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Bang Bang Facts

Bang Bang (real name Thomas Dudley) was an eccentric elderly gentleman in Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s who achieved fame as a character in the city. A fan of cowboy films, Bang Bang used to travel the buses and trams of the city staging mock shoot-o

Angeline Ball Facts

Angeline Ball (born 1969) is an Irish actress who currently resides in London, England. She is a trained dancer in ballet, tap and modern dance. Her breakthrough role came in 1991 when she starred alongside Maria Doyle Kennedy and Bronagh Gallagher a

James Berwick Facts

Shay Gorman Facts

Shay Gorman (1923-1999) was an Irish actor who appeared largely in British films and television programmes.

Lady Louisa Conolly Facts

Lady Louisa Conolly (5 December 1743 – August 1821), was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman. She was the third of the famous Lennox Sisters, and was notable among them for leading a wholly uncontroversial life filled with good works.

Anne Cassin Facts

Anne Cassin is an Irish journalist and news presenter working for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ).

J.M. Kerrigan Facts

Joseph Michael Kerrigan (16 December 1884 – 29 April 1964), better known as J. M. Kerrigan, was an Irish character actor.

Paul McGuinness Facts

Paul McGuinness (born 17 June 1951) is the main shareholder and founder of Principle Management Limited: an artist management company based in Dublin, Ireland, which managed U2 from the start of their successful career until 2013. He is the former ma

Sheridan Le Fanu Facts

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ˈlɛfənjuː/; 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the ge

Cyril Holland Facts

Cyril Holland (born Cyril Wilde, 5 June 1885 – 9 May 1915) was the older of the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland.

Mary Manning Facts

Mary Manning was born in 1905 in Dublin, Ireland. She was a director and writer, known for Bank Holiday (1930), Pathetic Gazette (1930) and Sceening in the Rain (1930). She died in 1999.Trivia (1)Childhood friend of Samuel Beckett. Acted at the Abbey

Dave Allen Facts

David Tynan O’Mahony (6 July 1936 – 10 March 2005), better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian.