Roll of the Honorary Freedom of
the City of Dublin (1876-1999)
| Isaac Butt, Q.C. |
4th Sept., 1876 |
Irish lawyer and Home Rule leader. |
| Right Hon. William
Ewart Gladstone, P.C., M.P. |
1st Nov., 1877 |
British Prime Minister and Home Uler
crusader. |
| Ulysses S. Grant,
ex-President U.S.A. |
30th Dec., 1878 |
18th President of the U.S.A., on his
world tour. |
| Captain Edward E.
Potter. |
26th April, 1880 |
Captain of Relief
Ship, Constellation, U.S. Navy, sent to relieve famine of 1879-80 |
| Charles Stewart
Parnell |
3rd Jan., 1882 |
Irish nationalist leader. |
| John Dillon, M.P. |
3rd Jan., 1882 |
Irish nationalist politician. |
| Kevin Izod O'Doherty |
10th Aug., 1885 |
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| Hon. Patrick A.
Collins, Senator, U.S.A. |
22nd July, 1887 |
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| William O'Brien, M.P. |
22nd July, 1887 |
Irish political leader |
| Timothy Daniel
Sullivan, M.P. |
10th Dec., 1887 |
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| Thomas Sexton, M.P. |
28th Dec., 1887 |
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| The Rt. Hon. the
Marquis of Ripon, P.C. |
16th Jan., 1888 |
English politician |
| The Rt. Hon. John
Morley, P.C., M.P. |
16th Jan., 1888 |
British author and politician. Chief
Secretary of Ireland (1886). |
| His Eminence Cardinal
Moran |
1st Oct., 1888 |
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| Lady Sandhurst |
19th Sept., 1889 |
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| The Rt. Hon. James
Stansfeld, P.C., M.P. |
19th Sept., 1889 |
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| The Rev. George
Salmon, D.D., Provost, T.C.D. |
14th Mar., 1892 |
Marking 300th celebrations of the
college. |
| The Rt. Hon. Stuart
Knill. |
23rd Dec., 1892 |
First Catholic Lord Mayor of London
since the Reformation (1893). |
| Patrick A. McHugh,
M.P. |
30th Oct., 1901 |
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| John E. Redmond, B.L.,
M.P. |
18th Dec., 1901 |
Irish political leader. |
| An Craoibhín Aoibhín (Douglas Hyde, LL.D.) |
29th June, 1906 |
Later
became first Irish President (1939) |
| Richard Croker |
1st July, 1907 |
'Boss'
Croker of Tammany Hall, New York. I'm fascinated by him but know very little - if
you know more Email me at kfinlay@indigo.ie |
| Spencer Harty, C.E., Borough Surveyor of Dublin. |
2nd Sept., 1907 |
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| Hugh F. Lane |
10th Feb., 1908 |
Art
collector, left collection to the city. |
| E. O'Meagher Condon |
28th Sept., 1909 |
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| Sir Charles A. Cameron, C.B.,
Executive Sanitary Officer |
30th Sept., 1910 |
Credited
with improving sanitation in Dublin. His autobiography is included on this site. |
| Dr. Kuno Meyer |
18th July, 1911 |
German
translator of early Irish texts. Removed from the list in December 1914 after a speech to
Clan na Gael (NY) in which he supported Germany in WWI. www.ucc.ie/celt/meyer_extracts.html
He was restored to the Roll in 1920. |
| An Canónach Peadar Ua Laoghaire |
18th July, 1911 |
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| Most Rev. Dr. Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne |
5th Aug., 1920 |
Irish-born,
advocate of Irish independence. |
| John Count McCormack |
3rd Sept., 1923 |
Irish
operatic tenor. |
| Ehrenfried Gunther Baron Von Hunefeld |
30th June, 1928 |
First
East to West Transatlantic flight. |
| Captain Hermann Koehl |
30th June, 1928 |
First
East to West Transatlantic flight |
| Major James Fitzmaurice |
30th June, 1928 |
First
East to West Transatlantic flight |
| Frank Billings Kellogg, LL.D. |
25th Aug., 1928 |
U.S.
Secretary of State. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1929. |
| Lorenzo Cardinal
Lauri. |
27th June, 1932 |
Pope's representative at the 31st
Eucharistic Congress, Dublin. |
| Sir John Lavery, RA.,
R.H.A. |
17th Sept., 1935 |
Successful painter of the Glasgow
School.. |
| Sir John Purser
Griffith, M.A.I., M. Inst.C.E |
8th June, 1936 |
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| George Bernard Shaw |
26th July, 1946 |
Dublin-born author, dramatist, wit. |
| Most Rev. Dr. Cushing,
Archhishop of Boston |
16th Sept., 1949 |
Campaigner for social justice. |
| Paul A. Dever,
Governor of Massachusetts |
16th Sept., 1949 |
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