greatest irish person of all time?

spanner

i know a while back the bbc tried to find the greatest british person of all time and it spared quite a good debate. i think it would be a good idea to have one in ireland...


any ideas on who you think it should be?

bizmark

micheal colins or brian boru

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

me.

strange question, would have thought the answer was obvious.

Corega

Bosco.

Swarfboy

It has to be Daniel O' Connell as he changed the lives of millions of europeans

PH01

Bertie Ahern

The Corinthian

William Joyce








/me runs for cover...

It would have to be Brenda F$%*in' Behan!

Hobbes

That guy who invented the Duty Free shop.

PH01

...my Daddy and Mammy

PH01

PH01 wrote:

...my Daddy and Mammy

Ah thats too sweet! Present from Santy to you this year!!

Standard Toaster

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Sleepy

Ehm, um, I can't actually think of too many worthy of the title "great". Swift maybe?

Sleepy

Sleepy wrote:

Ehm, um, I can't actually think of too many worthy of the title "great". Swift maybe?

That's so not true. for such a small nation, we are so highly regarded in the world.
Quick list:
Swift (correct)
Joyce,
Yeats, W.B
Kavanagh
Behan
Bono
Phil Lynott

BlitzKrieg

think it would be easier to divide it into catagories?

(musician, politicion, sports etc etc) over the different forums and then from the top 3 of each you pick a overall best person?


maybe? maybe not?

gandalf

Moving to after hours

Hairy Homer

BlitzKrieg wrote:

think it would be easier to divide it into catagories?

(musician, politicion, sports etc etc) over the different forums and then from the top 3 of each you pick a overall best person?


maybe? maybe not?

Well if you wanted to be serious about it you could put forward a number of candidates from a variety of fields:

Politics/Diplomacy: O'Connell, Hume, De Valera, Lemass, Fitzgerald, Burke (Edmund)

Military: Wellington, Eoghan Rua O'Neill, Hugh O'Neill, Brian Boru, Collins (Michael, not Tim)

Sport: Ronnie Delaney, Pat O'Callaghan, Martin Sheridan, Sonia O'Sullivan, Stephen Roche, Sean Kelly, Roy KEane, Paul McGrath, WJ McBride, Mike Gibson, Brian O'Driscoll, Barry McGuigan

Literature: Joyce, Shaw, Synge, Yeats, Heaney, KAvanagh, Sheridan, Wilde,

Entertainment: Gay Byrne, Spike Milligan, Bono, Geldof, Lynnott, Morrison

Science: Walton, Boyle,

Business: O'Reilly, Guinness, O'Leary



You don't have to like all or any of these people, but they were all big achievers in their field and I'm sure there are many more. This is just off the top of my head.

My nominees would be Hume, Wilde and Milligan.

But that's just me.

BolBill

PH01 wrote:

Bertie Ahern

Ask me swiss Bertie Ahern !!!!! Asswipe !!!!

joejoem

Bono and michael o muircheartaigh

Cactus Col

Hairy Homer wrote:

Sport: Ronnie Delaney, Pat O'Callaghan, Martin Sheridan, Sonia O'Sullivan, Stephen Roche, Sean Kelly, Roy KEane, Paul McGrath, WJ McBride, Mike Gibson, Brian O'Driscoll, Barry McGuigan

Your forgot Cian O'Connor and Michelle Smith (De Bruin)! :rolleyes:

DadaKopf

Henry Kelly of Going for Gold fame. Stand up guy. And Johnny Logan.

spanner

some funny ones there, bosco a serious contenter, been serious i think john hume one of the only men who fought for peace in the face of violence from all sides. i dont think i am over reacting by saying he is the martin luther king of ireland

Redleslie2

Ding Dong Denny O'Reilly. Or that marathon ruining dancing priest.

embee

Mary Robinson.

Dave

Dana!

Political, musical and sexy to boot. What a woman.

PHB

Desmond FitzGerald.
Was foreign minister in the free state government, and got the statute of westminister passed, which brought down the British empire.
go team!

Piste

A lot of people wrote:

Brian Boru

Proud to be a descendant

Tiriel

Past winners include Mary Robinson, Veronica Guerin, John Hume, Seamus Heaney, Bob Geldof, George Mitchell and Mo Mowlam.

this is from 2002..
http://www.rehab.ie/whatsnew/240702.htm

and this is this years..
http://www.rehab.ie/foundation/2004.htm

MrNuked

bananayoghurt, surely?

Bananayoghurt

embee wrote:

Mary Robinson.

thought noddy was already mentioned, or was it bosco hmmm
/reads thread again

Dub13

Jim Larkin

cujimmy

Dr. Noel Brown

woosaysdan

Tom Crean, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Michael Collins, Eamonn De Valera, Patrick Pearse, Sean T. O'Kelly, Daniel O'Connell, James Connolly and Charles Stuart Parnell to name just a few

Horsefumbler

I can't think of any

PH01

Shergar