The Irish 100 A Ranking of the Most Influential Irish Men and Women of All Time

by Costello, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780806523446
• ISBN10: 0806523441
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

Selected from Celtic times up to today, vivid portraits of the most famous Irish men and women throughout history make up this lively volume.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
St. Patrick	3	(4)
Eamon de Valera	7	(3)
Michael Collins	10	(3)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	13	(3)
Charles Stewart Parnell	16	(3)
Mary Robinson	19	(3)
Patrick Henry Pearse	22	(3)
William Butler Yeats	25	(3)
John Boyle O'Reilly	28	(3)
Patrick Ford	31	(3)
Wolfe Tone	34	(3)
Mike Quill	37	(3)
George Boole	40	(3)
Sean Lemass	43	(3)
James Craig, Lord Craigavon	46	(3)
James Connolly	49	(3)
Brian Boru	52	(3)
Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe	55	(3)
Edmund Rice	58	(3)
Daniel O'Connell	61	(3)
Arthur Guinness	64	(3)
Sybil Connolly	67	(3)
Thomas Davis	70	(3)
Michael Davitt	73	(3)
James Joyce	76	(3)
Jack B. Yeats	79	(3)
Archbishop Thomas Croke	82	(3)
Cyrus Hall McCormick	85	(3)
John L. Sullivan	88	(3)
Richard Croker	91	(3)
Joseph R. McCarthy	94	(4)
Robert Boyle	98	(3)
Hugh O'Neill	101	(3)
Jonathan Swift	104	(3)
George Berkeley	107	(3)
U2	110	(3)
James Larkin	113	(3)
John Toland	116	(4)
Tony O'Reilly	120	(3)
Terence Vincent Powderly	123	(3)
John Louis O'Sullivan	126	(3)
James Cardinal Gibbons	129	(3)
John Devoy	132	(4)
Paul Cardinal Cullen	136	(3)
Eugene O'Neill	139	(3)
Grace O'Malley	142	(3)
St. Columban	145	(2)
Samuel Beckett	147	(3)
George Bernard Shaw	150	(3)
Finley Peter Dunne	153	(3)
Archbishop Daniel Mannix	156	(3)
Maud Gonne MacBride and Constance Gore-Booth, the Countess Markievicz	159	(3)
John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Curry	162	(4)
Horace Plunkett	166	(3)
Sean O'Casey	169	(3)
William Cosgrave	172	(4)
John Hume	176	(3)
St. Columcille	179	(3)
John Scotus Eriugena	182	(2)
Fr. Charles Coughlin	184	(5)
Ian Paisley	189	(3)
Bernardo O'Higgins	192	(3)
Bob Geldof	195	(3)
Archbishop James Ussher	198	(4)
Patrick Sarsfield	202	(4)
William Thompson	206	(3)
Michael O'Clery	209	(3)
Ernest Walton	212	(3)
Phil Lynott	215	(3)
Peter Lalor	218	(3)
James Gandon	221	(2)
William Parsons, Lord Rosse	223	(3)
James Armour	226	(4)
Charles Bianconi	230	(3)
William Dargan	233	(3)
Sir William Rowan Hamilton	236	(3)
Edmund Burke	239	(4)
Ernest Shackleton	243	(3)
William James Pirrie	246	(3)
Fr. Theobald Mathew	249	(3)
Turlough Carolan	252	(3)
Charles Gavan Duffy	255	(3)
Archbishop John Joseph Hughes	258	(3)
William R. Grace	261	(3)
Joe McGrath	264	(3)
Thomas Francis Meagher	267	(4)
Richard Martin	271	(3)
James T. Farrell	274	(3)
F. Scott Fitzgerald	277	(3)
Mother Mary Aikenhead	280	(3)
Maria Edgeworth	283	(2)
John Barry	285	(3)
John Ford	288	(3)
Sir Roger Casement	291	(4)
Ned Kelly	295	(3)
William Brown	298	(3)
Oscar Wilde	301	(4)
T. K. Whitaker	305	(3)
John O'Hara	308	(3)
Gerry Adams	311	(4)
Further Reading	315	(12)
Index	327