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Stuart Bailie
An influential journalist and
broadcaster, Stuart is based in Belfast, where his BBC Radio Ulster
show has welcomed guests such as Radiohead, REM, Snow Patrol and
Brian Wilson. Find out more.
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Colin Bateman
Colin was born in Newtownards in
County Down in 1962 but grew up in Bangor, where he attended
Ballyholme Primary School and Bangor Grammar School. Find out more.
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Kenneth Branagh
Born in Belfast, Kenneth was
educated at Grove Primary School. Though his family left for
England when he was nine, his first great success as an actor was
as the title character in a BBC television production of Graham
Reid’s acclaimed ‘Billy’ plays, set in Belfast. Find out more.
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Simon Callow
The British actor, author and
director, Simon Callow CBE, studied at Queen’s University, Belfast,
and then trained as an actor in London. Find out more.
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Barry Douglas
An internationally renowned
musician and conductor, Barry was born in 1960 in Belfast, where he
attended Methodist College. He first studied music in his native
city. Find out more.
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Gavin Esler
A presenter on the BBC TV Newsnight
programme, as well as on BBC World, Gavin is also an author of
three novels and an account of the United States during the Clinton
years, 'The United States of Anger'. Find out more.
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Sir James Galway
'The Man with the Golden Flute' was born in Belfast in 1939. He
began playing the penny whistle as a small child before switching
to the flute. Find out more.
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Ciaran Hinds
Ciarán began his career at The Glasgow Citizens Theatre. He has
worked at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, the Druid Theatre in Galway
and at the Gate and Abbey Theatres in Dublin. Find out more.
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Maxine Mawhinney
Now a leading presenter with BBC News 24, Maxine trained as a
newspaper journalist in her native Northern Ireland, before working
on radio and television for BBC Northern Ireland in Belfast.
Find out more.
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Medbh McGuckian
Medbh was born in Belfast in 1950 and educated at the Dominican
Convent and Queen’s University. Find out more.
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Barry McGuigan
Also known as the ‘The Clones Cyclone’, Barry was born just
across the border in the Republic of Ireland but fought as a
British boxer and became a sporting hero to the people of Northern
Ireland. Find out
more.
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Katie Melua
Katie Melua was born in Georgia (in the former USSR) in 1984.
The family moved to Belfast, where her heart surgeon father was
offered a post, when she was eight. Find out more.
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Stephen Nolan
One of the most popular presenters in British radio, Stephen was
born in Belfast in 1973 and was educated at the Royal Belfast
Academical Institution and Queen’s University. Find out
more.
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Glenn Patterson
One of the foremost novelists to emerge from Northern Ireland,
Glenn was born in Belfast in 1961 and studied Creative Writing at
the University of East Anglia. Find out more.
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Dame Mary Peters
Mary moved to Ballymena in County Antrim with her family when
she was 11 years old and Northern Ireland has been her home ever
since. Find out
more.
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Nick Ross
Born in 1947, Nick came to Belfast as a student to read
psychology at Queen’s University Belfast, where the Nobel-Laureate
Seamus Heaney was among his teachers. Find
out more.
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Zoe Salmon
Zoe grew up in Bangor in County Down, just outside Belfast. In
1999, she won the title of Miss Northern Ireland. Find out more.
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Raymond Snoddy
Born in Larne, Co Antrim, Raymond was educated at Queen’s
University. A freelance journalist who writes regularly for The
Independent, he was Media Editor of The Times for seven years.
Find out more.
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Peter Wilson
Also known as Duke Special, vocalist and pianist Peter is one of
the leading alternative musicians in the United
Kingdom. Find out
more.
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