Famous People: Legends of Irish Descent
This Irish actor is known for his famous line, “I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you.”
Who is Liam Neeson?
This Irish American boxer was nicknamed “Cinderella Man.”
Who is James Braddock?
This Irish Saint is known for driving snakes out of Ireland.
Who is Saint Patrick?
This Irish-American gangster, nicknamed "Scarface," was famously taken down by law enforcement in 1931.
Who is Al Capone?
This Irish-American poet and playwright won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
Who is William Butler Yeats?
This famous Irish actor is known for his performance in the TV show Peaky Blinders and the movie Oppenheimer.
Who is Cillian Murphy?
This Irish-American actress won an Academy Award for her role in the film My Left Foot in 1989.
Who is Daniel Day-Lewis?
This is the Irish nickname for the Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
What is an Irish Explosive Device?
This Irish-American politician and former Speaker of the House of Representatives was the first woman to hold that position.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
This Irish-American author wrote Angela’s Ashes, a memoir that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
Who is Frank McCourt?
This Irish actor is known for his recent performances as the Penguin in the Batman 2022 movie and the Penguin 2024 TV show.
Who is Colin Farrell?
This Irish-American astronaut was the command module pilot for Apollo 11.
Who is Michael Collins?
This Irish-American actor is known for his roles in There Will Be Blood and Lincoln, and has won three Academy Awards.
Who is Daniel Day-Lewis?
This Irish-American Supreme Court justice served from 1910 to 1932 and is remembered for his liberal decisions.
Who is Pierce Butler?
This Irish-American artist was a key figure in the Ashcan School of painting and known for urban realism.
Who is George Bellows?
This iconic United States Democratic President was assassinated.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This Irish scientist and chemist, known as the “Father of Modern Chemistry,” is credited with creating Boyle’s Law.
Who is Robert Boyle?
This Irish-American city is known as the "City of Bridges" and is home to Carnegie Mellon University.
What is Pittsburgh?
This former mayor of Boston was the first Irish Catholic nominee for President of the United States in 1928.
Who is Al Smith?
This Irish-American author wrote A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a classic semi-autobiographical novel published in 1943.
Who is Betty Smith?
This Irish musician is known for the single “Take Me to Church” that reached number two on the U.S. Billboard.
Who is Hozier?
This Irish-American author wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
This Irish-American architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, one of the most famous modern buildings in the world.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
This U.S. political party, formed in 1850, opposed immigration, especially Catholic Irish immigration.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
This Irish-American writer is best known for his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, that became a cultural phenomenon.
Who is Douglas Adams?