O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

Johnson, of Irish and Scottish descent and born in poverty, became a master tailor.

He was the oldest of ten children born to Hugh Brunty and Eleanor McCrory, poor Irish peasant farmers.

There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.

Born from a noble family of the province of Soule, his father Michel was born in Arrast-Larrebieu and his mother was Irish.

He was born in the Queens borough of New York, New York, as a son of Jayne ( née Quinlan ), of Irish descent, and John George Costas, an electrical engineer of Greek descent.

Charles was born to a mixed race family in Liverpool: his Guyanese father was black, and his mother was white Irish.

Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Maria ( née Branwell ) and her husband Patrick Brontë ( formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty ), an Irish Anglican clergyman.

Leary was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Irish Catholic immigrants.

His wife was born to a German American father and a mother with both Scottish and Irish ancestry.

Enya ( born Eithne Ní Bhraonáin,, anglicized as Enya Brennan, 17 May 1961 ) is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter.

Enya was born and brought up in Gweedore ( known in Irish as Gaoth Dobhair ), County Donegal, in the northwest corner of Ireland.

His father was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, to a family of Irish descent.

Hoover's mother, Hulda Randall ( Minthorn ) Hoover ( 1849 – 84 ), was born in Norwich, Ontario, Canada, of English and Irish descent.

One of the most obvious examples is the recurrent depiction of twins such as the Indic Asvins ' horsemen ,' the Greek horsemen Castor and Pollux, the legendary Anglo-Saxon settlers Horsa and Hengist [...] or the Irish twins of Macha, born after she had completed a horse race.

( Great-grandchildren and even more distant descendants of Irish immigrants may also register as Irish citizens, but only if the parent through whom they claim descent was registered as a citizen before the descendant in question was born.

According to the 2001 census, around 850, 000 people in Britain were born in Ireland and much of the working class has some Irish heritage.

The 2001 UK Census states that 869, 093 people born in Ireland are living in Great Britain, with over 10 % of the population ( over 6 million ) being of Irish descent.

People of the Irish diaspora who were not born in Ireland but who claim to be " Irish " are sometimes labelled as Plastic Paddies.

* Rose McGowan, actress, born in Italy to an Irish father and French mother

* Maureen O ' Hara, Irish born actress and celebrated Hollywood beauty.

* Eliza Lynch, Irish born mistress of President Francisco Solano López of Paraguay

* Anne Mortimer, Irish born English noblewoman

* 1718 – Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish painter ( d. 1784 )

* 1918 – Markey Robinson, Northern Irish painter ( d. 1999 )

However, he believed that ' a painter must be part of the land and of the life he paints ', and his own artistic development, as a Modernist and Expressionist, helped articulate a modern Dublin of the 20th century, partly by depicting specifically Irish subjects, but also by doing so in the light of universal themes such as the loneliness of the individual, and the universality of the plight of man.

* 1901 – Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator ( d. 1980 )

* January 28 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter ( b. 1918 )

* February 7 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter ( d. 1999 )

* November 7 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator ( died 1980 )

* November 10 – Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter

** John Cassidy, Irish sculptor and painter ( d. 1939 )

* Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter ( b. 1804 )

* August 13 – Martin Archer Shee, Irish painter and president of the Royal Academy ( b. 1770 )

** Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter ( d. 1886 )

* Nano Reid Artist ( 1900 – 1981 ), famous Irish painter of landscapes particularly Drogheda, the Boyne Valley and surrounding areas.

It is the subject of an eighteenth-century oil on canvas by Joseph-Benoît Suvée and a work by the eighteenth century Irish painter James Barry.

The word " panorama ", from Greek pan (" all ") horama (" view ") was coined by the Irish painter Robert Barker in 1792 to describe his paintings of Edinburgh, Scotland shown on a cylindrical surface, which he soon was exhibiting in London, as " The Panorama ".

Mulgrew was born in 1955 in Dubuque, Iowa, into an Irish Catholic family, to Thomas James " T. J ." Mulgrew II, a contractor, and Joan Virginia Mulgrew ( née Kiernan ), an artist and painter.

James Barry ( 11 October 1741 – 22 February 1806 ), Irish painter, best remembered for his six part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts.

O ' Gorman was born in Coyoacán, then a village to the south of Mexico City and now a borough of the Federal District, to an Irish father, Cecil Crawford O ' Gorman ( a painter himself ) and a Mexican mother.

The word was originally coined by the Irish painter Robert Barker to describe his panoramic paintings of Edinburgh and London.

* Birthplace of Richard Rothwell, ( 1800 – 1868 ) A nineteenth-century Irish portrait and genre painter.

Robert " Bobby " Ballagh ( born 22 September 1943 ) is an Irish artist, painter and designer.

Louis le Brocquy ( 10 November 1916 – 25 April 2012 ) was an Irish painter born in Dublin.

The same year he married the Irish painter Anne Madden and left London to work in the French Midi.

In Ireland, he is honoured as the first and only living painter to be included during his lifetime in the Permanent Irish Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.