#1Famous people · The Liberties, Dublin
The Liberties is the birthplace of 4 famous people
The best known is the Irish politician Máire Devine, with articles in 4 languages. Jimmy Faulkner is second and Matt Merrigan third. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 2.2, close to the 2.2 of the typical Co. Dublin town. The list runs from Tommy Potts, born in 1912, to Máire Devine, born in 1972.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Máire Devine
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1912
Tommy Potts
Youngest
1972
Máire Devine
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in The Liberties
Máire Devine, Jimmy Faulkner and Matt Merrigan are written about in 4, 3 and 1 languages.
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Politics & Law
Matt Merrigan
1922–2000Irish trade unionist
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When The Liberties’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1970s come out on top, with 1 births.
Politics & LawMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What The Liberties is known for
Leaders are the most numerous, 2 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in The Liberties
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Rathmines West lists the most people: 18.
AHRathmines West · 2 kmAndrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope & 17 more
Crumlin · 2 kmRoberto Lopes & 15 more
St Stephen's Green · 2 kmDunbar Barton & 5 morePDPhibsborough · 2 kmPaschal Donohoe & 5 more
Temple Bar · 1 kmGeorge Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence & 3 moreGBDolphins Barn · 1 kmGay Byrne & 3 moreJDStoneybatter · 2 kmJane Dowdall & 2 more
Portobello · 1 kmArthur Shields & 1 more
Crumlin · 2 kmRoberto Lopes & 15 moreSt Stephen's Green · 2 kmDunbar Barton & 5 morePDPhibsborough · 2 kmPaschal Donohoe & 5 moreTemple Bar · 1 kmGeorge Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence & 3 moreGBDolphins Barn · 1 kmGay Byrne & 3 moreJDStoneybatter · 2 kmJane Dowdall & 2 morePortobello · 1 kmArthur Shields & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from The Liberties
Who is the most famous person from The Liberties?
Máire Devine (Irish politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Jimmy Faulkner and Matt Merrigan.
How many famous people were born in The Liberties?
4 people born in The Liberties have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is The Liberties known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from The Liberties?
Tommy Potts, born in 1912. The youngest on the list was born in 1972.
Who counts as from The Liberties?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside The Liberties’ 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)
- Máire Devine: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roberto Lopes: Office of the President of Ireland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dunbar Barton: Leslie Ward, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence: Lucas Cornelisz de Kock (1495-1552), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Shields: film screenshot, Public domain, 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).