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Greatest person from your county?

bishops love scifi

I'll start with Kildare.

Winner: Wolfe Tone
The founder of Irish republicanism. The organiser of the ill-fated 1798 Rebellion was born and raised (and is buried) near Clane.

Runners-up: Arthur Guinness and Christy Moore.

What about you?

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michael collins

Una Taaffe

Bertie ahearn.

Cork...
Michael Collins (Irish: Mícheál Ó Coileáin;16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Financeand Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegationduring the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.

Subsequently, he was both Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-chief of the National Army. Collins was shot and killed in an ambush in August 1922 during the Irish Civil War...

With thanks to Wikipedia...

Laois_Man

Erm....Weathergirl Evelyn Cusack

stefan idiot jones

Dylan Thomas

Bonnie Tyler.

Harry Secombe.

Banjo String

Seamus Heaney

A cow called Daisy

realies wrote: »

Bertie ahearn.

I think you forgot several :rolleyes: smilies with that answer

Nailz

In an indirect sort of way, Tom Brady, the New England Patriots quarter back; 3 time Super Bowl winner and 2 time MVP.

jellyboy

All of them ..

We are Cork people

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Close thread time

folan

Adamantium

Charlie McGettigan, that's the man on guitar in 1994.

I'm trying lads. It's actually a fantastic song.

Jim Gralton was a a communist too, the bastard
Sean Mac Diarmada was a leader in the 1916 Easter Rising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ZVKhL92bc

FTA69

Cork -

Tom Barry - Republican leader during the Tan War and Civil War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barry_(soldier)

Roy Keane - Former captain of Manchester United.

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

Nerdlingr

Tom Crean - Legend.

fleet_admiral

Jim Gavin

RobertKK

Kilkenny:

James Hoban - designed and built the White House.
George Berkeley - Philosopher , city in California named after him.
Ronan Tynan - keeping the US theme going, sang at the funeral of President Reagan.

Kilkenny ancestry:
George Clooney
Walt Disney
The founders of Coca Cola

Buried in Kilkenny:
Santa claus.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/6808138/Father-Christmas-buried-in-Ireland.html

Santa Claus has been in Kilkenny longer than anywhere else so we claim him now :P

gugleguy

James Plunkett who wrote Strumpet City.

gugleguy

realies wrote: »

Bertie ahearn.

Did you forget the [sarcasm] tags?

Duff

Steve Staunton.

'Mon The Town!

iDave

Sean Boylan
Francis Beaufort
Pierce Brosnan

Duggy747

Bill Cosby

bishops love scifi

Adamantium wrote: »

Charlie McGettigan, that's the man on guitar in 1994.

I'm trying lads. It's actually a fantastic song.

Jim Gralton was a a communist too, the bastard
Sean Mac Diarmada was a leader in the 1916 Easter Rising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ZVKhL92bc

Don't forget John McGahern, my Leitrim friend. One of the best.

brummytom

Shakespeare, probably.

The Dagda

Daniel O'Connell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O'Connell

Possibly to be the subject of a Speilberg/Day-Lewis movie too...

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/hollywood-wooed-for-oconnell-film-in-kerry-220494.html

SEPT 23 1989

brummytom wrote: »

Shakespeare, probably.

Robert Plant?

Ruu

Ollie Plunkett.

comongethappy

Charles Stewart Parnell.

Infamous for inventing the Wicklow accent.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Roscommon;

Douglas Hyde, co-founder of the Gaelic League and first Úachtarán na hÉireann.

Real Life

Kathryn Thomas

Chance The Rapper

Graham Geraghty

Tommy Tiernan