
  Flann O'Brien
  Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature. Best known for novels such as At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman and An Béal Bocht and many satirical columns in The Irish Times Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was...
  
  
• Ross O'Carroll Kelly
• Pat Patterson
  Pat Patterson
  Pierre Clermont , better known by his ring name Pat Patterson, is a Canadian former professional wrestler. He works for WWE as a creative consultant...
  
  

Faculty

• Professor Hugh Brady
  Hugh R. Brady
  Hugh R. Brady, FRCPI, is President and Chief Officer of University College Dublin. He was one of the two Professors of Medicine and Therapeutics in UCD before becoming the eighth President of the University....
  
  
• Professor Gerard Casey
  Gerard Casey (philosopher)
  Professor Gerard Casey is a member of the School of Philosophy in University College Dublin . He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Maryvale Institute and an Adjunct Scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute...
  
  
• Professor Terence Dolan
  Terence Dolan
  Terence Dolan is an Irish lexicographer and radio personality. He is currently Professor of Old and Middle English in the School of English and Drama, University College Dublin. He acts as the School's Research Co-ordinator, and is the director of the Hiberno-English Archive website. He has a...
  
  
• Professor James J. Heckman
• Professor Mark Keane
  Mark Keane
  Mark T. Keane is a Cognitive Scientist and author of several books on human cognition, including ,...
  
  
• Professor Declan Kiberd
  Declan Kiberd
  Declan Kiberd is an Irish writer and scholar. He is known for his literary criticism of Irish literature in Irish and English, and his contributions to public cultural life....
  
  
• Mr Moore McDowell
  Moore McDowell
  Moore McDowell is an economics lecturer in University College Dublin and a frequent contributor to the Irish Independent newspaper.He is the brother of Michael McDowell, the former Tánaiste and former leader of the Progressive Democrats....
  
  
• Professor Stephen Mennell
  Stephen Mennell
  Stephen Mennell is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin.He gained his BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge and his Doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. He was a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow at Harvard University...
  
  
• Professor Edna O'Brien
  Edna O'Brien
  Edna O'Brien is an Irish novelist and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men and to society as a whole.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Professor Da-Wen Sun
  Da-Wen Sun
  Sun Dawen , known as Da-Wen Sun, is an academic and researcher in food engineering, a member of Royal Irish Academy, the highest academic honour in Ireland, and a member of Academia Europaea.- Biography :...
  
  
• Professor Joseph Watson