97 Notable alumni of
University College Cork
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University College Cork is 721st in the world, 258th in Europe, and 2nd in Ireland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 97 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
- television producerstage actorcomposeractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor. His works encompass both stage and screen, and his accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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Fiona Shaw
- Occupations
- film actorstage actorperforming artistactor
- Biography
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Fiona Shaw is an Irish film and theatre actress. She did 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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Graham Norton
- Occupations
- television presentermemoiristradio personalityfilm actorcomedian
- Biography
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Graham William Walker, known professionally as Graham Norton, is an Irish comedian, broadcaster, actor, and writer. Known for his television work in the UK, Norton is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his British comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show (2007–present). He has received the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance three times for the chat show So Graham Norton (1998–2002). He has been noted for his innuendo-laden dialogue and flamboyant presentation style.
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Micheál Martin
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Micheál Martin is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician serving as Taoiseach since January 2025, having previously held the position from 2020 to 2022. Martin served as Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence from December 2022 to January 2025. He has been Leader of Fianna Fáil since January 2011 and a TD for Cork South-Central since 1989. He previously 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 coachrugby 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
- farmerpolitician
- Biography
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Simon Coveney is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment from 2022 to 2024. He served as deputy leader of Fine Gael from 2017 to 2024. He has been in the cabinet since 2011, holding a range of ministerial portfolios, including as Tánaiste from 2017 to 2020.
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Des Bishop
- Occupations
- comedian
- Biography
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Desmond Bishop is an American - Irish 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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John Crowley
- Occupations
- television directorfilm 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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Brendan Kavanagh
- Enrolled in University College Cork
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- television producerpiano teachermusicianpianistYouTuber
- 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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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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Terence MacSwiney
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianpoet
- 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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Phil Hogan
- Occupations
- politician
- 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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Jack Lynch
- Occupations
- politicianbarristerGaelic football playerhurler
- 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. He was 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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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 Hurling Championship and Olympic Games.
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Holly Cairns
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Holly Cairns, also known as Holly McKeever Cairns, is an Irish politician who has been leader of the Social Democrats party 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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Seán Ó Riada
- Occupations
- composermusicologist
- 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
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Norma Foley is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Minister for Children, Disability and Equality since January 2025. She previously served as Minister for Education from 2020 to 2025. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Kerry since 2020.
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Pixie McKenna
- Occupations
- television presenterphysician
- Biography
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Bernadette Anne McKenna also known as Dr. Pixie McKenna, is an Irish physician and television personality. She 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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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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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 North constituency since the 2024 general election, and previously from 2011 to 2016. He was a TD for the Tipperary constituency from 2016 to 2024. He previously served as the leader of the Labour Party from 2020 to 2022.
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Seán Ó Faoláin
- Enrolled in University College Cork
- 1918-1925 graduated with master's degree in Irish and English
- Occupations
- short story writerbiographerwriteruniversity teachernovelist
- 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
- journalistpolitician
- 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
- poetwriter
- 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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Michael McGrath
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael McGrath is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and EU Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection. He served as Minister for Finance from December 2022 to June 2024. He served as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform from 2020 to 2022. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency from 2007 to 2024.
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Denis Naughten
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Denis Naughten is an Irish former independent politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Roscommon–Galway constituency from 2016 to 2024, 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
- university teachercomposerpianistethnomusicologist
- Biography
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Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin was an Irish musician, composer, academic and educationalist.
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Michael McNamara
- Occupations
- politicianbarrister
- Biography
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Michael McNamara is an Irish independent politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the South constituency since July 2024. He was previously a Teachta Dála (TD) for Clare from the 2020 general election to 2024, and from 2011 to 2016.
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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 South constituency since the 2024 general election, and previously from 2007 to 2016. He was a TD for the Tipperary constituency from 2016 to 2024.
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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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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 Spillane
- Occupations
- composersinger
- Biography
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John Spillane is a singer-songwriter from Cork, Ireland.
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Jerry Buttimer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jerry Buttimer is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-Central constituency since the 2024 general election, and previously from from 2011 to 2016. He served as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from December 2022 to November 2024, and served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from 2016 to 2024, 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.
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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 Minister for Arts, Culture, Communications, Media and Sport since January 2025. He previously served as Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science from 2024 to 2025 and a Minister of State from 2016 to 2024. 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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Anne Buttimer
- Occupations
- geographeruniversity teacherresearcher
- 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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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 76)
- Occupations
- journalistlinguistpoetwritertranslator
- Biography
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Gabriel Rosenstock is an Irish writer who works chiefly in the Irish language. A member of Aosdána, he is a 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 Creed
- Occupations
- farmerpolitician
- Biography
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Michael Creed is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-West constituency from 2007 to 2024, and previously from 1989 to 2002. He served as Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine from 2016 to 2020.
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Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- Occupations
- writeressayistpoet
- 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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Deirdre Clune
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Deirdre Clune is an Irish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the South constituency from 2014 to 2019, and again from 2020 to 2024. She is a member of Fine Gael, part of the European People's Party.
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Nóirín Ní Riain
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- singerpianist
- 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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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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John O'Donoghue
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- 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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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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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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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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James Coughlan
- Occupations
- rugby sevens playerrugby union 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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Linda Doyle
- Born in
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Ireland - Occupations
- engineerprovostuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Linda E. Doyle is an Irish academic and educator who is the 45th Provost of Trinity College Dublin, the university's chief officer, having assumed the office in August 2021. An electrical engineer, she has had a long academic career at Trinity, from the 1990s, most recently as Professor of Engineering and the Arts, in addition to holding other management roles such as Dean of Research. She has also led one telecommunications research centre at the university, and was the founding director of another, the multi-institution organisation known as CONNECT. Doyle has worked as a member of regulatory and advisory bodies in both Ireland, on broadband network strategy, and the UK, on mobile spectrum allocation. She is or has also been a director of public outreach projects such as Science Gallery Dublin and its international network, of two non-profit art galleries, and of two university spin-off companies.
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Robert Dwyer Joyce
- Occupations
- writermusicologistpoet
- Biography
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Robert Dwyer Joyce was an Irish poet, writer, and collector of traditional Irish music.
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Quentin Fottrell
- Occupations
- journalistauthor
- 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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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 served as Minister of State at the Department of Health from 2024 to 2025, 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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Denis O'Donovan
- Occupations
- academicpolitician
- Biography
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Denis O'Donovan is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from April 2011 to January 2025. 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
- professorchoir directormusic teacherconductorcomposer
- 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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Charles Donovan
- Occupations
- bacteriologistlecturerphysicianbotanistmilitary 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
- politicianjournalistbarrister
- 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
- politicianuniversity teacherGaelic 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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Michael Lowry
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- 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 North constituency. He previously served as Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications from 1994 to 1996 and Chair of the Fine Gael parliamentary party from 1993 to 1994.
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Osborn Bergin
- Occupations
- university teacherman of lettersphilologistliterary scholarlinguist
- Biography
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Osborn Joseph Bergin was an Irish scholar of the Irish language and early Irish literature, who discovered what is now known as Bergin's law.
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Eileen Desmond
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eileen Christine Desmond was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Health and Minister for Social Welfare from 1981 to 1982. She was a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1965 to 1969 and 1973 to 1987. She also served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Munster constituency from 1979 to 1981 and as a Senator for the Industrial and Commercial Panel from 1969 to 1973.
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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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Peter Barry
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- 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 1981 to 1982, 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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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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Edward M. Walsh
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 86)
- 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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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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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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Raymond Browne
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- 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 Power
- Occupations
- executive directorpolitician
- 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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Tim Lombard
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tim Lombard is an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from April 2016 to January 2025.
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Phil Prendergast
- Occupations
- politicianmidwifeobstetrician
- 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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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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Marc Ó Cathasaigh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marc Ó Cathasaigh is a former Irish Green Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Waterford constituency from 2020 to 2024.
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Richard Hingston
- Occupations
- military physicianexplorerarachnologistentomologist
- Biography
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Major Richard William George Hingston MC FRGS 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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Michael Murphy
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in University College Cork
- Studied in 1973
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Michael B. Murphy is an Irish doctor and academic. He was the President of University College Cork from 2007 to 2017. From 2019 until 2023, Murphy served as the president of the European University Association. Since October 2024 he is serving as president of the National University of Ireland.
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Fiona de Londras
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- Enrolled in University College Cork
- 2015-2018 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Fiona de Londras is an Irish academic and the Barber Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham, UK. From 2019 to 2022, she was also an honorary professor at the Australian National University in Canberra.
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Cvetka Bevc
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writermusicologistillustrator
- 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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Biddy Jenkinson
- Occupations
- playwrightwriterprose writerpoet
- Biography
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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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David Stanton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Stanton is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East constituency from 1997 to 2024. He served as a Minister of State from 2016 to 2020.
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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 42)
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- 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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Xoán Paredes
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- druidgeographer
- 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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Pascal Hitzler
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- 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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Margaret MacCurtain
- Years
- 1929-2020 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- human rights activistwomen's rights activistteacherwriterhistorian
- 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
- farmerpolitician
- 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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Pat Ahern
- Years
- 1932-.. (age 93)
- Occupations
- musiciancomposerwriterLatin Catholic priest
- 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 79)
- 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
- cancer researcherbiochemistbiomedical 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.
