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Born 1259?
Died July 29, 1326 • near Cashel • Ireland
House / Dynasty Burgh family
Sorley Boy MacDonnell
Scots-Irish chieftain
Walter Devereux, 1st earl of Essex
English soldier
Arthur Chichester, Baron Chichester
English lord deputy of Ireland
Hugh de Lacy, earl of Ulster
Anglo-Norman lord
John de Courci
Anglo-Norman conqueror
John Banim
Irish author
Michael Banim
Irish author
William Burke
Irish criminal
Niall Horan
Irish singer
Samuel Ferguson
Irish writer
Edith Somerville
Irish writer
Violet Martin
Irish writer
William Hare
Irish criminal
William Henry O’Shea
Irish nationalist
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
James Joyce
James Joyce
Irish author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
George Berkeley
George Berkeley
Irish philosopher
William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet