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Cathal Brugha

1874 - 1922

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Cathal Brugha (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkahəlˠ ˈbˠɾˠuː]; born Charles William St John Burgess; 18 July 1874 – 7 July 1922) was an Irish republican politician who served as Minister for Defence from 1919 to 1922, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann in January 1919, the first president of Dáil Éireann from January 1919 to April 1919 and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army from 1917 to 1918. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cathal Brugha has received more than 501,550 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Cathal Brugha is the 15,496th most popular politician (down from 15,044th in 2019), the 249th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 275th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Irish Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cathal Brugha ranks 15,496 out of 19,576. Before him are John P. Kennedy, Félix Paiva, José María Urvina, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Vladimir Makogonov, and Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río. After him are Joaquín Sánchez de Toca, Sesheshet, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Vladimir Resin, Sergey Tereshchenko, and Bodil Katharine Biørn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Cathal Brugha ranks 213. Before him are Grantley Goulding, Sergey Lebedev, Joseph Olivier, Charles A. Beard, Guido Balzarini, and Henry Kolker. After him are Aleksander Prystor, Charles R. Knight, Owen D. Young, Victor Sonnemans, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, and Ivan Moskvin. Among people deceased in 1922, Cathal Brugha ranks 115. Before him are Betzy Akersloot-Berg, František Ondříček, Gaston Bonnier, Lev Chugaev, Vilma Hugonnai, and Jørgen Løvland. After him are Serapio Calderón, John Moresby, A. V. Dicey, John Wanamaker, August Palm, and Alfred Capus.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Cathal Brugha ranks 249 out of 549. Before him are Henry Kellett (1806), Patrick O'Connell (1887), Martin Sheridan (1881), Robert Mallet (1810), Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (1865), and Tim O'Reilly (1954). After him are Arthur Johnson (1879), William Carr (1876), Andrew Scott (1976), Billy Whelan (1935), Owen Moore (1886), and Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1779).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Cathal Brugha ranks 42. Before him are Liam Cosgrave (1920), W. T. Cosgrave (1880), Leo Varadkar (1979), Garret FitzGerald (1926), Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822), and Charles Haughey (1925). After him are Jack Lynch (1917), John A. Costello (1891), Peter Sutherland (1946), Richard Mulcahy (1886), Albert Reynolds (1932), and Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715).

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