Foreign streets named after Irish people

Eazos1 · 09-03-2012 2:33am #1

Hi

I was wondering if anyone has a list of streets or can add to the below

Bobby Sands - Tehran, Iran - Street where the British embassy was on
Mary Manning - Johannesburg, SA - Dunnes striker against apartheid in SA

San Francisco - O'Shaughnessy, Hayes, O'Farrell, Downey, Phelan Street

William Brown - Argentina - founded the Argentinian navy among other items, apparently 1,200 streets, 500 statues, two towns, one city and a few football clubs named after him

Any more?

Eazos1 · 09-03-2012 2:39am

Also Bernardo O'Higgins (son of a Sligoman). Chilean independence leader and one of the founding fathers.
Main street in the Chilean capital Santiago is Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins. There is also a Chilean research centre in Antartica named after him.

puzzle factory · 09-03-2012 2:40am

C. Y. O'Connor has a beach,schools,ect named after him in Australia.

feck theres millions of em if you google it
http://www.examiner.com/anthropology-in-san-francisco/the-irish-history-of-san-francisco

Cedrus · 09-03-2012 2:51am

O'Brien Road in Hong Kong
Sir George Thomas Michael O'Brien Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1892 to 1895

Quebecois · 09-03-2012 2:55am

One of the founding fathers of Canadian federation Thomas D'Arcy McGee from Carlingford, Co. Louth.

From Wikipedia:

On Sparks Street, in downtown Ottawa, the Thomas D'Arcy McGee Building is a prominent government-owned office building. D'Arcy McGee also has several schools named in his honour including: D'Arcy McGee Catholic School (elementary, Toronto Catholic District School Board, Toronto, Ontario) and Thomas D'Arcy McGee Catholic School (elementary, Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board, Ottawa, Ontario), D'Arcy McGee High School, Western Québec School Board (Gatineau, Québec) and Thomas D'Arcy McGee Catholic High School in Montreal which closed in 1992 (English Catholic School Board of Greater Montreal)

The Quebec provincial electoral district (riding) of D'Arcy-McGee is named in his honour, as is D'Arcy, British Columbia and two villages in central Saskatchewan: D'Arcy and McGee, located approximately 20 kilometres apart.

pawrick · 09-03-2012 3:00am

O'Reilly Street, Havana, Cuba

link to someones elses flicker with a pic of a plaque and further info

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevp/344526811/

nfs · 09-03-2012 3:17am

They ended up moving the British Embassy around the corner from Bobby Sands Street!

Leeg17 · 09-03-2012 3:18am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_W._Dowling

al28283 · 09-03-2012 3:24am

Downing Street in London named after George Downing. I imagine theres a lot of other places in London and the UK named after Irish people

johnnykilo · 09-03-2012 3:28am

There's a street in Paris named after Rory Gallagher

http://books.google.ie/books?id=Tz4tNFC2TRwC&pg=PA37&dq=%22Rue+Rory+Gallagher%22+paris+Ris-Orangis&client=firefox-a&cd=1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Rue%20Rory%20Gallagher%22%20paris%20Ris-Orangis&f=false

man1 · 09-03-2012 9:16am

Not a person but there is a Vinegar Hill Road in Australia although could be after the second Vinegar Hill battle which took place there.

Ellis Dee · 09-03-2012 9:34am

Eazos1 wrote: »

Also Bernardo O'Higgins (son of a Sligoman). Chilean independence leader and one of the founding fathers.
Main street in the Chilean capital Santiago is Avenida Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins. There is also a Chilean research centre in Antartica named after him.

And a city and province in Chile, in addition to which his image is on Chilean coins and banknotes:

irish+chilean+coinage.jpg

BTW, Chile was a really pleasant surprise. I was only there on my way to somewhere else and expected nothing, but it turned out to be a really fabulous place.

padma · 09-03-2012 9:43am

A few weeks ago in florence, Italy they named a street after Bobby Sands http://www.bobbysandstrust.com/archives/2570

tac foley · 09-03-2012 2:36pm

man1 wrote: »

Not a person but there is a Vinegar Hill Road in Australia although could be after the second Vinegar Hill battle which took place there.

There's a Vinegar Hill a hundred yards from where I live here in yUK.

And a Foley Road in Worcester, yUK.

Foley Square, Manhattan, USA.

tac

Ben D Bus · 09-03-2012 2:47pm

There's a Calle de O'Donnell in Madrid. And a metro station of the same name.

mandrake04 · 10-03-2012 1:21am

man1 wrote: »

Not a person but there is a Vinegar Hill Road in Australia although could be after the second Vinegar Hill battle which took place there.

How about Yeats Ave, not that interesting on it own but have a look at the surrounding streets.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/

Also I was looking at buying a house on Watkins Road in Baulkham Hills, when I went for the viewing I noticed the next street.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/

hearny · 10-03-2012 1:57am

I know its not an Irish person but Liverpool's stadium Anfield's name originates in New Ross.

Anfield lane was named by Robert Samuel Graves (as Mayor of Liverpool) after a lane near New Ross where he grew up.

So its not quite named after a person but it is one of the most famous soccer grounds in the world.

Cardinal Richelieu · 10-03-2012 4:33am

Hennessy Road Hong Kong- named after another Irish Governor of Hong Kong

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

Wiki

A major street in Port Louis, capital of Mauritius is named after him. A street in civil lines, Nagpur, Maharashtra state, India is also named after him.

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Fuinseog · 10-03-2012 1:17pm

O Brien Gasse in Vienna named after one of the wild geese.

wonton · 13-03-2012 12:53pm

jaysus that bobbys sands street thing is fairly interesting

"In the 1980s the Iranian government named the Street in Tehran in which the British Embassy is situated after the Irish Martyr Bobby Sands, who died whilst on hunger strike demanding that he and his comrades be recognised as political prisoners, after having been imprisoned for fighting for the British state to withdraw from the whole of Ireland."

"The larger victory, however, was when we discovered the embassy had been forced to change their mailing address and all their printed material to reflect a side door address in order to avoid using Bobby’s name anywhere."

eire4 · 20-03-2012 9:29pm

There is a Robert Emmet statute in front of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Plus there are Emmet County's in both Iowa and Michigan and towns called Emmet in Nebraska and Emmetsburg in Iowa named after the Irish patriot.

Gandhi · 20-03-2012 9:47pm

Technically not a street, but the Commodore Barry Bridge links Pennsylvania and New Jersey. John Barry was a Waterford-born hero of the American Revolution.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barry_(1745-1803)

23-03-2012 11:49am

There's a via MacMahon in Milan - named for a French general and president who descended from Irish stock.

I think there is a boulevard named for the same man in Paris.

I am sure there are plenty of Wellington streets around the world.

Judgement Day · 23-03-2012 12:56pm

Beattystown in The Claddagh, Galway was named in honour of Admiral Beatty of the Battle of Jutland (WW I) and was a scheme of houses provided by the Irish Soldiers' and Sailors' Land Trust. The Admiral whose Irish seat was at Borodale (nr.Enniscorthy, Co.Wexford) was a controversial figure and has suffered at the hands of revisionists in recent years.

His legacy includes schools named after him in Canada and Singapore and this pub in Motspur Park. London.

Judgement Day · 23-03-2012 1:06pm

Kitchener - a Kerryman who made good in Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchener,_Ontario

The city of Berlin, Ontario was renamed Kitchener following the death of Earl Kitchener during World War .1. - not bad for a man from Listowel.

Judgement Day · 23-03-2012 1:20pm

Ernest Shackleton the explorer from Kildare even has a crater on the Moon named after him - beat that!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shackleton_(crater)

Cardinal Richelieu · 23-03-2012 1:42pm

Judgement Day wrote: »

Ernest Shackleton the explorer from Kildare even has a crater on the Moon named after him - beat that!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shackleton_(crater)

Danial O'Connell has an Astroid Belt named after him by the Czechs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4927_O%27Connell

Joyce too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5418_Joyce

Enya has an Asteroid named after her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6433_Enya

Bearhunter · 29-03-2012 2:04am

The Point Erin area of Ponsonby in Auckland, NZ, has streets named Sarsfield, Emmet, Curran (presumably after Sarah Curran), Stack and Hackett. Pricy part of town, too.

eire4 · 04-04-2012 9:22pm

Here's an interesting one. A hotel in Plymouth Wisconsin called 52 Stafford has 19 guest rooms 15 of which are named after Irish patriots, saints and poets.

There are also I believe 13! Dublins in the USA: California, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennyslvania, Texas and Virgina. I have been in Dublin Ohio myself. It is a suburb of Columbus the state capital and even the police cars have shamrock's on them.

Benny_Cake · 04-04-2012 9:27pm

Mary Fitzgerald Square in Johannesburg - named after an Irishwoman who became South Africa's first female trade unionist.

Gandhi · 04-04-2012 9:38pm

eire4 wrote: »

Here's an interesting one. A hotel in Plymouth Wisconsin called 52 Stafford has 19 guest rooms 15 of which are named after Irish patriots, saints and poets.

There are also I believe 13! Dublins in the USA: California, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennyslvania, Texas and Virgina. I have been in Dublin Ohio myself. It is a suburb of Columbus the state capital and even the police cars have shamrock's on them.

I pass through Upper Dublin, Pennsylvania, on the way to work every day.

Upper%20Dublin-PA-Police-TAH_EX_PO_05-07%20(27).jpg

Foreign streets named after Irish people

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