1. Irish Celebrities
By: Aina
Altès and
Carolina Tuà

2. Index
Introduction
Old Irish Celebrities
Young Irish Celebrities
Conclusion

3. Introduction
Here are several celebrities with a
brief biography of each. Find
celebrities that have been part of
the history of Ireland and current
celebrities that your property is in
the country.

4. Old Irish Celebrities

5. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie
Wills Wilde was an
Irish writer and poet.
Today he is
remembered for his
epigrams, plays and the
circumstances of his
imprisonment, followe
d by his early death.

6. Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Irish
satirist, essayist, political
pamphleteer, poet and cleric
who became Dean of St.
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Swift is probably the foremost
prose satirist in the English
language, and is less well known
for his poetry. Swift originally
published all of his works under
pseudonyms or anonymously.

7. Yeats
Yeats's long and prosperous
career was crowned in 1923 by
the Nobel Prize “for his always
inspired poetry, which in a
highly artistic form gives
expression to the spirit of a
whole nation.” As a visionary
artist, Yeats presented his rather
ambiguous views in all of his
writings.

8. Young Irish
Celebrities

9. Paul David Hewson
Paul David Hewson, known as
Bono, is the voice of the singer
and main songwriter of Irish
rock band U2. It won a
Grammy, received an Oscar
nomination and is known
worldwide for his work as
activist committed to Africa.

10. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Jonathan Michael Francis
O'Keeffe, also known as
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is
an Irish actor won the
Golden Globe.

11. Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is
an Irish actor known for
playing James Bond in four
films.
He was also co-star of the
TV series Remington
Steele, issued after 1986
by RTVE, TV3 in 1999.

12. Conclusion
We did not think that there
should be many celebrities of
Irish origin, but there are all
kinds. Both writers as
poets, actors, among others.