Off today

[sombrefan]

So to celebrate St Patricks Day and avoid ghastly cliches like "wearing of the green" , "luck of the Irish" etc, whose your favourite Irish person? (North or South of the border - alive or dead it doesn't matter).

I'm going with Bono, David Trimble and Charles Parnell.

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Favorite Irish-American person(s)

[carduustristus.livejournal.com]

Mayor Daley of Chicago. Both of them.

[swersfreakshow.livejournal.com]

Conan O'Brien and Denis Leary.

[miss-tress.livejournal.com]

My grandfather-in-law, Patrick Fitzpatrick. Or Joe as he prefers to be called.

[leoff.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna have to say Sylvester McCoy. :D

[iidoru.livejournal.com]

Jonathan Swift? James Joyce? It's a tough call.

I'll just second those.

[thecuckoo.livejournal.com]

I think I'll go home and read this tonight as well.

[mazzidly.livejournal.com]

Mary Harris (Mother) Jones. Bobby Sands.

I inadvertently wore green today. I feel silly.

[wondersheep.livejournal.com]

You.

You're pretty much the only Irish person I know. Also, yours is a good name to drop in the geek circles I run in.

[rleyser.livejournal.com]

Simon Grant McClean Fraser, aka my husband. (although sheepy beat me to saying it, I know you're whole name!)

[kuzibah.livejournal.com]

Roddy Doyle, Richard Harris, and Finn MacCool (among many other people of myth.)

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Gavin Friday, Francis Bacon (although it might be that his parents were British, was born in Dublin, though), and for nostalgic reasons only: Sinéad O'Connor (and I probably misspelled her name, as always).

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

Angel :)

[sternwieser.livejournal.com]

Oscar Wilde.

Also, Seamus Heaney.

And Peter O'Toole.

[eachman.livejournal.com]

Gavin Friday, Sinead O'Connor, and of course you, Simon ;-)

Happy birthday!