Our unusual Irish ancestors – the poets, madmen and scoundrels who hail from Ireland

In the last Austrian Parliament of Austro-Hungarian Empire an Irishman was speaker. The only non-Muslim member of Pakistan's Parliament for many years was a red-headed Irish woman. Many of the leader's of the UK's Chartist movement, which brought a form of democracy to Britain, were Irish.And don't forget that the British royal family, and most European royal families, are descended from Brian Boru (they wanted to marry in because he had the only written genealogy going back to Adam and Eve). In doing a book on the Irish in odd and unusual places you would have to do a multi-volum set by category.