Dún Laoghaire in 1888. Maureen O'Hara, an Irish film actress and singer, was born Maureen FitzSimons on the Lower Churchtown Road. Her father was a Dublin businessman and part owner of Shamrock Rovers Football Club. Ruth Coppinger, Dublin West TD, was born and raised in Churchtown. Dervla Kirwan, actress who starred in Goodnight Sweetheart and Ballykissangel. Bazil Ashmawy, television personality Séamus Brennan, senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South constituency. William Tankerville Chamberlain, judge, lived in Churchtown. Dick Farrelly, songwriter, policeman and poet who composed the "Isle of Innisfree", the melody of which was used as the main theme of the film, The Quiet Man. Fionnula Flanagan, the Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress, lived in Churchtown before settling in Los Angeles. Maria Gatland (née McGuire), is a councillor and former cabinet member for education in Croydon London Borough Council, a post she resigned from after being exposed as a former member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Into Paradise a band whose members, Dave Long, Ronan Clarke, Rachael Tighe and James Eadie, were from the Churchtown area. They named their 1991 album "Churchtown". John Kavanagh, martial artist and coach of UFC fighter Conor McGregor Dermot Keely is an ex-League of Ireland player and former manager of Irish football team Shelbourne FC. Although not born or raised in Churchtown, Keely was employed in De La Salle Churchtown for several years. Martina Shanahan (born 1966), one of the Winchester Three, an IRA active service unit, who was given a 25-year sentence for conspiring to kill Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Tom King, in 1987. John Wilson, a Fianna Fáil politician and All-Ireland football medal winner for Cavan, lived on Braemor Avenue. Serving as a Teachta Dála from 1973 until 1992, Wilson held the posts of Minister for Education, Minister for Posts & Telegraphs, Minister for Tourism & Transport and Tánaiste. Elizabeth Yeats and Lily Yeats sisters, founders of Cuala Press at Churchtown after it was reorganised separately from Dun Emer Press. Sisters of Jack and William Butler Yeats, they lived at Gurteen Dheas, Churchtown Road, which was also the site of Cuala Industries. Clubs and associations Sports clubs in the area include Leicester Celtic and Broadford Rovers association football clubs, Dundrum South Dublin Athletic Club, Phoenix gymnastics club, Old Alex Hockey Club, De La Salle Palmerstown rugby club, and Sandyford Cricket Club.