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Brendan Behan
Born on 9 February 1923, Brendan Behan was raised at 13 Russell Street in Dublin’s north inner city. He became one of Ireland’s best-known writers and…
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Maylis Besserie
Maylis Besserie was born in Bordeaux and now lives in Paris. She works as a producer for the radio channel France Culture. Besserie’s connection with Ireland started when…
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John Banville
JOHN BANVILLE’S novels include The Sea, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2005, and The Infinities. He also writes crime novels under the pen-name Benjamin…
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Charles Benson
Charles Benson (1946–2018) was an outstanding bibliographer and scholar of international repute. A leading authority on the 19th- century Irish book trade, he suceeeded the legendary…
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John Boorman
John Boorman, CBE, is an English filmmaker who is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, Zardoz, Exorcist…
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Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry is Professor Emeritus, School of Humanities, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Dick Benson-Gyles
Dick Benson-Gyles, who lives in Plymouth in the west of England, was educated at Marlborough and is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. A newspaper journalist…
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Terence Brown
Terence Brown is a cultural historian who examines his chosen writers with scrupulous sympathy, acknowledging shades of inherited belief, complex religious attitudes and imposed history. The…
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Ian Bath
Ian Bath has been a member of the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland since the 1970s and a past vice-president. In 1974 he founded the Royal…
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Brian Bourke
Brian Bourke is an Irish artist who was born in 1936 in Dublin. In 1965 he won the Arts Council Prize for Portraiture, and represented Ireland…
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Sebastian Balfour
Sebastian Balfour edited Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the Sixties.
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Raymond Beggan
Raymond Beggan is a nature photographer. His work is known for its distinctive style and high quality.
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Maryann Bolger
Maryann Bolger is a lecturer in Design History and Theory at Waterford Institute of Technology. She received an MA from the Royal College of Art in…
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Ken Bruen
Ken Bruen was born in Galway in 1951. He spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, South-East Asia and South America. His writing…
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John Broderick
John Broderick (1924-89) was born in Athlone, County Westmeath, and died in Bath, England. He worked as a journalist and was author of numerous works including…
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Hubert Butler
Hubert Butler was born in Kilkenny on 23 October 1900. Educated in England at Charterhouse and St John’s College, Oxford, he travelled extensively throughout Europe during…
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Erin I. Bishop
Erin I. Bishop received her doctorate in history from the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin, in 1997. She edited My Darling Danny: Letters from…
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Declan Budd
Declan Budd is a Vice-President and Honorary Member of the College Historical Society. He was Record Secretary and Silver Medallist for Oratory in 1967-68. A Foundation…
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Charles Bewley
Charles Henry Bewley was born in Dublin in 1888 and died in Rome in 1969. In addition to this posthumous autobiography he is author of two published…
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Anna Bryson
Anna Bryson holds a Ph.D. in History from Trinity College, Dublin.
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Andrew Bielenberg
Andrew Bielenberg is author of Cork’s Industrial Revolution (1991) and Locke’s Distillery (1993), and editor of The Irish Diaspora (2000) and The Shannon Scheme and the Electrification…
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André Bernold
Born 1958 in Alsace and a graduate of École Normale Supérieure, Bernold is author of a study of the critic Deleuze and of a memoir, Broken Silk. He teaches in the USA.
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Agnes Bernelle
Agnes Bernelle, one of Ireland’s best-loved stage performers, was born Agnes Bernauer in Berlin in 1923, the daughter of a renowned Jewish-Hungarian theatre impresario. Inventive and…
