Top ten Irish of all time .

[smegmore]

Joey Dunlop.

No contest.

[VinceFox]

Hard-Drive said:

By my reckoning, you only have 7 left after this lot...

• sigh

[majordad]

Motorsport ones

Eddie Jordan
Eddie Irvine
Bertie Fisher
Joey Dunlop
Billy Coleman
Paddy Hopkirk
John Watson
Garry Anderson
Austin McHale
Rosemary Smith

[Odhran]

In no particular order:

Seamus Heaney
Michael Collins
Constance Markievicz
John Hume
James Connolly
Seosamh MacGrianna
Henry Joy McCracken
Mairtín Ó Direain
Dr James McDonnell
St Patrick

[Amirhussain]

No Liam Neeson?...

[majordad]

Amirhussain said:

No Liam Neeson?...

Nah, we're talking about GREAT Irishmen/women!

[MrADC]

Odhran said:

In no particular order:

Seamus Heaney
Michael Collins
Constance Markievicz
John Hume
James Connolly
Seosamh MacGrianna
Henry Joy McCracken
Mairtín Ó Direain
Dr James McDonnell
St Patrick

A rather partisan list no doubt...but to highlight the somewhat obvious: neither Constance Markievicz nor St Patrick were Irish....but Arthur Wellesley most certainly was. Damn those pesky facts!

[tiger289]

Johnny Logan

[jfbrin]

Jack Charlton?

[Ireland]

Twink

[prideaux]

Gay Burn

[ShiresV2]

John Redmond

[paul2000]

no alex higgings

[renaultgeek]

majordad said:

Motorsport ones

Eddie Jordan
Eddie Irvine
Bertie Fisher
Joey Dunlop
Billy Coleman
Paddy Hopkirk
John Watson
Garry Anderson
Austin McHale
Rosemary Smith

Eugene laverty would be in there.

[mantadaft100]

Eddie Kerr!

[Sine Metu]

Brian Boru

[73 Duchess]

Sine Metu,

And where was Brian Boru from Pots? The battle of....

[epom]

Graham Norton?
Has to be room for Phil Lynnot on there, the closest we came to a modern day poet.

[Locknut]

Last summer Garth Brooks might have made it onto that list!

...and speaking of 2014 (slightly off topic) it was exactly 1,000 years since Brian Boru was killed at the battle of Clontarf, so why did we not demand an apology from the Danes?

[JuniorD]

Aine Chambers from Sligo