This week's famous Irishman is Sean O'Casey. Sean O'Casey (30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed Irish republican and socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.His plays are particularly noted for the sympathetic treatment of female characters.
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett (24 October 1854 – 26 March 1932) was an Anglo-Irish unionist, later Irish nationalist, agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural co-operation, politician and MP. in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, author and Irish patriot.
This week's famous Irish woman is Constance Gore-Booth, the Countess Markievicz. Constance Gore-Booth, the Countess Markievicz (4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927) was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist and suffragette. She was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and along with the other Sinn Féin TDs formed the first Dáil Éireann. She was also the first woman in Europe to hold a cabinet position (Minister of Labour of the Irish Republic, 1919–1922).
This week's famous Irishman is Sean O'Casey.
