Arts
- Ciaran Carson – BA English 1971; poet/novelist
- Kieran Goss – LLB 1984; singer-songwriter
- Seamus Heaney – BA English 1961; Nobel Laureate 1995
- Medbh McGuckian – BA English 1972; poet (W)
- Paul Muldoon – BA English 1973; poet
- Ite O’Donovan – MA Music 1986; Founder, director and conductor of Dublin Choral Foundation
- Stephen Rea – BA English 1965; Oscar nominated actor (W)
- The Priests – award-winning classical musical group featuring Fr Eugene O’Hagan (BA Scholastic Philosophy 1982), Fr Martin O’Hagan and Fr David Delargy, (both BA Ancient History 1985)
- Bernard MacLaverty, BA 1974; writer
