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Walter Macken - writer, Rain on the Wind, Hero, Seek The Fair Land

Mackies - family plot of the Belfast industrialists

Charles Macklin - considered one of the best actors of the age

R.R. Madden - writer, The United Irishmen - Their Lives and Times

Martha Magee - Magee College named after her

Francis Maginn - his persistence led to the formation of the British Deaf Association

William Maginn - writer, co-founded Fraser’s Magazine

Edward Maguire - painter

Sam Maguire - gave his name to the cup for All Ireland Football Championship

John Pentland Mahaffy - Oscar Wilde's first and last teacher

Michael Mallin - 1916 leader

Mary Mallon - Typhoid Mary

Molly Malone - she was a fishmonger

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Manchester Martyrs - Allen, larkin and O'Brien

James Clarence Mangan - Ireland's National Poet, Dark Rosaleen

Countess Markievicz - first woman to be elected to the British House of Commons

Joseph Marmion - beatified 2000

Narcissus Marsh - built one of the first free public libraries in Europe

Edward Martyn - one of the founders of the Feis Ceoil

Father Theobald Matthew - anti alcohol campaigner

Basil William Maturin - preacher and writer

Charles Robert Maturin - writer of novels of mystery and horror, Melmoth the Wanderer

Frederick May - composer

Rutherford Mayne - writer

Thomas Francis Meagher - Meagher of the Sword, Young Irelander

Father Charles Patrick Meehan - priest, patriot and scholar

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Father Michael Meehan - the Little Ark

Vivian Mercier - writer and publisher

Brian Merriman - writer, the Midnight Court

Alice Milligan - writer, When I Was a Little Girl

Seaton Milligan - writer

Richard Millikin - best known for his poem The Groves of Blarney

John Mitchel - political activist, Jail Journal

Susan Mitchel - writer

Ernest Moeran - composer

M.J. Molloy - playwright, King of Friday's Men

Brian Moore - writer, Judith Hearne, The Feast of Lupercal, The Emperor of Ice Cream

Christopher Moore - sculptor, statue of Thomas Moore at College Green

John Moore - President of the Republic of Connaught

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George Moore - writer, Esther Waters, Hail and Farewell

Thomas Moore - writer, The Harp that Once, Minstrel Boy

Dermot Morgan - Father Ted

Lady Sydney Morgan - writer, The Wild Irish Girl

Jean Moriarty - dancer

Sir Richard Morrison - architect

Billy Morton - National athletic stadium named after him

Bartolomew Moss - founded the Rotunda Hospital

John Skipton Mulvany - architect, Broadstone terminus

William Mulready - painter

Irish Murdoch - philosopher and writer, Booker prize winner

Delia Murphy - Ballad Queen of Ireland

M.J. Murphy - folklorist, broadcaster and author

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Patrick Murphy - Irish Giant

Russell Murphy - accountant to the stars

Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Stone Mad

John Fischer Murray - writer

Thomas Cornelius Murphy - considered one of the best of the Abbey playwrights