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9 unusual facts about irish people


Bill Naughton

William John Francis Naughton, or Bill Naughton (12 June 1910 - 9 January 1992) was an Irish-born British playwright and author, best known for his play Alfie.

Carry the Meek

Carry the Meek is the debut album by Irish band Ham Sandwich, released in 2008 with success in their native Republic of Ireland.

College Hill, St. Louis

He chose the highest point on the property for the location of his mansion which he named "Athlone" after his father's Irish birthplace.

Frederick Ryan

Frederick Ryan (1876 – April 1913), was an Irish, Dublin-born playwright, journalist and socialist.

James Carrige Rushe Lardner

James Carrige Rushe Lardner (1879 – 3 May 1925) was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for North Monaghan, 1907-18.

John Alexander McCreery

His mother was a daughter of Andrew Carrigan (1804-1872), a wealthy Irish-born philanthropist and provisions dealer who co-founded the Emigrant Savings Bank.

Michael Louis Hearn

Michael Louis Hearn (1866 – 1 May 1931) was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for South County Dublin, 1917-18.

Patrick Crumley

Patrick Crumley (1860 – 17 November 1922) was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for South Fermanagh, 1910-18.

United States presidential election in New York, 1928

Smith, a Roman Catholic of Irish, Italian, and German immigrant heritage, held special appeal to Catholic and ethnic immigrant communities that populated cities like New York and Boston.


2001 Bradford riots

Since its rapid growth in the 19th century, there have been several significant waves of immigration, notably Irish (19th century), Poles (1940s-50s) and South Asian people.

Blackfriars Massacre

The Irish themed pub was named after Blackfriars which was mentioned in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.

Bryan Mullanphy

Bryan Mullanphy was the son of John Mullanphy, an Irish immigrant who became a wealthy merchant in St. Louis and in Baltimore.

Colin O'Donoghue

Colin O'Donoghue (born 26 January 1981) is an Irish actor and musician best known for his role as Captain Killian "Hook" Jones on the hit ABC show, Once Upon a Time, and his role as Michael Kovak on The Rite (2011).

Diarmuid O'Neill

O'Neill was born and raised in London, the youngest son of Irish parents, Eoghan and Theresa "Terry" O'Neill who were originally from County Kildare and County Dublin.

Edmond de Burgh

Sir Edmund de Burgh, Irish knight and ancestor of the Burke family of Clanwilliam, 1298–1338.

Emmett O'Byrne

Emmett O'Byrne (born 30 November 1973) is an Irish historian whose primary research interests are the history of Medieval Ireland and Early Modern Ireland, focusing in particular on Gaelic Ireland.

Eoghan McDermott

Eoghan McDermott (also known as Eoghan Mac Diarmada) is an Irish television and radio presenter mostly known for hosting Next Week's News and The Voice of Ireland.

Erin Chambers

From 2010 to 2011 she was a regular cast member of the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital, playing the Irish character Siobhan McKenna.

Eugene O'Mahoney

Eugene O'Mahoney ( 1899 Dublin - 21 June 1951 Dublin ) was an Irish museum curator and entomologist who worked on Coleoptera, Mallophaga and Siphonaptera.

Femia

Saint Femia (also spelled Femme, Feme, and Eufemia; fl. 6th century) was an Irish Christian saint, a sister of Saint Felim of Kilmore and Saint Daig of Inniskeen.

Harry Clarke – Darkness in Light

Filmmaker John J Doherty traces the life and work of the Irish artist, book illustrator and stained glass artist Harry Clarke (1889–1931) with major contributions from his biographer Nicola Gordon Bowe as well as many stained glass artists, poets and historians.

Heiligenberg

Christianity arrived at the village around AD 600 through the Irish disciple Saint Gall.

Henry Nugent

Henry Nugent, Count of Valdesoto and Viscount Coolamber (died November 1704) was an Irish military man.

Henry Ó Mealláin

Henry Ó Mealláin, O.F.M. (b. c. 1579; died after 1642) was an Irish Franciscan friar, and sometime Guardian of the Franciscan Friars of Armagh.

Herbert McCabe

Herbert McCabe (1926–2001) was an English-born Irish Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher, who was born in Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Jackson McGreevy

Jacskon McGreevy (born 21 April 1994) is an Irish hurler who plays as a midfielder for the Antrim senior team.

Jenette Goldstein

She also appeared as the vampire Diamondback in Near Dark (1987), Officer Meagan Shapiro in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Janelle Voight in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), the U.S.S. Enterprise-B science officer in Star Trek Generations (1994), and an Irish immigrant mother in Titanic (1997).

John Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore

The Rt. Hon. John Armar Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore (born 4 September 1951), is an Irish peer and the son of The 7th Earl Belmore.

Kimberly Loveless

Her mother is of Filipino and Chinese descent while her father was of Native American and Irish descent.

Lawrence Murphy

Lawrence Gustave Murphy (1831 – October 20, 1878) was Irish, Union Army veteran, Grand Army of the Republic member, Republican Party leader, racketeer, Old West businessman and gunman, and a main instigator of the Lincoln County War.

Lord William Beresford

Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford VC KCIE (20 July 1847 – 30 December 1900) born Mullaghbrack, County Armagh, Ireland was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Marquis de Lally-Tollendal

The family of Lally (also O'Lally or O'Mullally) were an Irish family originally from Tuam, County Galway, who distinguished themselves in the service of the Jacobite pretenders and in the French service.

Matthew Jebb

Matthew H. P. Jebb (born 1958) is an Irish botanist and taxonomist specialising in the ant plant genera Squamellaria, Myrmecodia, Hydnophytum, Myrmephytum and Anthorrhiza, as well as the carnivorous plant genus Nepenthes.

Mise Éire

Mise Éire (meaning "I am Ireland") is a 1912 Irish-language poem by the Irish poet and Republican revolutionary leader Patrick Pearse.

New Zealanders

Originally composed solely of the indigenous Māori, the ethnic makeup of the population has been dominated since the 19th century by New Zealanders of European descent, mainly of Scottish, English and Irish ancestry, with smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as French, Dutch, Scandinavian and South Slavic.

Nicky Rackard

Nicholas "Nicky" Rackard (28 April 1922 – 10 April 1976) was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer who played as a full-forward for the Wexford senior teams.

Ó Lochlainn

Ó Lochlainn was the surname of a Gaelic-Irish family who resided in The Burren, County Clare.

Parish Church of St Mary and St Petroc

In 518 he welcomed the Irish monk, St Petroc, who was seeking to found a monastery in the area, which he did near Padstow.

Patrick Rice

Patrick Michael Rice (also Patricio Rice) (September 1945, Fermoy – 8 July 2010, Miami) was an Irish human rights activist and former Catholic priest and religious who became a resident of Argentina.

Port Jefferson, New York

Suwassett was renamed in 1682 to "Drowned Meadow" after being settled by an Irish shoemaker from Queens named John Roe.

Robert Desmond Meikle

Robert Desmond Meikle (born 18 May 1923 in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish botanist from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Simply Unstoppable

The Lucozade advert itself features Tempah, drummer Travis Barker and Irish boxer/footballer Katie Taylor, credited separately and later together as "The Wild Ones".

On 20 April 2011 the track was released as a promotional single in the form of the YES remix, a remix featuring American drummer Travis Barker and Irish sportswoman Katie Taylor, exclusively for use in a Lucozade advertising campaign.

Sir John Esmonde, 16th Baronet

Sir John Henry Grattan Esmonde, 16th Baronet of the Esmonde baronets, (27 June 1928 – 16 May 1987) was an Irish Fine Gael politician.

Sir John Kirwan

Sir John Kirwan, Irish Entrepreneur, founder of the Kirwans of Castle Hackett, County Galway.

Sir Robert Doyne

His branch of the family successfully made the transition from Gaelic-Irish to Anglo-Irish culture, and were based at Brittas.

Stephanie Swift

Stephanie Swift was born in Louisiana and has described herself as a "mutt" in terms of ethnicity: Cajun, Irish, English, French, Spanish, Filipino and Norwegian.

The Mouse on the Moon

The Mouse on the Moon is a 1963 British comedy film, an adaptation of the novel The Mouse on the Moon by Irish author Leonard Wibberley.

Thérèse Bermingham

Scouting and Guiding in Ireland is well represented in the wider Scouting movement-in addition to Bermingham, the Chairman of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is another Irish woman, Elspeth Henderson.

Tipton, Monroe County, Illinois

The community there, settled by persons of Irish descent was called Tipperary, which degenerated over time through Tiptown, to the current Tipton.

Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights

Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights is the second novel in the Tommy Storm series, written by Irish author A.J. Healy.

WCSB

The station also airs news and information oriented toward many of the ethnic groups represented in Greater Cleveland: Latin, Hispanic, German, Hungarian, Polish, Irish, Macedonian, Arabic, and Slovenian.

Wild Geese Classic

The Classic was intended to be a celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Flight of the Wild Geese of 1691 and the Irish heroes who resisted an English seize of the City of Limerick.

Yelverton case

Theresa Longworth, an English Catholic, and Major The Hon. William Charles Yelverton (who later became, in 1870, The 4th Viscount Avonmore), an Irish Protestant, met in 1852.


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1993 in Ireland

Pat Falvey and Dawson Stelfox became the first Irish people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Aes Dana

Aois-dàna (also spelled "áes dána"), the Scottish Gaelic or Old Irish "people of the arts" until the late 17th century

Aisling

She laments the current state of the Irish people and predicts an imminent revival of their fortunes, usually linked to the return of the Roman Catholic House of Stuart to the thrones of Britain and Ireland.

Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh

It is commonly stated that Ó Dálaigh and Cusack picketed the Dublin launch of Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People, for what they felt was the film's stereotyping of Irish people.

Deposit interest retention tax

Several famous Irish people have been found evading the tax, including (former) Minister for Justice Pádraig Flynn.

Domhnall Ua Buachalla

(One of the few other occasions Ua Buachalla was mentioned at all in public was when, in the aftermath of the death of King George V in January 1936, he had to reply to messages of condolence sent to the Irish people by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull.)

Edward Findley

Findley was elected as an Australian Labor Party member for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Melbourne in 1900 but was expelled from parliament soon after on 25 June 1901 for seditious libel as editor of the Toscin for republishing a Dublin Irish People article on King Edward VII.

Patrick Sarsfield

In his early years he is known to have challenged Lord Grey for a supposed reflection on the veracity of the Irish people (September 1681), and in the December of that year he was run through the body in a duel in which he engaged as second.

Ronnie O'Brien

In August 1999, e-mails circulated urging Irish people to vote for Ronnie O'Brien in Time's Person of the Century Internet poll, causing O'Brien to lead the poll, above those such as Albert Einstein and Martin Luther King.

Standish James O'Grady

He also studied Irish history of the Elizabethan period, presenting in his edition of Sir Thomas Stafford's "Pacata Hibernia" (1896) the view that the Irish people had made the Tudors into kings of Ireland in order to overthrow their unpopular landlords, the Irish chieftains.

William Augustine O'Carroll

He joined the Fenians in 1858 and was a contributor to the Nationalist journal Irish People for which he subsequently became the editor.