A collection of people who have made an impact on the Irish culture, history, politics, or folklore.
Originally from Dublin, Ireland The Nolans first entered the music scene when singing parents Tommy and Maureen Nolan moved the family to Blackpool in the 1960s.
Michael Collins was the son of a small farmer from west Cork. Born on 18th October 1890 he was the youngest of eight children and educated at a local school.
Ireland has always produced poets and writers of renown. Still, the premier among them has to be James Joyce, a modernist writer who was thought to be the first to develop the “ stream of […]
Christy Moore is one of Irelands many talented Irish folk singers and was born on May 7thh 1945 in Newbridge, County Kildare. […]
The Dubliners are one of the most influential bands in the Irish folk music genre. The group is renowned for their spirited performances and authentic interpretations of traditional Irish songs.
Charles Stewart Parnell, born in 1846 into the Irish Ascendency, was the son of John H. Parnell, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, and his American wife Delia who was descended from the House of Tudor.
Isaac Butt was born in the Glenfin hamlet of Cloghan in County Donegal. His father was a Church of Ireland cleric in nearby the nearby town of Stranorlar.
James Craig the 1st Viscount Craigavon was the son of millionaire James and Eleanor (nee Browne) Craig. The family was wealthy, their money coming from the distillation business.
William Butler Yeats, poet, playwright and Irish nationalist was born in Sandymount, County Dublin on July 13th, 1865.
Wilde, born in Westland Row in Dublin, was the middle child of Sir William Wilde, a successful eye and ear surgeon, and his wife Jane Francesca, an Irish nationalist who wrote poetry under the pseudonym […]
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was an Irish revolutionary. Born on 18 September 1831 devoted over 60 years of his life to Irish independence.
In March 1802, just two months after the creation of the United Kingdom and Ireland, the British signed a peace treaty with the French at Amien.
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