Similar examples may be found in Irish poet William Butler Yeats ' poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own ageing self.

Irish poet Seamus Heaney's Casualty ( published in Field Work, 1981 ) criticizes Britain for the death of his friend.

* The 20th-century Irish poet Louis MacNeice references Catullus in his poem " Epitaph for Liberal Poets ," where he mentions Catullus as amongst the first liberal poets-" Catullus / went down young ," mentioning him in the context of the death of the individual and recognising his and the universal plight.

* 1860 – Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish novelist and poet ( d. 1939 )

* 1791 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet ( d. 1823 )

* 1929 – John Montague, Irish poet

One of the objectors was the property-owner, Dr Gogarty, the father of the Irish poet, Oliver St. John Gogarty.

The house and lands of the poet Thomas Tickell were sold in 1790 to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first Botanic Gardens.

In 1803, Irish poet Thomas Moore arrived in Bermuda, having been appointed registrar to the Admiralty there.

* 1939 – Michael Longley, Irish poet

He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats, and the brother of the Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler Yeats.

* 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer ( b. 1904 )

* 1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet ( d. 1852 )

* 1810 – Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet ( d. 1886 )

* 1957 – Seán Mac Falls, Irish poet

* 1947 – Trevor Joyce, Irish poet

* Oscar ( opera ), an opera about Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet by composer Theodore Morrison to be presented by The Santa Fe Opera in 2013.

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), Irish writer and poet

CMG between 1911 and shortly before his execution for treason, when he was stripped of his British honours — was a humanitarian campaigner and an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist.

* 1907 – Louis MacNeice, Irish poet ( d. 1963 )

Terence Alan Patrick Seán " Spike " Milligan KBE ( 16 April 191827 February 2002 ) was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor of English and Irish parentage.

William Butler Yeats ( ; 13 June 186528 January 1939 ) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.

* March 20 – Brendan Behan, Irish poet and writer ( b. 1923 )

* 1868 – Thomas D ' Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.

* 1868 – Thomas D ' Arcy McGee, Irish Nationalist, journalist, and Father of Canadian confederation ( b. 1825 )

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.

* 1813 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist ( d. 1885 )

In spring 1936, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara ( b. 1913 ), a 22 year old blonde-haired, blue-eyed dancer of Irish descent.

The Irish Volunteers — the smaller of the two forces resulting from the September 1914 split over support for the British war effort — set up a " headquarters staff " that included Patrick Pearse as Director of Military Organisation, Joseph Plunkett as Director of Military Operations and Thomas MacDonagh as Director of Training.

* 1534 – The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.

Both the Cape Colony and the Colony of Natal had Irish prime ministers: Sir Thomas Upington, " The Afrikaner from Cork "; and Sir Albert Hime, from Kilcoole in County Wicklow.

* Murray, Thomas ( 1919 ) The Story of the Irish in Argentina

* Part One of Booknotes interview with Thomas Keneally on The Great Shame and the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World, January 2, 2000.

* 1845 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist and humanitarian ( d. 1905 )

The then Attorney General for England and Wales ( Sir Thomas Inskip ) is reported to have warned the then Attorney-General of the Irish Free State ( Conor Maguire ) that Ireland had no right to abolish appeals to the Privy Council.

Irish historian W. H. Grattan Flood claimed that he was born in Dalkey, near Dublin, but no corroborating evidence has ever been found either for that statement or for Thomas Fuller's claim that he was born in Westminster.

* 1746 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist ( b. 1660 )

* 1885 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist ( b. 1813 )

* 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.

In 1578, to further the plans of exiled English and Irish Catholics such as Nicholas Sanders, William Allen, and James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald, Gregory outfitted adventurer Thomas Stukeley with a ship and an army of 800 men to land in Ireland to aid in the hope for overthrow of Elizabeth's rule through the Catholic leader and former leader of the first Desmond rebellion, Fitzmaurice.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu ( 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873 ) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels.

In 1847 Le Fanu supported John Mitchel and Thomas Francis Meagher in their campaign against the indifference of the government to the Irish Famine.

Among them were the astronomer Tycho Brahe, the chemical physician Paracelsus, the Irish philosopher Robert Boyle, and the English philosophers Thomas Browne and Isaac Newton.

The travelling salesman problem was defined in the 1800s by the Irish mathematician W. R. Hamilton and by the British mathematician Thomas Kirkman.