Which Swede has come close to anything as great?

have you heard of ABBA?

@Leaf ”Wellesley was born into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family in Ireland as The Hon. Arthur Wesley”

Anglo-irish

Not Irish

Irish

No

Anglo and Irish are the same thing for one

But that said still Irish

Most prominent Irishmen

Aren’t Irish

False

An Irish girl wrote an article on it

Hold on

https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/whats-in-a-name/

EVEN FUCKING GUINESS ISN’T IRISH

”furthermore, whenever you hear about some famous “irish” person, like a scientist or an author, they’re more than likely to have anglo-irish or scots-irish ancestry.

for instance, if you look at this list on wikipedia of famous “irish” scientists (*chuckle*), the vast majority are or were either of scots-irish, old english, or anglo-irish background, not native irish. one or two were even partly or fully of some other ethnic background(s) (i.e. french huguenot and sephardic jewish). i can pick out only seven who are likely candidates for having a (mostly) native irish background: louis brennan, pádraig de brún, nicholas callan, aeneas coffey, richard kirwan (“one of the last supporters of the theory of phlogiston”), william dargan, and john philip holland — and i’m not so sure about dargan or holland (both of those surnames could be either british or irish). so that’s five to seven native irish out of a list of forty “irish”, and i bet most of you have never heard of any of them.”

Michael Collins

”and if we look at “irish” nobel laureates (heh — yes, there have been a couple!), of the science ones, we’ve got ernest walton (physics, 1951) aaaaaand…no, sorry, that’s it. ernest walton. needless to say, walton is an old anglo-saxon name, and ernest’s father was a methodist minister, so probably not very native irish. (maybe there are some native irish laureates in amongst the u.s. or canadian or australian winners. i didn’t get around to checking that.)

and all those famous irish authors? w.b. yeats? anglo-irish. oscar wilde? anglo-irish. bernard shaw? anglo-irish. jonathan swift? anglo-irish. samuel beckett? anglo-irish. bram stoker? anglo-irish. j.m. synge? anglo-irish. clearly overrepresented. (not that there’s anything wrong with that!)”

Cope

Built his republic, defeated an empire and crushed a civil war

Harder

Hold on

Before he was even in his middle age

Or Bill Massey

PM of the Dominion of New Zealand

Who established her ethnic nationalist immigration standards and created real estate freehold standards in the country

Lead her through the first world war as well

Had seven kids as well <:BASED:639981478284886021>

First of all

”Massey Name Meaning. English and Scottish (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from any of various places in northern France which get their names from the Gallo-Roman personal name Maccius + the locative suffix -acum. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Marcy in La Manche.”

So not fully Irish most likely

But sure

Those two

I’ll give you those

BUT

It's the same thing, there are hardly any people from the isles or in the diaspora who couldn't claim ancestry from several parts of it

The most influential and prominent Irish individuals

Ulysses Grant

Weren’t Irish

President of the U.S. Republic