Skibbereen is a town in County Cork, Ireland. It is located in West Cork on the N71 national secondary road. The River Ilen runs through the town; it reaches the sea about 12 kilometres away, at the seaside village of Baltimore. As of the 2011 Irish census, the population of the town was 2,568. The town of Skibbereen, sometimes shortened to "Skibb", is in the Cork South-West Dáil constituency, which has three seats.
Alison Doody is an Irish actress and model. After making her feature film debut as Bond girl Jenny Flex in A View to a Kill (1985), she went on to play Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Other roles include Siobhan Donavan in A Prayer for the Dying (1987), Charlotte in Taffin (1988), Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994) and Catherine Buxton in RRR (2022). She also played Pam in Beaver Falls (2011–2012).
Dervla Kirwan is an Irish actress. She has received a number of accolades, including two IFTA Awards for her performances in the film Ondine (2009) and the RTÉ/Peacock thriller series Smother (2021–2023) respectively.
Susie Blake is an English television, radio and stage actress.
Yve Williams, née Morris, who writes under the name Alex Barclay, is an Irish journalist and crime writer.
Enda Walsh is an Irish playwright.
Fintan Connolly is an Irish film director, screenwriter and producer living in Dublin. Much of his earlier work was in television documentaries which explored social issues in Ireland. He has also made films, including Flick (2000), Trouble with Sex (2005), Eliot & Me (2012) and Barber (2023) through his production company Fubar Films.
Ruán Magan is an Irish director, producer, writer and creator whose work in drama, documentary, theatre and major stadium events has been recognised with over 40 international industry awards and has reached audiences of millions around the world.
Kathy Rose O'Brien is an actress from Dublin, Ireland, who has appeared in the Irish television drama Whistleblower, which dealt with the controversial events at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda relating to obstetrician/gynecologist Michael Neary, and in theatre productions including Leaves, The Burial at Thebes, The Birthday Party, The Fall of Herodias Hattigan and The Plough and the Stars. She holds a BA (Hons) in Drama and Theatre Studies from The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2006.
Charlene Lee McKenna is an Irish actress. She became a household name in Ireland after starring as Jennifer Jackson in the miniseries Pure Mule (2005). She appeared on Irish television in Single-Handed 2 (2008), Whistleblower (2008), and Raw (2008–2013). For Raw, she won Best Actress (Television) at the Irish Film & Television Awards, and for Whistleblower, she won Outstanding Actress in a Mini-Series at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.
John Scott Dance, formerly the Irish Modern Dance Theatre, is a Dublin based modern dance company. It was founded by John Scott in 1991 with the aim of creating, commissioning and expanding dance experience in Ireland.
Margo Harkin is an Irish filmmaker. Best known for the drama Hush-a-Bye Baby and the documentary Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary, Harkin produced the surfing documentary Waveriders in 2008.
Moira Deady, Mrs Hoey was an Irish actress.
Maeve Murphy is a Northern Irish screenwriter and film director. Her 2002 film Silent Grace was selected to represent the UK for Cannes. In 2011 her short film Sushi, won the Sub-ti short film competition, co judged by Venice Days, Venice Film Festival. In 2020 the Irish Times listed Maeve Murphy's Silent Grace as no 38 in their 50 Best Irish Films Ever Made. In 2004 Maeve received the Soka Art Award for her work for world peace in the arts.
Diarmuid O'Ceallachain (1915-1993) was an Irish painter known for his landscape and figurative work. He won a number of awards including the Taylor Prize and a diploma and medal from the Academie Francaise. He was teacher of painting at the Crawford School of Art and Design in Cork city from 1940 to 1970.
Olwen Fouéré is an Irish actress and writer/director in theatre, film and visual arts. She was born in Galway, Ireland to Breton parents Yann Fouéré and Marie-Magdeleine Mauger. In 2020, she was listed at number 22 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Chris Walley is an Irish actor. He is best known for his role as Jock O'Keeffe in the comedy film The Young Offenders (2016), for which he won an IFTA Award, and its subsequent RTÉ and BBC Three series. He won a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in The Lieutenant of Inishmore revival on the West End.
Neasa Ní Annracháin was an Irish actress known for her work on Irish radio.
Liz Roche is an Irish choreographer, working in contemporary dance. She is a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists.
William A. Murphy, better known as Bill Murphy, is an Irish theatre and screen actor, writer and producer. He is known in 2022 for his role as Øgda in Vikings: Valhalla. He has appeared in films such as Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000), My Brother's War (1997), Criminal Affairs (1997) and Moving Target (2000). He has also had roles in TV series such as Jack Taylor (2010) and Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012), and he also portrayed Nick Barret on the RTÉ One soap opera Fair City in 2003. He has had roles in theatre productions of Once (2015–2017), The Country Girls (2019), and Joyce's Women (2022). In 2022 he wrote, produced and starred in the short film Lily's Theme.
