Historical
- Pery Baylee, Final Commandant/Supervisor of Convicts, Sarah Island (1831–1833)
- Kathleen Clarke, First Lady Mayoress of Dublin, widow of Tom Clarke
- Cornelius Colbert, Irish rebel and pioneer of Fianna Éireann.
- Michael Colivet, Irish rebel, Commandant of 1916 Rising in Limerick and first TD for Limerick in Dail Éireann.
- Edward Daly, Commandant of 1916 Rising - Four Courts.
- Seán Sabhat, IRA leader killed on active service in 1957
- Gillebert of Limerick, bishop of Limerick (d. 1140)
- Mary Jane Kelly, Jack the Ripper victim
- Peter Lacy, Russian Field Marshal
- William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly (1812–1894), statesman and reformer
- John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland (1850–1869)
- Sir Thomas Myles, surgeon, sailor, Home Ruler and gun-runner (1857–1937)
- Sylvester O'Halloran pioneering surgeon
- William Brooke O'Shaughnessy responsible for introducing the therapeutic use of cannabis to Western Medicine.
- Gearóid Mac Eoin an Irish academic whose studies have focused especially on aspects of Irish language, literature and history
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Famous quotes containing the word historical:
“This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature—for instance in a biological survey of evolution—we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”
—Owen Barfield (b. 1898)
“The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects—making it possible ... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)