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  • Estelle Birdy

    Estelle Birdy was born in London and spent most of her childhood in Dundalk, Co Louth. She fell in love with Dublin’s Liberties when she moved…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…