best known for Beggars of Life Michael Walsh – novelist and screenwriter; awarded a 2004 American Book Award for And All The Saints Roger Zelazny – fantasy and science fiction author; winner of three Nebula Awards and six Hugo Awards Media and journalists Tom Kenny Loretta Lynn Dennis Quaid Karen Allen Jim Acosta Mike Barnicle Bob Costas Greta Van Susteren Nellie Bly Joseph I. Breen Jimmy Breslin Howie Carr – author, Boston newspaper columnist and New England radio talk-show host; has claimed family "two-boater" Irish ancestry (i.e., Ireland-to-Canada, then Canada-to-Maine) on his father's side Neil Cavuto Carson Daly Phil Donahue Maureen Dowd Brian Doyle-Murray Roger Ebert Pete Hamill Sean Hannity Greg Kelly Megyn Kelly Chris Matthews Bill Murray Joel Murray Peggy Noonan (1950– ) – author, political analyst and pundit for the Republican Party Nicole O'Brian – model, pageant contestant, and reality television contestant Conan O'Brien Soledad O'Brien Norah O'Donnell Michael O'Looney – New York-based reporter; later a business executive with Merrill Lynch Bill O'Reilly John L. O'Sullivan Regis Philbin Dennis Roddy Tim Russert (1950–2008) – journalist, hosted NBC's Meet the Press from 1991 until his death in 2008 John B. Sheridan (1870–1930) – sports journalist (Sporting News) Ed Sullivan Elizabeth Vargas John Walsh Brian Williams Ellen DeGeneres Smith Hart Bruce Hart Keith Hart Dean Hart Bret Hart Ross Hart Diana Hart Owen Hart Ireland Baldwin Alec Baldwin Daniel Baldwin Stephen Baldwin William Baldwin Emily Deschanel Nicole Sullivan Kevin Conroy Tim McGraw Debbie Reynolds Military John Barry – father of the United States Navy; Irish-born Patrick Edward Connor – Union general born in Kerry Michael Corcoran – United States Army general James Hickey – leader of Operation Red Dawn; son of Irish immigrants Stephen W. Kearny – US Army officer, noted for action in the southwest during the Mexican–American War David Conner (naval officer) Andrew Lewis – Continental Army general Alfred Thayer Mahan – naval officer and author whose work, including Sea Power, inspired the creation of the modern United States Navy Dennis Hart Mahan – guiding light and head of faculty at West Point for decades prior to the Civil War; influential author whose published works were the keystone for spreading engineering knowledge throughout the antebellum US; his Napoleon seminar at West Point informed Civil War strategies, North and South George Gordon Meade – commanding general of the Army of the Potomac who led the Union forces to victory