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William Butler Yeats, poet and playwright and Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1923 Photo credit:Topham Picturepoint/PA Photos
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Dubliner and Nobel Laureate George Bernard Shaw (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1925) Photo credit:S&G and Barratts/PA
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Nobel Prize in Physics winner Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (1951)
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Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature winner, 1969
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Sean MacBride, the former Foreign Minister for Eire, signing the Treaty of London which brought the Council of Europe into being. MacBride won half of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974 Photo credit:S&G and Barratts/PA Photos
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Mairead Corrigan (left) and Betty Williams, peace campaigners in Northern Ireland, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 Photo credit:PA
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Derry-born Seamus Heaney, 1995's Nobel Prize in Literature winner Photo credit:Andrew Parsons/PA
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Former SDLP leader John Hume, the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize winner (along with David Trimble) Photo credit:Paul Faith/PA
Every year since 1901, the international Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. There is an elite group of Irish and Northern Irish scholars and activists who have won this prestigious award. Here’s the roster: ;
Published
March 12, 2009
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