Adam Loftus was Archbishop of Armagh, and later Dublin, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1581. He was also the first Provost of Trinity College Dublin.
Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde was an Irish poet under the pen name Speranza and supporter of the nationalist movement. Lady Wilde had a special interest in Irish folktales, which she helped to gather and was the mother of Oscar Wilde and Willie Wilde.
Theophilus Cibber was an English actor, playwright, author, and son of the actor-manager Colley Cibber.
Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, known as Lolly, was an Anglo-Irish educator and publisher. She worked as an art teacher and published several books on art, and was a founder of Dun Emer Press which published several works by her brother W. B. Yeats. She was the first commercial printer in Ireland to work exclusively with hand presses.
William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex, was an English courtier and diplomat.
Elizabeth Singer Rowe was an English poet, essayist and fiction writer called "the ornament of her sex and age" and the "Heavenly Singer". She was among 18th-century England's most widely read authors. She wrote mainly religious poetry, but her best-known work, Friendship in Death (1728), is a series of imaginary letters from the dead to the living. Despite a posthumous reputation as a pious, bereaved recluse, Rowe corresponded widely and was involved in local concerns at Frome in her native Somerset. She remained popular into the 19th century on both sides of the Atlantic and in translation. Though little read today, scholars have called her stylistically and thematically radical for her time.
Humphrey Robinson was a prominent London publisher and bookseller of the middle seventeenth century.
Lady Elizabeth Hastings, also known as Lady Betty, was an English philanthropist, religious devotee and supporter of women's education. She was an intelligent and energetic woman, with a wide circle of connections, including artists, writers and designers, an astute business investor and proponent of innovative farming techniques.
Nicholas Greaves, D.D. (1605?–1673) was an English churchman who was Dean of Dromore cathedral, County Down.
Dick's Coffee House was a significant Irish coffeehouse in the 17th and 18th century.
Sarah Hyde was an Irish printer and bookseller.
Elizabeth Pue was an Irish newspaper publisher, bookseller, and proprietor of Dick's Coffee House.
Elizabeth Watts Lynch, known as Mrs Lynch, was an Irish printer, stationer, and "bookseller to the courts of law".
Catherine Finn was an Irish printer and owner of Finn's Leinster Journal.
Sarah Pue was an Irish printer, publisher, patent medicine seller, and proprietor of Dick's Coffee House.
Sarah Cotter was an Irish printer and bookseller in the mid-18th century.
Mary Crooke was an Irish printer and bookseller.
Anne Esdall was an Irish printer, publisher, and bookseller.
