Prominent Members
Prominent Anglo-Irish poets, writers and playwrights include Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley, Oliver Goldsmith, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, Cecil Day Lewis, Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Giles Cooper, C. S. Lewis, Lord Longford and Elizabeth Bowen.
Some of the most prominent British scientists of the 19th century, including William Rowan Hamilton, George Gabriel Stokes, and John Tyndall, were Anglo-Irish. Other Anglo-Irish scientists include George Johnstone Stoney, Thomas Romney Robinson, James MacCullagh, Edward Sabine, Thomas Andrews, William Parsons, George Salmon, George FitzGerald, and in the 20th century, John Joly and Ernest Walton. The celebrated polar explorer Ernest Shackleton was also an Anglo-Irishman.
Medical experts included William Wilde, Robert Graves, Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw, William Stokes, Robert Collis and John Lumsden.
Anglo-Irishmen Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Henry Grattan, Lord Castlereagh, George Macartney, Charles Stewart Parnell, and Edward Carson played major roles in British politics.
The Anglo-Irish were also represented among the senior officers of the British Army by men such as Field Marshal Lord Roberts, first honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards regiment, who spent most of his career in India; Field Marshal Lord Gough who served under Wellington, himself a Wellesley born in Dublin to the Earl of Mornington, a prominent Anglo-Irish family in Dublin; and in the 20th century Alan Brooke and Harold Alexander (see also Irish military diaspora).
Prolific art music composers include John Field and Charles Villiers Stanford. The sculptor John Henry Foley was also famous outside Ireland.
William Desmond Taylor was an early and prolific maker of silent films in Hollywood.
Philanthropists included Thomas Barnardo and Edward Guinness.
Discussing the lack of Irish civic morality in 2011, former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald remarked that before 1922: "In Ireland a strong civic sense did exist - but mainly amongst Protestants and especially Anglicans".
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