Born in Cork, Ireland, he is the brother of director John Crowley.

Born in County Cork, Ireland, Cleburne served in the 41st Regiment of Foot a Welsh regiment of the British Army after failing to gain entrance into Trinity College of Medicine in 1846.

Born in Scotland, Cockburn grew up in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland.

Born and raised in the Turner's Cross area of Cork, Martin was the son of Paddy Martin ( 1923 – 2012 ), a former Irish international boxer and CIÉ employee, and Eileen " Lana " Corbett ( 1929 – 2010 ).

Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, and raised in Cork, Gallagher recorded solo albums throughout the 1970s and 1980s, after forming the band Taste during the late 1960s.

Born in London in 1947, Cockburn grew up in County Cork, Ireland.

Born at 22 Quaker Road, Cork City, County Cork, Ireland, and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers, Mulhare intended to study medicine, but was sidetracked by a growing interest in acting.

Born in County Cork, Ireland, O ' Reilly moved to California with his family six weeks after he was born.

Born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland, Anglin emigrated at the age of 26 as part of the exodus caused by the Irish Potato Famine.

Born in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, he studied medicine in Paris and immigrated to Lower Canada in 1823 where he became involved in the political reform movement of the Parti patriote.

Born in Cork, Ireland, later living in England, Russell attended the University of Cambridge briefly.

Born in County Cork in 1924, Marcus was the much-loved editor of numerous anthologies of Irish fiction and poetry, including the Phoenix Irish Short Stories collections.

Born in Iniscarra in County Cork, Ireland, Scanlan was ordained a priest on June 22, 1930 for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Born as John Francis Whelan in Cork City, County Cork, Ireland, Sean Ó Faoláin wrote his first stories in the 1920s.

Born in Loughrea, Co. Galway, O ' Kelly was educated locally and began his career as a journalist with the Cork newspaper, The Southern Star.

Born in Drimnagh, he moved to Cork, at one year old and was raised there with his three younger brothers, Jamie, Alan, and Paul, who are all professional musicians.

Born in Cork he worked as a railway clerk, he converted in 1892 to the Anglican church.

Born in Cork, the son of a publican, O ' Leary was educated at Presentation College, University College Cork and Columbia University, New York, King's Inns On returning to Ireland, he became involved in Labour politics and was employed as Education Officer for the Irish Transport and General Workers Union ( ITGWU ).

Born at Belvelly, near Cobh, County Cork in 1845, Cashman came to the United States around 1850 with her mother and her sister.

Born near Charleville in County Cork, Ireland, Mannix was the son of a tenant farmer, Timothy Mannix, and his wife Ellen, née Cagney.

Born in County Cork, Ireland, he was educated at Brighton College.

Born Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock in Dublin, Ireland, the son of a clergyman.

Born in Ireland, he emigrated to America early in life, working in a variety of unskilled jobs before attending the University of Kansas to read law.

Born in 1719 in Ulster, Ireland, William and his brother Thomas were able to leave Ireland before oppression and depression reached its peak.

Born in Clontibret, Co Monaghan, Ireland, he had previously served as a Colonel in the United States Army before resigning his commission and becoming active in the Fenian Brotherhood.

Born into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, he was the second son of The 5th Earl of Longford, of the second creation, in the Peerage of Ireland.

Born in 1866, Bloom is the only son of Rudolf Virág ( a Hungarian Jew from Szombathely who emigrated to Ireland, converted from Judaism to Protestantism, changed his name to Rudolph Bloom and later committed suicide ), and of Ellen Higgins, an Irish Protestant.

Born in Dublin, Ireland the son of a French Huguenot refugee, he was educated at Trinity College.

Born when the Uí Ímair ruled over large areas of Britain and Ireland, by his death the kingdom of Dublin was a minor power in Irish politics.

Born in Camnish, near Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland he became a leading member of both Young Ireland and the Irish Confederation.

Born in Ahascragh, in the West of Ireland, he lived with his parents, seven brothers and sister across the road from the village church.

Born in Barnsley, England with an Irish father, he played for the Republic of Ireland on 57 occasions.

Born in Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at University of Cambridge, where he served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903.

Born into a class that identified closely with British rule, her conversion to cultural nationalism, as evidenced by her writings, was emblematic of many of the political struggles to occur in Ireland during her lifetime.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, the fifth of nine children of Thomas and Mary English Corrigan, both of whom had emigrated from Ireland.

Born in Ireland, he was educated at the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leiden and Oxford and was influenced by the philosophy of John Locke.

Born in Ireland, Taylor immigrated to the American colonies at age 20, landing in Philadelphia in 1736.

Born in Ireland, Burke had trained as a lawyer before abandoning this field and turning to writing.

Born John Gerard Smyth, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Smyth, upon joining the Norbertine Roman Catholic religious order in 1945, changed his name to Brendan.

Born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, he was educated in Ireland and later spent 5 years in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

Born of English parents in Ireland, Jonathan Swift was working as Sir William Temple's secretary at the time he composed A Tale of a Tub ( 1694 – 1697 ).