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:
“Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)