Curated playlist
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
- Oscar WildeOscar Wilde was convicted at the height of his fame, with two plays running in London's West End.
- Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift once announced that a living almanac maker had died. Swift wrote as Isaac Bickerstaff in 1708.
- Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett once drove a young André the Giant to school. The future wrestler was a boy in rural France then.
- Barry O'MearaBarry O'Meara secretly wrote letters about Napoleon's captivity to a clerk in London.
- Courtney LoveCourtney Love walked on stage at the Reading Festival on the 26th of August 1994 as the singer of Hole. It was her first public performance since the death of her husband, the Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. MTV called the set "by turns…
- Paul MescalPaul Mescal was born in Dublin on the 2nd of February 1996. As a teenager, he was a defender for Kildare, first at minor level and then at under-21 level. A physical trainer named Cian O'Neill once described the young player as "mature…
- D. B. WeissA petition with over 1.5 million signatures demanded a remake of Game of Thrones season eight.
- David BenioffDavid Benioff was a club bouncer and a high school wrestling coach before Game of Thrones. He later co-ran the show.
- Edmond MaloneEdmond Malone worked out the order in which Shakespeare wrote his plays.
- Edward DowdenEdward Dowden dug up an unknown pamphlet by Bishop Berkeley and a record of Goethe's final days.