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96 unusual facts about Dublin


1663 in Ireland

Katherine Philips' translation of Pierre Corneille's Pompée is successfully produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin (Smock Alley Theatre), the first English language play written by a woman to be performed on the professional stage.

Ambrose Bury

He was educated at the Liverpool Institute, the Royal School in Raphoe, Dublin High School, Trinity College, and the King's Inn in Dublin, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1890 and a Master of Arts in 1893.

Annesley Bridge

Annesley Bridge crosses the River Tolka in Fairview.

Anthony Dopping

Anthony junior was educated at St Patrick's Cathedral School and entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1655.

Anthony Norris Groves

In 1826, while continuing his dentistry in Exeter, he enrolled as an external student of theology at Trinity College, Dublin, with a view to ordination in the Church of England and appointment with the Church Missionary Society.

Antoine Godeau

Of this work Johann Baptist Alzog says that "although written in an attractive and popular style, it is lacking in solid worth and original research" (Manual of Universal History, I, Dublin, 1900, 33).

Arthur Ducat

Ducat was an immigrant from County Dublin, Ireland, where he was born in Kingstown on February 24, 1830.

Avoca Hockey Club

Avoca Hockey Club (Cumann Haca Abhóca in Irish) is a hockey club based in Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland.

Baron Rosmead

Bryan Robinson, great-grandfather of the first Baron, was Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College, Dublin.

Beaumont Hospital

Beaumont Hospital, Dublin a 820 bed public hospital in the Republic of Ireland, founded in 1987

Billy Whelan

The campaign to have the bridge renamed was initiated and organised by members of the Cabra, GAA club, Naomh Fionbarra (gaelic spelling) (St. Finbarr's) and sanctioned by Dublin City Council in early 2006.

Brandon Anderson

Brandon Anderson (born December 10, 1985 in Dublin, Virginia) is an American football cornerback who is a currently a free agent.

Buck Mulligan

Gogarty was a medical student at the time of his acquaintance with Joyce; he had also studied classics at Trinity, had been to Oxford, was known to have saved men from drowning, and was friendly with George Moore.

Cairo Gang

However, the IRA Intelligence Department (IRAID) was one step ahead of them and was receiving information from numerous well-placed sources, including Lily Merin, who was the confidential code clerk for British Army Intelligence Centre in Parkgate Street, and Sergeant Jerry Mannix, stationed in Donnybrook.

Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital

It is now a major tertiary orthopaedic hospital, and provides tertiary elective orthopaedic services for the hospitals of the region including St. Vincent's Hospital, Mater Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Temple Street Children's Hospital, and Central Remedial Clinic.

Caroline Crachami

A week later her real father, Louis Emmanuel Crachami, a musician at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, arrived in London and began legal attempts to retrieve his daughter's body for burial.

Charles Hepworth Holland

Charles Hepworth Holland is a British geologist, Emeritus Fellow and former Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Trinity College, Dublin.

Clifton Robinson

Sir (James) Clifton Robinson (1849-1910) was known as the "Tramway King", having involvement in the building and operating of street tramways in New York, London, Liverpool, Dublin, Cork, Bristol, Edinburgh and Los Angeles.

Construction plant fitting in Ireland

Up until November 2010, the FÁS Training Centre in Cabra was the only training centre in the country to offer apprenticeship training at Phase 2 level.

Cut Your Heart off from Your Head

Cut Your Heart Off From Your Head is the second album from Dublin-based instrumental band The Redneck Manifesto.

Dawson Street

Saint Ann's Church is found on the eastern side and the Mansion House near the south end.

Dermot Mannion

He went on to Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Studies in 1979.

Donnybrook Cemetery

Donnybrook Cemetery is located close to the river Dodder in Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland.

Dublin, Maryland

In old records reference is made of the Mt. Ararat Lodge of Masons, Maryland, which moved its meeting place in 1809 from a tavern in Delta, Pennsylvania to George McCausland's tavern in Dublin.

Dublin's Q102

The station's relaunch was "orchestrated" by Ray Shah, a station presenter, who apparently "took over" the station until it was relaunched.

The "take over" involved a defacement of Lite 102.2's website and the constant playing of Mah Nà Mah Nà during the transition period.

Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne

After Dunne graduated from high school in 1871, he was sent to Ireland to attend Trinity College in Dublin.

Edward Parrott

He was educated at St. Paul's College, Cheltenham and then became an elementary schoolteacher, studying for a MA degree at Trinity College, Dublin at the same time.

Edward Veel

Between those graduation dates, he was elected fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and was promoted to a senior fellowship before 24 November 1656.

Fionnuala Sherry

She graduated with honours from the College of Music of Trinity College, Dublin having moved to Dublin at the age of fifteen in order to continue her musical education.

Foster Fyans

Fyans was baptised at Clontarf, Dublin and joined the British Army in 1810, seeing service in the Peninsula War.

Free State Intelligence Department – Oriel House

Witnesses saw them being shot dead at 'The Thatch', Puck's Lane, (now Yellow Road), Whitehall, Dublin.

Full of Flowers

The album contains four Irish female soloists from the popular Irish choir, the Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, from Dublin, Ireland, who volunteered to record the music.

GAA 125

Events were launched at Croke Park, Dublin, with the opening match of the National Football League 2009 between Dublin and Tyrone on 31 January 2009.

George Papworth

He also added the portico to Kenure House in Rush in North county Dublin in about 1840; the portico is still standing but the rest of the house was demolished in 1978.

Grace Gifford

Grace Gifford Plunkett died suddenly, and alone, on 13 December 1955 in an apartment in South Richmond Street.

Gustav Hamilton

Gustav's namesake great-great-grandson, barrister Gustav Hamilton, then of Dublin, laid in mid-19th century claim to the baronial title and seat of Deserf in peerage of Sweden, as he was de jure 9th friherre of Deserf.

Guy S. Houston

Houston, a resident of San Ramon, served as the Mayor of Dublin and was a real estate executive prior to serving in the Assembly.

Hugh O'Conor

O'Conor studied at Trinity College in Dublin, and received a scholarship to attend the NYU Film School.

I Am Brazil

I Am Brazil is the third album from Dublin-based instrumental band The Redneck Manifesto.

In Dublin

In Dublin is a folk/rock album by Alan Stivell, recorded live at the National Stadium, Dublin, on 26 and 27 November 1974, and originally released in 1975.

Inniú

Inniú (Irish: Today) was an Irish-language newspaper, published in Dublin, Ireland, from 17 March 1943 until 24 August 1984 when it was merged with the Galway-based publication Amárach to form a new weekly newspaper Anois, which started in September 1984.

Irene Heffernan Ho

Ho received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Trinity College in Dublin.

Irish Go Association

The IGA was founded in 1989, by the merging of two Dublin clubs - Trinity College and Collegians Chess and Go Club.

Irish Law Times

The journal is now published 20 times per year in Dublin, Ireland, by Thomson Round Hall.

Isango Portobello

Isango has since performed The Magic Flute - Impempe Yomlingo in Dublin, Chichester, Canterbury, Tokyo, Singapore, Johannesburg, Rotterdam and Paris.

Jasper, Missouri

Jasper has been known as Coon Creek settlement, and as Midway (a name that at times included the Dublin community just across the Barton County line) for its position between county-seats Carthage and Lamar, but in the late 19th century it was renamed Jasper to reuse the postal equipment of a previous Jasper that existed southeast of Carthage.

Jean Joseph Amable Humbert

The expedition was able to land in Ireland at Killala on Thursday 23 August 1798, meeting with initial success in the battle of Castlebar, and subsequently declaring a Republic of Connacht, with hopes of taking Dublin.

John Balfe

Balfe was the son of James Balfe and Sara Sutherland his wife, daughter of the last Lord Duffus, was born at Sallybrook, Drumcondra, Ireland.

Kim Chernin

In 1963, her only child, Larissa, was born while she was studying at Trinity College, Dublin.

Lady Jaye

She is a Bryn Mawr graduate, and also did graduate work in Trinity College in Dublin, before graduating from intelligence school at Fort Holabird.

Lancelot Robinson

His only first-class appearance came in 1934, against Ireland at College Park, Dublin.

Lily Castel

It was a race against time for the pair, not least when they arrived in Dublin to find that the stage layout at the Gaiety Theatre was unsuitable for the routine they had rehearsed.

Lucan Concert Band

Lucan Concert Band was formed in 1983 by Eithne Donnelly, its purpose being to provide musical education to the youth in Lucan, County Dublin, Ireland, where it is based.

Marjorie Grene

Ruth Grene, a professor of plant physiology at Virginia Tech, and Nicholas Grene, Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin.

Mark Duley

He then worked for time in England, and was organist of Christ's Hospital, before coming to Dublin in 1992 to take up the post of organist and director of music at Christ Church Cathedral.

Maureen Potter

She was conferred with the Freedom of the City of Dublin in 1984, and was later awarded an honorary degree from Trinity College, Dublin.

Maxwell Henry Close

He was educated at Weymouth and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1846; and two years later he entered holy orders.

Mount Humphrey Lloyd

He named this feature for the Rev. Dr. Humphrey Lloyd of Trinity College, Dublin, an active member of the British Association which promoted interest in magnetic and meteorological research in the Antarctic.

Movies@

Other sites include the Pavilions Centre, Swords (11 screens) which opened in mid November 2006, and Gorey, Co.

MS Stena Nautica

In 1992, she was chartered to B&I Line for use on their Irish Sea services and was renamed MS Isle Of Innisfree; Initially she served Pembroke Dock - Rosslare and later Holyhead - Dublin.

Murray Pittock

He has also been a visiting fellow at universities worldwide including: Notre Dame (2014), Charles University, Prague (2010); Trinity College, Dublin (2008); the University of Wales in advanced Welsh and Celtic studies (2002) and Yale (1998, 2000–01).

Naimee Coleman

Naimee Coleman is a singer/songwriter from Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland.

O'Shea and Whelan

The O'Sheas initially achieved notability for their floral carvings and grotesqueries on buildings in Dublin, in particular at Trinity College and at the Kildare Street Club, including the famous window piece showing the club members as monkeys playing billiards.

Oliver FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell

He died at Merrion Castle, on 11 April 1667, and was buried on 12 April 1667 in the Fitzwilliam Chapel in Donnybrook church.

P. Michael Conneally

In 1989, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science honoris causa degree by Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Pat Dunne

He left Milltown to join Manchester United in May 1964 for a fee of £10,500, winning a league title medal in his first season.

Patrick Walshe

He has exhibited these paintings in Russborough House, courtesy of the Sir Alfred Beit Foundation in 2009 and 2010, The Orangery, Holland Park, London 2010 and most importantly in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin in April 2012.

Philip Crosthwaite

In 1843 he returned to Ireland to complete his education, and entered Trinity College, Dublin.

Quinnipiac University School of Law

Other learning opportunities include summer study at Trinity College, Dublin in Dublin, Ireland and other opportunities to study abroad.

Randolph Healy

After leaving school at the age of 14 to work in a number of jobs, he returned to full-time education and graduated in mathematical sciences from Trinity College, Dublin.

Robert George Spencer Hudson

He retired from Iraq Petroleum Company in 1958, and became an Iveagh Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin in 1960.

Ronald Bird

All of his four remaining first-class matches were for MCC: two at Lord's (against Gloucestershire in June 1955 and against Cambridge University a year later) and two at Dublin in September 1956 and September 1958, both against Ireland.

Sébastien Masi

In 2010, Masi and Batt took ownership of Locks Brasserie in Portobello, Dublin.

Senior College Dun Laoghaire

The college is scheduled to relocate to a new building in Blackrock by 2012 and will be renamed as Blackrock Education Institute (BFEI).

Sergio Peraza

In 1988 he joined the International Conference on Public Sculpture at Trinity College.

Silver Spring Foods

In 2009, the company purchased Kelchner's Horseradish Products of Dublin, Pennsylvania.

Some Kind of Kick

Some kind of kick is the debut album from Dublin rock band The Things, released in 2008.

Superquinn

The business was founded in 1960 as 'Quinns Supermarkets' in Dundalk by Feargal Quinn, and the company headquarters were later moved to Sutton, Dublin.

Teacher Man

During the time of the book McCourt went to Trinity College to try to take his doctorate, but he ended up leaving his first wife because of the strain.

The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly

The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly is a poem in book one of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake (pages 44.24 to 47.32), where the protagonist H.C.E. has been brought low by a rumor which begins to spread across Dublin, apparently concerning a sexual trespass involving two girls in Phoenix Park; however details of HCE's transgression change with each retelling of events.

The Flying Irishman

Once in the air, Corrigan instead heads off to Ireland, and, 28 hours later, makes it successfully to Dublin.

Thirtysixstrings

Thirtysixstrings was the first album from Dublin-based instrumental band The Redneck Manifesto.

Thomas Bateson

He is said to have been organist of Chester Cathedral in 1599, and is believed to have been the first musical graduate of Trinity College, Dublin.

Thomas Secker

see also John Sharp, ... Archbishop Sharp's and Archbishop Secker's sermons against perjury and common swearing, with some alterations, 1771 Dublin

Thomond deeds

The Thomond deeds are Irish deeds relating to lands and property in Thomond, County Clare, preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

Tom Crowe

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he read French and German Literature, he first joined the BBC's Third Programme in 1952, but left in 1960.

Tommaso Giordani

His last opera, The Cottage, Festival, was produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, 28 Nov., 1796.

Tommy Eglington

Before joining Rovers, Eglington played as a junior with both Munster Victoria and Distillery of Drumcondra and helped the latter club win the FAI Intermediate Cup in 1942.

Trinity Washington University

Trinity College (not to be confused with the unrelated Trinity College (Connecticut) or Trinity College, Dublin) was founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1897 as a Catholic college for women.

Volvo Trucks

Today, Volvo produces class 8 Volvo trucks in its Dublin, Virginia plant and class 8 Mack truck models in Macungie, Pennsylvania.

What Is Life?

The book is based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Institute at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943 and published in 1944.

What Richard Did

Richard Karlsen is the golden-boy athlete, and undisputed alpha-male of his privileged set of Dublin south side teenagers.

Wilhelm Reich in Hell

The book is one of Wilson's 35 volumes, and the play has been staged several times, with productions in Santa Cruz, Dublin, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

William Langland

The attribution of Piers to Langland rests principally on the evidence of a manuscript held at Trinity College, Dublin (MS 212).

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom

The film follows his adventures in trying to be understood in Dublin, where most of the population has little or no grasp of the language.


1944 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

Bishop of Down and Connor, Daniel Mageean threw in the ball between Dublin and Antrim in final.

2012 Dublin Senior Football Championship

UCD, Ballyboden St Enda's, Raheny, St Oliver Plunkett's-Eoghan Ruadh, Skerries Harps, St Vincent's, St Peregrine's, Kilmacud Crokes, Trinity Gaels, Na Fianna, Ballymun Kickham's, St Patrick's Palmerstown, Parnells, Templeogue Synge Street, St Brigid's and Lucan Sarsfields all went on to qualify for the winners section of the second round of the Dublin Championship.

21 Years On

Recorded at the National Concert Hall, Dublin in 1983, this was the first album by The Dubliners to feature Seán Cannon, who joined the group when Luke Kelly could no longer perform regularly due to a brain tumour.

Adelaide Plains Football League

Football was certainly played in the other towns of Mallala, Dublin and Two Wells at that time with those clubs all officially forming in 1908.

Bellingham baronets

The Bellingham Baronetcy, of Dubber in the County of Dublin, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 18 March 1667 for Daniel Bellingham, Deputy Receiver-General and Vice-Treasurer of Ireland and Lord Mayor of Dublin.

Between the Canals

The film follows three small-time criminals as they pinball their way about Dublin on a boozy Saint Patrick's Day.

Carl Wilhelm Heine

After assisting his father in his orthopaedic institution he visited several European countries and stayed in Paris, London, Glasgow and Dublin.

Eugene O'Mahoney

Eugene O'Mahoney ( 1899 Dublin - 21 June 1951 Dublin ) was an Irish museum curator and entomologist who worked on Coleoptera, Mallophaga and Siphonaptera.

Frank Fahy

Fahy qualified as a barrister in 1927 at King's Inns, Dublin and also taught at the Christian Brothers school in Tralee.

Fromund Le Brun

He bought Roebuck Castle, in the south of Dublin in 1261; it is possible the purchase caused him financial loss since he was rumoured to be in heavy debt shortly before his death.

Gary Arbuthnot

Gary Arbuthnot gives regular recitals for Fred Olsen and Cunard Cruise Lines and he has also performed as a soloist at venues including the South Bank Centre in London, the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Pollack Hall in Montreal and the National Concert Hall in Dublin.

Harbin, Texas

Harbin is in the southwestern part of the county at the intersections of Fm-847 and the Fort Worth and Western Railroad 4 miles east-northeast of the City of Dublin.

Herbert Hasler

Hasler was born in Dublin on 27 February 1914, the youngest son of Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Hasler (a Royal Army Medical Corps quartermaster), and his wife, Annie Georgina (née Andrews).

Hillbilly's

Today the chain has nine locations throughout Ireland, including three restaurants in Cork, and restaurants in Derry, Dublin, Ennis, Letterkenny, Tralee, and Waterford.

Holme Moss transmitting station

The Isle of Man and parts of the Irish Republic, mainly Dublin and Wicklow, could receive a signal from Holme Moss for some years.

Horace Tennyson O'Rourke

Horace Tennyson O'Rourke, (1880–1963) was Dublin city architect for Dublin Corporation, now, Dublin City Council from 1922-1945.

John Ball

John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin University 1868–1875

John K'Eogh

He wrote Botanologia Universalis Hibernicaor, or a general Irish Herbal Cork, 1735, a herbal, or book about medicinal plants, written in Manx (not Irish but related), phonetic English, and Latin, Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica or, a Treatise on Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles or Insects known and propagated in this Kingdom, and Vindication of the Antiquities of Ireland Dublin, 1748, in which he gives an account of his family.

Joseph George Holman

Holman went to Dublin, where he took for a time a share with Frederick Edward Jones in the management.

Lodowick Bryskett

Bryskett describes a party of friends met at his cottage near Dublin, among whom were Dr. John Long, archbishop of Armagh, Captain Christopher Carleill, Captain Thomas Norris, Captain Warham St Leger, and Mr. Edmund Spenser, ‘once your lordship's secretary.

Margaret Ball

Two generations later this pattern was repeated when Francis Taylor, who was Mayor of Dublin 1595–1596, was condemned to the dungeons after exposing fraud in the parliamentary elections to the Irish House of Commons.

Mary McEvoy

Before becoming an actress McEvoy was employed at the Department of Agriculture in Dublin as a serological assistant testing for brucellosis.

Maurice Canning Wilks

His works are in public collections throughout the world including the Ulster Museum, Armagh County Museum, the Ulster Folk and Transportation Museum, the Office of Public Works in Dublin and the Limerick City Art Gallery.

MCD Productions

The company has hosted U2 before 246,000 over 3 shows in Croke Park, 135,000 for Robbie Williams 2003 and 107,000 for Red Hot Chili Peppers 2004 in the Phoenix Park, to bringing together David Bowie, Placebo and Talvin Singh for an event in Dublin.

Michael Arne

His opera The Maid of the Vale premiered at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin on 12 February 1775, and in December 1776 he was engaged by Thomas Ryder to produce Cymon in Dublin.

O'Connell Street, Limerick

:O'Connell Street is also the main street in Dublin, Ennis, Sligo and in various other towns around Ireland, and also the main street of North Adelaide

Patrick Denis O'Donnell

Patrick Denis O'Donnell died in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, after a long illness, and his remains were interred in Glasnevin Cemetery, following a funeral with military honours and a pall-bearer party from the 5th Infantry Battalion, whose insignia he designed, and in the presence of the Chief of Staff, Lt. General James Sreenan, and accompanied by surviving family members, relatives and friends.

Patrick Joseph Dillon

Dillon received his early education at school in Banagher, County Offaly and then entered the missionary seminary at All Hallows College, Dublin and was ordained priest on 25 October 1863.

Patrick McKeown

In 1997, shortly after graduating from Trinity College in Dublin with a Master Degree in Economics, Political Science and Social Studies, came across a publication in The Irish Independent, which was describing experimental breathing technique discovered in Russia by a Moscow physiologist Konstantin Buteyko.

Perry Como's Christmas Concert

Recorded live at the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, before an audience of 4,500, including Irish President Mary Robinson, it was also recorded on videotape and aired on PBS.

Rachel Joynt

She collaborated with Remco de Fouw to make Perpetual Motion (1995), a large sphere with road markings which stands on the Naas dual carriageway and featured as a visual shorthand for leaving Dublin in The Apology, a Guinness advert.

Robbie Brady

Born in Baldoyle, Dublin, Brady attended Pobalscoil Neasáin and was part of the under-16 all-Ireland champion team.

Samuel Myerscough

Bernard Vaughan S.J., gave up his job at the Cathedral and Dublin where he taught music in Loretto Abbey Rathfarnham.

Seán Lane

He won the Leinster Under-21 Hurling Championship with Dublin as manager in 2007 and went on to appear in the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final for the first time for Dublin in 35 years.

Shrewsbury Road

Shrewsbury Road (Bóthar Shrewsbury in Irish) is a street in Dublin, Ireland and was the sixth-most-expensive street in the world in 2007, ahead of more well-known streets such as the Via Suvretta in St. Moritz and Carolwood Drive in Beverly Hills.

Sir John Newport, 1st Baronet

He took part in the convention of volunteer delegates which met in Dublin under the presidency of James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont in November 1783, and was appointed a member of the committee of inquiry into the state of the borough representation in Ireland.

Swastika Laundry

The Swastika Laundry was a laundry founded in 1912, located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, a district of Dublin, Ireland.

The Gigli Concert

The Gigli Concert deals with seven days in the relationship between Dynamatologist JPW King, a quack self-help therapist living in Dublin but born and brought up in England, and the mysterious Irishman, a construction millionaire who asks King to teach him how to sing like the Italian opera singer Beniamino Gigli.

The Radiators from Space

The band played, including with guest vocalist Gavin Friday and guitarist Brush Shiels, at a tribute concert for Chevron on August 24, 2013 at the Olympia Theatre (Dublin).

Thomas Bourke, 4th Baron Bourke of Connell

Thomas had been preceded as Baron Bourke of Castleconnell by his two elder brothers, John (who sat in parliament in Dublin in 1585 and was slain in battle at Hounslow, Middlesex on January 14, 1592, leaving no issue) and Richard (slain in battle by Dermot O'Connor Sligo at Ballynecargy, County Limerick on February 28, 1599, also leaving no issue).

Thomas Heazle Parke

A bronze statue of Parke stands on Merrion Street in Dublin, outside the Natural History Museum.

Thomas Lancaster

His consecration took place, at the hands of Archbishop Loftus of Dublin, Hugh Brady the Bishop of Meath, and Robert Daly the Bishop of Kildare, on 13 June 1568, in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

Trinity Hall

Trinity Hall, Dublin, hall of residence of the University of Dublin, Trinity College

Westlink

West-Link, a toll bridge on the M50 motorway outside of Dublin, Ireland

William Blacker

He was confirmed Lord Dublin and was the great grandfather of Sir Cecil Blacker Commandant of Horse.

Yann Goulet

He was commissioned to create public works commemorating the IRA and other republicans, including the Custom House Memorial (Dublin), the East Mayo Brigade IRA Memorial, the Republican Memorial (Crossmaglen), and the Ballyseedy Memorial (Kerry).