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Samuel Beckett (1906 -1989)

Born in Dublin. Author and playwright. ‘Waiting for Godot.'(Roger Pic, Wikimedia Commons)

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Born in Dublin. Writer ‘The Dubliners, Portrait of the artist as a young man,’ Finnegans Wake and Ulysses.” (Conrad Ruf, Wikimedia Commons)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Born in Dublin. Poet and playwright. ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.’ (Napoleon Sarony, Wikimedia Commons)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Poet. Born in Dublin. (Alice Broughton, Wikimedia Commons)

Colin Farrell

Actor. Born in Dublin in 1976.(Tony Shek, Wikimeia CCA 2.0)

Bob Geldof

Singer, Songwriter. Born in Dublin in 1951. (Stefan Schäfer, Lich, Wikimedia CCA 3.0)

Bono (Paul David Hewson)

Singer Born in Dublin in 1960. (Daniel Hazard,, Wikimedia CCA 4.0)

John Hume

Born in Northern Ireland in 1937. Recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize. (Der Oli Gneisti, Wikimedia CCA 2.5)

Liam Neeson

Actor. Born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland in 1952.(Georges Biard, Wikimedia CCA 3.0)

Mary Robinson

Born in Ballina, County Mayo in 1944. Ireland’s first female president.(World_Economic_Forum, Wikimedia CCA 2.0)

Pierce Brosnan

Actor. Born in Drogheda in 1953. (Rita Molnar, WIkimedia CCA 2.5)

Michael Collins

Politican during the struggle for Irish independence. Born in Woodfield, County Cork in 1890. (Wikimedia Commons)