List of Cork people

List of Cork people

Cork is the second city and largest county of the Republic of Ireland, and has produced several noted artists, entertainers, politicians and business-people.

List of Cork people

Historical and/or political figures

* John Anderson - Businessman
* Sir John Arnott - Businessman Newspaper Owner
* Anthony Barry - Politician, photographer
* Peter Barry - Tánaiste
* Tom Barry - guerilla leader during war of independence, author of the book "Guerilla days in Ireland"
* Joseph Brennan - civil servant
* Patrick Cleburne - Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
* Michael Collins - revolutionary leader, and Chairman of Provisional Government
* Simon Coveney - Teachta Dála and MEP
* Hugh Coveney - government minister
* Thomas Croke - Archbishop of Cashel
* Eileen Desmond - government minister, Senator, MEP
* Gerald Goldberg - first Jewish lord mayor
* William Baylor Hartland - Plant Breeder/Seedsman
* Ellen Hutchins - Botanist
* Mother Jones - famous labour organiser born near Cork
* Jim Lane - republican socialist
* Cornelius Lucey - Bishop of Cork and Ross
* Jack Lynch - taoiseach and hurler
* Terence MacSwiney - lord mayor and hunger striker
* Micheál Martin - government minister and lord mayor
* Daniel Mannix - Archbishop of Melbourne
* Stephen Moylan - Quartermaster General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
* William O'Brien - Nationalist politician and MP., founder All-for-Ireland League
* Batt O'Keeffe - government minister
* Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - nationalist
* Daniel Florence O'Leary - South American brigadier general
* Michael O' Riordan - socialist politician
* John Roach (shipbuilder)
* Adi Roche - humanitarian campaigner
* Brendan Ryan - Senator and lecturer at CIT
* D. D. Sheehan - Nationalist politician and first Labour MP.
* Kathy Sinnott - MEP
* William Thompson - political and philosophical writer

Sports

* Mick Barry - bowler(road)
* Denis Irwin - international footballer
* Roy Keane - international footballer
* Sam Maguire - GAA sportsman
* Teddy McCarthy - GAA sportsman played on both Cork hurling & football double winning teams
* Liam Miller - international footballer
* Tony Mullane - major league baseball playercite book |editor=Reichler, Joseph L.| title=The Baseball Encyclopedia |origyear=1969 |edition= 4th edition |year= 1979|publisher= Macmillan Publishing |location= New York|language= |id= ISBN 0-02-578970-8 ]
* Donncha O'Callaghan - Rugby Union player
* Pat O'Callaghan, Dr. - twice Olympic Gold Medal winner
* Ronan O'Gara - Rugby Union player
* Seán Óg Ó hAilpín - hurler
* Sonia O'Sullivan - world champion athlete and cross country runner
* Christy Ring - hurler
* Peter Stringer - Rugby Union player
* Derval O'Rourke - World Indoor Champion Hurdler 2006 and European outdoor Silver medallist 2006
* Joe Deane - hurler
* Graham Canty - footballer and international rules captain

Film and Entertainment

* Eddie Hobbs - TV personality
* Danny La Rue, OBE - female impersonator
* Fergal Keane, OBE - BBC journalist
* Cillian Murphy - actor
* Edward Mulhare - TV actor
* Graham Norton - TV personality
* Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - actor
* Fiona Shaw, CBE - actor
* Niall Tóibín - comic actor

Literature

* Conal Creedon - playwright Fact|date=May 2008
* Frank O'Connor - author
* P.A. Ó Síocháin - journalist, author, lawyer and Irish language activist
* Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan - Catholic priest, author, political activist
* William Wall - author
* Seán Ó Faoláin - writer

Music and arts

* Abraham Abell - antiquarian
* Berkus - artist and musician
* Cathal Coughlan - singer songwriter
* Jimmy Crowley - traditional musician Fact|date=May 2008
* Robert Day - antiquarian, photographer 1836-1914
* Mick Flannery - singer/songwriter
* Aloys Fleischmann- composer, professor of music UCC
* The Frank and Walters - band
* Rory Gallagher - singer/songwriter and guitarist
* John Hogan - sculptor
* Sir Hugh Lane - patron of arts
* Gladys Leach - painter Fact|date=May 2008
* Charles Lynch - classical pianist
* Daniel Maclise - artist
* Jimmy McCarthy - singer songwriter
* Diarmuid O'Dálaigh - poet Fact|date=May 2008
* Sean O'Hagan - musician
* Anthony Ruby - painter
* Brian Smyth - painter
* John Spillane - singer songwriter
* Stump (band) - band
* The Sultans Of Ping - band
* Henry Jones Thaddeus - painter

Cork "Characters"

* Thady Quill historical rake

References

ee also

* Lord Mayor of Cork
* List of Irish people


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