Synge Street CBS - Notable Former Pupils

Notable Former Pupils

• Eamonn Andrews, television presenter
• Niall Andrews, politician
• Harry Boland, Irish Volunteer, his brother Gerald also hurled for the first Kevin's Hurling club team
• Rory Brady, former Attorney General of Ireland
• Gay Byrne, television and radio presenter
• John Coady, footballer
• John Connolly, author
• Liam Cosgrave, politician
• Donnacha O'Dea, Irish professional poker player & Olympic swimmer
• Robert Dudley Edwards, historian
• Louis Elliman, Past owner of the Gaiety Theatre and Theatre Royal
• Paddy Finucane, Second World War fighter pilot
• Charles B. Fitzsimons, actor
• Don Givens, footballer
• Tommy Hamilton, footballer
• Pearse Hutchinson, poet
• Eddie Jordan, motor racing boss
• John Jordan, poet
• David Kelly, actor
• Liam Lawlor, politician
• Peter Lennon, director of the film Rocky Road to Dublin
• Dermot McCarthy, senior civil servant
• Hugh McFadden, poet
• Jack McGowran, actor
• Kevin Murphy, career civil servant, Ombudsman and Information Commissioner
• Mike Murphy, broadcaster
• Eamon Morrissey, actor
• Jim Norton, Actor
• Charlie O'Connor, Fianna Fáil TD
• Aindrias Ó Caoimh, Judge of the High Court
• Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, former President of Ireland
• Brian O'Nolan, who wrote under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien
• Anton O'Toole, footballer
• Milo O'Shea, actor
• James Plunkett, writer
• Noel Purcell, actor
• Andy Reid, footballer
• Cornelius Ryan, writer
• Richie Ryan, politician
• Pete St. John, Irish folk singer-songwriter
• Cecil Sheridan, comedian
• Niall Stokes, publisher of Hot Press magazine
• Patrick Swift, painter.
• Derek Warfield, founder of the Wolfe Tones
• Liam Whelan, footballer and Busby babe
• Michael Woods, politician