The Times Great Irish Lives: Obituaries of Ireland’s Finest. Charles Lysaght

John McCormack

       Douglas Hyde

       Edith Somerville

       John Dulanty

       Evie Hone

       William Francis Casey

       Margaret Burke Sheridan

       Archbishop Gregg

       Sean O’Casey

       Jimmy O’Dea

       William T. Cosgrave

       Frank O’Connor

       Lady Hanson

       Sean Lemass

       Lord Brookeborough

       George O’Brien

       Kate O’Brien

       Eamon de Valera

       John A. Costello

       Brian Faulkner

       Professor Frances Moran

       Micheál Mac Liammóir

       Professor F. S. L. Lyons

       Anita Leslie

       Frederick H. Boland

       Siobhan McKenna

       Eamonn Andrews

       Sean MacBride

       Samuel Beckett

       Cardinal O Fiaich

       Ernest Walton

       Molly Keane

       Michael O’Hehir

       Dermot Morgan

       Jack Lynch

       Rev. F. X. Martin

       Sister Genevieve O’Farrell

       Maureen Potter

       Mary Holland

       Joe Cahill

       Bob Tisdall

       George Best

       John McGahern

       Charles Haughey

       Sam Stephenson

       David Ervine

       Tommy Makem

       Conor Cruise O’Brien

       Vincent O’Brien

       Alex “Hurricane” Higgins

       Dr Garret FitzGerald

       Declan Costello

       The Knight of Glin

       Mary Raftery

       Aengus Fanning

       Louis Le Brocquy

       Maire MacSwiney Brugha

       Maeve Binchy

       Seamus Heaney

       Albert Reynolds

       The Rev. Ian Paisley

       Jack Kyle

       Brian Friel

       Maureen O’Hara

       Sir Terry Wogan

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INTRODUCTION

      Charles Lysaght

      WHEN DR JOHNSON proclaimed the Irish an honest race because they seldom spoke well of one another, he should have made it clear that it was the reputations of the living