http://www.visitdublin.comDublin's entertainment sectionen-usCopyright 2009 Dublin Tourism. All Rights Reserved.Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:04:32 GMT60http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2049Guinness was born in 1725. His father was land steward to the archbishop of Cashel, Dr Arthur Price, and brewed beer for workers on the estate. When ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2049http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2091Geldof was born in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland, to Catholic parents. His father, Robert, is also known as Bob. At the ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2091http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2037Number 15, Marino Crescent was the birthplace in 1847 of Abraham (Bram) Stoker, the author of one of the world's most chilling novels, ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2037http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2042Farrell was born prematurely, weighing 1 pound 6 ounces, in Dublin to Rita and Eamon Farrell. His father was a footballer who played for Shamrock ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2042http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=1452George Bernard Shaw was born on 26th July 1856 at 3 (now 33) Synge Street, Dublin, the son of a failed grain merchant. His mother, a singer, took ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=1452http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=1453More has been written about James Joyce than about Shakespeare. The eldest son of a spendthrift who brought his large family from prosperity to ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=1453http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2038Jonathan Swift in his long lifetime saw the transition of Dublin from being a small post-medieval town to a city of mansions, grand Georgian terraces ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2038http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2039The writer of the play 'She Stoops to Conquer' was born in Co Longford but spent his student years at Trinity College, Dublin. He led a ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2039http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2036A year after Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born at 21 Westland Row the family moved to no.1 Merrion Square . The statue to Oscar Wilde in ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2036http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2092Pádraig Harrington (born 31 August 1971) is an Irish professional golfer and currently the highest ranked European in the world rankings, at No. 7. ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2092http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2093Paul McGinley (born December 16, 1966) is an Irish golfer who plays on the European Tour. He is most famous for holing the winning putt for the ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2093http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=1454Born on Good Friday in 1906, Samuel Beckett was the son of a prosperous Foxrock builder. Like Oscar Wilde, he was educated at Portora Royal School ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=1454http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2041Sean O'Casey, a child of the Dublin slums, was born in 1880 to a Protestant family. He had a grim childhood of poverty, poor eyesight, and ill ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2041http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2365The Carmelite Church Whitefriar Street is known for its many shrines and altars. It is not widely known outside of the capital that the church claims ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2365http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2040Formed in the early 1970s out of Ceoltóirí Chualann, a traditional music ensemble founded by Sean O Riada (1931-1971), the Chieftains went on to gain ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2040http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2035Drummer Larry Mullen founded the band by advertising on the school notice board for potential band members. The poster attracted Adam Clayton (bass ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=2035http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=1451William Butler Yeats, the eldest son of the artist John Butler Yeats, was born in Sandymount, Dublin in 1865. He spent much of his childhood in the ...http://www.visitdublin.com/SeeAndDo/Detail.aspx?id=257&mid=1451