Louis Brennan – Torpedo Man
Irish inventor Louis Brennan (1852-1932) was an engineer who is known best as the brains behind the first ever workable guided missile - a...
Ernest Walton: The Irish Man Who Split the Atom
Nobel Prize winner Ernest Walton is best known for the seminal series of 'atom-smashing' experiments that he carried out in the 1930s at the...
John P Holland: Submarine Man
Despite facing what sometimes seemed like insurmountable obstacles, the Irish engineer John P Holland refused to give up on his vision of building a...
Maureen O’Hara: Irish-American Legend
The label "icon" is nowadays used with rather more kindness than discrimination. One woman to whom it legitimately can and will be applied, however,...