Arts
- Derek Bell (1935 - 2002), harpist and composer.
- Eric Bell (b. 1947) guitarist; former member of Them and Thin Lizzy
- James Bingham (b. 1925, artist.
- Kenneth Branagh, actor/director
- Jake Burns, musician (Stiff Little Fingers)
- Mairtín Crawford, poet
- Gerald Dillon, artist
- Barry Douglas, concert pianist
- Garth Ennis, comics writer
- James Galway, musician
- Paul Henry (1876 - 1958), painter.
- John Hewitt, poet
- John Hewitt, actor
- Ciarán Hinds, actor
- P.J. Holden, comic artist
- David Holmes, DJ
- Brian Keenan, hostage and writer
- Sir John Lavery, artist
- C.S. Lewis, author and scholar
- Michael Longley, poet
- Bernard MacLaverty, author and screen writer
- Gerry McAvoy, musician
- Gerard McCarthy, actor and television presenter
- John McCrea, comic artist
- Ian McDonald, science fiction author
- Siobhán McKenna, actress
- Ali McMordie, musician (Stiff Little Fingers)
- Katie Melua, musician
- Seaneen Molloy, blogger and columnist
- Brian Moore, novelist
- Gary Moore, musician, blues and rock guitarist formerly of Thin Lizzy
- Van Morrison, musician
- Bob Shaw, science fiction author
- Duke Special, musician.
- Rachel Tucker, actress (West End)
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“Women hock their jewels and their husbands’ insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world’s inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“So in peace our tasks we ply,
Pangur Ban, my cat, and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine and he has his.”
—Unknown. Pangur Ban (l. 25–28)