94 Notable alumni of
University College Cork
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University College Cork is 729th in the world, 256th in Europe, and 2nd in Ireland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 94 notable alumni from University College Cork sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Cillian Murphy
- Enrolled in University College Cork
- Studied in 1996
- Occupations
- screenwritermusicianfilm actoractorcomposer
- Biography
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Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor and producer. He made his professional debut in Enda Walsh's 1996 play Disco Pigs, a role he later reprised in the 2001 screen adaptation. His early film credits include the horror film 28 Days Later (2002), the dark comedy Intermission (2003), the thriller Red Eye (2005), the Irish war drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), and the science fiction thriller Sunshine (2007). He played a transgender Irish woman in the comedy-drama Breakfast on Pluto (2005), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.
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Graham Norton
- Occupations
- columnistcomedianfilm actorradio personalitymemoirist
- Biography
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Graham William Walker, better known by his stage name Graham Norton, is an Irish comedian, actor, author and television host known for his work in the UK. He is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show (2007–present) and an eight-time award-winner overall. He has received the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance three times for So Graham Norton (2000 to 2002). Originally shown on BBC Two before moving to other slots on BBC One, his chat show succeeded Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in BBC One's late-Friday-evening slot in 2010.
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Fiona Shaw
- Occupations
- performing artiststage actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Fiona Shaw is an Irish film and theatre actress. Known for extensive work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, as well as in film and television, in 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. She was made an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2001.
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Micheál Martin
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Micheál Martin is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who is serving as Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Minister for Defence since December 2022. He served as Taoiseach from 2020 to 2022 and has been Leader of Fianna Fáil since January 2011. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South-Central since 1989. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 2011 to 2020 and held various Cabinet offices under Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen.
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Ronan O'Gara
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Ronan John Ross O'Gara is an Irish former rugby union player and current coach. O'Gara played as a fly-half and is Ireland's second most-capped player and second highest points scorer. He is currently head coach of La Rochelle in the French Top 14.
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Simon Coveney
- Occupations
- farmerpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Simon Coveney is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment since December 2022 and Deputy leader of Fine Gael since 2017. He previously served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2022 and Minister for Defence from 2014 to 2016 and again from 2020 to 2022. He has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency since 1998. He previously served as Tánaiste from 2017 to 2020, Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government from 2016 to 2017 and Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine from 2011 to 2016. He also served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South constituency from 2004 to 2007.
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John Crowley
- Occupations
- film directortelevision directortheatrical director
- Biography
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John Crowley is an Irish film and theatre director. He is best known for the films Brooklyn (2015) and his debut feature, Intermission (2003), for which he won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Director. He is a brother of the designer Bob Crowley.
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Des Bishop
- Occupations
- comedian
- Biography
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Desmond Bishop is an Irish-American comedian. He was brought up in New York and moved to Ireland at the age of 14. He primarily resides there.
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Brendan Kavanagh
- Enrolled in University College Cork
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- pianistmusicianpiano teachertelevision producerYouTuber
- Biography
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Brendan Kavanagh, also known as "Dr K" due to his PhD in English, is a British pianist and piano teacher of Irish descent. He specializes in playing and promoting the boogie-woogie genre, almost exclusively improvised, often combined with classical, jazz, blues, rock & roll, and traditional Irish music themes. He regularly performs in open venues on public pianos, sometimes in duet formats with musically inclined passers-by, friends or family. He also plays the piano accordion, with emphasis on traditional Irish tunes.
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Phil Hogan
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Philip Hogan is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as European Commissioner for Trade between 2019 and 2020, and previously European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development between 2014 and 2019.
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Terence MacSwiney
- Occupations
- politicianwriterpoet
- Biography
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Terence James MacSwiney was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. He was arrested by the British Government on charges of sedition and imprisoned in Brixton Prison. His death there in October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike brought him and the Irish Republican campaign to international attention.
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Seán Lemass
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Seán Francis Lemass was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach and Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1959 to 1966. He also served as Tánaiste from 1957 to 1959, 1951 to 1954 and 1945 to 1948, Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1957 to 1959, 1951 to 1954, 1945 to 1949 and 1932 to 1939 and Minister for Supplies from 1939 to 1945. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1924 to 1969.
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Jack Lynch
- Occupations
- Gaelic football playerbarristerpoliticianhurler
- Biography
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John Mary Lynch was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1966 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979, Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1966 to 1979, Leader of the Opposition from 1973 to 1977, Minister for Finance from 1965 to 1966, Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1959 to 1965, Minister for Education 1957 to 1959, Minister for the Gaeltacht from March 1957 to June 1957, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Lands and Parliamentary Secretary to the Government from 1951 to 1954. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1948 to 1981.
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John J. McGuinness
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John James McGuinness is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency since the 1997 general election. He was appointed Chair of the Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach in April 2016. He served as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee from 2011 to 2016 and as a Minister of State from 2007 to 2009.
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Marty Morrissey
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Martin Morrissey is an Irish sports commentator and television presenter. He is the Gaelic games correspondent for RTÉ News and regularly presents high-profile sports events for RTÉ Sport, such as the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and Olympic Games.
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Pixie McKenna
- Occupations
- physiciantelevision presenter
- Biography
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Bernadette Anne McKenna, also known as Dr. Pixie McKenna, is an Irish doctor and television personality. She currently runs a clinic in Cork, Ireland and is best known for her work on the Channel 4 series Embarrassing Illnesses and its successor series Embarrassing Bodies and BBC Three's Freaky Eaters.
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Seán Ó Riada
- Occupations
- musicologistcomposer
- Biography
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Seán Ó Riada was an Irish composer and arranger of Irish traditional music. Through his incorporation of modern and traditional techniques he became the single most influential figure in the revival of Irish traditional music during the 1960s.
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Norma Foley
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Norma Foley is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Minister for Education since June 2020. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Kerry since 2020.
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Donnacha Ryan
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Donnacha Ryan is an Irish former rugby union player and current coach. Ryan spent most of his career representing his native province Munster, spending 13 seasons at the club, before moving to French club Racing 92 in 2017, where he spent the final four seasons of his playing career before retiring and joining the coaching team at La Rochelle ahead of the 2021–22 season. He played primarily as a lock, but could also play as a flanker.
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Holly Cairns
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Holly Cairns, also known as Holly McKeever Cairns, is an Irish Social Democrats politician who has been Leader of the Social Democrats since March 2023. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork South-West since the 2020 general election. She was a member of Cork County Council for the Bantry local electoral area from 2019 to 2020.
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Jerry Flannery
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Jeremiah Paul Flannery is an Irish rugby union former player and current coach. During his playing career, Flannery, a hooker, played for Munster and Ireland, before being forced to retire in March 2012 due to injury problems. He joined Munster as a coach before leaving in 2019, and, in 2020, joined English Premiership club Harlequins as their lineout coach.
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Alan Kelly
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alan Thomas Kelly is an Irish politician and author who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary constituency since the 2016 general election and a TD for the Tipperary North constituency from 2011 to 2016.
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Seán Ó Faoláin
- Enrolled in University College Cork
- 1918-1925 graduated with master's degree in English and Irish
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterbiographershort story writeressayist
- Biography
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Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Irish culture. A short-story writer of international repute, he was also a leading commentator and critic.
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Mike Ross
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Mike Ross is a retired Irish rugby union footballer who played prop for Irish club Leinster and the Ireland national rugby team.
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William O'Brien
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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William O'Brien was an Irish nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher, author and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was particularly associated with the campaigns for land reform in Ireland during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as his conciliatory approach to attaining Irish Home Rule.
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Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is a leading Irish poet and highly important figure in Modern literature in Irish.
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Denis Naughten
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Denis Naughten is an Irish independent politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Roscommon–Galway constituency since 2016, and previously from 2007 to 2016 for the Roscommon–South Leitrim constituency and from 1997 to 2007 for the Longford–Roscommon constituency. He was appointed Chair of the Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands in September 2020. He previously served as Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment from 2016 to 2018. He was a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from January 1997 to June 1997.
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Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
- Occupations
- pianistacademiccomposerethnomusicologistdocent
- Biography
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Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin was an Irish musician, composer, academic and educationalist.
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Mattie McGrath
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Matthew McGrath is an Irish independent politician and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary constituency since being elected at the 2007 general election.
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Frank Murphy
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Frank Murphy is a former professional rugby union player from Ireland who works as a referee for the Irish Rugby Football Union. He primarily played as a scrum-half. Originally from Cork, Murphy played for his native province of Munster before moving to the English side Leicester Tigers.
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John Deasy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Deasy is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency from 2002 to 2020.
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John Spillane
- Occupations
- singercomposer
- Biography
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John Spillane is a singer-songwriter from Cork, Ireland.
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Anne Buttimer
- Occupations
- university teachergeographer
- Biography
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Anne Buttimer was an Irish geographer. She was emeritus professor of geography at University College, Dublin.
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Jerry Buttimer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jerry Buttimer is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann since December 2022. He has served as a Senator for the Labour Panel since 2016, and previously from 2007 to 2011. He served as Leas-Chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from July 2020 to August 2020, Leader of the Seanad from 2016 to 2020 and Leader of Fine Gael in the Seanad from 2016 to 2020. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency from 2011 to 2016.
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Brian Crowley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brian Donal Crowley is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South constituency from 1994 to 2019. He served as a Senator from 1993 to 1994, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.
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Gabriel Rosenstock
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- children's writertranslatorwriterpoetlinguist
- Biography
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Gabriel Rosenstock is an Irish writer who works chiefly in the Irish language. A member of Aosdána, he is poet, playwright, haikuist, tankaist, essayist, and author/translator of over 180 books, mostly in Irish. Born in Kilfinane, County Limerick, he currently resides in Dublin.
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Michael McGrath
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Michael McGrath is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Minister for Finance since December 2022. He previously served as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform from 2020 to 2022. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency since 2007.
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Michael Creed
- Occupations
- politicianfarmer
- Biography
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Michael Creed is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-West constituency since 2007, and previously from 1989 to 2002. He previously served as Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine from 2016 to 2020.
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Patrick O'Donovan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Patrick O'Donovan is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Minister of State since May 2016. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Limerick County constituency since 2016, and from 2011 to 2016 for the Limerick constituency.
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Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- Occupations
- essayistwriterpoet
- Biography
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Doireann Ní Ghríofa is an Irish poet and essayist who writes in both Irish and English.
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Michael McNamara
- Occupations
- barristerpolitician
- Biography
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Michael McNamara is an Irish independent politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Clare constituency since the 2020 general election, and previously from 2011 to 2016. He was appointed Chair of the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Response in September 2020.
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Nóirín Ní Riain
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- pianistsinger
- Biography
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Nóirín Ní Riain is an Irish singer, writer, teacher, theologian, and authority on Gregorian Chant (plainchant, plainsong). She is primarily known for spiritual songs, but also sings Celtic music, sean-nós and Indian songs. Nóirín plays an Indian harmonium (surpeti), shruti box and feadóg (whistle). She was Artist-in-Residence for Wexford and Laois. She performs with her sons Eoin and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin under the name A.M.E.N. and gives workshops about "Sound as a Spiritual Experience".
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Deirdre Clune
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Deirdre Clune is an Irish politician who is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the South constituency. She is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party.
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Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency since the 2016 general election.
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Jan O'Sullivan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jan O'Sullivan is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Education and Skills from 2014 to 2016 and as a Minister of State from 2011 to 2014. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Limerick City constituency from 2011 to 2020, and previously from 1998 to 2011 for the Limerick East constituency.
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Dara Murphy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dara Murphy is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Minister of State from 2014 to 2017 and Lord Mayor of Cork from 2009 to 2010. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-Central constituency from 2011 to 2019.
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John O'Donoghue
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John O'Donoghue is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 2007 to 2009, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism from 2002 to 2007, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform from 1997 to 2002 and Minister of State at the Department of Finance from 1991 to 1992. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry South constituency from 1987 to 2011.
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Daniel Mulhall
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Daniel Mulhall is a retired Irish diplomat and a former Ambassador of Ireland to the United States. He has also been Ireland's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Germany and Malaysia.
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Lorraine Clifford-Lee
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lorraine Clifford-Lee is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as a Senator since June 2020.
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Robert Dwyer Joyce
- Occupations
- musicologistwriterpoet
- Biography
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Robert Dwyer Joyce was an Irish poet, writer, and collector of traditional Irish music.
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James Coughlan
- Occupations
- rugby union playerrugby sevens player
- Biography
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James Coughlan is a retired Irish rugby union player and current coach. Coughlan played primarily as a number 8 and represented Cork-based amateur club Dolphin in the All-Ireland League, his native province Munster and French club Pau, and, internationally, Ireland Wolfhounds and the Ireland 7s team during his career.
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Gerald Goldberg
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gerald Yael Goldberg was an Irish lawyer and politician who in 1977 became the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Cork. Goldberg was the son of Lithuanian Jewish refugees; his father was put ashore in Cork with other Jews and told that "Cork was the gateway to America."
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Quentin Fottrell
- Occupations
- authorjournalist
- Biography
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Quentin Fottrell is an Irish columnist, author, agony uncle, journalist, social diarist and critic. He was the Irish correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal from 2003 to 2011, columnist and feature writer for The Irish Times and is currently working as a journalist in New York City. He was born in Dublin and studied psychology in University College Dublin and journalism in University College Galway (UCG).
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Kathleen Lynch
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kathleen Lynch is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Minister of State from 2011 to 2016. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-Central constituency from 1994 to 1997 and 2002 to 2016.
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Denis O'Donovan
- Occupations
- politicianacademic
- Biography
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Denis O'Donovan is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel since April 2011. He previously served as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 2016 to 2020 and Leas-Chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 2011 to 2016. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-West constituency from 2002 to 2007.
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Aloys Fleischmann
- Occupations
- composerconductormusic teacherchoir directorprofessor
- Biography
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Aloys Fleischmann was an Irish composer, musicologist, professor and conductor.
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Dave O'Callaghan
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Dave O'Callaghan is an Irish rugby union player for French Rugby Pro D2 side Biarritz. He plays as a flanker, usually blindside, but can also play as a lock. O'Callaghan has a Commerce degree from University College Cork.
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Colm Burke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Colm Burke is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-Central since the 2020 general election. He previously served as a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel from 2011 to 2020, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South constituency from 2007 to 2009 and Lord Mayor of Cork from 2003 to 2004.
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Charles Donovan
- Occupations
- parasitologistuniversity teacherzoologistentomologistmilitary physician
- Biography
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Donovan was an Irish physician, parasitologist and entomologist who served as a medical officer in the Indian Medical Service. He is best remembered for his discoveries of Leishmania donovani as the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis, and Klebsiella granulomatis as that of donovanosis. The son of a judge in India, he was born in Calcutta and completed his primary education in India, and continued secondary school in Cork, Ireland. He graduated in medicine from Queen's College, Cork and joined the Indian Medical Service. He participated in British expeditions to Mandalay in Burma, Royapuram and Mangalore in India, Afghanistan, and finally Madras (now Chennai), where he spent the rest of his service. He was professor at Madras Medical College from 1898 until his retirement in 1919.
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D. D. Sheehan
- Occupations
- barristerjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Daniel Desmond Sheehan, usually known as D. D. Sheehan was an Irish nationalist, politician, labour leader, journalist, barrister and author. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland representing Mid-Cork from 1901 to 1918, a constituency comprising the districts of Ahadallane, Ballincollig, Ballyvourney, Blarney, Coachford, Farran, Inchigeelagh, Macroom, Millstreet and Shandangan. As co-founder and President of the Irish Land and Labour Association, he was credited with considerable success in land reform, labour reforms and in rural state housing. From 1909, he was General Secretary of the Central Executive of the All-for-Ireland League, favouring a policy of National reconciliation between all creeds and classes in Ireland. During World War I he served as Irish regiments officer with the 16th (Irish) Division in France, 1915–16. He resigned his parliamentary seat in 1918 and lived in England for several years, returning to Dublin following the ending of the civil war, when he was appointed editor of the Dublin Chronicle.
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Anna Maria Dengel
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Mother Anna Maria Dengel, Medical Mission Sisters, (16 March 1892 – 17 April 1980) was an Austrian physician, Religious Sister and missionary. She was the founder of the Medical Mission Sisters, which was among the first congregations of Religious Sisters authorized by the Roman Catholic Church to provide full medical care to the poor and needy in the overseas missions.
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Batt O'Keeffe
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianGaelic football player
- Biography
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Bartholomew O'Keeffe is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation from 2010 to 2011, Minister for Education and Science from 2008 to 2010 and a Minister of State from 2004 to 2008. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1987 to 1989 and from 1992 to 2011. He was a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1989 to 1992.
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Trevor Joyce
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Trevor Joyce is an Irish poet, born in Dublin.
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Osborn Bergin
- Occupations
- man of lettersuniversity teacherlinguistliterary scholarphilologist
- Biography
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Osborn Joseph Bergin was a scholar of the Irish language and early Irish literature, who discovered Bergin's Law.
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Paul Coghlan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Coghlan was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Leas-Chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from June 2016 to March 2020 and a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel from 1997 to 2020.
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Patrick O'Shea
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Patrick G. O’Shea is an Irish-American scientist and academic. From February 2017 to September 2020, he was the fifteenth president of University College Cork. He was previously vice president and chief research officer at the University of Maryland.
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Edward M. Walsh
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 85)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Edward M. Walsh, is the founding president of the University of Limerick, one of two new universities established by Ireland in 1989. He headed the institution from its inception as the National Institute for Higher Education Limerick, in 1970, when he was appointed as chairman of the planning board, and director, through its transformation to a university in 1989, when he was appointed president, until his retirement in 1998, when he was awarded the title of "Founding President" for life.
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Aindrias Moynihan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aindrias Moynihan is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-West constituency since the 2016 general election.
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Raymond Browne
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Raymond Anthony Browne is an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Kerry since 2013.
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Susan O'Keeffe
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Susan O'Keeffe is an Irish journalist and former Labour Party politician.
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Peter Barry
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Peter Barry was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Tánaiste from January 1987 to March 1987, Deputy leader of Fine Gael from 1977 to 1987 and 1991 to 1993, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1987, Minister for the Environment from 1982 to 1981, Minister for Education from 1976 to 1977, Minister for Transport and Power from 1973 to 1976 and Lord Mayor of Cork from 1970 to 1971. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1969 to 1997.
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Peter Power
- Occupations
- politicianexecutive director
- Biography
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Peter Power is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Limerick East constituency from 2002 to 2011, and served as Minister of State for Overseas Development from 2008 to 2011. He has been executive director of UNICEF Ireland since 2011.
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Phil Prendergast
- Occupations
- politicianobstetricianmidwife
- Biography
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Phil Prendergast is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South constituency from 2011 to 2014, Leader of the Labour Party in the Seanad in 2011 and a Senator for the Labour Panel from 2007 to 2011.
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Tim Lombard
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tim Lombard is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel since April 2016.
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Ciarán Lynch
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ciarán Lynch is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency from 2007 to 2016.
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Cvetka Bevc
- Occupations
- musicologistchildren's writerwriterillustrator
- Biography
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Cvetka Bevc is a Slovene writer and poet.
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Mark Dearey
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mark Dearey is an Irish Green Party politician who served as a Senator from 2010 to 2011, after being nominated by the Taoiseach.
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Richard Hingston
- Occupations
- arachnologistexplorermilitary physicianentomologist
- Biography
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Major Richard William George Hingston was an Irish physician, explorer and naturalist who worked in India with the Indian Medical Service. He wrote several books based on his travels and natural history observations. He also served as medical officer to the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition.
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Emily Hegarty
- Occupations
- rower
- Biography
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Emily Hegarty is an Irish rower. She competed in the women's coxless four event at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal. At the same Olympics, her third cousin Paul O'Donovan also won a gold medal for rowing in the lightweight double sculls. Along with her team-mates, she was named as the Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman for July 2021.
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Biddy Jenkinson
- Occupations
- poetprose writerwriterplaywright
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Biddy Jenkinson is an Irish poet, short story writer and dramatist who writes in the Irish language. She was born in 1949 in Dublin and attended University College Cork. She has published several collections of verse, two collections of short stories and two plays.
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Marc Ó Cathasaigh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marc Ó Cathasaigh is an Irish Green Party politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency since the 2020 general election.
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Denis Landy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Denis Landy is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 2016 to 2017 and previously for the Administrative Panel from 2011 to 2016.
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Leanne O'Sullivan
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Leanne O'Sullivan is a poet from the Beara Peninsula in Cork, Ireland. She is the author of three collections of poetry.
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Michael Lowry
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Michael Lowry is an Irish independent politician who has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) since 1987, currently for the Tipperary constituency. He previously served as Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications from 1994 to 1996 and Chairman of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party from 1993 to 1994.
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Xoán Paredes
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- geographerdruid
- Biography
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Xoán M. Paredes is a Galician geographer, teacher and ordained druid (head of the organized Galician druidic movement).
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Margaret MacCurtain
- Years
- 1929-2020 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- historianwriterteacherwomen's rights activisthuman rights activist
- Biography
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Margaret Mac Curtain was a Dominican sister, Irish historian, writer, and educator.
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Patrick Kelly
- Years
- 1875-1934 (aged 59)
- Occupations
- politicianfarmer
- Biography
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Patrick Michael Kelly was an Irish soldier, farmer and politician. He was a member of the Irish Free State Oireachtas as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Clare constituency from 1927 to 1932.
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Pascal Hitzler
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Pascal Hitzler is a German American computer scientist specializing in Semantic Web and Artificial Intelligence. He is endowed Lloyd T. Smith Creativity in Engineering Chair, one of the Directors of the Institute for Digital Agriculture and Advanced Analytics and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDS) at Kansas State University, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Semantic Web journal and the IOS Press book series Studies on the Semantic Web.
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David Stanton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Stanton is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East constituency since 1997. He served as a Minister of State from 2016 to 2020.
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Pat Ahern
- Years
- 1932-.. (age 92)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Pat Ahern is an Irish Roman Catholic priest, traditional musician, composer, and the founder, artistic director and producer of Siamsa Tíre, the Irish National Folk Theatre which performed throughout Ireland and on three continents.
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James Moher
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- trade unionist
- Biography
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Jim Moher was a national trade union figure with two major unions from 1974 to 2006. In that time, he served in a number of capacities - legal adviser and representative (accident and industrial disease claims); senior occupational pensions negotiator; National Legal Secretary; National Balloting Officer, National Political Officer and Employment Tribunal representative panel director. As the CWU's Political Officer, he was at the centre of their very successful political effort to assist Labour win the 1997 general election. He was also involved with the Labour leadership in policy formulation on employment law for government but was disappointed by their failure to reform most of the legislation against trade unions of previous Conservative governments. In 1995, his booklet, entitled, Trade Unions and the Law - the politics of change, published by the Institute of Employment Rights, reviewed the history of these laws and made some suggestions for significant improvements in workers and union rights.
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John Crowley
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Crowley was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and medical practitioner.
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William Joseph Ashby
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Dr William Joseph Ashby was an Irish rugby union international who was part of the first official British Isles team that toured South Africa in 1910. Although he played for the Lions, he was never selected to play for Ireland.
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Bríd Ryan
- Enrolled in University College Cork
- In 2001 graduated with bachelor's degree in biochemistry
- Occupations
- biochemistcancer researcherbiomedical scientist
- Biography
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Bríd M. Ryan is an Irish biomedical scientist and cancer researcher. She was an investigator at the National Cancer Institute from 2013 to 2021.
