The top ten Irish people of all time - PHOTOS

OH! And James Connolly & Padraig Pearse.

Maude Gonne and the Countess Markievicz.

Daniel O'Connell, The Liberator who inspired Ghandi and Frederick Douglas, is number one, followed by the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Maybe Edmund Burke the great political philosopher should be number two. What's the matter with you people?!! Leaving O'Connell out is like leaving Martin Luther King off the list of the top 10 African Americans of all time.

@Frieda Klotz - Sloppy work here. My previous post, pointing out that the goof in the caption was not a typo has yet to appear. Censorship from such an advocate of free speech as IC?

Must you be born in Ireland to qualify, or could you be of Irish descent? If it is the latter, then I vote for Jim Morrison of the Doors --- a brilliant artist and legendary voice.

Bobby Sands, James Connolly, Theobald Wolfe Tone, St. Patrick himself, Brendan Behan, Brian Boru, Gerry Adams, Brendan Dunphy (that is me, I just wanted to see if you are paying attention) ...

no father of the republic Wolfe Tone ,

Patrick Pearse? James Connolly? Naw, hardly...

The latest historical research indicates that Countess Markievicz broke down, lost her head and grovelled for mercy at her Courts Martial in 1916. I think that this rather substantial allegation would hav to be cleaned up first.

@Kinvara 7 : Bono took all his money out of Ireland , is a tax exile , and is despised here in Ireland! He sued that poor woman he fired too over the return of a hat , but the truth is that she turned the advances of His Ugliness down:-)

The list is much too 19th and 20th century, other than the perhaps mythical Queen Maeve, after whom I named by female dog. Where is Theobald Wolfe Tone? Where is Henry Joy McCracken? and indeed, kicking into the 20th centure, where are Pearse and Connolly?

Please correct the caption on the picture - James Joyce, genius that he was, did NOT write "Waiting for Godot." That was Samuel Beckett.

Mary Robinson was probably the worst ever Irish President, Mary McAleese too - she presided over the Irish economic collapse without a murmur whereas she should have resigned in protest against all the corruption that was going on. Samantha Powers is relatively unknown in Ireland and did not achieve anything for Ireland. You mention Cyanide O'Connor - she's nuts , John Waters had to flee as her husband, she also made a public statement at a pro-abortion meeting outside the GPO boasting that she had had two abortions and wanted more, then went and became a priest:-)Maud Gonne is hardly going to be selected because she was lovely looking, if so Mary McAleese deserves number one spot, but Mary Robinson was a President who did nothing for Ireland that I can remember- and the UN is a big problem to Ireland , in fact our biggest problem, in its definition of "asylum seekers". In fact the only genuine "asylum seeker" of them all would be Gadaffi , if he turned up here ! And there's a lot of sympathy for him too in Ireland because he stood with Ireland and the Irish against Thatcher and the UK and supported a United Ireland too.

What no Obama........

Brian Boru is at the top of the list. In uniting the warring tribes of the Irish, he created a nation. He was the first and only to do so, something the failed Irish Republic has not done.