Famous People in the Census

Educator, poet, and leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. Pearse read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic outside the GPO. Executed by firing squad on 3 May 1916.

Novelist and poet, considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Author of Ulysses, Dubliners, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Revolutionary, statesman, and dominant political figure of 20th-century Ireland. Served as Taoiseach and President of Ireland. Only 1916 Rising commandant whose death sentence was commuted.

Revolutionary leader, soldier, and politician. Director of Intelligence during the War of Independence. Chairman of the Provisional Government. Killed in an ambush at Béal na Bláth, aged 31.

Scholar, linguist, and cultural nationalist. Co-founder of the Gaelic League. First President of Ireland (1938–1945). Champion of the Irish language revival.

Diplomat and humanitarian who exposed colonial abuses in the Congo and Peru. Knighted in 1911. Attempted to secure German arms for the 1916 Rising. Executed for treason on 3 August 1916.

IRA volunteer and medical student. Captured during an ambush on a British army convoy aged 18. The youngest person executed during the War of Independence. Immortalised in the ballad "Kevin Barry".

Politician and revolutionary. Fought in the 1916 Rising. First President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (1922–1932). Father of Liam Cosgrave, later Taoiseach.

Author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters. Born in Belfast, raised at Little Lea, Strandtown. His full name was Clive Staples Lewis.

Physicist who, with John Cockcroft, first split the atom by artificial means (1932). Nobel Prize in Physics 1951. The only Irish-born Nobel laureate in physics.

IRA leader during the War of Independence and Civil War. Author of On Another Man's Wound, one of the finest memoirs of the revolutionary period. Born in Castlebar, family moved to Dublin.

Suffragist, nationalist, and political activist. Co-founded the Irish Women's Franchise League. Daughter of MP David Sheehy. Her husband Francis was murdered by a British officer during the 1916 Rising.

Pioneer of the Irish cooperative movement. Founded the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (IAOS). Senator in the Irish Free State. Champion of rural modernisation.

IRA commander during the War of Independence. Led the Kilmichael Ambush (1920) and the Crossbarry Ambush (1921), two of the most significant engagements of the conflict. Author of Guerilla Days in Ireland.

IRA leader who fired the first shots of the War of Independence at Soloheadbeg, Co. Tipperary on 21 January 1919. Later became a Fianna Fáil TD. Author of My Fight for Irish Freedom.

Unionist leader and barrister. Led the campaign against Home Rule and organised the Ulster Volunteer Force. Prosecuted Oscar Wilde. First Lord of the Admiralty during WWI.

Daughter of Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth) and Count Casimir Markievicz. Raised by her grandmother Georgina Gore-Booth at Lissadell, Co. Sligo while her mother was active in the revolutionary movement.

Polish-Ukrainian nobleman, painter, and playwright. Husband of Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth), the revolutionary who was the first woman elected to Westminster. Constance herself has not yet been identified in the census.

Poet, playwright, novelist, and folklorist. Key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. His plays were among the first performed at the Abbey Theatre. Later moved to New York.