Shakespearean scholar Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History, Hertford College, Oxford Ian Graham (BSc 1951), Mayanist archaeologist Edward Hincks, Orientalist Linda Hogan, fellow and Professor of Ecumenics Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature, University College, Dublin R. J. B. Knight, naval historian Richard Layte, Professor of Sociology William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian John V. Luce, classicist F. S. L. Lyons, historian and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin John Pentland Mahaffy, classicist R. B. McDowell, historian Robert McKim, philosopher of religion Christine E. Morris, Andrew A. David Professor in Greek Archaeology and History Jane Ohlmeyer, historian Franc Sadleir, Regius Professor Greek and later Provost of Trinity College, Dublin; advocate for Catholic emancipation Brendan Simms, historian and fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge William Bedell Stanford, senator and Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin Alastair Sweeny, Canadian historian, publisher Rory Sweetman, New Zealand historian James Henthorn Todd, Regis Professor, co-founder of Irish Archaeological Society, president of Royal Irish Academy Nikolai Tolstoy, historian Law Sir James Andrews, 1st Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland Deirdre Curtin, lawyer Susan Denham, former Chief Justice of the Irish Supreme Court Sir Valentine Fleming, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania Henry Flavelle Forbes, C.I.E., President of the Court of Appeal, Iraq, 1920/21 Hari Singh Gaur, barrister, jurist and educationist in India John George, Solicitor-General for Ireland Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor of Ireland Maureen Harding Clark, judge of the International Criminal Court and the High Court of Ireland Gerard Hogan, judge of the Court of Appeal Brian McCracken, retired Justice of the Irish Supreme Court; chair of the McCracken Tribunal Catherine McGuinness, retired Justice of the Irish Supreme Court; former member of Seanad Éireann and President of the Law Reform Commission Frank Murphy, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice (1940–49) Patricia O'Brien, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel Christopher Palles, judge, Solicitor-General for Ireland Alan Shatter, politician James Skinner, Chief Justice of Zambia and Malawi William Frederick L. Stanley (1872–1939), lawyer and judge in Republic of Hawaii William Stawell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Egbert Udo Udoma, justice of the Nigerian Supreme Court and Chief Justice of Uganda Peter Whelan, professor of law Literature Sebastian Barry, novelist Samuel Beckett, dramatist, Nobel laureate Eavan Boland, poet John Boyne, novelist Nicholas Brady, poet and translator Erskine Barton Childers, writer and journalist Eoin Colfer,