Notable Britons With Irish Ancestry
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- Field Marshal Lord Montgomery
- George Harrison
- John Lennon
- Paul McCartney
- Dusty Springfield
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Charles Laughton
- Morrissey
- Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
- Brian Whelan
- Martin McDonagh
- Shane McGowan
- David Bowie
- Antony Hegarty
- Martin Carthy
- Eliza Carthy
- Tom Springfield
- Kathy Burke
- Tony Blair
- James Callaghan
- Liam Gallagher
- Noel Gallagher
- Sting
- George Osborne
- Kevin Keegan
- Sir Henry Cooper
- John Lydon
- Steve Coogan
- Boy George
- Kate Bush
- Johnny Marr
- Dido
- Paul Merton
- Caroline Aherne
- Elvis Costello
- Billy Idol
- Michael Gambon
- Shaun Ryder
- Martin Keown
- Mick McCarthy
- Andy Townsend
- Jimmy Savile
- Patsy Kensit
- Susan Boyle
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Ellen Ternan
- Emily Bronte
- Charlotte Bronte
- Anne Bronte
- Barbara Windsor
- Michael Davitt
- Chas Smash
- David Byrne lead singer of Talking Heads
- Billy Connolly
- Jimmy Carr
- Spike Milligan
- Frank Foley World War Two British Intelligence Officer and 'Righteous Among The Nations'
- Danny Boyle
- Jack Judge writer of the song It's A Long Way To Tipperary
- Danny La Rue
- Annie Besant organiser of the London matchgirls strike of 1888
- Gerry Rafferty
- Henry Cooper
- Alan Rickman
- Wayne Rooney
- Tom Baker
- Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell
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