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Revision as of 14:34, 11 October 2012
The category: Irish, highlights the national and linguistic identity of people, associated with Ireland and Irish language and culture.
Overview
The Irish people are an ethnic group that primarily inhabit Ireland and speak the Irish language or the English language (circa 80 million).
Most Irish today live together within the borders of independent Ireland or in the United Kingdom's autonomous region of Northern Ireland (circa 5 million). There are Irish minorities in the nearby United Kingdom, and sizeable populations of immigrants and their descendants in the United States (with circa 40 million Irish-Americans), Canada, Australia, Argentina, and other countries.
In Depth
- Irish Scholars / Irish Authors -- biographies
See also: Ireland -- English language -- Irish Scholarship -- Irish Fiction
External links
Subcategories
This category has only the following subcategory.
Pages in category "Irish"
The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
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- John Toland (1670-1722), scholar
- George Croly (M / Ireland, 1780-1860), novelist
- Samuel Davidson (1807-1898), scholar
- Aubrey De Vere (1814-1902), playwright
- Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy
- George Salmon (1819-1904), scholar
- Briton Rivière (1840-1920), artist
- George Moore (1852-1933), novelist & playwright
- Oscar Wilde (M / Ireland, Britain, 1854-1900), playwright
- John Henry Bernard (1860-1927), scholar
- Cathal O'Byrne (1867-1957), novelist
- Alan Hugh McNeile (1871-1933), scholar
- Ernest Temple Thurston (1879-1933), playwright
- Donn Byrne (1889-1928), novelist
- Geraldine Dorothy Cummins (1890-1969), visionary
- Niall MacGinnis (M / Ireland, 1913-1977), actor
- Leonard Wibberley (1915-1983), novelist
- Siobhan McKenna (F / Ireland, 1923-1986), actor
- Martin McNamara (1930-), scholar
- John Dominic Crossan (b.1934), scholar
- Seán Freyne (1935-2013), scholar
- Jerome Murphy-O'Connor (M / Ireland, Israel, 1935-2013), scholar
- Herbie Brennan (b.1940), novelist
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (b.1942), poet
- Thomas L. Brodie (b.1943), scholar
- John J. Collins (1946-), scholar
- Colm Tóibín