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Irish people
The Irish people (Irish: Muintir na hÉireann, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaedheil) are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies), with the Irish people's earliest ancestors...
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Mary Robinson
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (Irish: Máire Mhic Róibín; born 21 May 1944) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1944 (age 65 years)
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late...
Date of birth:
- Oct 16, 1854
Date of death:
- Nov 30, 1900 (age 46 years)
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (pronounced /ˈjeɪts/; 13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years...
Date of birth:
- Jun 13, 1865
Date of death:
- Jan 28, 1939 (age 73 years)
Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera (pronounced /ˈeɪmən dɛvəˈlɛrə/) (born George De Valero) (14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was one of the dominant political figures in 20th century Ireland. His political career spanned over half a century, from 1917 to 1973; he...
Date of birth:
- Oct 14, 1882
Date of death:
- Aug 29, 1975 (age 92 years)
Seamus Heaney
Séamus Heaney (pronounced /ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/) (born 13 April 1939 ) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin.
Heaney was born on April 13, 1939 into a family of nine...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1939 (age 70 years)
Lola Montez
Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld (February 17, 1821 – January 17, 1861), better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Irish-born dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan and mistress of King Ludwig I of...
Date of birth:
- Feb 17, 1821
Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1861 (age 39 years)
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1942
Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1995 (age 53 years)
Mary McAleese
Mary McAleese is the current President of Ireland, the country's second female president. She was elected into office in 1997 and re-elected to another 7 years in 2004. She was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland, the first president of Ireland to...
Date of birth:
- Jun 27, 1951 (age 58 years)
Henry Grattan
Henry Grattan (3 July 1746 – 6 June 1820) was a member of the Irish House of Commons and a campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century. He opposed the Act of Union 1800 that merged the Kingdoms of Ireland and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1746
Date of death:
- Jun 6, 1820 (age 73 years)
Edward R. Murrow
Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1908
Date of death:
- Apr 27, 1965 (age 57 years)
Janeane Garofalo
Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, writer, and former co-host on Air America Radio's The Majority Report. Garofalo continues to circulate regularly within New York City's local...
Date of birth:
- Sep 28, 1964 (age 45 years)
Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish Protestant landowner, nationalist political leader, land reform agitator, and the founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He was one of the most important figures in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 27, 1846
Date of death:
- Oct 6, 1891 (age 45 years)
Daniel O'Connell
Dónal Ó Conaill (6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847) (English: Daniel O'Connell), known as The Liberator, or The Emancipator, was an Irish political leader in the first half of the nineteenth century. He campaigned for Catholic Emancipation - the right for...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1775
Date of death:
- May 15, 1847 (age 71 years)
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist, who holds both Irish and American citizenship. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama...
Date of birth:
- May 16, 1953 (age 56 years)
Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell (born May 31, 1976) is a Golden Globe and IFTA-winning Irish actor, who has appeared in Hollywood films including Tigerland, Daredevil, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth, Alexander, In Bruges, and S.W.A.T.
Farrell was born...
Date of birth:
- May 31, 1976 (age 33 years)
George Gabriel Stokes
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS (13 August 1819–1 February 1903), was a mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations), optics, and mathematical physics...
Date of birth:
- Aug 13, 1819
Date of death:
- Feb 1, 1903 (age 83 years)
Augusta, Lady Gregory
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932), born Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and others, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1852
Date of death:
- May 22, 1932 (age 80 years)
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara (born August 17, 1920) is an Irish film actress and singer. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1920 (age 89 years)
Brigid of Kildare
Saint Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland (Brigit, Bridget, Bridgit, Bríd or Bride) (Irish: Naomh Bríd) (c. 451 – 525) is one of Ireland's patron saints along with Saints Patrick and Columba. Her feast day is February 1, or Candlemas, the...
Date of birth:
- 451 C.E.
Date of death:
- 525 C.E. (age 74 years)
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy (c. 1823 – November 22, 1858) was the father of P. J. Kennedy and great-grandfather to John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. He was born in Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States,...
Date of birth:
- 1823
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1858 (age 35 years)
Patrick McGoohan
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was an American-born actor, raised in Ireland and England, with an extensive stage and film career, most notably in the 1960s television series Danger Man (renamed Secret Agent when...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1928
Date of death:
- Jan 13, 2009 (age 80 years)
Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz
Constance Georgine Markiewicz, Countess Markiewicz (née Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist. She was the first woman elected to the...
Date of birth:
- 1868
Date of death:
- 1927 (age 59 years)
William Mulholland
William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was the head of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles in Southern California, United States. He was responsible for building the water aqueducts that allowed the city to grow...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1855
Date of death:
- Jul 22, 1935 (age 79 years)
George Best
George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional football player, best known for his years with Manchester United. He was a winger whose game combined pace, acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goalscoring and the...
Date of birth:
- May 22, 1946
Date of death:
- Nov 25, 2005 (age 59 years)
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is an Irish film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles and distinctive blue eyes.
A native of Cork, Murphy began his performing career as a rock musician....
Date of birth:
- May 25, 1976 (age 33 years)
Marg Helgenberger
Mary Marg Helgenberger (born November 16, 1958 in Fremont, Nebraska) is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Catherine Willows in the CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and as K.C. Koloski in the ABC...
Date of birth:
- Nov 16, 1958 (age 51 years)
Brendan O'Connor
Brendan Patrick O'Connor (born 2 March 1962), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since November 2001, representing the Division of Burke, Victoria 2001-04 and the Division of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1962 (age 47 years)
Anthony James Leggett
Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS (born 26 March 1938, Camberwell, London, UK), aka Tony Leggett, is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
Date of birth:
- Mar 26, 1938 (age 71 years)
Orla Guerin
Orla Guerin (born 15 May 1966 in Dublin, Ireland) is the BBC Pakistan correspondent based in Islamabad. She has extensive experience, having been based in many areas including Jerusalem (where she reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), the...
Date of birth:
- May 15, 1966 (age 43 years)
William Hanna
William Denby "Bill" Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, director, producer, television director, television producer, and cartoon artist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans...
Date of birth:
- Jul 14, 1910
Date of death:
- Mar 22, 2001 (age 90 years)
Lady Morgan
Sydney, Lady Morgan (née Owenson; ca. 1776 – 14 April 1859), was an Irish novelist.
She was born on a crossing between Great Britain and Ireland, the daughter of Robert Mac Owen (changed to Robert Owenson for professional purposes), an Irish actor....
Date of birth:
- 1776
Date of death:
- Apr 14, 1859 (age 83 years)
Richard Egan
Richard J. Egan (1936 – August 28, 2009) was an American engineer, businessman, political fundraiser and US Ambassador to Ireland.
A year after receiving a degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in 1962, he was on the team...
Date of birth:
- 1936
Date of death:
- Aug 28, 2009 (age 73 years)
Arthur Guinness
Arthur Guinness (1725 – 23 January 1803) was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family.
Arthur Guinness was the founder of the Guinness brewery business, an entrepreneur, visionary and philanthropist. Guinness laid...
Date of birth:
- Sep 24, 1725
Date of death:
- Jan 23, 1803 (age 77 years)
Patricia Ford
Patricia Ford (born in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a American model of multi-ethnic ancestry (German, Irish, Chinese, Portuguese and Hawaiian).
Patricia Ford was born and raised in Honolulu, but she also lived in Waianae during that time. She attended...
Date of birth:
- Mar 17, 1969 (age 40 years)
Chelsi Smith
Chelsi Mariam Pearl Smith (born August 23, 1973) is an American beauty queen from Redwood City, CA who has held both the Miss USA and Miss Universe titles.
Chelsi Smith was born on August 23, 1973 in in Deer Park, TX to an African American father...
Date of birth:
- Aug 23, 1973 (age 36 years)
Joe Swash
Joseph Adan Swash (born 20 January 1982 in Islington, London) is a English actor who played Mickey Miller in the British television soap opera EastEnders. He is the older brother of Shana Swash, who played his on-screen younger sister Demi Miller...
Date of birth:
- Jan 20, 1982 (age 27 years)
Declan Curry
Declan Curry is a Northern Irish journalist, presenter and businessman, currently employed by the BBC and best known as the former Business Correspondent for BBC Breakfast.
Curry was born and raised in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland....
Martha Kearney
Martha Catherine Kearney (born 8 October 1957, Dublin) is an Irish-born British broadcaster and journalist. She is the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's lunchtime news programme The World at One.
Kearney was brought up in an academic environment: her...
Date of birth:
- Oct 8, 1957 (age 52 years)
Natalie Keen
Natalie Keen (December 8, 1979) is a popular Northern California based import car model. She has also appeared in Mystique and Lowrider magazines, as well as section of The Howard Stern Show in 2004, entitled The Stupid Bowl. Natalie Keen is from...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1979 (age 30 years)
Thos Foley
Thos Foley (born 09 November 1979) from Kenmare in County Kerry, Ireland, is a men's slalom skier. He currently lives and trains in the village of Verbier in Switzerland.
He represented Ireland in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy in the Men...
Date of birth:
- Nov 9, 1979 (age 30 years)
Becky and Jessie O'Donohue
Rebecca Mary O'Donohue and Jessica Elleanore O'Donohue (born July 13, 1980) are American reality TV show contestants. Becky was a semi-finalist in the fifth season of American Idol.
They are from Dobbs Ferry, New York. Becky and Jessie, who come...
Date of birth:
- Jul 13, 1980 (age 29 years)
Catherine Hayes
Catherine Hayes [married name Bushnell] (October 29, 1825 – August 11, 1861) was the first Irish-born opera diva to achieve international acclaim.
She was born at 4 Patrick Street, Limerick, Ireland, but her father deserted the family, causing great...
Date of birth:
- Oct 29, 1825
Date of death:
- Aug 11, 1861 (age 35 years)
Bob Geldof
Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE (born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band Boomtown Rats. Geldof was born and raised in Dún Laoghaire...
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1951 (age 58 years)
Bono
Paul David Hewson, KBE (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and...
Date of birth:
- May 10, 1960 (age 49 years)
Enya
Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin (born 17 May 1961), better known as Enya, is an Irish vocalist, instrumentalist and composer. Her name is sometimes presented in the media as Enya Brennan; Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is...
Date of birth:
- May 17, 1961 (age 48 years)
Seán MacManus
Seán MacManus (often incorrectly spelt Sean McManus) (born Blacklion, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician.
MacManus, originally from Gubaveeney, near Blacklion, County Cavan,was born in 1950 and moved to London in the...
Cillian Sheridan
Cillian Sheridan (born 23 February 1989) is an Irish footballer who plays as a forward for English Championship team Plymouth Argyle on-loan from Scottish Premier League club Celtic. Sheridan previously played for Belvedere FC in Dublin and also...
Date of birth:
- Feb 23, 1989 (age 20 years)
Paul Loughran
Paul Loughran (born 7 July 1969 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish actor. He was educated at Methodist College Belfast. He is best known for portraying Butch Dingle in ITV Soap Opera Emmerdale in which his character died in a bus crash with friend Pete...
Date of birth:
- 1969 (age 41 years)
Ki Longfellow
Ki Longfellow (born Pamela Longfellow) is an American novelist, playwright, theatrical producer, theater director and entrepreneur. In Britain, as the widow of Vivian Stanshall, she is well known as the guardian of his artistic heritage, but...
Date of birth:
- Dec 9, 1944 (age 65 years)
Margaret Nales Wilson
Margaret “Maggie” Nales Wilson (born March 15, 1989 in the Philippines but raised in Saudi Arabia) is a British-Filipino beauty pageant contestant, TV personality, and actress from Bacolod City. She was crowned Binibining Pilipinas-World at the 43rd...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1988 (age 21 years)
Gerit Quealy
Gerit Quealy is an American writer, editor, Shakespearean scholar and actor.
She is the co-author of Wedding Flowers (2003) and Wedding Cakes and Flowers (2006), and an editor of Fifty Things to Do When You Turn Fifty (2005).
Quealy has also written...
C.J. Chivers
Christopher John Chivers is an American journalist who reports for The New York Times. In the summer of 2007, he was named the newspaper's Moscow bureau chief, replacing Steven Lee Myers. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 as part of a team of New York...
Date of birth:
- 1964 (age 46 years)
John Foo
Jon Foo (born Jonathan Patrick Foo, October 30, 1982) is a British actor, model and Wushu master of Chinese descent. Jon is Irish-Chinese and grew up in London, England. However, he is currently based in Los Angeles, California. He has starred in...
Date of birth:
- Oct 30, 1982 (age 27 years)
Robert Campbell
For a list of other individuals by the same name, see Robert Campbell.
Robert Campbell (February 12, 1804 – October 10, 1879) was an Irish immigrant who became an American frontiersman, fur trader and businessman. His St. Louis home is now preserved...
Date of birth:
- 1804
Date of death:
- 1879 (age 75 years)
Trent Kowalik
Trent Kowalik is a Tony award-winning American dancer, actor, and singer. In April 2006, he won the youngest, male age group of the World Irish Dancing Championship (Irish: Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne) in Belfast, Northern Ireland at age 11. He made...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1995 (age 14 years)
Albert Sharpe
Albert Sharpe (15 April 1885 - 13 February 1970) was an Irish stage and film actor. . His most famous roles were those of Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People and as Finian McLonergan in the Broadway stage production of the musical Finian's...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1885
Date of death:
- Feb 13, 1970 (age 84 years)
Lindsey Meadows
Lindsey Meadows (born April 10, 1982 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States) is a pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry in 2004 at the age of around 22, and has since appeared in over 100 movies.
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1982 (age 27 years)
Antony Baekeland
Antony Baekeland was not yet 30 when he died in a Riker's Island prison by suffocation. He was discovered in his cell with a plastic bag (how ironic since his great grandfather invented the plastic with which it was made) tightly wrapped about his...
Date of birth:
- Aug 28, 1946 (age 63 years)
Claire Tully
Claire Tully is a glamour model who has appeared in the British tabloid, The Sun as a Page 3 girl.
