Born on Ireland

Sinéad O'Connor

Irish singer-songwriter, artist-musician and strident, radical political activist

1966 - 2023

Pierce Brosnan

Irish actor and film producer

1953

Bob GELDOF

Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist, and occasional actor

1951

Maureen O'Hara

Irish film actress and singer

1920 - 2015

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet and playwright

1854 - 1900

George DOWNING

Anglo-Irish preacher, soldier, statesman, diplomat, turncoat and spy

1623 - 1684

C. S. LEWIS

British writer and lay theologian

1898 - 1963

Matthew THORNTON

Irish-born signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire

1713 - 1803

Arthur WELLESLEY

British soldier and statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1769 - 1852

Pierce Butler

Irish-born American politician, planter, and military officer who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

1744 - 1822

James Logan

Scots-Irish colonial American statesman, administrator, and scholar who served as the fourteenth mayor of Philadelphia

1674 - 1751

Edward Sabine

Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th president of the Royal Society

1788 - 1883

Éamon Ó Cuív

Irish Fianna Fáil politician

1950

Robert BOYLE-WALSINGHAM

Irish sailor and Member of Parliament

1736 - 1780

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