MOST WORLDWIDE FAMOUS IRISH PERSON IN THE HISTORY OF IRELAND

Bono by a country mile

Bono

who is Bono? I suppose having to ask that question rules him out of the list!

roy keane

enya
jedward(cloning experiment gone wrong)
bishop casey
fr ted
colin farrell
johnny logan
theres no one as irish as barrack obama!!!!

Tommy Peoples?????? A fine fiddle player but hardly known that well in Ireland let alone the worls. You are obviously taking the piss with him in there and pretending you have never heard of Bono.

Michael Flatley isn't Irish

Sham the yanks etc won't learn to pronounce bonos' name ffs !!!

Count John McCormack was in his day the most successful recording artist in the world.

Robert Boyle -father of modern day chemistry
hth

(Father) Neil Horan . Nap

Duke of Weelington I'd say

*Wellington*

roy keane?

I can't see many people in USA knowing who Roy Keane is

Bono for me

Maybe Pierse Brosnan (given that he played James Bond) or maybe Liam Neeson

Saint Paddy!

Bono or possibly Geldof.

REV IAN

st paddy was welsh

Oscar Wilde has not been mentioned.

REVISED LIST BASED ON THIS FORUM RESPONSES AND PUB DISCUSSION LAST NIGHT

Bono (lead singer from U2)
Bob Geldof (tramp, singer and fund raiser)
Oscar Wilde (writer poet)
Pierce Brosnan
Arthur Guin.ess

Padraig Harrington must be up there?? Well known throughout the states and Europe and a winner of tournaments in Japan and China.

Now and a hundred years hence when no one knows Bonio dickhead, George Bernard Shaw/ Oscar Wilde

Samuel "The Bankbuster" Morse an appalling ommission imo

legend"full bank job"100 a very famous name?

Possibly Liam Neeson at present . Changes from generation to generation . Sportswise Padraig , used to be Sonia , etc .

Samuel Beckett.
James Joyce.
Oscar Wilde.

William Butler Yeats

Bono would have to be the most famous Irish Person going.

Not right but you would struggle to find many foriegners who have not heard about him in some regard.

not sure many know that Bono is Irish, i met a bunch of yanks last summer...all ages..from 16 up to 50. U2 came on TV in the background, i said...ah Bono, one of our more famous exports. Not one of them (there was at least 10 of them) knew that he was actually Irish. They assumed he was American!

OK THE FINAL 3 CONTENDERS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

BONO
JIMMY CRICKET
OSCAR WILDE

PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTES.... ONE VOTE PER FORUMITE .... VOTING CLOSES MONDAY 7PM

Bram stoker has to be in there, not that many know he is Irish though, most assume he is English but an Irishman he is none the less

VASCO THANKS FOR YOUR INPUT BUT WE ARE ALREADY DOWN TO THE FINAL 3 SELECTIONS, BESIDES BRAM STOKER??? WHO THE FECK IS HE, HE WOULDN'T MAKE IT ON TO THE LONG SHORTLIST!

KEEP WITH THE THREAD AND VOTE FOR ONE OF THE 3 OR JUST FECK OFF
THANKS

BONO
JIMMY CRICKET
OSCAR WILDE

Robert Boyle gets my vote
(Bram Stoker wrote Dracula)

I vote for Henry Shefflin. The King. Everyone knows The King.

Che Guevara

robert boyle?is he anthing to that fearless layer john boyle!?!

Have to do it by category , how many know Boyle(s law) ?   Daniel O'Connell was famous 2 centuries ago , not a mention here I suspect . Lucky St Patrick was not Irish , he might figure otherwise .

AND THE WINNER BY A WIDE MARGIN WAS JIMMY CRICKET

Barack O'Bama

Ireland really does not have that many world known famous people from a historical point of view. In part due to its small size and in part due to its history. It has not a rich legacy of inventors who changed the world or artists or musicians who will be remembered hundreds of years from now.

I would say Irelands biggest legacy to the world would be its immigrants who went to America.

robert boyle?is he anthing to that fearless layer john boyle!?!

Boyles' Law - thou shalt not lay two banana to wan...

Has to be Aiden Mcgeady!

Ronnie O'Brien from Bray was voted Time Magazines' Person of Century when he was playing for LS Dallas in 2000, He just pipped Nelson Mandela

G.B.Shaw
Chaim Herzog
Thomas John Barnardo
Ernest Shackleton
Arthur ****ss
Richard Hennessy
Jonathon Swift
Greer Garson
Arkle

st patrick clear winner

st patrick was born in wales.

Micky Finn

arthur ****ss?

guinn..?is that banned?wonder why

****

****?why is this banned?