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Robert Adrain (1775–1843) – scientist, mathematician and United Irishman; Thomas Andrews (1813–1885) – chemist and physicist; Francis Beaufort (1774–1857) – hydrographer, developed a scale for classifying wind strength; John Stewart Bell (1928–1990) – atomic physicist, 'Bell's Inequalities'
Ireland's Greatest was a 2010 public poll by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and associated television documentary series broadcast on RTÉ One, where viewers voted to choose the greatest person in the history of Ireland. [1] The concept was based on the BBC series 100 Greatest Britons. [2] The winner was John Hume. [3]
An Irishman beside his donkey in County Galway, 1902. Haplogroup R1b is the dominant haplogroup among Irish males, reaching a frequency of almost 80%. [28] R-L21 is the dominant subclade within Ireland, reaching a frequency of 65%. This subclade is also dominant in Scotland, Wales and Brittany and descends from a common ancestor who lived in ...
Presley O'Bannon - A first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, famous for his exploits in the First Barbary War (1801–1805). He was presented a sword for his part in attempting to restore Prince Hamet Karamanli to his throne as the Bey of Tripoli. That sword is the inspiration for the United States Marine Corps officer uniform since ...
Medieval Irish historical tradition held that Ireland had a High King (Ard Rí) based at Tara since ancient times, and compilations like the 11th-century Lebor Gabála Érenn, followed by Early Modern works like the Annals of the Four Masters and Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, purported to trace the line of High Kings.
The Proclamation also contained "allusions to the widening of the political agenda of Emmet and the United Irishmen following the failure of 1798". [37] In addition to democratic parliamentary reform, the Proclamation announced that tithes were to be abolished and the land of the established Church of Ireland nationalised.
C. John Callaghan (Galway) Thomas J. Callan; Robert Campbell (frontiersman) William Campbell (Medal of Honor, 1840) James Carey (Medal of Honor) Patrick Carlin
Bertie Ahern – former Taoiseach; John Binns – politician; Edmund Burke – father of modern conservatism; Timothy Burns – Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin; Edward Carson – Leader of Irish Unionism and British Cabinet minister