#1Famous people · Shankill, Dublin
6 famous people were born in Shankill from 1879 to 1991
Ciarán Cuffe, the Irish politician, is the most widely known, written about in 9 languages. The Irish musician Mary Bergin ranks second, ahead of Kyle Good. 3 of them were born between 1922 and 1969, more than in any other period. The biggest group are athletes: 3.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ciarán Cuffe
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1879
William Paul McClure Kennedy
Youngest
1991
Kyle Good
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Shankill’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Shankill’s famous people were born
The 1940s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
SportsPolitics & LawMusicWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Shankill
Ciarán Cuffe leads with articles in 9 languages, ahead of Mary Bergin (5) and Kyle Good (4).
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Known for
What Shankill is known for
Shankill has 1.6× the usual share of athletes.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Shankill
Still to come: 3 more, from 1879 to 1987.
William Paul McClure Kennedy
1879–1963Canadian historian and legal scholar (1879–1963)
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Who is the most famous person from Shankill?
Ciarán Cuffe (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Mary Bergin and Kyle Good.
How many famous people were born in Shankill?
6 people born in Shankill have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Shankill known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 6. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Shankill?
William Paul McClure Kennedy, born in 1879. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
Who counts as from Shankill?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Shankill’s neighbourhood (its Census 2022 Small Areas), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed. In Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford a birth recorded only as the city stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only people recorded as born in it.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a county or just “Ireland”, a townland or village we don’t list, another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations, how many Wikipedia and sister-site articles cover each person) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). A birthplace is placed in a town by its own Wikidata item, its Logainm place name, or a point inside its CSO 2022 outline; a birth recorded only as one of the five cities stays on the city’s page. Ranked by the number of articles. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across Irish towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Ciarán Cuffe: Claire Behan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Paul McClure Kennedy: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh: European Communities, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Geldof: International Monetary Fund Photograph/Stephen Jaffe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maeve Binchy: The original uploader was Jon Kay at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).