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Bernard Shaw, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1925 (1856 - 1950)
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism...
Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1969 (1906 - 1989)
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragic...
Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912)
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula . * Biography * Family Tree * Bram's Stoker's ...
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric wh...
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Daniel Day-Lewis
He is an English actor with British and Irish citizenship. He is known as one of the most selective actors in the film industry, having starred in only five films since 1997, with as many as five years...

Irish Literature, Mythology, Gods & Goddesses, and Celtic Heroes

C. S. Lewis – author of the Chronicles of Narnia
George Bernard Shaw – novelist, playwright
Bram Stoker – author of Dracula
Oscar Wilde – novelist, poet, satirist
Jonathan Swift - novelist Gulliver's Travels
Samuel Beckett - novelist Waiting for Godot
William Butler Yeats – poet and Nobel laureate
Frank McCourt – writer
Frank O'Connor – short story writer
John McEnroe – former World's No. 1 tennis player
Kenneth Branagh – actor on stage, film and TV, The Harry Potter movies
Pierce Brosnan – actor, best known as James Bond from 1994 to 2005
Gabriel Byrne – TV and film actor
Daniel Day-Lewis – Oscar winner
Liam Neeson – actor
Maureen O'Sullivan – actress
Peter O'Toole – Oscar winner
Jason Priestley – actor
George Harrison – singer/songwriter and founding member of The Beatles
Gilbert O'Sullivan – pop singer/songwriter/pianist
U2 - Rock Band
George Boole (1815–1864) – inventor of Boolean algebra
John Robert Gregg (1868–1948) – Gregg shorthand system
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903) – mathematician, physicist, 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations'
Ernest Walton – physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize in PhysicsJames Hoban – designer of White House
Francis Bacon (1909–1992) - Irish-born British figurative painter especially using grotesque or nightmarish imagery
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