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Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
Gerry Adams
Irish republican politician (born 1948)
Ian Paisley
politician and former church minister (1926-2014)

Peter Robinson
British politician (born 1948)
Garth Ennis
British comics writer
Lucinda Riley
Irish writer (1965–2021)
Ian McDonald
British science fiction novelist (1960–)
James Burke
British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer
Roma Ryan
Irish writer
Derek Dougan
Northern Irish footballer and manager (1938-2007)
Michael Dibdin
British writer (1947–2007)
Michael Longley
Northern Irish poet (1939–2025)
Ciaran Carson
Irish poet (1948-2019)
Nell McCafferty
Irish writer (1944–2024)
Eamonn McCann
Northern Irish writer and activist (born 1943)
Eve Bunting
American children's writer

Sam McBratney
Irish children's author (1943-2020)
Gearóid Ó Cairealláin
Irish journalist
R. I. Moore
British historian (1941–2025)
Maurice Hayes
Irish politician (1927-2017)

Stuart Neville
Northern Irish writer
Richard Seymour
British blogger
John Laird, Baron Laird
politician and life peer (1944-2018)
Brian Keenan
Irish writer

Laurence McKeown
Irish writer
Glenn Patterson
writer
Desmond Fennell
Irish intellectual (1929–2021)