Can you tell me some famous Irish people?

Question

Can you tell me some famous Irish people?

Answer 1

St Patrick - who brought CHRISTIANITY to Ireland. Roy Keane, famous soccer player. Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Christy Ring, Bernard Shaw, Van Morisson, Jonathan Swift. There's LOADS!!!

Yeats too!

Answer 2

Jonathan Swift (Author of Gullivers Travels)

W.B. Yeats (Poet)

Oscar Wilde (although he lived in England)

Pierce Brosnan (James Bond, Remington Steel)

Sinead O Connor (Lunatic singer)

Che Guevara had Irish grandparents

Bob Geldof (humanitarian and rocking musician)

James Joyce (Ulysses)

Roy Keane (best footballer in the world)

Michael Carruth (World class Boxer)

Mary Robinson (Human rights)

Constance Markeivicz (revolutionary)

Sonia O Sullivan (Olympic runner)

Phil Linnot (Lead singer of Thin Lizzy)

Darina Allen (cook and business woman)

John Scotus

Ooh, ooh, and best of all, John Wayne. His real name was Marion.

Answer 3

Richard Harris, Eamon De Velera, Bono, Oscar Wilde, Michael Collins. Rory Gallagher. Bobby Sands, Strongbow, Cathel Burgess, Liam Neeson, Semus Henasy, Roger Casement, the Edge, Brendon Gleeson, Wolf Tone,Sts. Patric, Coumcille, Kevin  & Brigid

Answer 4

Bono - U2

Cillian Murphy - Actor

Jonathan Rhys Myers - Actor

His real name is Jonathan O'Keefe (bet you didn't know that)

Liam Neeson - Actor

Colm Meaney - Actor

Pierce Brosnan - Actor

Roy Keane - Footballer/Manager

Bob Geldof - Musician/Founder of Live Aid

Sinead O'Connor - Musician

Dara O'Briain - Comedian

Tommy Tiernan - Comedian

Dylan Moran - Comedian

Clannad - Band

Westlife - Band

J.P. Holland - Inventor of the submarine

Nick Callan - Inventor of the Induction Coil

John Dunlop - Inventor of the Pneumatic tyre

all Irish and proud.

Hope i helped

Answer 5

Seamus Heaney

John Shinnors

Jack B Yeats

William B Yeats

Willie Clancy

The band Dervish

Johnny Logan

Marion Keyes

Joe O'Connor

.... and others already named.

Answer 6

-Bono ( U2)

-Bob Geldof (started band aid)

-Killian Murphy (Red Eye, Batman, The Wind that shakes the barely)

-Sinead O Conner

-Jonathan Reese Myers (another actor)

-Pierce Brosnan (James Bond)

-Boyzone

-Westlife

Answer 7

William Butler Yeats

Bono

Colin Farrell

Richard Harris

Colin Meaney

Maureen O Hara

Peter O'Toole

Ardal O'Hanlon

Chris de Burgh

Enya

Sinead O'Connor

Wolfe Tone

Michael Collins

Daniel O'Connell

Arthur Guinness

James Joyce

Bob Geldof

Bram Stoker

Jonathan Swift

Oscar Wilde

Samuel Beckett

George Bernard Shaw

Roy Keane

Answer 8

Bono and the rest of U2. West life. Leem Neson. St Patrick (who I know wasn't born in Eire, but did some cool things- except bringing cathlicism to Eire)

Don't ANYONE say the IRA!