Robert Carrickford
1928 - 2016
Actor
Rory Gallagher
1948 - 1995
Blues rock singer-songwriter
Mervyn Wall
1908 - 1997
Writer and civil servant
Dion Boucicault
1820 - 1890
Melodrama writer and performer
Richard Harris
1930 - 2002
actor and singer
Terry Wogan
1938 - 2016
Radio and TV presenter
Mark Sheehan
1976 - 2023
Co-founder and guitarist of The Script
Brefni O'Rorke
1889 - 1946
Actor
Cathal Goulding
1923 - 1998
IRA chief of staff
Harry Brogan
1904 - 1979
Actor
Maureen O'Hara
1920 - 2015
Playing passionate but sensible heroines
Michael Collins
1890 - 1922
Revolutionary leader
Cornelius Ryan
1920 - 1974
Military history writer
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
1882 - 1941
Novelist, poet, literary critic
Sean ac Dhonncha
1919 - 1996
Traditional Irish singer
Oscar Wilde
1854 - 1900
Playwright
George Brent
1904 - 1979
Leading man of Bette Davis
Michael Gambon
1940 - 2023
Stage and screen actor
Paddy Moloney
1938 - 2021
Founder and leader of the Chieftains
Thomas Leland
1722 - 1785
Historian, translator, academic, author
Thomas Patrick McKenna
1929 - 2011
Character actor
John Greer Ervine
1883 - 1971
Playwright, novelist, biographer
John Cornelius O'Callaghan
1805 - 1883
Historian and journalist
Seamus Costello
1939 - 1977
Republican socialist leader
Conor Cruise O'Brien
1917 - 2008
Diplomat, historian, journalist, academic
William Thompson
1775 - 1833
Political economist and social reformer
Padraic Colum
1881 - 1972
Poet, novelist, folklorist, children's author
Edward Mulhare
1923 - 1997
actor
Tony Gregory
1947 - 2009
Independent TD for Dublin Central
Robert Cinnamond
1884 - 1968
Traditional singer and collector of songs
Niall Toibin
1929 - 2019
Actor and comedian
Nioclas Toibin
1928 - 1994
Sean-nós singer
Tom French
1934 - 2023
President of the Workers' Party
Ray Stevenson
1964 - 2023
actor
George Berkeley
1685 - 1753
Philosopher and scientist
Martin O'Hagan
1950 - 2001
Investigative journalist
Pat Laffan
1939 - 2019
Actor
Palladius
365 - 457
Bishop of Ireland
Joseph Maher
1933 - 1998
Actor and playwright
James Henry Cousins
1873 - 1956
Writer, actor, critic, editor, teacher and poet
Barry Fitzgerald
1888 - 1961
Actor
Joseph Tomelty
1911 - 1995
Actor and playwright
William Butler Yeats
1865 - 1939
Irish poet and dramatist
Thomas Kinsella
1928 - 2021
Poet, translator, editor, publisher
Denis Johnston
1901 - 1984
Playwright and war correspondent
John B. Keane
1928 - 2002
Playwright and novelist
Craig Breen
1990 - 2023
Rally driver
Milo O'Shea
1926 - 2013
actor
Yelavarthy Nayudamma
1922 - 1985
Chemical engineer and leather technologist
John Millington Synge
1871 - 1909
Irish literary renaissance
Frank Kelly
1938 - 2016
Actor and comedian
Joseph Michael Kerrigan
1884 - 1964
Actor and director
Derek Mahon
1941 - 2020
Poet
Graham Knuttel
1954 - 2023
Painter and sculptor
Bram Stoker
1847 - 1912
Author of Dracula
Sean McClory
1924 - 2003
Actor
Clive Staples Lewis
1898 - 1963
Author
Brian Friel
1929 - 2015
Playwright and short story writer
Diarmuid O Suilleabhain
1947 - 1991
Sean-nós singer and broadcast journalist
Oliver Goldsmith
1730 - 1774
Novelist, playwright, poet
Elizabeth Bowen
1899 - 1973
Novelist and short story writer
Joe Lynch
1926 - 2001
Actor and singer
Anthony Holten
1945 - 2020
Author, historian, stroke advocate
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751 - 1816
Playwright, orator, and Whig politician
Joe Heaney
1919 - 1984
Sean-nós singer
Richard Steele
1672 - 1729
Essayist, dramatist, journalist
Luke Kelly
1940 - 1984
Folk musician and actor
Sean O'Casey
1880 - 1964
Dramatist and memoirist
Ernest Henry Shackleton
1874 - 1922
Antarctic explorer
Sean O Cionnaith
1938 - 2003
Socialist republican politician
Peig Sayers
1873 - 1958
Storyteller and author
Arthur Shields
1896 - 1970
Actor
Hugh Leonard
1926 - 2009
Playwright, television writer, essayist
Frances Power Cobbe
1822 - 1904
Writer, philosopher, social reformer
Maeve Binchy
1939 - 2012
Novelist and columnist
Sean Garland
1934 - 2018
President of the Workers' Party of Ireland
Kieron Moore
1924 - 2007
Film and television actor
Alphie McCourt
1940 - 2016
Writer
Peter Christopher Judge
1890 - 1947
Actor at the Abbey Theatre
Brendan Grace
1951 - 2019
Comedian and singer
Donal McCann
1943 - 1999
Stage, film, and television actor
William Trevor
1928 - 2016
Novelist and short story writer
Samuel Beckett
1906 - 1989
Nobel laureate in literature
Ray McAnally
1926 - 1989
Actor
Brendan Behan
1923 - 1964
Writer and Irish Republican
Louis Stewart
1944 - 2016
Jazz guitarist
Seamus Heaney
1939 - 2013
Nobel laureate in literature
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten
1900 - 1979
Naval commander, last Viceroy of India
Creighton Hale
1889 - 1965
Actor
James Ussher
1581 - 1656
Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
William Henry Harvey
1811 - 1866
Botanist and phycologist who specialised in algae
Julia Kavanagh
1824 - 1877
Novelist and biographer
Tommy Makem
1932 - 2007
Folk singer, songwriter, storyteller
David Kelly
1929 - 2012
Actor
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