Muine Bheag - People

People

  • Olympic, World Rowing Championship (silver medalist), and world record breaking sculler Seán Drea
  • Colour-Sergeant John Lucas who won a Victoria Cross during the Taranaki Maori War in New Zealand in 1861.
  • Beauchamp Bagenal, (1741–1802) rake, duellist and reputedly "the handsomest man in Europe"
  • Richie Kavanagh, an Irish entertainer

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