Ireland
- William Annyas, Mayor of Youghal
- Thomas John Barnardo, philanthropist (Jewish father)
- Henri Bergson, philosopher (Anglo-Irish mother)
- Agnes Bernelle, entertainer
- Robert Briscoe, member of the Irish Republican Army during the Anglo-Irish War and Irish Civil War, and twice Lord Mayor of Dublin, in 1956 and 1961
- Ben Briscoe T.D., Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1988 (and son of Robert)
- Daniel Day-Lewis, actor (Jewish mother)
- Gerald Goldberg, Lord Mayor of Cork
- Chaim Herzog, Israeli president
- Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog first Chief Rabbi of Ireland (and father of Chaim)
- Sir Otto Jaffe, Lord Mayor of Belfast 1899 and 1904
- Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1949 and 1958 and later British Chief Rabbi
- Isaac Leon Kandel
- Louis Lentin, Director - Documentary Films, Television & Theatre
- David Marcus, author, editor, broadcaster and lifelong supporter of Irish-language fiction
- Alan Shatter, Fine Gael politician
- Mervyn Taylor, former Irish Labour Party politician
- Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, founder of Harland and Wolff and MP for East Belfast
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Famous quotes containing the word ireland:
“The tragedy of Northern Ireland is that it is now a society in which the dead console the living.”
—Jack Holland (b. 1947)
“There is no topic ... more soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)