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Domnall Mór Ua Briain, or Domnall Mór mac Toirrdelbaig Uí Briain, was King of Thomond in Ireland from 1168 to 1194 and a claimant to the title King of Munster. He was also styled King of Limerick, a title belonging to the O'Brien dynasty since Brian…

An Irish author and philanthropist and an activist in nationalist causes and the protection of female emigrants. She is known also as a plant collector. She contributed poems, stories and articles to magazines, wrote novels, studied botany and was a…

, also known as "Greatorex" or "The Stroker", was an Irish faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands.

She was best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist for the alternative rock band[4] the Cranberries. O'Riordan had one of the most recognisable female voices in rock in the 1990s. She was known for her lilting mezzo-soprano voice,[5] signature…

William Rory Gallagher was an Irish blues and rock multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, and brought up in Cork, Gallagher recorded solo albums throughout the 1970s and 1980s, after forming the band…

Peig Sayers was an Irish author and seanchaí born in Dunquin, County Kerry, Ireland. Seán Ó Súilleabháin, the former archivist for the Irish Folklore Commission, described her as "one of the greatest woman storytellers of recent times"

A burial ceremony at the old cemetery on May 10, 1915. A total of 169 of the 289 bodies recovered from the Lusitania were buried at the cemetery.

Thomas "Tom" Crean was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer who was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving. Crean was a member of three major expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott's…

She was buried at the New Inn cemetery, close to her parents, her brother Samel and her sister Agnes.