Help us find and improve next week's Connection Finder profiles: Luck o' the Irish! [closed]

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To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, we are featuring the good saint himself, St. Patrick, in the Connection Finder next week.

In addition, we're looking for profiles of other Irish folks who make you think of Ireland when you hear their name, to feature alongside him. The theme is pretty broad for now, but if we see something more specific emerge, it can be narrowed.

Here are a few of the people we're getting started on:

Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.

Who else should we feature? Do they need a profile?

All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.

We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eight per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

To help us plan future themes, see the 2021 Example Profile Plans post here.

WikiTree profile: Patrick ap Calpurnius
closed with the note: Feature: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1204146/which-irish-notable-are-you-most-closely-connected-to
in The Tree House by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (751k points)
closed by Abby Glann

The connection pathway for Saint Patrick is in need of review.  Among other issues, the current pathway has Allan McGorrie as the son of Cormac McGorrie, despite the son supposedly being born more than 500 years after the father.

If it needs updated, now is the best time to do it. We can use another primary anchor if it disconnects him, but not if we find out later than Sunday night. Thanks, Greg!
There's another connection if you strike out Allan McGorrie, though with such an early profile any connection is probably difficult to validate.
I would like to see noted author Flannery O'Connor added to the list of notable Irish heritage persons.  She would also fit into the Notable Women category.
The information on James Joyce is really sketchy. Someone put him as living in the Bronx onto the profile. As far as I can tell, he never lived there, but someone certainly found a "James Joyce" living in that location and grafted it onto his profile. If we're able to find a connection for him, we'll definitely need to do some cleanup.
I updated that part of the profile and moved those questionable Census entries to a Research Notes section.

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Some notable folks to consider that I'd suggest are:

Grainne O'Malley O'Malley-438

Michael Collins Collins-1984

Oscar Wilde Wilde-536

Anne Bonny McCormac-11

by Erin English Bailey G2G6 Mach 1 (18.6k points)
edited by Erin English Bailey

Grainne O'Malley O'Malley-438, Michael Collins Collins-1984, and Oscar Wilde Wilde-536 are interesting candidates, and all are connected to the WikiTree.

Regarding Anne Bonny, who is not connected yet, I have fanciful notions of doing a pirate connection target feature some week. I will post that thought in the thread about 2021 example profiles.

I am new here, what is a pirate connection?

Hi, Alice. Thanks for pointing out how noun clusters can get us in trouble. blush

When I wrote about a ''pirate connection target feature,'' I was referring to a the idea of featuring a set of pirates as connection targets some week in the future.

I like the idea. Thank you for clarifying.
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[[De_Valera-4|Éamonn Patrick de Valera (1913-1986)]]
by William Morgan G2G5 (5.2k points)
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Ireland XO already has a list of poets, famous film stars, writers and books as a starter list and stub profile, sometimes with birth places and parents.

What might be missing too are sports stars?
by Shay Crowe G2G1 (1.5k points)
Do you have any Wikitree profiles to nominate?  Having them Connected would be a huge plus, because a bio and an image would probably be easier to do if they are lacking.

Many Irish sports figures are still living like Roy Keane but one that recently passed is Joey Dunlop famous motorcyclist.  Wikipedia Joey Dunlop

Don't see a profile that fits unless the only one born in the 1950s showing up is just not yet marked deceased.

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John MacBride  (MacBride-50)

his son, Sean MacBride

and his wife Edith Maude Gonne
by William Kennard G2G1 (1.4k points)
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Maureen O'Hara, yes, as one cannot visit Glengarriff without someone pointing to the big white house where Maureen O'Hara used to live; Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett and any other of Ireland's literary icons, yes... but, Parnell Street runs through the heart of South Dublin [Charles Stewart Parnell-433], crossing the Liffy via O'Connell Bridge, leading onto O'Connell Street [Daniel O'Connell-837]. At the top of O'Connell St. is a statue commemorating James Larkin-824.

Sadly, the quintessentially, Irish persona of James Larkin-824 is all but disconnected on wikitree; and I've not been able to connect to familysearch.org for several months...
by David Dunaway G2G2 (2.1k points)
Along with sister, Delia Larkin-827

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Larkin
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Daniel Florence O'Leary was an Irish military officer who was a major figure in the 19th century independence movements in Latin America. He doesn't have a profile yet.

by Sharon Casteel G2G6 Pilot (168k points)
+10 votes

George Bernard Shaw - has pic, has bio, is Connected --- but PLEASE can the level 2 header which is supposed to be only for Biography, Sources, and Acknowledgements be removed, or downgraded to bold, or level 4 or 5 (or 6).

==FamilySearch.org Resources==

by Melanie Paul G2G6 Pilot (426k points)
+10 votes
I would help on Maureen FitzSimons Ohara. She is 21 degrees from me.
by Alice Thomsen G2G6 Pilot (248k points)
When do we actually start working on the person and line down to us?
Alice, this is not a Challenge. Next week WikiTree will feature 8 Irish profiles as connection targets, and she is hoping that over the next few days members will help her ensure that there are 8 profiles that will showcase quality work. This can mean connecting their profiles (by adding relatives until somebody connects...) to the WikiTree if they are not connected already, adding sourced content to their profiles, improving the writing in the biographies, adding more relatives to their families and family trees, and making sure that they have copyright-free images suitable for use as primary images.

Choose someone who you would want to see featured, and see if there are improvements you can make.
Ok I sure will let you know.
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All 3 are worthy I leaning towards james Joyce
by Patricia Bruhn G2G3 (3.1k points)
+11 votes

Agnes Mary Clerk (1842-1907) from Skibereen. Astronomer who had a crater on the moon named in her honour by NASA in 1981 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clerke-249 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Mary_Clerke

by Patrick Holland G2G6 Mach 5 (59.2k points)
+12 votes
Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Hughes McGee (1825-1868) (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/McGee-941)  is a prominent figure in the history of Canadian Confederation. He was born in Ireland and had a history of rebellion there.  He was assassinated in Ottawa, Canada, the year after Canada became a country instead of a colony, probably due to his politics.

My grandfather D'Arcy Prendergast was named after him by his own father who admired T. D'A. McGee.
by Joanna Gariepy G2G6 Mach 1 (14.5k points)
Actually, Canada did not become a country until Dec. 11, 1931 when the Statute of Westminster,1931 was given Royal Assent. The BNA Act, 1867 was merely an act to begin the amalgamation ("Confederation") of Britain's remaining North American provinces (read, 'colonies') under the name, Canada - thus to make Whitehall's job of governance more conveniently manageable. Up and until Dec. 11, 1931, the Dominion of Canada was entirely subordinate to Westminster, Whitehall & the Colonial Laws Validity Act.
Thomas is still not connected.
+10 votes
Would love to see Turlough O'Carolan.
by Kathi Reed G2G Crew (500 points)
+8 votes
Peter O'Toole?
by Carol Baldwin G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)
Born in England to an Irish father and a Scottish mother.  Was he really Irish?
Peter Seamus O'Toole's father was Irish. He described himself as Irish. Some say his birthplace was in the Connemara region while others say Leeds. He has birth certificates from both. He certainly had Luck o' the Iris in his performances in Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, etc. That doesn't count as Irish?

My grandfather's father was born in England, but Great-Granddad never thought of himself as anything but Australian (with English heritage).  cheeky

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You can have a birth registered in more than one place.  That doesn't mean you were born in both places.

Records from the Leeds General Registry Office confirm that Peter J (James) O'Toole was born at St James's University Hospital on 2 August 1932.  The GRO would appear to also confirm this.

I've never thought of him as Irish.  But I did fall in love with those eyes of his when I first saw him as Lawrence.  (My mother named one of my siblings after TE Lawrence, and was the one who took me to see the movie.  My late husband took me to the anniversary showing some years ago.)

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gore-Booth-1

Constance Markievicz: good bio, pictures and already connected

 I thought Nobel peace prizewinner Betty Williams would have been good but she hasn't a profile

by Helen Ford G2G6 Pilot (478k points)
edited by Helen Ford

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