EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Dublin, Ireland

Founding Date:
1592

Enrollment:
15,000

Official Website:
http://www.tcd.ie/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Mary Cunningham Agee	Activist	1951		The Nurturing Network
Merribel S. Ayres	Business	c. 1951		Lighthouse Consulting Group
Samuel Beckett	Playwright	13-May-1906	22-Dec-1989	Waiting for Godot
George Berkeley	Philosopher	12-Mar-1685	14-Jan-1753	Anti-intellectual empiricist philosopher
Elizabeth Bowen	Author	7-Jun-1899	22-Feb-1973	The Heat of the Day
Chris de Burgh	Singer	15-Oct-1948		The Lady In Red
Edmund Burke	Philosopher	1-Jan-1729	9-Jul-1797	Reflections on the Revolution in France
William Congreve	Playwright	24-Jan-1670	19-Jan-1729	The Way of the World
John Nelson Darby	Religion	18-Nov-1800	29-Apr-1882	Father of Dispensationalism
George Darley	Poet	1795	23-Nov-1846	Nepenthe
J. P. Donleavy	Novelist	23-Apr-1926		The Ginger Man
Edward F. Dunne	Politician	12-Oct-1853	24-May-1937	Governor of Illinois, 1913-17
Francis Edgeworth	Mathematician	8-Feb-1845	13-Feb-1926	Pure Theory of Taxation
Richard Ellmann	Critic	15-Mar-1918	13-May-1987	James Joyce
George Farquhar	Playwright	1678	29-Apr-1707	The Beaux Stratagem
John S. Fine	Politician	10-Apr-1893	21-May-1978	Governor of Pennsylvania, 1951-55
Robert Fisk	Journalist	12-Jul-1946		Foreign correspondent for The Independent
Oliver Goldsmith	Author	10-Nov-1730	4-Apr-1774	The Vicar of Wakefield
Henry Grattan	Politician	3-Jul-1746	6-Jun-1820	Legislative independence for Ireland
Sir William Rowan Hamilton	Mathematician	4-Aug-1805	2-Sep-1865	Inventor of Quaternions
George Roy Hill	Film Director	20-Dec-1921	27-Dec-2002	Slaughterhouse Five
Hozier	Singer/Songwriter	17-Mar-1990		Take Me to Church
Kristina M. Johnson	Educator	c. 1958		Provost of Johns Hopkins University
Brian Lenihan	Politician	21-May-1959	10-Jun-2011	Irish Finance Minister, 2008-11
Charles James Lever	Novelist	31-Aug-1806	1-Jun-1872	Charles O'Malley
Derek Mahon	Poet	23-Nov-1941		Night-Crossing
Edmond Malone	Scholar	4-Oct-1741	25-Apr-1812	Irish Shakespearian scholar
Increase Mather	Religion	21-Jun-1639	23-Aug-1723	Massachusetts Puritan leader
Mary McAleese	Head of State	27-Jun-1951		President of Ireland
David McWilliams	Economist	8-Dec-1966		The Pope's Children
Richard Montgomery	Military	2-Dec-1736	31-Dec-1775	Revolutionary general felled at Quebec
Frank Murphy	Judge	13-Apr-1890	19-Jul-1949	US Supreme Court Justice, 1940-49
Conor Cruise O'Brien	Author	3-Nov-1917	18-Dec-2008	Irish Parliamentarian and Scholar
Jason O'Mara	Actor	6-Aug-1972		Jim Shannon on Terra Nova
Mary Robinson	Head of State	21-May-1944		President of Ireland, 1990-97
Iain Sinclair	Author	11-Jun-1943		Downriver
Thomas Southerne	Playwright	1660	26-May-1746	The Persian Prince
Bram Stoker	Author	8-Nov-1847	20-Apr-1912	Dracula
Jonathan Swift	Author	30-Nov-1667	19-Oct-1745	Gulliver's Travels
James Joseph Sylvester	Mathematician	3-Sep-1814	15-Mar-1897	Studied finite analysis
John Millington Synge	Playwright	16-Apr-1871	24-Mar-1909	The Playboy of the Western World
Nahum Tate	Poet	1652	30-Jul-1715	Imitative British playwright
John Townsend	Mathematician	7-Jun-1868	16-Feb-1957	Electron's charge
William Trevor	Novelist	24-May-1928		The Old Boys
James Ussher	Religion	4-Jan-1581	20-Mar-1656	Old Testament chronologist
Ernest T. S. Walton	Physicist	6-Oct-1903	25-Jun-1995	Split the atom
Dominic West	Actor	3-Sep-1969		Det. McNulty on The Wire
Oscar Wilde	Playwright	16-Oct-1854	30-Nov-1900	The Picture of Dorian Gray
John Winthrop the Younger	Politician	12-Feb-1606	5-Apr-1676	Governor of Colonial Connecticut
Karl Zinsmeister	Government	1959		Bush domestic policy advisor

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Samuel Beckett	Playwright	13-May-1906	22-Dec-1989	Waiting for Godot
George Berkeley	Philosopher	12-Mar-1685	14-Jan-1753	Anti-intellectual empiricist philosopher
Sir William Rowan Hamilton	Mathematician	4-Aug-1805	2-Sep-1865	Inventor of Quaternions
Mary McAleese	Head of State	27-Jun-1951		President of Ireland
John Pethica	Physicist	1953		Atomic force microscopy
Mary Robinson	Head of State	21-May-1944		President of Ireland, 1990-97
Ernest T. S. Walton	Physicist	6-Oct-1903	25-Jun-1995	Split the atom

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