Famous Irish People

Based on the clues, name these famous Irish people, past and present.

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Hint	Answer
Lead-singer of U2	Bono
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
Author of Ulysses	James Joyce
Patron saint celebrated on March 17	Saint Patrick
Founder of a famous brewery that bears his name	Arthur Guinness
Revolutionary leader who was killed during the Irish Civil War	Michael Collins
Leader of Ireland's struggle for independence and future president from 1959-1973	Éamon de Valera
James Bond actor	Pierce Brosnan
Actor who stars in Tigerland, Miami Vice and Alexander	Colin Farrell

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Creator of Count Dracula	Bram Stoker
Writer of Waiting for Godot who was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature	Samuel Beckett
Satirist who wrote Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift
Nothing Compares 2 U singer	Sinéad O'Connor
Red-headed actress who often worked with John Ford and John Wayne	Maureen O'Hara
Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List	Liam Neeson
He starred as Lawrence of Arabia	Peter O'Toole
Nobel Prize-winning Poet and founder of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin	William Butler Yeats
Northern Irish footballer who spent most of his career playing for Manchester United	George Best

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