Most Famous Living Galway Person

The Sparrow · 26-06-2010 05:01PM #1

I'm hoping all of you can do me a quick favour for a project I'm doing in work.

Who is the most famous person from Galway City or county that is not a GAA footballer or hurler? Or even the most famous person living person who lives or has lived in Galway City or County?

I asked the same question in the Kilkenny forum and got a fantastic list of Kilkenny people. Hope the mods don't mind me asking here about Galway too.

ronnie3585 · 26-06-2010 05:31PM

Denis Furey.

padi89 · 26-06-2010 06:12PM

Knacker Dwarf

carmel27 · 26-06-2010 06:21PM

Warty Nora

Seaneh · 26-06-2010 06:33PM

Probably Tommy Tiernan?

LowOdour · 26-06-2010 06:37PM

the guy who played spock in the last star trek or bon iver...both worked and lived in galway as far as i know

muppetkiller · 26-06-2010 06:39PM

Doesn't 'Dido' Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong live out in Connemara for a few months a year ?

biko · 26-06-2010 06:40PM

Nora-Jane Noone

Mrs OBumble · 26-06-2010 06:54PM

Sharon Shannon.

Or perhaps just the nameless "Galway Girl"

Melty · 26-06-2010 07:01PM

Peter O'Toole has a house in Clifden

edit: perhaps not anymore according to wikipedia

mikom · 26-06-2010 07:29PM

biko wrote: »

Nora-Jane Noone

Soundest famous Galway person anyway.

ErnieBert · 26-06-2010 07:38PM

Rogue Trader Nick Leeson has been living here for a long tome now. He married a local girl and they have a child. He is the CEO of Galway United FC.

ErnieBert · 26-06-2010 07:39PM

Michael D Higgins

ErnieBert · 26-06-2010 07:40PM

Eamonn Casey is world famous

Bosco boy · 26-06-2010 07:51PM

Elvis, he's now shacked up with a bird in rosmuc!

Diabhal Beag · 26-06-2010 07:59PM

Julia Roberts stayed in Barna for a week if that counts

fergpie · 26-06-2010 08:10PM

Martin Sheen went to NUIG for 1 whole semester. surely that must make him a galwegian?!

d-gal · 26-06-2010 08:30PM

Hector!

padi89 · 26-06-2010 08:50PM

ErnieBert wrote: »

Rogue Trader Nick Leeson has been living here for a long tome now. He married a local girl and they have a child. He is the CEO of Galway United FC.

Winner !

hairyfairy00 · 26-06-2010 08:57PM

Daithi O Se

inisboffin · 26-06-2010 09:10PM

Tommy is from Navan
Sharon from Clare
and 'the Galway girl' was born in Dublin!:p

Most famous Galwegian (we are counting the County, right?)

imo: Peter O'Toole

Some notables

Norah Barnacle
Mary Coughlan
Siobhán McKenna
Dolores Keane

** sorry, just saw living - obviously a couple aren't!

happyoutscan · 26-06-2010 09:22PM

d-gal wrote: »

Hector!

No.

brainyneuron · 26-06-2010 09:30PM

Tommy and Hector are both from Navan and Dathai o Shea is from Dingle. All adopted Galwegians but don't think thats what the OP is looking for

padi89 · 26-06-2010 09:33PM

brainyneuron wrote: »

Tommy and Hector are both from Navan and Dathai o Shea is from Dingle. All adopted Galwegians but don't think thats what the OP is looking for

If i were stuck in a room with those three id kill myself ...

brainyneuron · 26-06-2010 09:34PM

padi89 wrote: »

If i were stuck in a room with those three id kill myself ...

Haha I'd love it, that'd be some party

Seaneh · 26-06-2010 10:28PM

I read this as living in Galway...

martyboy48 · 26-06-2010 10:47PM

I'll come back to this after a think.... (I was listing hurlers/footballers)

tonyhiggins · 26-06-2010 11:04PM

fergpie wrote: »

Martin Sheen went to NUIG for 1 whole semester. surely that must make him a galwegian?!

Heard a good story about his time here there last week.. he went into some restaurant around Quay St I think for dinner, and realising he would get hassled, he said a quick hello to everyone there, signed any autographs wanted then said, it's my dinner time, me time. Very cool!

loser2old4board · 26-06-2010 11:08PM

Stephen Cullinane was one of the founders of both Macra na Feirme and The Farmer's Journal.
Walter Macken, a well known author from fifties and sixties.
Liam O'Flaherty (August 28, 1896 – September 7, 1984) was a significant Irish Author
from way back (Born on Inis Mór, Aran Island.
John Mc Gahern (Author) lived in Leitrim, but had strong links with NUIG,
so probably lived in Galway for a while. (I want to list him anyway).
Steve Earle ( Galway Girl) lived in Galway for a while.
The Waterboys lived in Spiddal for a while or at least Mike Scott did.

Not clear from original post if it has to be a living person,
if so scratch the first four above.

The Sparrow · 26-06-2010 11:11PM

Thanks everyone. Galway county or city is fine and living in either area is grand as well if they are not from Galway originally.

Cheers.:)

doubleglaze · 26-06-2010 11:40PM

Michael D.

Bishop Casey

Angelica Huston

Peter o'Toole

Sharon Shannon

Nick Leeson

Most Famous Living Galway Person

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