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Famous Irish people who inspire you

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  • #32
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Einhard wrote: »
    Micahel Faraday was English.

    True I mixed him up with ernest walton for some reason. Walton was the first person to spilt an atom. So we can be proud of him.


  • #33
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Jack Charlton.


  • #34
    padohaodha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭padohaodha


    Paddy kavanagh


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Robert Emmett


  • #36
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    padohaodha wrote: »
    Paddy kavanagh

    The Footballer or the Poet ?

    22/25



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  • #37
    Nidgeweasel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Nidgeweasel


    Jim McGuinness.


  • #38
    pajor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    wendell borton wrote: »
    Theobald Wolfe Tone and more recently TK Whitaker.

    I had it suggested to me before that as I am Protestant, I can't really be Irish. :confused: My answer to that is Wolfe Tone.


  • #39
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    pajor wrote: »
    I had it suggested to me before that as I am Protestant, I can't really be Irish. :confused:

    Who on earth suggested that to you? He probably thinks his cousins in America aren't real Americans because they don't dance around totem poles.
    pajor wrote: »
    My answer to that is Wolfe Tone.

    There are other answers just as good, like Hyde, Walton, Kathleen Lynn etc. ( and Arthur Guinness! Did you ask him if he drank non-Irish porter? :D )
    When Bob Tisdall chose to run for Ireland, winning Olympic gold, while he was qualified to represent at least two other countries, nobody questioned his Irish credentials.


  • #40
    fro9etb8j5qsl2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭fro9etb8j5qsl2


    lufties wrote: »
    Brian o driscoll. Humble

    Really?? Humble isn't a word I would have associated with him at all :confused:


  • #41
    pajor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    feargale wrote: »
    There are other answers just as good, like Hyde, Walton, Kathleen Lynn etc. ( and Arthur Guinness :D Did you ask him if he drank non-Irish porter? )
    When Bob Tisdall chose to run for Ireland, winning Olympic gold, while he was qualified to represent at least two other countries, nobody questioned his Irish credentials.

    Well.. at the time I only had Junior Cert history in my head, so seemed like a great answer then.


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  • #42
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,385 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    Helped to divide the country when we needed unity most.

    A backward leader also
    I love the quote when the Ardnacrusha Hydroelectricity project was first proposed
    "what would we need all that electricity for"

    Wasn't he American anyway?

    As much as I dislike Dev, he grew up in Ireland. The fact he was born in America doesn't change that.


  • #43
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    pajor wrote: »
    Well.. at the time I only had Junior Cert history in my head, so seemed like a great answer then.

    Did I see that you're a Waterfordman? Walton was born down the road from you. ( Dungarvan.)


  • #44
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Being from Kilkenny I am inspired by DJ Carey and Henry Shefflin.


  • #45
    pajor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    feargale wrote: »
    Did I see that you're a Waterfordman? Walton was born down the road from you. ( Dungarvan.)

    Well shame on me for not knowing Walton was Irish, never mind from Dungarvan. Learn something new everyday.


  • #46
    dinorebel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    Katy Taylor


  • #47
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    Adi Roche Paul O Connell Dermot Morgan.


  • #48
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Padraig Nally. Not exactly famous but his actions forced a change in the laws regarding trespassing and protecting your property and yourself from intruders.


  • #49
    tampopo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭tampopo


    Anna Nolan


  • #50
    gubbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    Peig Sayers

    For somehow, no matter how unremarkable, managed to become a poet that we all have to learn about today.


  • #51
    chrysagon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭chrysagon


    Brian Cowen inspired many to emigrate!!


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  • #52
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Some lad who is good at rugby? Jesus wept.


  • #53
    chrysagon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭chrysagon


    Wolfe Tone


  • #54
    braddun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭braddun


    sean quinn


  • #55
    getzls
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 806 ✭✭✭getzls


    Lord Edward Carson.


  • #56
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Oscar Wilde.

    A literary genius.


  • #57
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Dave Allen

    Jonathan Swift

    Paddy Moloney.


  • #58
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Joey Dunlop


  • #59
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Luke kelly. One of the best traditional musicians to grace this country.


  • #60
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Johnny Logan , brought RTE to its budgetary knees not once but twice , any man who can cripple an institution like RTE deserves recognition.

    What's another year .........?


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  • #61
    galwaylad14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭galwaylad14


    dinorebel wrote: »
    Katy Taylor

    She inspires you but yet you can't even learn to spell her name properly


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