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Most Famous Living Galway Person

The Sparrow

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.

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Denis Furey.

Knacker Dwarf

Warty Nora

Probably Tommy Tiernan?

LowOdour

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

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

biko

Nora-Jane Noone

Mrs OBumble

Sharon Shannon.

Or perhaps just the nameless "Galway Girl"

Melty

Peter O'Toole has a house in Clifden

edit: perhaps not anymore according to wikipedia

mikom

biko wrote: »

Nora-Jane Noone

Soundest famous Galway person anyway.

ErnieBert

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

Michael D Higgins

ErnieBert

Eamonn Casey is world famous

Bosco boy

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

Diabhal Beag

Julia Roberts stayed in Barna for a week if that counts

fergpie

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

d-gal

Hector!

padi89

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

Daithi O Se

inisboffin

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

d-gal wrote: »

Hector!

No.

brainyneuron

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

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

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

I read this as living in Galway...

martyboy48

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

tonyhiggins

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

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

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

Michael D.

Bishop Casey

Angelica Huston

Peter o'Toole

Sharon Shannon

Nick Leeson