page_title: Sandymount
section_title: People
hierarchical_section_title: Sandymount / People
caption_attribution_description: Bust of William Butler Yeats at Sandymount Green, Dublin, Ireland
context_page_description: Sandymount is an affluent coastal suburb in the Dublin 4 district on the south side of Dublin in Ireland.
context_section_description: The following people were born in Sandymount:
  John S. Beckett (1927–2007), musician, composer and conductor
  Bryan Dobson (born 1960), newscaster
  Shay Healy (born 1943), writer & broadcaster
  Valentin Iremonger (1918–1991), poet and diplomat
  Freda Kelly (born 1944), Secretary and manager of The Beatles fan club
  Ruairi Quinn (born 1946), former TD, (Teachta Dála) and former Cabinet Minister
  Annie P. Smithson (1873–1948), novelist
  W. B. Yeats (1865–1939), poet
  Aengus Ó Snodaigh (born 1964), TD, (Teachta Dála)
  Kevin O'Brien (born 1984), Irish international cricketer
  Hilary Weston (born 1942), model and entrepreneur
  The following live or have lived in Sandymount:
  Donagh MacDonagh, (1912-1968) Poet, playwright, broadcaster, folklorist, district justice.
  Fionnbar Callanan, sports photographer & journalist
  Christopher Casson (1912-1996), actor
  Risteárd Cooper, actor & comedian
  Pat Cox, Former MEP and broadcaster
  Lucinda Creighton (born 1980), former TD, (Teachta Dála) and former Leader of Renua Ireland
  Declan Darcy, Former Leitrim and Dublin Gaelic Footballer
  Ron Delany (born 1935), Olympic 1500m Gold medal winner
  Elizabeth Dunne (born 1956), Supreme Court Judge
  Mary Harney (born 1953), former TD, (Teachta Dála), former Cabinet Minister and member of the Progressive Democrats
  Seamus Heaney (1939–2013), poet
  Kevin Humphreys (born 1958), former TD, (Teachta Dála)
  Enda Kenny (born 1951), Taoiseach lived here (1994-1997)
  Charles Lysaght, author & journalist
  Brinsley MacNamara (1890-1963), author
  T. P. McKenna (1929–2011), actor
  Peter Murphy (1923–2011), radio and television broadcaster
  Sinead O'Connor (born 1966), musician & actress
  Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (1882–1957), composer
  Noel Purcell (1900–1985), actor
  Eoin Ryan Snr (1920–2001), member of Seanad Éireann
  Brendan Kennelly (born 1936), poet, novelist, playwright and Professor Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin
  Ivan Yates (born 1959), broadcaster, former TD, (Teachta Dála) and former Cabinet Minister
  Dermot Morgan (born 1952), Irish comedian, actor
caption: The bust of WB Yeats on Sandymount Green
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