Ulick O'Connor was an Irish poet who was born in Rathgar in 1928, he mainly wrote plays, poems, non-fiction and biographys

 

George William Russell was an Irish poet and painter lived in Rathgar but was born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh

 

John Millington Synge was an Irish poet, novelist and playwright who lived in Rathgar. He died in 1909

 

Eamon De Valera was born in New York in 1882 but came to Ireland, he was a politician and he founded Fianna Fail, He was a former Taoiseach and helped in writing the constitiution. He was also the president of Ireland.

 

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Arnold Bax a famous English composer rented a villa on Bushy Park Road and wrote about it in his autobiography.

 

James Joyce was born in Brighton square, he wrote the book Ulysses about two men in Dublin and bloomsday celebrates James Joyce and for one day some poeple in Rathgar dress up in old fashioned clothes and have events such as facepainting raffels and jazz bands.

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Jack Lynch who was a former taoiseach of Ireland in1966-1979 had a house in Garville Avenue