CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
Henry Grattan
Daniel O’Connell
Maria Edgeworth
Tom Moore
Father Mathew
William Dargan
Earl of Rosse
Cardinal Cullen
Charles Stewart Parnell
Sir John Pope Hennessy
Mrs Cecil Alexander
Oscar Wilde
Lord Morris of Spiddal
Archbishop Croke
Michael Davitt
The O’Conor Don
Sir W. H. Russell
John Millington Synge
Sir Luke O’Connor
John Redmond
Cardinal Gibbons
Michael Collins
Erskine Childers
Thomas Crean V. C.
Lord Pirrie
Lord MacDonnell
Kevin O’Higgins
Countess Markievicz
John Devoy
John Woulfe Flanagan
T. P. O’Connor
Sir Horace Plunkett
Lady Gregory
George Moore
Edward Carson
William Butler Yeats
Sir John Lavery
James Joyce
Sarah Purser
John McCormack
Douglas Hyde
Edith Somerville
John Dulanty
Evie Hone
William Francis Casey
Margaret Burke Sheridan
Archbishop Gregg
Sean O’Casey
Jimmy O’Dea
William T. Cosgrave
Frank O’Connor
Lady Hanson
Sean Lemass
Lord Brookeborough
George O’Brien
Kate O’Brien
Eamon de Valera
John A. Costello
Brian Faulkner
Professor Frances Moran
Micheál Mac Liammóir
Professor F. S. L. Lyons
Anita Leslie
Frederick H. Boland
Siobhan McKenna
Eamonn Andrews
Sean MacBride
Samuel Beckett
Cardinal O Fiaich
Ernest Walton
Molly Keane
Michael O’Hehir
Dermot Morgan
Jack Lynch
Rev. F. X. Martin
Sister Genevieve O’Farrell
Maureen Potter
Mary Holland
Joe Cahill
Bob Tisdall
George Best
John McGahern
Charles Haughey
Sam Stephenson
David Ervine
Tommy Makem
Conor Cruise O’Brien
Vincent O’Brien
Alex “Hurricane” Higgins
Dr Garret FitzGerald
Declan Costello
The Knight of Glin
Mary Raftery
Aengus Fanning
Louis Le Brocquy
Maire MacSwiney Brugha
Maeve Binchy
Seamus Heaney
Albert Reynolds
The Rev. Ian Paisley
Jack Kyle
Brian Friel
Maureen O’Hara
Sir Terry Wogan
Searchable Terms
Footnotes
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