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The exact number of Irish saints is not known but the Martyrology of Donegal lists 1000 saints, male and female. [1] For this reason, Ireland in a 19th-century adage is described as "the land of saints and scholars". [2] Christianity was introduced into Ireland toward the end of the 4th century.
Todd Andrews (1901–1985), a member of the Irish Volunteers serving in the Irish War of Independence and participated in a 10-day hunger strike in 1920. He was later interned during the Irish Civil War after siding with Anti-Treaty forces before becoming a civil servant in his later years, most prominently as chairman of the Irish transport ...
The following is a partial list of prominent members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), circa 1858-1922. Maurice Ahern, member of the Cork branch. William O'Mera Allen; Thomas Ashe, President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood from 1916 to 1917; Michael Barrett; Piaras Béaslaí; James Bermingham; Gerald Boland; Harry Boland; James Boland
Seán Mac Diarmada (27 January 1883 – 12 May 1916), also known as Seán MacDermott, was an Irish republican political activist and revolutionary leader. He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, which he helped to organise as a member of the Military Committee of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and was the second signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. [2]
This is a list of notable Irish people, who were born on the island of Ireland, in either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, and have lived there for most of their lives. Also included on the list are people who were not born in Ireland, but have been raised as Irish, have lived there for most of their lives or in regards to the ...
The revolutionary period in Irish history was the period in the 1910s and early 1920s when Irish nationalist opinion shifted from the Home Rule-supporting Irish Parliamentary Party to the republican Sinn Féin movement.
List of peers 1700–1707; List of peers 1707–1719; List of peers 1720–1729; List of peers 1730–1739; List of peers 1740–1749; List of peers 1750–1759; List of peers 1760–1769; List of peers 1770–1779; List of peers 1780–1789; List of peers 1790–1799; Mary Pike; Richard Pockrich (inventor) Martin Powell (puppetry) William ...