(footballer) (born 1983), Irish football player Sean Cleary, Irish rugby league footballer Thomas Cleary, American author and translator William J. Cleary (1870–1952), American politician Clarke Austin Clarke (poet) (1896–1974), Irish poet Henry Edward Clarke (1829–1892), businessman and politician in Ontario, Canada Henry Joseph Clarke (1833–1889), Premier of Manitoba, Canada, 1874–1878 Peter Clarke (tennis) (born 1979), Irish tennis player Philip Clarke (politician) (born 1933), Irish Republican Army member and politician Tom Clarke (Irish republican) (1857–1916), executed for his part in the 1916 Rising Other institutions Cleary University, a private business school in Michigan, United States Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, an international law firm The Clery Act of United States law Clerys, an Irish department store See also McCleary (surname) References Bibliography Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature, Robert Walsh, 1996. Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, His Associates and St Anthony's College Louvain, Nollaig Ó Muraíle (editor), Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2007. External links O'Clery family pedigree at Library Ireland Ó Cléirigh ancestor search at Irish Times Clan Ó Cléirigh DNA Project at Family Tree DNA The O’Clerys: hereditary historians and poets at History Ireland Surnames Irish-language surnames Surnames of Irish origin Irish families Irish writers Irish Brehon families Families of Irish ancestry