New Ross - People

People

• Dunganstown, 6 km (4 mi) south of New Ross is the ancestral home of the Kennedy family which includes Joe Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the USA, Robert Kennedy and Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy whose great-grandfather Patrick Kennedy emigrated to America from there.
• Other emigrants included the grandparents of Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, the American playwright and winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature. Before emigrating, they lived in Rosbercon, just across the river Barrow from New Ross.
• Father James Cullen, founder of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, was born in New Ross.
• John Redmond, Nationalist leader and politician, was MP for New Ross.
• Michael O'Hanrahan, freedom fighter executed in 1916, was born in New Ross. The present road bridge over the River Barrow is named after him.
• Martin Jerome Keogh (1852–1926), New York State Supreme Court Justice, was born in New Ross.
• Maverick Sabre contemporary singer / musician grew up in New Ross
• Kevin Doyle Irish international footballer player who currently plays for Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers
• Greg Bolger Football player based with League of Ireland team St Patrick's Athletic
• Gráinne Murphy Irish International swimmer who won Silver in the Freestyle 1,500m at the European Long Course Championships in Budapest in 2010 and bronze in the 400m & 800m Freestyle at the European Short Course Championships in Eindhoven in 2010.
• Sean Connick Former Fianna Fáil TD from 2007 to 2011. The first TD in the history of the State to use a wheelchair.