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Ireland: the essential lives

4 figures from Ireland, from the earliest recorded to the present day.

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James Joyce

1882 – 1941

Ulysses reorganised what a novel could attempt.

Ireland·Literature

Emmet Fox

1886 – 1951

Filled New York auditoriums in the Depression; his writing shaped early Alcoholics Anonymous.

Ireland·New Thought · Theology

Joseph Murphy

1898 – 1981

Recast affirmation as subconscious programming for a postwar readership.

Ireland·New Thought · Psychology

Denis Burkitt

1911 – 1993

Linked dietary fibre to Western disease patterns after describing Burkitt's lymphoma in Uganda.

Ireland·Public Health · Nutrition

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