Welcome to this electronic transcript of

Peter Costello’s

THE IRISH 100

A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL IRISH

MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL TIME

Transcribed by John O'Loughlin of Centretruths Digital Media

 

 

Introduction

St Patrick

Eamon de Valera

Michael Collins

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Charles Stewart Parnell

Mary Robinson

Patrick Henry Pearse

William Butler Yeats

John Boyle O'Reilly

Seamus Heaney

Wolfe Tone

George Best

George Boole

Sean Lemass

James Craig

James Connolly

Brian Boru

Alfred Harmsworth

Edmond Rice

Daniel O'Connell

Arthur Guinness

Sybil Connolly

Thomas Davis

Michael Davitt

James Joyce

Jack B Yeats

Archbishop Thomas Croke

Cyrus Hall McCormick

Van Morrison

Richard Croker

Joseph R McCarthy

Robert Boyle

Hugh O'Neill

Jonathan Swift

George Berkeley

U2

James Larkin

John Toland

Tony O'Reilly

David Trimble

John Louis O'Sullivan

Cardinal James Gibbons

John Devoy

Cardinal Paul Cullen

Eugene O'Neill

Grace O'Malley

St Columban

Samuel Beckett

George Bernard Shaw

Finley Peter Dunne

Archbishop Daniel Mannix

Maud Gonne MacBride and Constance Gore-Booth

John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Curry

Horace Plunkett

Sean O'Casey

Wiliam Cosgrave

John Hume

St Columcille

John Scotus Eriugena

Fr Charles Coughlin

Ian Paisley

Bernardo O'Higgins

Bob Geldof

Archbishop James Ussher

Patrick Sarsfield

William Thompson

Michael O'Clery

Ernest Walton

Phil Lynott

Peter Lalor

James Gandon

William Parsons - Lord Rosse

James Armour

Charles Bianconi

William Dargan

William Hamilton

Edmund Burke

Ernest Shackleton

William James Pirrie

Fr Theobald Matthew

Turlough Carolan

Charles Gavan Duffy

Eileen Gray

Count John McCormack

Joe McGrath

Thomas Francis Meagher

Richard Martin

Michael MacLiammoir

F Scott Fitzgerald

Mother Mary Aikenhead

Maria Edgeworth

John Barry

John Ford

Sir Roger Casement

Ned Kelly

John Boyd Dunlop

Oscar Wilde

T K Whitaker

Rex Ingram

Gerry Adams

 

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