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100 Greatest Irish People

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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Living or dead?


  • #3
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭latenia


    Paul McGrath


  • #4
    kaki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭kaki


    Ernest Walton.


  • #5
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Living...people would probably pick Bono. Dead...i dunno, Yeates?


  • #6
    JMCD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭JMCD


    Bono!!! Or Bob Geldof


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  • #7
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,227 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    William Rowan Hamilton


  • #8
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Steve Collins!


  • #9
    Ideo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭Ideo


    Bono? Is he still preaching? Yeats or Wilde should be top


  • #10
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    That Cuchullain chap was a bit epic. Killing a dog with a sliotar? The stuff of legends.


  • #11
    jdivision
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    Parnell


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  • #12
    togster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    Gerald Keane :rolleyes:


  • #13
    LadyJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭LadyJ


    Dylan Moran


  • #14
    Dundalk Daily
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭Dundalk Daily


    Brendan Kilkenny


  • #15
    Allison91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 237 ✭✭Allison91


    rory gallagher


  • #16
    Cionnfhaolaidh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Cionnfhaolaidh


    Ian Paisley


  • #17
    The guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭The guy


    Eamon De valera, controversial but great.


  • #18
    ateam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 986 ✭✭✭ateam


    Michael Collins

    Gay Byrne

    or Bertie Ahern


  • #19
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Aine Chambers


  • #20
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Charlie Bird


  • #21
    Eglinton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 992 ✭✭✭Eglinton


    kaki wrote: »
    Ernest Walton.

    +1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Walton


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  • #22
    Karlusss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Karlusss


    Muircheartach Ó Briain.

    Or, in seriousness, James Joyce.


  • #23
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,782 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Samantha Mumba


  • #24
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Ruu wrote: »
    Anne Doyle

    FYP Ruu.


    Charles Feeney


  • #25
    carbsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭carbsy


    Georgie Hamilton lol


  • #26
    carbsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭carbsy


    Elvis?


  • #27
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    carbsy wrote: »
    Georgie "Danger here!" Hamilton lol

    Fixed. ;) Ta, Rig.


  • #28
    Patrickisperfec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭Patrickisperfec


    De Valera


  • #29
    walrusgumble
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭walrusgumble


    dermot morgan, rory gallagher, phil lynott, paul mcgrath, mary robinson, sean lemass, michael collins, dev, barry mcguigan, the 6 or 7 kerry footballers who have 8 all irelands,


  • #30
    gcgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭gcgirl


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Haughey

    you have to admire the guy he had something!


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  • #31
    carbsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,095 ✭✭✭carbsy


    Owney "The Killer" Madden.


  • #32
    DemocAnarchis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭DemocAnarchis


    Charles Stewart Parnell, obv.


  • #33
    Four-Too
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭Four-Too


    1.James Connolly
    2.Bobby Sands
    3.Gerry Adams
    4.Mary Robinson
    5.Michael Collins
    6.Oscar Wilde
    7.Eamon De Valera
    8.Wolfe Tone


  • #34
    Mr. Bones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Mr. Bones


    Daniel O'Connell
    Brian Boru
    Samuel Beckett
    John McCormack
    John Hume
    Countess Markeviecz


  • #35
    Cionnfhaolaidh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Cionnfhaolaidh


    carbsy wrote: »
    Owney "The Killer" Madden.

    Search Owney Madden on www.stage6.com

    And don't forget Dean O'Banion


  • #36
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    *cough* jizzlord *cough*


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  • #37
    WildIrishRose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭WildIrishRose


    My Mam


  • #38
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,164 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    WildIrishRose wrote: »
    My Mam

    I'll vouch for that, she's a demon in the sack.


  • #39
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,690 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Kiith wrote: »
    Living...people would probably pick Bono. Dead...i dunno, Yeates?
    Dead...I'd agree on Bono.
    dlofnep wrote: »
    That Cuchullain chap was a bit epic. Killing a dog with a sliotar? The stuff of legends.
    Setanta was the chap's name before he slew the cú.
    The guy wrote: »
    Eamon De valera, controversial but great.
    Not Irish, though.



    Dana
    Daniel O'Donnell
    Big Tom
    Larry Gogan
    Charles Mitchell
    Brush Shiels
    Willie Bermingham
    Ivan Morrison
    Aidan Walsh, M.O.T.U.
    Donal O'Kelly
    Luke Kelly
    James Joyce / Bertie Ahern - both mangled the English language, but Bertie made more money out of it.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #40
    m83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭m83


    bibi baskin


  • #41
    Killaqueen!!!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,026 ✭✭✭Killaqueen!!!


    Bertie


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  • #42
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Dustin.


  • #43
    thecheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭thecheese


    Phil Lynott and Rory Gallagher


  • #44
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,078 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Yore Ma is the best...FACT


  • #45
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Add brendan behan and shane mcgowan.


  • #46
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,259 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    T K (Ken) Whitaker - top ten



    De Valera - right down the bottom ten


  • #47
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,164 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Ian Paisley just because he looks like Mr Potato head.


  • #48
    Agamemnon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    Siún Nic Gearailt


  • #49
    Clytus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭Clytus


    Michael O'Leary.....what a man!!!!!

    and for my female choice its gotta be the sultry Rachel English ( u minx!!!)


  • #50
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Just a few for the list

    Edmund Burke
    George Bernard Shaw
    Jonathan Swift
    Brian Boru
    Robert Boyle
    Sean Lemass
    Edmund Rice
    Patrick Cotter O'Brien
    Burke and Hare
    Kate O'Brien
    Gráinne Mhaol
    Jack Charlton


  • #51
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Just a few for the list


    George Bernard Shaw

    That the guy who makes the ham? That's some good ham.


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