Notable Former Presidents and Members
- John Pentland Mahaffy, classicist and polymath scholar
- John Butler Yeats, artist and father of William Butler Yeats
- Oscar Wilde, author, playwright and poet
- Bram Stoker, novelist and short story writer
- Samuel Beckett, dramatist and poet, Nobel Laureate
- Ernest Walton, physicist, Nobel Laureate
- Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland
- David Norris, Irish Senator
- Udo Udoma, former Justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court, former Chief Justice of Uganda
- Alex Massie, prominent Scottish journalist
- Ken Early, journalist and broadcaster
- Sarah Carey, journalist and broadcaster
- Marc Coleman, journalist and broadcaster
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