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Ireland's Greatest Scientist: Robert Boyle founded modern chemistry and discovered Boyle's law. Ireland's Greatest was a 2010 public poll by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and associated television documentary series broadcast on RTÉ One , where viewers voted to choose the greatest person in the history of Ireland . [ 1 ]
Eochaid mac Eirc - High King of Ireland, the last Fir Bolg king and the first king to establish a system of justice; Fiacha Cennfinnán - High King of Ireland; Fodbgen - High King of Ireland; Gaillimh iníon Breasail - mythical woman from whom the river and city of Galway derive their name; Gann and Genann - joint High Kings of Ireland
Cú Chulainn (/ k uː ˈ k ʌ l ɪ n / koo-KUL-in [1] [2] Irish: [kuːˈxʊlˠɪn̠ʲ] ⓘ), is an Irish warrior hero and demigod in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore. [3] He is believed to be an incarnation of the Irish god Lugh, who is also his father.
Cúchulainn – Ireland, folk legend and the pre-eminent hero of Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle. Moremi Ajasoro – Nigeria, Yoruba queen and heroine of Ife; Till Eulenspiegel or Tijl Uilenspiegel – Germany and the Low Countries, trickster and jester. Fionn mac Cumhaill – Ireland, warrior, leader of the Fianna. Primary figure in the Oisin cycle.
17 September 1882 in Dublin, Ireland 27 October 1925 in London, England 1922: Recollections of the Irish War (1900) A Vision of Life (1909) A Chronicle of Jails (1917) The Return of the Hero (1923) [17] Thomas Rudmose-Brown (1878–1942) Ireland: James Cousins: 22 July 1873 in Belfast, Northern Ireland 20 February 1956 in Madanapalle, Andhra ...
Irish mythology is the body of myths indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was originally passed down orally in the prehistoric era . In the early medieval era , myths were written down by Christian scribes, who Christianized them to some extent.
Today, about 70 million people claim Irish heritage or ancestry worldwide, according to the Irish government.
The Ulster Cycle (Irish: an Rúraíocht), [1] formerly known as the Red Branch Cycle, is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends and sagas of the Ulaid.It is set far in the past, in what is now eastern Ulster and northern Leinster, particularly counties Armagh, Down and Louth. [2]