Famous Irish people (Long List)

Long list of Irish people. Name the Irish man/woman described by the hints. (People from north and south are included)

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Hint	Answer
Director of Thor	Kenneth Branagh
Nominated for Golden Raspberry for Mamma Mia	Pierce Brosnan
Plays Beric Dondarrion in Game of Thrones	Richard Dormer
Mr Grey	Jamie Dornan
Spent an entire movie in a phone booth	Colin Farrell
Starred in the good Steve Jobs movie	Michael Fassbender
Made her name in The Commitments	Bronagh Gallagher
The Guard	Brendan Gleeson
Scarecrow (Batman)	Cillian Murphy
Oskar Schindler	Liam Neeson
Starred in 5 movies alongside John Wayne, including The Quiet Man	Maureen O'Hara
Won a Golden Globe for Lady Bird	Saoirse Ronan
"We spend our lives on the run. We get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, go to work by the clock, get up again, go to work – and then we retire. And what do they ... give us? A clock."	Dave Allen
Bernard Black in Black Books - also writer and creator	Dylan Moran
Comedian and Stargazer	Dara Ó Briain
Mrs Brown	Brendan O'Carroll
Tax avoiding singer of mediocre rock band	Bono
Former lead singer of The Blizzards and The Voice Ireland judge	Niall Breslin
Lead singer in a band with her 2 sisters and brother	Andrea Corr
4 time Grammy Award winner for Best New Age Album	Enya
Founded Band Aid who raised $24 million (USD) for famine relief in Ethiopia	Bob Geldof
Westmeath-native once part of the world's biggest boy band	Niall Horan
Bassist and singer whose band's first hit was Whiskey In The Jar	Phil Lynott
The most iconic voice in Irish folk music	Luke Kelly
Wants to have one more Moondance with you	Van Morrison
Tore up a photo of the Pope	Sinead O'Connor
Had a massive hit singing Teenage Kicks	Feargal Sharkey
Waiting for Godot playwright	Samuel Beckett
His autobiography is named Borstal Boy	Brendan Behan
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995	Seamus Heaney
Wrote novel about Leopold Bloom and his encounters in 1 day in Dublin	James Joyce
Wrote about a lion who many believe to have parallels with Jesus Christ	C.S. Lewis
19th century author who set out most of the modern conventions for vampires	Bram Stoker
Reknowned author sentenced to 2 years hard labour for gross indecency with men	Oscar Wilde
"When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire..."	W. B. Yeats
CEO of a much maligned, but very profitable, airline	Michael O'Leary
Founder of one of the most famous beer brands in the world	Arthur Guinness
Seen as one of the greatest footballers ever	George Best
Former WWE champion who as a demonic alter-ego	Fergal Devitt
3 time golf major winner	Padraig Harrington
Ferocious footballer who made his name at Manchester United	Roy Keane
Known as The Clones Cyclone	Barry McGuigan
Current host of Eurovision in UK	Graham Norton
Ancient High King of Ireland	Brian Boru
The Hound of Ulster	Cú Chulainn
For who the main thoroughfare in Dublin is named	Daniel O'Connell
Leader of the United Irishmen	Wolfe Tone
Big talking martial artist	Conor McGregor
Hurler with the most All Ireland titles	Henry Shefflin
Gaelic Footballer with most senior championship appearances (as of August 2018)	Stephen Cluxton
Song "Grace" is told from the perspective of this Easter Rising leader	Joseph Plunkett
First woman to have a cabinet position in Dáil Éireann and first women to be elected MP at Westminster	Countess Markievicz

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