The top ten Irish people of all time - SEE PHOTOS

Huh? Ever hear of St. Patrick???

Childers the senior.He was part of the delegation the discussed the treaty with Britain and held on to his principals"no partition" He also ran guns from Germany in his yacht the "Asgard".His career was cut short when he was executed by Collins'FreeStaters. He was murdered for carrying a pistol,ironically, a pearl handled colt a wedding gift from Collins.

seanomelbourne, I like your list, too. I could add to the ten: St. Brigit, Brian Boru, Daniel O'connell, the Four Masters, and more.

Grania, St. Bridgit, and Brian Boru

seanomelbourne: I like your list, but do you mean Erskine Childers senior or junior? Junior, the guy who became president, was an utter mediocrity who had no achievement. His dad was English, murdered by the Free State government. A brave man, but again he didn't achieve much.

Schenck: Columba was of course Irish.

Who is Samantha Powers? How can the greatest Irish person be someone I never heard of? Garbage poll. By the way, do you people know any history? How come everyone is 20th century or later? (assuming that Samantha P is not some 16th century warrior!). Your standards are really low.

Burke and Grattan both anti-Catholic royalist

Don't know how far back you want to go with this. Saint Patrick has to be the leader. I know he wasn't born there, BUT! I would place Bobby Sands, Bernadette Devlin Gerry Adams in #8, #9 #10. For its size, Ireland is the most influential Country in the World. I would have a difficult time publishing top 50. Thank you for this opportunity. This is my first time on this site. Plan to read it often.

I'm not Catholic and maybe he's not really Irish but I thought St. Columba came from Ireland, bringing Christianity to the Scots and Picts. Celtic Christianity seems the better way to appeal to folks. We have St. Patrick , a Brit, and St. Columba & company to thank.

Edmund Burke and Henry Grattan would head my list along with James Connolly.

After I seen that I was not on the list ,I realized it was a load of shite! LOL!!But really Dev,Corrigan,and Williams ?

And where is Maureen O'Hara on you list, Frieda? And Bobby Sands? Granuaile?

Countess Markovic,Wolf Tone.Robert Emmet,Granuaile,James Connolly,Roger casement,Erskine Childers,Anne Devlin,Bobby Sands and no's 6,7 above.

I'd have Padraig Pearce,Charles Parnell. Heck, I'd have Oscar Wilde before Sinead O'Connor!