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To Find out more click the name on the left hand side John Francis D'Alton - Cardinal John Dalton - Historian. History of the County of Dublin Louis D'Alton - playwright Edward Daly - 1916 leader James Daly - executed during Indian mutiny William Dargan - Engineer responsible for many railways in Ireland. Also National Gallery George Darley - poet Samuel Davidson - Belfast industrialist. Sirocco Works Christina Davis - Woman who served in the British army as a man Francis Davis - The Belfastman, a weaver poet Thomas Davis - Young Irelander. Author of A Nation Once Again Michael Davitt - Founder of the Land League Cecil Day Lewis - writer and Poet Laureate. Father of actor Daniel DL Donncha DeBarra - Died on hunger strike Colm De Bhailis - poet, lived until 106 Tomas De Bhaildraithe - best known for his dictionary Aodh De Blacam - writer Padraig De Brun - translated the classics into Irish John De Courcy - premier Baron of Ireland Teresa Deevy - playwright Mary Delany - Diarist Patrick Delany - Considered by Swift to be the finest wit in Ireland Sir John Denham - Dr Johnson described him as being one of the fathers of English poetry Thomas Dermody - poet Charlotte Despard - suffragette and supporter of radical causes Eamon De Valera - 1916 leader, President and Taoiseach Ruaidhri De Valera - Professor of Archaeology Sinead De Valera - writer Aubrey De Vere - writer Mickey Devine - died on hunger strike Anne Devlin - servant of Robert Emmet Denis Devlin - poet Paddy Devlin - politician John Devoy - Fenian. Commissioned the first modern submarine Brian Dillon - patriot Eilis Dillon - writer. Across the Bitter Sea Gerard Dillon - painter James Dillon - politician John Blake Dillon - Young Ireland, one of the founders of The Nation Disasters - Titanic, Lusitania, SS Ary Thomas James Dixon - philantropists Thomas Dockrell - Dublin businessman Kieran Doherty - died on hunger strike Michael Doheny - Fenian and writer The Shan Van Vocht John Donegan - jeweller who gave religious items to every foreign missionary Dan Donnelly - boxer Edward Dowden - Shakespearian Jack Doyle - boxer Lynn C Doyle - writer P V Doyle - hotelier John Swanwick Drennan - son of William writer William Drennan - poet first to use Emerald Isle as euphemism for Ireland Terry Driscoll - satirist Maire Drumm - Republican, shot dead in hospital Thomas Drummond - Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Inventor of limelight Dublin Medical Colleges - bodies donated for scientific research Frank Duff - founder of the Legion of Mary Edward Duffy - Fenian Charles Gavan Duffy - Young Irelander. Prime Minister of Victoria James Duffy - publisher Denis Duggan - Fenian Sir Patrick Dun - President of the Royal College of Physicians John Dunlap - printed the American Declaration of Independence Joey Dunlop - world champion motorcyclist John Boyd Dunlop - inventor of the pneumatic tyre Ben Dunne - founder of the Dunnes Stores empire Sean Dunne - poet Lord Dunsany - writer Dutch Airline Crash - Buried in Galway Michael Dwyer - Fenian
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