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The list of names here so far features a range of great Irish names from diverse fields (and mostly good London addresses!). There are more ready to be posted and yet more under research. I hope they will surprise and inform in equal measure. As a reminder here they all are, in reverse order, not forgetting the thousands commemorated at the Crown, Cricklewood,
William Butler YEATS
Sir Francis BEAUFORT
George Bernard SHAW
Sir Ernest Henry SHACKLETON
Dr Thomas John BARNARDO
Duke of WELLINGTON
Francis BACON
Countess Constance MARKIEWICZ
Erskine Robert CHILDERS
Daniel MACLISE
Oliver GOLDSMITH
Bernardo O’HIGGINS
Daniel O’ CONNELL
John Henry FOLEY
Bram STOKER
Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
St Oliver PLUNKETT
Katharine O’ Shea
Louis MACNEICE
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