EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Part of the National University of Ireland.

Location:
Dublin, Ireland

Founding Date:
2-Dec-1908

Enrollment:
20,000

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

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bertie Ahern	Head of State	12-Sep-1951		Prime Minister of Ireland, 1997-2008
Brendan Bradshaw	Historian	28-May-1937		And So Began the Irish Nation
John Bruton	Head of State	18-May-1947		Prime Minister of Ireland, 1994-97
Brian Cowen	Head of State	10-Jan-1960		Prime Minister of Ireland, 2008-11
John F. Coyne	Business	c. 1949		CEO of Western Digital
Ryan C. Crocker	Diplomat	19-Jun-1949		US Ambassador to Iraq, 2007-09
Cyril Cusack	Actor	26-Nov-1910	7-Oct-1993	Gone to Earth
Roddy Doyle	Novelist	1958		The Commitments
Patrick F. Fagan	Activist	?		Family Research Council
Garret FitzGerald	Head of State	9-Feb-1926	19-May-2011	Twice Prime Minister of Ireland
Niall FitzGerald	Business	13-Sep-1945		Chairman of Reuters
Brendan Gleeson	Actor	29-Mar-1955		Mad-Eye Moody
Charles Haughey	Head of State	16-Sep-1925	13-Jun-2006	Three-time Prime Minister of Ireland
David Healy	Psychiatrist	27-Apr-1954		The Antidepressant Era
Patrick Hillery	Head of State	2-May-1923	12-Apr-2008	President of Ireland, 1976-90
James Joyce	Author	2-Feb-1882	13-Jan-1941	Ulysses
Charlie McCreevy	Politician	30-Sep-1948		EU Commissioner, Internal Market and Services
John McGahern	Novelist	12-Nov-1934	30-Mar-2006	Amongst Women
Dermot Morgan	Actor	31-Mar-1952	28-Feb-1998	Father Ted
Flann O'Brien	Author	5-Oct-1911	1-Apr-1966	At Swim-Two-Birds
Kate O'Brien	Novelist	3-Dec-1897	13-Aug-1974	The Land of Spices
John J. O'Connor	Business	c. 1945		EVP at Hess Corporation
Chris O'Dowd	Actor	9-Oct-1979		Roy on The IT Crowd
Liam O'Flaherty	Novelist	28-Aug-1896	7-Sep-1984	Thy Neighbour's Wife
David J. O'Reilly	Business	1947		CEO of Chevron, 2005-09
Liam Redmond	Actor	27-Jul-1913	28-Oct-1989	Irish stage and film actor
Kathleen Ryan	Actor	8-Dec-1922	11-Nov-1985	The Sound of Fury
Jim Sheridan	Film Director	6-Feb-1949		My Left Foot
Peter Straub	Novelist	2-Mar-1943		Ghost Story
Peter Sutherland	Government	25-Apr-1946		First Director General of the WTO

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
James J. Heckman	Economist	19-Apr-1944		Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior
Gerard Manley Hopkins	Poet	28-Jul-1844	8-Jun-1889	Defeated the tyranny of poetic meter
Jan Lukasiewicz	Mathematician	21-Dec-1878	13-Feb-1956	Invented Reverse Polish Notation

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