Irish Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Was an Irish Olympic boxer and Irish welter champion from Crumlin, County Dublin. He began his caree

Was an Irish Olympic boxer and Irish welter champion from Crumlin, County Dublin. He began his career in the Garda, the Irish police force, as a forensic investigator. Larry won the Leinster championship welter weight in 1931 and was runner-up in the Arm

Is a singer who won awards at the World Championships for Performing Arts competition at age 11. The

Is a singer who won awards at the World Championships for Performing Arts competition at age 11. The song that won him a gold medal there, "I May Be Young", later became used as a peace song, in particular with memorials of the attacks of September 11th.[1] He was also a member of the international bands Streetwize and Stateside.

Is an Irish professional basketball player. After a standout career at the University of Pittsburgh,

Is an Irish professional basketball player. After a standout career at the University of Pittsburgh, including winning an Eastern Eight tournament MVP while helping Pitt win the 1981 conference championship, Lennie narrowly missed out on the NBA draft an

Is a current amateur and former professional snooker player born in Limerick, Ireland and living in

Is a current amateur and former professional snooker player born in Limerick, Ireland and living in London, England. He is currently competing on the Pontins International Tour (known as the PIOS), attempting to gain promotion to the Main Tour to regain p

Was an Irish painter.Born in Dublin and educated at Belvedere College and the Metropolitan School of

Was an Irish painter.Born in Dublin and educated at Belvedere College and the Metropolitan School of Art, Whelan was a student of William Orpen. He first exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1911, and was awarded the Taylor Art Scholarship five years later in 1916. He exhibited nearly 250 works at the RHA from 1911 until 1956.

Is an Irish former cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, he played thi

Is an Irish former cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, he played thirteen times for the Ireland cricket team between 1965 and 1978 including five first-class matches. Hughes made his debut for Ireland against Hampshire in S

Was an Irish Olympic swimmer at both the 1968 Mexico City and 1972 Munich Olympic Summer Games, comp

Was an Irish Olympic swimmer at both the 1968 Mexico City and 1972 Munich Olympic Summer Games, competing in the Men's 100 metres Breaststroke and Men's 200 metres Breaststroke at each. He was born in Derry, Northern Ireland and is a past pupil of St. Col

Served as the Taoiseach of Ireland between 1973 and 1977 and is the son of W. T. Cosgrave, Head of G

Served as the Taoiseach of Ireland between 1973 and 1977 and is the son of W. T. Cosgrave, Head of Government from 1922 to 1932).Liam Cosgrave entered Irish politics in 1943 and retained his seat until his retirement in 1981.

Is an Irish musician and songwriter. He and his group "Goal Celebrities" had a 1990 number 1 hit in

Is an Irish musician and songwriter. He and his group "Goal Celebrities" had a 1990 number 1 hit in Ireland with "Give It A Lash Jack". The song was dedicated to Jack Charlton, manager of the Republic of Ireland national football team which got to the quarterfinals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

Is an Irish musician best known as a member of the Hothouse Flowers. Ó Maonlaí formed the band in

Is an Irish musician best known as a member of the Hothouse Flowers. Ó Maonlaí formed the band in 1985 with his schoolmate Fiachna Ó Braonáin.

Is an Irish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.As a younger athlete he finish

Is an Irish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.As a younger athlete he finished fourth in 2000 m steeplechase at the 1999 World Youth Championships. He finished eighth in the 1500 m final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships

Is a Papua New Guinean cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast medium pace bowler, he h

Is a Papua New Guinean cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast medium pace bowler, he has played for the Papua New Guinea national cricket team since 2007 and is the opening bowler for his country. Loa Nou first represented Papua New Guinea

Was an Irish physicist of world-wide repute in the field of theoretical particle physics. He is best

Was an Irish physicist of world-wide repute in the field of theoretical particle physics. He is best known for the O'Raifeartaigh Theorem, an important result in unification theory, and the O'Raifeartaigh Model of supersymmetry breaking.O'Raifeartaigh was born in Dublin in 1933, and most of his scientific career was centred around that city, where he obtained his first degrees at University College Dublin (BA in 1953 and MSc in Mathematical Physics in 1956), and spent from 1968 until his death as Senior Professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1960, under Walter Heitler. He also visited many institutions, notably Madras, IHES Bures, and Princeton University, but it was during an extended stay at Syracuse University (1964-8) that he made the discovery that established his reputation. This result, which became known as O'Raifeartaigh's no-go theorem, showed that it was impossible to combine internal and relativistic symmetries other than in a trivial fashion, thus ending a widespread quest by the particle physics community to achieve this fusion.

Was an anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications b

Was an anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences. She, along with other political poets of the early Modernist period, has been coming under increasi

Was an Irish cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler who played fo

Was an Irish cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler who played four first-class matches for Ireland, all against Scotland, between 1909 and 1912.

Is an Irish former cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played twelve times for the Ireland cricket

Is an Irish former cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played twelve times for the Ireland cricket team between 1947 and 1959 including four first-class matches.Louis was educated at Wesley College in Dublin and Trinity College Dublin where he represent

Is a professional tennis player from Ireland. Sorensen is the first player representing Ireland to w

Is a professional tennis player from Ireland. Sorensen is the first player representing Ireland to win a Grand Slam event match in the Open Era. His father, Sean, was the first Irishman to play a Grand Slam match in the Open Era, going out in the first ro

Was an Irish rugby union player and cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman. Primarily noted for hi

Was an Irish rugby union player and cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman. Primarily noted for his bowling prowess during early outings with the Dublin University XI, Gwynn took 44 wickets at an average of 8.14 in Trinity's annus mirabilis of 1893, a s

Is an accomplished Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is also the younger brother of Irish folk s

Is an accomplished Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is also the younger brother of Irish folk singer Christy Moore.Luka Bloom's style of guitar playing is very distinctive and is generally referred to as "electro-acoustic". In his early career as Barry Moore, Bloom used a fingerpicking style. However, tendinitis in his hands forced him to adopt a strumming style which is the one he still uses and is often credited with his success.

Was an Irish singer and folk musician from Dublin, Ireland, notable as a founding member of the band

Was an Irish singer and folk musician from Dublin, Ireland, notable as a founding member of the band The Dubliners.He attended the Laurence O’Toole School as a child, and achieved very good grades in most subjects. In 1953 the Dublin Corporation moved the family to Whitehall when their flat was destroyed in a fire, but he continued to attend O'Toole's by taking a bus there every day.

Was an Irish singer and folk musician from Dublin, Ireland, most famous as a founding member of the

Was an Irish singer and folk musician from Dublin, Ireland, most famous as a founding member of the band The Dubliners.The first folk club he came across was in Newcastle upon Tyne in early 1960. Having already acquired the use of a banjo, he started memorising songs.