Night Train with Reaper by London Irish artist Brian Whelan from the book Myth of Return, 2007

* 1941 – Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist ( b. 1856 )

John " Jack " Butler Yeats ( 29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957 ) was an Irish artist and Olympic medallist.

Despite his position as the most important Irish artist of the 20th century ( and the first to sell for over £ 1m ), he took no pupils and allowed no one to watch him work, so he remains a unique figure.

* 1839 – John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist ( d. 1922 )

* 1980 – John Foo, Irish martial artist and actor

* John Kindness, Irish artist

* July 16 – Victor Sloan, Irish artist

** Sir John Lavery, Irish artist ( b. 1856 )

* George Henry Smyth, Irish artist

* April 11 – Paul Henry, Irish artist ( d. 1958 )

* Basil Blackshaw, Irish artist

* September 6 – Christy Brown, Irish author, poet, and artist ( b. 1932 )

* August 9 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist ( b. 1810 )

* February 3 – John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist ( b. 1839 )

* March 16 – John Butler Yeats, Irish artist ( d. 1922 )

* March 10 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist ( d. 1886 )

** George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist ( b. 1867 )

** Sir John Lavery, Irish artist ( d. 1941 )

In a television interview shown in August 2000, when asked about what influence his Irish Catholic and Russian Jewish ancestry may have had on his life as a person and as an artist, Ford humorously stated " As a man I've always felt Irish, as an actor I've always felt Jewish.

* Ste V Roc, Irish hip-hop artist

* Joyce Cary ( 1888 – 1957 ), Irish novelist and artist

In 2004, Irish artist John Byrne created " Supper ", a 9. 3 by 2. 2 metre photo screen-printed onto vitreous enamel, depicting his modern Irish take on the painting with 13 everyday Dubliners.

In 1971, when asked by an Irish Times journalist on his thoughts regarding U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy's calls for a stronger peace initiative in Northern Ireland, Hogg slammed his fist on the table and exclaimed " those Roman Catholic bastards have no right to interfere!

All of Kennedy's grandparents had emigrated to Massachusetts in the 1840s to escape the Irish famine.

* Complete text and audio of John F. Kennedy's Address to the Irish Parliament from AmericanRhetoric. com

The film is notable for its lush photography of the Irish countryside and the long, climactic, semi-comic fist fight between Wayne and McLaglen.

The pair is often played with Irish accents, as in the Beckett on Film project.

Director Scorsese initially struggled selling his idea of realizing the film until DiCaprio became interested in playing protagonist Amsterdam Vallon, a young leader of the Irish faction, and thus, Miramax Films got involved with financing the project.

Webb formed his own production and publishing company that year, Canopy, and scored a hit with its first project, an unlikely album with Irish actor Richard Harris singing an album of all Jimmy Webb songs.

In 2006, Denzel worked alongside multi-talented Irish off-rock band the Script on their new project combining music and Hollywood.

Irish immigrants came to the area to labor on this project.

Almost immediately, the project of a legislative union between the British and Irish parliaments, which had been from time to time discussed since the beginning of the 18th century, was taken up in earnest by Pitt's government.

The project to convert the native Irish met with limited success in the 16th century: " in order to convert the native Irish, it needed native ministers ; but the supply of native ministers was meagre because the native Irish were unconverted " As a result, a gradualist policy towards ecclesiastical reform was adopted leading to " church papist " clergy and laity.

Consideration was given to reviving the project to build a new locomotive from the components of Irish Pete instead of purchasing a new boiler for Douglas and in early 1988 work recommenced on the rebuilding of the ex-Bord na Mona locomotive.

* The Irish Literary Theatre project ended.

Earle released Copperhead Road on Uni Records in 1989 which was characterized as " a quixotic project that mixed a lyrical folk tradition with hard rock and eclectic Irish influences such as the Pogues, who guested on the record ".

With momentum for the project growing, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions informed the society that they would not oppose their plan and the Building Trades Council gave it their support.

Lord Edward was among the advocates of the bolder course and there is some evidence that he favoured a project for the massacre of the Irish peers while in procession to the House of Lords for the trial of Lord Kingston in May 1798, despite the fact many were his own relations.

* On November 22, 2002 Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish ISM volunteer was shot and injured by IDF in Jenin minutes before UNRWA relief works project manager, Briton Iain Hook was killed nearby.

" Some criticised the film as an attempt to blacken the legacy of the 1916 Easter Rising and the subsequent Irish War of Independence in relation to the eruption of " the Troubles " in Northern Ireland at the time of the film's release, but approval of the project had started years before the Troubles.

Originally commissioned by Chicagoan Christopher Carley, the building site for the project was purchased by Irish developer Garrett Kelleher in July 2006 when Carley's financing plans fell through.

This led to Telford bringing in Irish navvies, to manage the shortfall, which led to further criticism, since one of the main aims of the project was to reduce unemployment in the Highlands.

Thousands of Irish and French Canadian immigrants used the Old Canada Road ( now a scenic byway ) section of U. S. Route 201 during the 19th century to find seasonal or project employment, and later make the Kennebec River Valley region their home.

However, when the Irish Parliament was abolished in 1800, the Bank abandoned the project and instead bought the former Parliament Buildings.

An Irish film titled Edgardo Mortara, based on the play and Kertzer's book, was planned to begin production via Miramax in October 2002 but the project was halted for lack of funds.

* Saint Patrick's Confessio Hypertext Stack a project by the Royal Irish Academy freely provides digital facsimiles of the Patrician Documents in the Book of Armagh.

Schönberg's next project with Boublil was The Pirate Queen, a musical about the 16th century Irish pirate, chieftain and adventuress Grace O ' Malley.

Dublin City University is the lead partner in this Irish research through Irish Fusion Association under the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology with 10 more University College Cork scientists taking part in the project as well under the auspices of Association Euratom DCU, which was established in 1996.