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Your Favourite Irish Person Dead or Alive

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  • #32
    newcavanman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭newcavanman


    Michael O'Leary


  • #33
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    That would be god, yes, god.

    Although a close second is Winston Churchill whose legal father had an Irish gardener.


  • #34
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Theobald Wolfe Tone


  • #35
    Babybuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    I don't think I have one


  • #36
    cheif_pigum
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7 ✭cheif_pigum


    SocSocPol wrote: »
    The Duke of Wellington

    wellington despised the fact that he was born in this country

    just because one is born in a stable , does not make one a horse


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  • #37
    cheif_pigum
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7 ✭cheif_pigum


    M cebee wrote: »
    david trimble
    Nobel laureate

    trimble isnt irish and will apreciate my correcting you , in fact he did this very thing when talking to a journalist one time


  • #38
    cheif_pigum
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7 ✭cheif_pigum


    michael davitt sounds like a bit of a legend from what ive read about him

    alive , not much to chose from


  • #39
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Zumo from fair city.


  • #40
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Michael Gambon

    Great actor and he has the coolest voice ever


  • #41
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Michael Collins.


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  • #42
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    cheif_pigum wrote: »
    trimble isnt irish and will apreciate my correcting you , in fact he did this very thing when talking to a journalist one time

    he spoke to many of them.


  • #43
    Happy Monday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Happy Monday


    cheif_pigum wrote: »
    wellington despised the fact that he was born in this country

    just because one is born in a stable , does not make one a horse

    A quote that was wrongly attributed to him.
    Was made by Daniel O'Connell to mock the Duke's Irish birth.


  • #44
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Tipsy McStagger is a good lad too

    With a name like that he must be Irish


  • #45
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,343 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    William Rowan Hamilton is mine.

    Alive, it might be Michael Gambon, or Sean Kelly or Eamon Coghlan, or Grace O'Malley (whaddyamean she's dead?).


  • #46
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    I just looked through this entire list - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_people
    And the person I decided upon was my mom.


  • #47
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Tipsy McStagger is a good lad too

    With a name like that he must be Irish
    So Posterior Violatedshire must be english?


  • #48
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Me, obviously.


  • #49
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,641 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Damo


  • #50
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    cheif_pigum wrote: »
    trimble isnt irish and will apreciate my correcting you , in fact he did this very thing when talking to a journalist one time

    Oh God, could we go one thread without this crap?


  • #51
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    The writer Joseph O'Connor (Sinead's bro). Never heard him speak but he comes across really likeable in his books and he's a funny fooker.

    I also love our dear auld wee little president Michael D. Passionate about Ireland and a great orator.

    I also like Dara O'Brien a lot. Seems very likeable and a gas man.


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  • #52
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    John Hume.


  • #53
    Dermighty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Dermighty


    Katie French, she was such a......well.....I'm sure there's some reason why she was front page news :rolleyes:


  • #54
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    It's a close call between Frada of this parish, and the writer Flann O'Brien/Brian O'Nolan.


  • #55
    Naomi00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭Naomi00


    Off the top of my head.. Brian O'Driscoll.


  • #56
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    Bono

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn6DQRUeX_o


    Derek Mooney

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdODGGrYVAY


    Bosco

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP1BQHXzIcc


    Jackie Healy-Rae

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO33i4XchuA


    I'm going to go with this guy.

    http://w.hidden-ireland.com/images/dry-stone-wall-building-in-ireland-graphic.jpg


  • #57
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    M cebee wrote: »
    david trimble
    Nobel laureate
    Aside from the issue of whether he regards himself as Irish or not, probably one of the least deserving of a Nobel Peace prize. Shame that John Hume had to share it with a sneaky underhand political opportunist and bigot.


  • #58
    Pdfile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭Pdfile


    philo

    if not him the guy who fell over on the RTE news.


  • #59
    General General
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    Yoda.


  • #60
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    But dead or alive would imply the person was not particularly treasured. Nor wanted; regardless of how high the ransom was they were not that actually in demand..


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  • #61
    Loomis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭Loomis


    Jack Charlton


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