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Name someone famous from your county

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  • #32
    drusk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 134 ✭✭drusk


    Peter O'Toole (actor)
    Nora Barnacle (James Joyce's wife)
    Eamon Casey (bishop with wife)
    Lady Gregory
    Delores Keane
    Aoife Mulholland (west end/reality tv)
    Michael D. Higgins

    That's all I can think of from Galway...


  • #33
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Seoige sisters
    Nora Jane Noone


  • #34
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    kieranmcg1 wrote: »
    Im from donegal we have

    Tommy Tiernan
    Shay Given
    Rory Gallagher


    Tommy Tiernan's from Navan :confused:


  • #35
    S.I.R
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Tommy Tiernan's from Navan :confused:

    indeed he is... Darwin award goes to..


  • #36
    kieranmcg1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭kieranmcg1


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Tommy Tiernan's from Navan :confused:

    Tommy Tiernan was born and lived in Carndonagh for 3 years before he moved to africa then moved to navan.


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  • #37
    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    Well I'm not FROM Westmeath, but I'm IN Westmeath, so... Joe Dolan and the Blizzards..?


  • #38
    Darkbloom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭Darkbloom


    Barack Obama. :D


  • #39
    SpitfireIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,607 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    Richie Kavanagh!! :D

    Patrick Bergin

    Saoirse Ronan

    Yes, you guessed it guys.........CARLOW ;)


  • #40
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Adrian Dunbar
    Kyle Lafferty (Football)
    Fr. Brian D'Arcy
    John Kelly (DJ)


  • #41
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Define "famous"?

    Roy Keane, Cillian Murphy, Jonathan Rhys Myers.


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  • #42
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I really don't think politicians count. Every county has loads of them.


  • #43
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    Katherine Lynch
    Paul Williams
    That fcuker Colm O'Rourke :D was born in Leitrim and moved to Meath when he was 7.
    Eleanor Shanley
    Carol Coleman

    There's lots of other people from my county, dead now, who shaped the country for better or.... worse in some cases.


  • #44
    laurashambles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭laurashambles


    CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »
    Richie Kavanagh!! :D

    Patrick Bergin

    Saoirse Ronan

    Yes, you guessed it guys.........CARLOW ;)

    Gah, you took all the decent ones! Let's not be forgetting yer one from No Frontiers whose name escapes me at the moment.


  • #45
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    Daniel O Donnell?


  • #46
    Dolbert
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    JackieRyan wrote: »
    Pat Short
    just a few more from Limerick

    Pat Shortt is from Tipperary. He went to my school :pac:


  • #47
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Dudess wrote: »
    Define "famous"?

    Roy Keane, Cillian Murphy, Jonathan Rhys Myers.
    Ooh. Look at Ms. I'm from a county wirh a large population.


  • #48
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Offaly land- Aidan Quinn


  • #49
    Gear9992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭Gear9992


    Kildare --> Damien Rice I guess


  • #50
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭doolox


    Angelica Huston, daughter of film director John Huston and star of the Addams family films lived a lot of her early life in Craughwell, Co Galway.
    Ulick O'Connor was originally from Ballinasloe.
    Frankie Gavin and Martin O'Connor and other trad musicians, Joe Burke etc...
    Lord Killanin whose surname is Morris also is there a jockey there somwhere called "Mouse" Morris???
    Mary Coughlan originally a Doherty from west Galway city.
    The Sawdoctors come all the way from Tuam............


  • #51
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    James Hoban - designed and built the white house
    George Berkeley - city and university named after him in California
    The Kilkenny hurling team :D
    Evanne Ni Quillan
    Blessed Edmund Rice
    Ronan Tynan

    Thats for starters....


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  • #52
    regob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭regob


    shay given


  • #53
    SpitfireIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,607 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    laurashambles wrote: »
    Gah, you took all the decent ones! Let's not be forgetting yer one from No Frontiers whose name escapes me at the moment.

    Ah, yer one, emm, Catherine Thomas?


  • #54
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭doolox


    ...enquiring minds want to know..............


  • #55
    Local-womanizer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    It might be posted already but he deserves to be posted twice at least,our wee Daniel O'Donnell,such a dote!


  • #56
    loopyloulilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭loopyloulilly


    Longford has got Eddie Macken, Harry Cunningham


  • #57
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    kieranmcg1 wrote: »
    Tommy Tiernan was born and lived in Carndonagh for 3 years before he moved to africa then moved to navan.
    my grandmother was from carndonagh


  • #58
    bobcar61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭bobcar61


    I'm from Sligo,we have...

    Most of Westlife - nothing to be proud of:(
    Aine Chambers - Again nothing to be proud of.
    Pauline McLynn - Mrs.Doyle in Father Ted.
    Constance Markievicz - First Irish senator cabinet member.

    Of course W.B Yeats is buried here.

    Someone mentioned that W.B Yeats was from Galway...I didn't think he was.


  • #59
    token56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,703 ✭✭✭token56


    Laois has,

    Stephen Hunt,
    Darina Allen,
    Lisa Burke (sky weather girl)


  • #60
    Alessandra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭Alessandra


    Louis Walsh
    Mary Robinson


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  • #61
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    + Tommy Tiernan
    Dylan Moran
    Hector Ó hEocahgáin
    Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama) & Ronan Keating both lived in Dunshaughlin for a period while growing up...does that count?!

    Let the Dubs have him. :) Joe Rooney (Father Damo in Father Ted :))went to school in Meath I think.


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