The Ard rí Érenn (High Kings of Ireland)
Cormac Mac Airt
Cormac Mac Airt (also known as“Corbmac” from Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig) was a high king of Ireland (an Ard ri Érenn) from Irish…
Irish personalities : the must-haves
Conor McGregor
He was the first fighter in UFC history to hold two world titles simultaneously. On the journey from the boxing gyms of…
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett is one of the greatest Irish writers of the 20th century. An excellent playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize…
Cecelia Ahern
Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist and daughter of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Considered a rising star of Irish literature, her many…
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle is a contemporary Irish writer born in Dublin in May 1958. As a novelist, his works have always been widely…
Robert McLiam Wilson
Eureka Street is his best novel, and Robert McLiam Wilson has been described as a true writing prodigy… An avid lover of…
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (real name Jonathan Michael Francis O’Keefe), is an Irish actor, best known for his starring role as Henry VIII in…
Gerry Conlon
Gerry Conlon (1954-2014), is a Northern Irishman who was a victim of the terrible miscarriage of justice of the "Guildford Four". Wrongly…
Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender has been a well-known German-Irish actor since late 2005. Considered a rising star on the silver screen, the young man…
Irish Actors and Actresses Irish nationalists
Maud Gonne
Irish history has been marked by the passage of strong women who have left their mark on the collective consciousness. Maud Gonne…