The Most Famous
COMPANIONS from Ireland
This page contains a list of the greatest Irish Companions. The pantheon dataset contains 784 Companions, 1 of which were born in Ireland. This makes Ireland the birth place of the 61st most number of Companions behind Georgia, and Cuba.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Irish Companions of all time. This list of famous Irish Companions is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nora Barnacle (1884 - 1951)
With an HPI of 55.41, Nora Barnacle is the most famous Irish Companion. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Nora Barnacle Joyce (born Norah Barnacle; 21 March 1884 – 10 April 1951) was the muse and wife of Irish author James Joyce. Barnacle and Joyce had their first romantic outing in 1904 on a date celebrated worldwide as "Bloomsday" after his modernist novel Ulysses. Barnacle did not, however, enjoy the novel. Their sexually explicit letters have aroused much curiosity, especially as Joyce normally disapproved of coarse language, and they fetch high prices at auction. In 2004, an erotic letter from Joyce to Barnacle sold at Sotheby's for £240,800. Barnacle and Joyce's life together has been the subject of much popular interest. A 1980 play, Nora Barnacle by Maureen Charlton, was made about their relationship. Barnacle was the subject of a 1988 biography, Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce, by Brenda Maddox, which was adapted into a 2000 Irish film, Nora, directed by Pat Murphy, and starring Susan Lynch and Ewan McGregor.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Irish companions born between 1884 and 1884. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Irish companions include Nora Barnacle. As of April 2024, 1 new Irish companions have been added to Pantheon including Nora Barnacle.
