William Macnaghten could have been a renowned in the legal profession in his native Ulster

Extraordinary Emigrants: The Galway man was known as ‘quick tempered and tender-hearted’

The Irish emigrants who ensured a steady supply of our favourite tipples for the last three centuries

Mary Mallon, a cook, was vilified and suffered extreme punishment for something she had no control over

Extraordinary Emigrant: Sybil Connolly dressed some of the world’s most glamorous women from Jackie Kennedy to Elizabeth Taylor

Dubliner Carmel Snow gave Truman Capote his first major platform, and launched Dior and Balenciaga in the US market

Politician Thomas Wyse was one of only five Catholics to win a seat in the House of Commons in 1829

The outspoken Dubliner, who won the respect and admiration of the Burmese people, was found guilty of sedition

John Purroy Mitchel was elected age 34 with the highest share of the vote ever recorded

First St Patrick’s day celebrated on 1891 in a roofless mud-hut building with whiskey, gin and ham

Cathleen Monahan became a medic and trained generations of Hong Kong doctors

William Holmes McGuffey's books sold more than 120 million copies

Sr Gabriel Hogan provided education for children whose needs would otherwise have been neglected

Extraordinary Emigrants: Writer was a chronicler of her class in its dying days

Clever songsmith’s irreverent wit was informed by his fluent Irish

William Hobson was implicated in the transfer of land from Maori to profit settlers

Irish military migrants sought opportunities in the expanding Russian Empire

Letters offer valuable account of loneliness of settler life in the 19th-century

She was also a sports journalist, travel writer, novelist, and plantation owner

Before tractors, Ferguson was first in Ireland or Britain to build and fly his own plane