About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Aine Ni Dhroigneain, Alan Devine, Alan Stanford, Anna Manahan, Bryan Murray (actor), Carmel McSharry, Colin O'Donoghue, Colm O Maonlai, Cyril Cusack, David Kelly (actor), David Mitchell (Irish actor), Eamon Morrissey (actor), Enda Oates, Frank Kelly, Gabriel Byrne, Gary Whelan, Gavin O Fearraigh, George McMahon (actor), Gerard McCarthy, Hilda Fay, Jim Bartley (actor), Joan Brosnan Walsh, Joan O'Hara, Joe Lynch (actor), Joe McKinney, John Cowley (actor), Jonathan Ryan, Jon Kenny, Kate Thompson (romantic novelist), Keith Duffy, Marc Bannerman, Marie Kean, Mario Rosenstock, Martina Stanley, Mary McEvoy, Melanie Clark Pullen, Mick Lally, Moira Deady, Niall Toibin, Orlaith Rafter, Paul Tylak, Ryan O'Shaughnessy, Shereen Martineau, Sinead Keenan, Stuart Dunne, Todd Carty, Tom Hickey (actor), Tony Clarkin (actor), Tony Doyle (actor), Una Crawford O'Brien, Victor Burke. Excerpt: Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined London's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken. He has now starred in over 35 feature films, such as The Usual Suspects, Miller's Crossing, Stigmata and End of Days, in addition to writing two. Byrne's producing credits include the Academy Award-nominated In the Name of the Father. More recently, he has received much critical acclaim for his role as Dr. Paul Weston in the HBO drama In Treatment. Byrne, the first of six children, was born in Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland, the son of a cooper and soldier, Dan, and a hospital nurse from Galway, Eileen (nee Gannon). He has four siblings: Donal, Thomas, Breda, and Margaret; another, Marian, died at a young age. Byrne was raised a strict Roman Catholic and educated in Ardscoil Eanna in Crumlin, where he later taught Spanish and History. About his early training to become a priest, he said in an interview, "I spent five years in the seminary and I suppose it was assumed that one had a vocation. I realised subsequently that I didn't." He attended University College Dublin, where he studied archaeology and linguistics, becoming proficient in Irish. He played football in Dublin with the Stella Maris Football Club, in Drumcondra. In January 2010, he spoke in an interview on The Meaning of Life about being sexually abused by priests during his childhood. Byrne worked in archaeology when he left UCD. He maintained his love of his language, later writing the first television drama in Irish, Draiocht, on Ireland's national Irish-language television station, TG4, when it began broadcasting in 1996. Before becoming an actor, Byrne had many jobs, including archaeologist, cook, and Spanish and History schoolteacher at Ardscoil Eanna in Crumlin, Dublin. He sta
