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Famous Corkonians

  • 02-09-2009 11:42PM
    #1
    JP Liz
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    So who is there?

    Roy Keane, Graham Norton, Christy Ring, Niall Toibin, Cillian Murphy, Sonia O Sullivan, Michael Collins, Jack Lynch, Rory Gallagher - who else?????


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  • #2
    Misticles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,746 ✭✭✭✭Misticles


    Mick Flannery.... singer....! :D


  • #3
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    John Spillane.

    Me.


  • #4
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,426 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    Jonathan "Rhys Meyers" O'Keefe, Denis Irwin.


  • #5
    Same As
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,679 ✭✭✭Same As


    Dancing Dave!


  • #6
    Illkillya
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭Illkillya


    William Trevor
    Frank O'Connor
    Seán Ó Faoláin
    Jack Doyle
    Stephen Ireland, Liam Miller and other footballers
    Some of the rugby players... O'Gara, Stringer, O'Callaghan, O'Leary, Donal Lenihan, Declan Kidney, Eddie O'Sullivan
    I suppose you could count Derval O'Rourke at this stage too
    Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media founder, the tech books with a different animal on the cover, famous on the internet)


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  • #7
    Gunth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭Gunth


    Neil Prenderville?
    (Very popular it seems from reading another thread here!)


  • #8
    Colonel_McCoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Colonel_McCoy


    Marcus O` Sullivan
    Eddie Hobbs


  • #9
    Ludo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,015 ✭✭✭Ludo


    Brendan O'Connor :cool:


  • #10
    ajsp.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭ajsp.


    Billa


  • #11
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,678 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Boole - inventor of boolean algebra, the basis for modern computing.
    Spike Milligan - Comedian.
    Edward Mulhare - Devon from Knightrider, from Carrigaline.


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  • #12
    ajsp.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭ajsp.


    PaintDoctor wrote: »
    Boole - inventor of boolean algebra, the basis for modern computing.
    Spike Milligan - Comedian.
    Edward Mulhare - Devon from Knightrider, from Carrigaline.

    Not saying that we shouldn't claim them:) but are they really Corkonians???


  • #13
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Not sure how much time Boole spent in Cork, but he seems to have died here anyway. Milligan was born in India though, and afaicr he only came to Ireland once, despite his self-proclaimed Irishness. He was a very funny man that I love to watch, but I wouldn't have any pride in him as a Corkonian; he was a nasty little man, and his manic depression was only partly to blame for that.

    Better him than Keane though. ;)

    adam


  • #14
    deRanged
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭deRanged


    dahamsta wrote: »
    Not sure how much time Boole spent in Cork, but he seems to have died here anyway.

    Half of UCC is named after him!


  • #15
    Colonel_McCoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Colonel_McCoy


    boole was born in England and died in Cork

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


  • #16
    thebigcheese22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭thebigcheese22


    Gunth wrote: »
    Neil Prenderville?
    (Very popular it seems from reading another thread here!)

    :confused:




    lolz


  • #17
    Haru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭Haru


    deRanged wrote: »
    Half of UCC is named after him!
    LOL. And I remember them selling tee shirts with his face. :D

    Singer songwriter Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan of The High Llamas also both hail from Cork. The opera singers Cara O'Sullivan, Mary Hegarty, Brendan Collins, and Sam McElroy are also Cork born. The short story writers Frank O'Connor and Sean O'Faoláin hailed from Cork. Contemporary writers of national and international status include Thomas McCarthy, Gerry Murphy (poet), and novelist and poet William Wall.

    Or so says wikipedia. ;)


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