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Terence MacSwiney was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. He was arrested by the British on charges ...
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Cornelius Ryan (5 June 1920 – 23 November 1974) was an Irish journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially his World War II books: The Longest Day: 6 Jun...
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Seumas or Seamus O'Sullivan, born James Sullivan Starkey, (17 July 1879 – 24 March 1958) was an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin Magazine. He was born in Dublin and spent his adult life in the sub...
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Elizabeth Farrell
Was an Irish nurse and member of Cumann na mBan, best known for delivering the surrender in the Easter Rising of 1916.
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Mary Spring Rice was an Irish nationalist activist during the early 20th century.
Spring Rice was born into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family in London. She was the daughter of Thomas Spring Rice, 2...
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Anno O'Rahilly was an Irish revolutionary and Cumann na mBan member, republican prisoner and hunger-striker active in the period from 1916 to 1923. Born in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry to grocer and nation...
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Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1590–1670) was an English-born barrister, judge and politician who spent much of his career in Ireland (after he had been professionally ruined in England) and became a substa...
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Sighle Humphreys MP 
(1899 - 1994)
"Sighle Bean Uí Dhonnchadha", "Sighle Bean Domhnaill O Donnchadha"
Sighle Humphreys was an Irish political activist and member of Cumann na mBan.
Humphreys was deeply involved in the republican cause. She served as as secretary, director of publicity, and national v...
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He fought on Republican side in Civil War 1922-23. Officer of 5th Battalion Engineers, Dublin Brigade IRA.
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Gerry Adams is an Irish republican politician who is the president of the Sinn Féin political party and a Teachta Dála (TD; a member of the Irish parliament) for Louth since the 2011 general election. ...
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Martin McGuinness was an Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician who was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from May 2007 to January 2017.
A former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA...
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Amlaíb mac Sitric, rí Gall1,2,3
b. circa 1010, d. 1034
Father Sitric mac Amlaíb, rí Gall4,2 b. before 981
Mother Slani ingen Briain Dál gCais4,3,2 b. after 995
Also called Óláfr Old Norse.5 Aml...
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Bertie Ahern is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 26 June 1997 to 7 May 2008.
Ahern served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1977 to 2011, representing Dublin Fi...
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Dudley Stagpoole VC DCM (1838 – 1 August 1911), born in Killunan, County Galway he was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the ...
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John Doyle (Dublin 1797 – 2 January 1868 London), known by the pen name H. B., was a political cartoonist, caricaturist, painter and lithographer.
He was a grandfather of the famous author, Sir Arthu...
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Wikipedia contributors. " John Crichton, 4th Earl Erne ." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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Wikipedia contributors. " John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne ." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Em...
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Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC (28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was an Anglo-Iri...
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Captain James Robert "Jack" White DSO (22 May 1879 –1946) was one of the co-founders of the Irish Citizen Army.-
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Bishop Charles Dodgson FRS 1722 - 1795
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Charles Dodgson FRS (c. 1722 – 21 January 1795) was an English Anglican cleric who served in the Church of Ireland as the Bishop of Ossory (176...
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Martin Doyle Company sergeant-major in the 1st Battalion, The Royal Munster Fusiliers, 16th (Irish) Division
Martin Doyle VC, MM (25 October 1891 – 20 November 1940) was a British Army soldier during...
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Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed . London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 851
Arthur Innes
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Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman was involved with the Republican Society of United Irishmen during the 1798 Rising, later becoming Secretary of the Catholic Association in the 1820s.
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Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Edward Gordon Haig
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Edward Gordon Haig 1866-1935. He resided at Oak Grove House.He was educated at Winchester, Oxford and Royal Military College San...
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Richard Mor de Burgh Added by randyandjulia on 14 Sep 2008
Richard Mor de Burgh (c. 1194 – 1242).[1] was the eldest son of William de Burgh and founder of the towns of Ballinasloe, Loughrea and Galwa...
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William de Burgh (c. 1160 - winter 1205/1206) was the founder of the de Burgh/Burke/Bourke dynasty in Ireland.
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Saint Oliver Plunkett (alternative spelling Plunket) (1629 – 1 July 1681) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. He maintained his duties in Ireland in the face of Engl...
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Sir Nicholas Bagenal was Privy Councillor (P.C.) for Ireland, Marshal-General of the Army in Ireland, he was invested a knight in 1566, and member of parliament (M.P) for County Down in 1585.
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'Thomas Butler, 1st Baron Dunboyne (also known as Thomas le Botiller) was the third son of Theobald Butler, 4th Chief Butler of Ireland and Joan FitzJohn.
'He married Synolda le Petit, daughter of Wi...
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Theobald "le Boteler" FitzWalter, 1st Baron Butler MP
(aft.1160 - bef.1206)
"Theobald Walter", "Theobald FitzWalter", "Theobald Butler or Theobald Walter le Boteler", "Theobald Walter or Theobald Butler or Theobald Walter le Boteler", "Preston", ""le Butzllen"", "Theobald Butler"
Theobald Walter, 1st Baron Butler Theobald Walter or Theobald Butler or Theobald Walter le Boteler was the first Baron Butler and the first Chief Butler of Ireland. Theobald was the ancestor of the But...
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Jackie Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor and musician. He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, especially by his character Ralph Kramden o...
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Walter de Lacy (c. 1172 – 1241) was Lord of Meath in Ireland and Ludlow in Shropshire in the Welsh Marches.
Lineage With his father Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath he built Trim Castle (Caisleán Bhaile A...
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Meilyr FitzHenry (died 1220) was a Cambro-Norman nobleman and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland during the Lordship of Ireland.
Background and early life
Meilyr FitzHenry was the son of Henry FitzHen...
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The Peerage #2690 - Spelling "Sydney" - Held the Office of Depute of Ireland
Henry Sidney
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Henry Sidne...
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Wikipedia contributors. " Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort ." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the Brit...
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Wikipedia Biographical Summary:
"... Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and...
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Maureen O'Hara MP
(1920 - 2015)
"Maureen Fitzsimons Blair", "Maureen Blair"
Maureen O'Hara
Born Maureen Fitzsimons
Maureen O'Hara (born 17 August 1920) was an Irish-American film actress and singer. She was first educated at the John Street West Girls' School near Thomas S...
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William FitzAldelm William FitzAldelm (alt. spellings include FitzAdelm, FitzAldhelm, or FitzAudelin) was a Norman noble from Suffolk or North Yorkshire. He was the son of Adelm de Burgate. He was an...
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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...
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John O'Connor Power (13 February 1846 – 21 February 1919) was an Irish Fenian and a Home Rule League and Irish Parliamentary Party politician and as MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom o...
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William Edward Forster PC, FRS (11 July 1818 – 6 April 1886) was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman.
Early life
Born to William and Ann Forster, Quaker parents a...
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Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long PC, FRS, JP (13 July 1854 – 26 September 1924), was a British Unionist politician. In a political career spanning over 40 years, he held office as President of the...
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Gobnait Ní Bhruadair (17 December 1861 – 16 January 1955) was one of the foremost Irish republican women of the twentieth century. A lifelong radical, Gobnait campaigned passionately for causes as di...
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Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim (25 November 1732 – 27 July 1804) was an Irish nobleman and politician.
Son of Cavan Borough MP Nathaniel Clements, Deputy Vice Treasurer and Teller of the Iris...
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William Sydney Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim (15 October 1806 – 2 April 1878) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and landlord notorious in Irish history for his mistreatment of his tenants. He was assassina...
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John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare PC (Ire) (c. 1749 – 28 January 1802), later known as Earl of Clare or Lord Clare, was Attorney-General for Ireland in 1783, then Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1789,...
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Charlotte Despard (née French) (15 June 1844 – 10 November 1939) was an English-born, later Irish-based suffragist, novelist, Sinn Féin activist, vegetarian and anti-vivisection advocate.
Early lif...
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Charles Cobbe (Swarraton, 1686–1765) was Archbishop of Dublin from 1743 to 1765, and as such was Primate of Ireland.
Life
He was the second son of Thomas Cobbe, Receiver General for County Southa...
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Daniel O'Connell - The Liberator
Daniel O'Connell (6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847); often referred to as The Liberator, or The Emancipator was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th c...
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Frank McCoppin (July 4, 1834, County Longford, Ireland – May 26, 1897, San Francisco, California) was the first Irish-born, and foreign-born Mayor of San Francisco. He was married in 1862 to Elizabet...
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Dublin Mayor--What's My Line video
First Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Robert "Bob" Briscoe (25 September 1894 – 11 March 1969) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD...
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Anna Doyle Wheeler (born c. 1785, Tipperary, Ireland, died 1848) was a writer and advocate of political rights for women and the benefits of contraception. She married Francis Massey Wheeler when she...
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General Sir Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready, 1st Baronet, GCMG, KCB, PC (Ire) (7 May 1862–9 January 1946), known as Sir Nevil Macready and affectionately as Make-Ready (close to the correct pronunciat...
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Katharine O'Shea, also known as Katie O'Shea, Kitty O'Shea or, following her second marriage, Katharine Parnell (30 January 1846 – 5 February 1921) was an English woman of aristocratic background, wh...
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Fanny Parnell moved with her mother to "Old Ironsides" farm that was left to her mother by her grandfather.
Fanny was a poet as well as a lecturer and devoted to the interests of her brother. She spe...
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Anna Catherine Parnell (13 May 1852 – 20 September 1911) was an Irish nationalist and younger sister of Irish Nationalist leader, Charles Stewart Parnell.
When it seemed that the Land League me...
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Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth (22 May 1870 – 30 June 1926) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist. She was born at Lissadell House, County Sligo,...
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Harriet Monsell (1811-1883) founded the Community of St. John Baptist, an order of Augustinian nuns in the Church of England dedicated to social service, which by her death had expended to numerous h...
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George Brent (15 March 1899 – 26 May 1979) was an Irish film and television actor in American cinema.
Early life
He was born George Brendan Nolan in Raharabeg, County Roscommon on the opposit...
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Thomas Addis Emmet (April 24, 1764 – November 14, 1827) was an Irish and American lawyer and politician. He was a senior member of the revolutionary republican group United Irishmen in the 1790s and ...
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Emmet was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1778. His father served as surgeon to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and to members of the British Royal Family on their visits to Ireland. Despite his privileged...
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Pierce Brendan Brosnan (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist. After leaving comprehensive school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration. He then w...
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Aubrey Osborn Gwynn (1892-18 May 1983) was an Irish Jesuit historian.
Life
He came from a Protestant academic family, the son of Stephen Gwynn and the grandson of John Gwynn, professor of the...
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Denis Roleston Gwynn (1893–1973) was an Irish journalist, writer and professor of modern Irish history. He served in World War I.
He was the second son of Stephen Gwynn, writer and scholar. He wa...
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Stephen Lucius Gwynn (13 February 1864 – 11 June 1950) was an Irish journalist, biographer, author, poet and Protestant nationalist politician. and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons o...
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William Smith O'Brien (Irish: Liam Mac Gabhann Ó Briain; 17 October 1803 – 18 June 1864) was an Irish Nationalist and Member of Parliament (MP) and leader of the Young Ireland movement. He was convic...
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Timothy Michael Healy
Timothy Michael Healy, KC (17 May 1855 – 26 March 1931), also known as Tim Healy, was an Irish nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and one of the most controve...
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Kevin Christopher O'Higgins (Irish: Caoimhghín Críostóir Ó hUigín; 7 June 1892 – 10 July 1927) was an Irish politician who served as Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice. ] ...
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Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda was born on 29 June 1730.1 He married Lady Anne Seymour-Conway, daughter of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford and Lady Isabella Fitzroy, on 15 Feb...
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At least three wives and several mistresses, including Agnes Campbell.
Shane The Proud
Shane O'Neill, was utterly aggrieved by this usurping of his place in the chain and the resulting struggle f...
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Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (Irish: Conn Bacach mac Cuinn Ó Néill) King of Tír Eógain, c. 1480–1559. His byname was Conn the Lame .
He was the first of the O'Neills to emerge as leaders of the...
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Richard Montgomery (December 2, 1738 – December 31, 1775) was an Irish-born soldier who first served in the British Army. He later became a brigadier-general in the Continental Army during the Americ...
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Colonel Alexander John Montgomery (1720 – 29 September 1800) was an Irish politician.
He was born in 1720, the eldest son of Thomas Montgomery, M.P. for Lifford, and his wife Mary Franklin. His...
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Notes
Lots of photos
Charles Stewart Parnell was born June 1846. He was the son of John Henry Parnell and Delia Tudor Stewart. He married Katherine Wood, daughter of Reverend Sir John Page ...
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"Field Marshal George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan GCB (16 April 1800 – 10 November 1888), styled Lord Bingham before 1839, was a British soldier, remembered for his part in the Crimean War, and ...
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Érimón, son of Míl Espáine, according to medieval Irish legends and historical traditions, was one of the chieftains who took part in the Milesian invasion of Ireland, which conquered the island from t...
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Conn Ceadchatbach (of the Hundred Battles), King of Ireland, d. 157 in Ireland, He became king of Ireland, 123 in Tara, Ireland, cause of death was slaying by Tibraite Tireach, son of Mal.
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Irish nationalist of Irish and Spanish descent. Joined the IRB (Fenians) in 1913. Commanded Bollands Mills during the 1916 Easter Rising. Court-mashalled and sentenced to death, but repreived. Elected ...
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Constance Georgine Markievicz, Countess Markievicz (Polish: Markiewicz; née Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927) was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist, s...
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James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce
James Joyce , Irish novelist considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century best known for Ulysses ...
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Paul David Hewson - BONO
Paul David Hewson was born on 10 May 1960, in Dublin, Ireland. The son of a Roman Catholic postal worker, Bono's Protestant mother died when the boy was just 14. He joined th...
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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 critic...
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Saint Patrick of Ireland MP
(387 - 461)
"Patricius", "Qatrikias", "Cothraige", "Coithrige", "Pátraic", "Pádraig", "Patrikios", "Patric", "Padric", "Padrig", "St. Patrick", "Saint Patrick"
St. Patrick of Ireland
Saint Patrick (Latin: Sanctus Patricius, Irish: Naomh Pádraig), born in Kilpatrick near Dumbarton in Scotland c. 387 – died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland 17 March, 460/1. He wa...
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Sophia Rosamund Praeger
Sophia Rosamond Praeger, Order of the British Empire|MBE, HRHA, Master of Arts (postgraduate)|MA (1867 - 1954) was an Irish artist, sculptor and writer.
Born in Holywood, Co...
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Micheál Ó Coileáin
Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance and Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish deleg...
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Wikipedia
General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell GCB, KCMG, CVO, DSO, PC (11 July 1859 – 21 February 1929) was a British Army officer and colonial governor. He served in the Mahdist War in the Sudan, the ...
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Sir Nicholas Plunkett (1602–1680) was the son of Christopher Plunkett, Lord Killeen, and Jane Dillon. At the age of twenty Plunkett traveled to London to receive training as a lawyer at Gray's Inn in...
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Connor (or Cornelius) Maguire, 2nd Baron of Enniskillen (1616–1645) was an Irish nobleman from Ulster who took part in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. He was executed for high treason.
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He w...
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Donagh [Donough] MacCarthy, 1st Earl of Clancarty, 2nd Viscount Muskerry (died August 1665) was an Irish noble. He married Ellen (Eleanor) Butler (died April 1682), who was the sister of James Butler...
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8/30/2008
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Rory O'Moore (Irish noble)
Rory O'Moore (Irish: Ruairí Ó Mórdha) (c, 1600 – 16 February 1655), also spelt as or Roger O'Moore or O'More or Sir Roger Moore , was an Irish landowner of ancient lineage,...
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Sir Felim O'Neill of Kinard (died August 1653), also called Phelim MacShane O'Neill or Féilim Ó Néill (Irish), was an Irish nobleman who led the Irish Rebellion of 1641 in Ulster which began on 22 Oc...
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5/31/2012
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James John "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (September 1, 1866 – February 18, 1933) was a heavyweight boxing champion, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan. He also coached boxing at th...
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John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918), also known as the Boston Strong Boy, was recognized as the first Heavyweight Champion of gloved boxing from February 7, 1881 to 1892, and i...
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From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Leonard Gray:
Leonard Gray, 1st Viscount Grane [1]
M, #118799,
d. 28 July 1541
Last Edited=10 Apr 2004
Leonard Gray, 1st Viscount Grane married Elean...
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British A...
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8/15/2009
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From the English Wikipedia page on Grace O'Malley, Pirate Queen:
Gráinne Ní Mháille (c. 1530 – c. 1603), Gráinne O'Malley[1] or Grace O'Malley,[2] was Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille cla...
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