List of Famous people born in Ireland
Sinéad Cusack
Sinéad Moira Cusack is an Irish stage, television and film actress. Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, before moving to London in 1975 to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. She has won the Critics' Circle and Evening Standard Awards for her performance in Sebastian Barry's Our Lady of Sligo.
Ardal O'Hanlon
Ardal O'Hanlon is an Irish comedian and actor. He played Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted, George Sunday/Thermoman in My Hero, and DI Jack Mooney in Death in Paradise.
Stephen Kenny
Stephen Kenny is a football manager and former player who is currently manager of the Republic of Ireland. He had formerly managed Longford Town, Bohemians, Derry City, Dunfermline Athletic, Shamrock Rovers and Dundalk. He is one of Ireland's most successful ever managers having won 8 major trophies with Dundalk, and boasts extensive experience in European competition.
Thomas McMahon
Thomas McMahon is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and was one of the IRA's most experienced bomb-makers. McMahon was convicted of the murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten and three others off the coast of Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the west of Ireland.
Liam Cunningham
Liam Cunningham is an Irish actor. He is known for playing Davos Seaworth in the HBO epic-fantasy series Game of Thrones.
Damien Duff
Uefa European u18 championship.winner
Conrad Logan
Conrad Joseph Logan is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Stamford.
Art Parkinson
Art Parkinson is an Irish actor from Moville in Inishowen, County Donegal, in Ulster. He began his professional acting career at the age of seven. He is best known for his role as Rickon Stark on the HBO series Game of Thrones, and Kubo in the film Kubo and the Two Strings.
Anthony Stokes
Anthony Christopher Stokes is an Irish professional footballer, who plays as a striker. He was also an Irish international, having played at the under-21, team B and Republic of Ireland national football team.
Lenny Abrahamson
Leonard Ian Abrahamson is an Irish film and television director. He is known for directing such praised independent films as Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (2007), What Richard Did (2012), and Frank (2014), all of which contributed to Abrahamson's six Irish Film and Television Awards.