15 Notable alumni of
Carlow College
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Carlow College is 3382nd in the world, 1043rd in Europe, and 16th in Ireland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from Carlow College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Peter Lalor
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- politician
- Biography
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Peter Fintan Lalor was an Irish-Australian rebel and, later, politician who rose to fame for his leading role in the Eureka Rebellion, an event identified with the "birth of democracy" in Australia.
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John O'Leary
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- poetjournalist
- Biography
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John O'Leary was an Irish separatist and a leading Fenian. He studied both law and medicine but did not take a degree and for his involvement in the Irish Republican Brotherhood he was imprisoned in England during the nineteenth century.
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Michael O'Hanrahan
- Occupations
- revolutionary
- Biography
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Michael O'Hanrahan was an Irish rebel who was executed for his active role in the 1916 Easter Rising.
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Willie Redmond
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- military personnelbarristerpolitician
- Biography
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William Hoey Kearney Redmond was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP). He was also a lawyer and soldier who was killed in action in World War I.
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James Fintan Lalor
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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James Fintan Lalor was an Irish revolutionary, journalist, and “one of the most powerful writers of his day.” A leading member of the Irish Confederation (Young Ireland), he was to play an active part in both the Rebellion in July 1848 and the attempted Rising in September of that same year. Lalor's writings were to exert a seminal influence on later Irish leaders such as Michael Davitt, James Connolly, Pádraig Pearse, and Arthur Griffith.
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John England
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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John England was an Irish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of Charleston, leading a diocese that then covered three Southern states.
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Patrick John Ryan
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Patrick John Ryan was an Irish-born prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the second Archbishop of Philadelphia from 1884 until his death in 1911.
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Thomas Kelly-Kenny
- Years
- 1840-1914 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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General Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny, GCB, GCVO was a British Army general who served in the Second Boer War.
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John O'Hanlon
- Years
- 1821-1905 (aged 84)
- Occupations
- poetCatholic priest
- Biography
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John Canon O'Hanlon MRIA was an Irish Catholic priest, scholar and writer who also published poetry and illustrations, and involved himself in Irish politics. He is best known as a folklorist and a hagiographer, and in particular for his comprehensive Lives of the Irish Saints.
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Thomas Nangle
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- 1889-1972 (aged 83)
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Thomas Matthew Mary Nangle was a Newfoundland cleric, military chaplain of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during World War I, diplomat and later a Rhodesian politician and farmer.
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Andrew Killian
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- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Andrew Killian was an Irish clergyman and the fourth Archbishop of Adelaide. Born and ordained in Ireland, Killian moved to Australia, where he became Bishop of Port Augusta before succeeding Robert Spence as Archbishop of Adelaide.
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Lawrence Geoffrey Power
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lawrence Geoffrey Power, was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
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James J. Davis
- Years
- 1852-1926 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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James Joseph Davis was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the third bishop of the Diocese of Davenport in Iowa from 1906 to until his death in 1926.
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Thomas Fitzpatrick
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Thomas Fitzpatrick, born in Virginia, County Cavan, Ireland, became a prominent London physician and member of the Royal College of Physicians. He was the son of James and Elizabeth (née Lawler) Fitzpatrick and born in the Headfort Arms Hotel, Virginia where his parents were the proprietors. From a privileged upbringing Thomas was educated at St. Patrick's, Carlow College, a school well noted for turning out many fine Catholic theologians. However his university education at Trinity College, Dublin enabled him to distinguish himself in medicine where he qualified with a BA in 1853, MA in 1854, MB and MD by 1856. During this time Thomas Fitzpatrick also practiced as a doctor in the County Cavan village of Mullagh before entering service during 1856 with the British East India Company as an assistant surgeon, an experience which was to leave a lasting impression on him, through his future attitudes towards primitive medicine, magic and religion.
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Patrick Phelan
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Bishop Patrick Phelan DD was Roman Catholic Bishop of Sale, Victoria, Australia.
