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Famous Sligo People

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    #32
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    SligoBrewer.... your 'I got a little sick' comment was all sorts of odd and added absolutely nothing to an already pointless argument. You're already outweighed here by a pretty large number of people so let's leave it at that!

    Back on topic please.

    Neil Jordan is probably the person I most appreciate born in Sligo (but I am a big film fan). Sorry WB, Tabby and ummmmm.. Westlife!


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    #33
    YeatsCounty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭YeatsCounty


    Agreed re: back on topic-ishness.

    I didn't know that Neil Jordan was a Sligonian until recently. :o:o:o


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    #34
    red bellied
    Registered Users Posts: 345 ✭✭red bellied


    Ski McGee the last Sligo born player to play international football for Ireland at a senior level. Professor Drumm or would he be infamous.


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    #35
    SligoBrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    Gillie wrote: »
    Bit much isn't it?
    What's your beef with O'Hara?:confused:

    It is no with O'Hara, its more with the GAA in general.

    Where is Albert Reynolds from? I know he went to Summerhill but is he from Sligo?


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    #36
    Jabby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭Jabby


    Tommie Gorman,
    Mark Scanlon,
    Sandie Kelly and the Duskie sisters,
    Ted Nealon,
    I'd love to say Dustin the turkey was but he's from just over the border (Tullaghan I heard)
    and last but not least.....mmmmm, the delicious sexy Aine Chambers DOES deserve to be on this list.


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    #37
    magnumlady
    Registered Users Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭magnumlady


    Michael Flatley?
    Ok I know he wasn't born here but his family are from here.
    Also who could forget The Conway Sisters?:D


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    #38
    sligobhoy67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭sligobhoy67


    magnumlady wrote: »
    Michael Flatley?
    Ok I know he wasn't born here but his family are from here.
    Also who could forget The Conway Sisters?:D

    Flatley is fae Chicago, Reynolds is fae Roscommon.

    As an aside O'Hara is notable/famous after all he was on the All-Stars list which is achievement - winning the Connacht title on the other hand isnt much of an achievement.


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    #39
    Essexboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Essexboy


    SligoBrewer wrote: »
    We'll O'Hara isn't.

    Marc McSharry famous? Please!:rolleyes:

    What about Alderman John Jinks who saved the 1927 government from collapse by not turning up to vote? Its supporters got him plastered, then poured him onto a train back home.


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    #40
    SligoBrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    Tabby wasn't mentioned yet..


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    #41
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,820 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    SligoBrewer wrote: »
    Tabby wasn't mentioned yet..
    Sure about that?


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    #42
    SligoBrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    :o:o
    muffler wrote: »
    Sure about that?


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    #43
    il gatto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭il gatto


    Albert reynolds is from Longford. Daniel Day-Lewis is the son of poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, born in Ballintubbert, Co.Meath. I think it gets mixed up with Ballintogher, and in actual fact he has no link to Sligo.
    Marc mcSharry is barely of note in Sligo. He's so far from famous I'll take that one as sarcasm.
    Not mentioned so far is Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister 1855-58) born in london but who's estate and country seat was Classiebawn in Mullaghmore. Another north Sligo person of note is Lola Montez (a good local name:)) born Elizebeth Gilbert. she was an actress and dancer in the 19th century and mistress to King ludwig of Bavaria.
    Michael Corcoran of Ballymote was bolonel of the 69th regiment of the U.S. army during the civil war, prompting mayor Bloomberg of New York to unveil a monument to him in his home town in 2006.
    Other people with slightly more tenuous links include Spike Milligan whose father was from Holborn Street where Spike visited his grandparents for holidays. Another even more tenuous is Ronan O'Gara, whose father is from Ballysadare (O'Gara's Garage if you remember it) and whose family originated in Riverstown. He was born, however, in San Diego and grew up in Cork so that doesn't really count.


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    #44
    gustavo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    il gatto wrote: »
    Lord Palmerston .

    Of course he was a far better Prime Minister than Pitt the Elder:cool:


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    #45
    dewsbury
    Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭dewsbury


    Unless I am mistaken Bob Geldof was born in Sligo and has a holiday home there.


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    #46
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,774 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Think you're mistaken. From his Wikipedia:
    Geldof was born in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland, to Roman Catholic parents.


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    #47
    gustavo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    Not forgetting yer wan that was in Bellefire


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    #48
    gucci
    Registered Users Posts: 4,277 ✭✭✭gucci


    YeatsCounty wrote: »
    Agreed. O'Hara is still well known amongst most Gaelic Football fans. Mention Sligo to a non-Sligo GAA fan and the first name that pops into his/her head will nearly always be that of O'Hara. That means that he fits the criteria of this list, IMO.

    Pending the age of the non-Sligo GAA fan he/she would probably mention Mickey Kearins, 1960s Sligo superstar!
    Also Albert Renyolds was born in Rooskey co. Roscommon afaik.


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    #49
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    What was the name of that mental man who used to go around town trying to direct traffic? (Think he might have passed away recently)


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    #50
    dewsbury
    Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭dewsbury


    If believe Bono was born in Sligo and has a holiday home there.


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    #51
    gustavo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    CountingCrows wrote: »
    What was the name of that mental man who used to go around town trying to direct traffic? (Think he might have passed away recently)

    Sounds like "Straightback" to me


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    #52
    magnumlady
    Registered Users Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭magnumlady


    CountingCrows wrote: »
    What was the name of that mental man who used to go around town trying to direct traffic? (Think he might have passed away recently)


    I remember him, bless him. When we first moved here I thought he worked for Quinnsworth and was following his directions to park.

    We still have the fella with the umbrella that hops out in front of the cars.


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    #53
    CountingCrows
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    gustavo wrote: »
    Sounds like "Straightback" to me

    Ah yes, the memories are coming flooding back....


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    #54
    nicolaonfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭nicolaonfire


    magnumlady wrote: »
    We still have the fella with the umbrella that hops out in front of the cars.

    Haha yeah, he is so funny.
    He is nicknamed Pat Spillane.
    One of my mates has a picture of him, I will try and get it!


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    #55
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    gustavo wrote: »
    Sounds like "Straightback" to me

    He died a good few years ago...

    Now we only have that guy who shouts "YEAAAYYYY!!!" and plays air guitar.


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    #56
    il gatto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭il gatto


    gucci wrote: »
    Pending the age of the non-Sligo GAA fan he/she would probably mention Mickey Kearins, 1960s Sligo superstar!
    Also Albert Renyolds was born in Rooskey co. Roscommon afaik.

    Actually now that you mention it. Albert Reynolds is from Roosky. I was sitting near him at a removal there about 6-7 years ago and somebody told me he was from there. I'd always associated heim with longford because of the dogfood factory. Seemed like a nice enough guy. I didn't get the aura of smugness, slime and arrogance I used to get in Bertie's presence.
    Nace O'Dowd was a highly regarded GAA player in his day. And there's a woman who lives in Sligo called Noelle Middleton. She is a retired actress and starred in movies in the 50's and 60's with people like David Niven, Katherine Hepburn, Bob Hope, John Mills and Michael Caine.


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    #57
    Jabby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭Jabby


    [Palmerston also served as British Prime Minister from 1859 t0 1865.quote=il gatto;55599885]Albert reynolds is from Longford. Daniel Day-Lewis is the son of poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, born in Ballintubbert, Co.Meath. I think it gets mixed up with Ballintogher, and in actual fact he has no link to Sligo.
    Marc mcSharry is barely of note in Sligo. He's so far from famous I'll take that one as sarcasm.
    Not mentioned so far is Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister 1855-58) born in london but who's estate and country seat was Classiebawn in Mullaghmore. Another north Sligo person of note is Lola Montez (a good local name:)) born Elizebeth Gilbert. she was an actress and dancer in the 19th century and mistress to King ludwig of Bavaria.
    Michael Corcoran of Ballymote was bolonel of the 69th regiment of the U.S. army during the civil war, prompting mayor Bloomberg of New York to unveil a monument to him in his home town in 2006.
    Other people with slightly more tenuous links include Spike Milligan whose father was from Holborn Street where Spike visited his grandparents for holidays. Another even more tenuous is Ronan O'Gara, whose father is from Ballysadare (O'Gara's Garage if you remember it) and whose family originated in Riverstown. He was born, however, in San Diego and grew up in Cork so that doesn't really count.[/quote]


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    #58
    starbelgrade
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    This thread might be more successful if it were called "famous people who went to Sligo." :)


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    #59
    Jabby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 242 ✭✭Jabby


    Patrick J. Mc Carthy from Geevagh.

    As a young child, he left with his family on board a coffin ship to Boston. He lost his parents and two brothers on Deer Island as a result of a typhus epidemic and was left with his only brother to fend for themselves.
    To make a long story short, This boy from these humble beginnings became Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island in 1907.


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    #60
    gustavo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    The Star journalist Paddy Clancy


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    #61
    magnumlady
    Registered Users Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭magnumlady


    Does Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones live in or around Sligo, coz I'm sure I saw him today.


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