User:Jnestorius/List of Dublin characters


 * Zozimus (Michael J. Moran; c. 1794–1846), street rhymer
 * Bang Bang (Thomas Dudley; 1906–1981), pointed a key at passers by and shouted "bang bang"
 * Arthur Fields photographed tourists on O'Connell Bridge.
 * James "Lugs" Branigan, Garda
 * Gainor Steven Crist, bohemian
 * The Diceman (Thom McGinty; 1952–1995), mime, living statue, and drag artist
 * Matt the Jap (Matteo (Masahiso) Matubara; 1944–2007); deaf Japanese polyglot who received an M Litt in 1987 from Trinity College Dublin and studied there unofficially for the rest of his life
 * Old Man Belfield (Michael Byrne; 1950–2021), homeless man who lived on University College Dublin's campus in Belfield
 * Pat Ingoldsby (born 1942), writer and former children's television presenter who latterly hawked his self-published poetry books in the city centre
 * Maggie with the Crucifix (Margaret O'Donoghue) former nun who protested against Catholic religious carrying a tricolour-draped cross
 * Dancing Mary (Mary Margaret Dunne; c. 1927–2014) proselytized by dancing in O'Connell Street
 * Johnny Forty Coats (P.J. Marlow), vagrant, basis for the character Rashers Tierney in Strumpet City
 * Skin the Goat (James Fitzharris)
 * Aidan Walsh (Aidan Walsh: Master of the Universe)
 * Lundy Foot, tobacconist
 * Michael Clifford "The Lavender Man" street trader depicted by Harry Kernoff, Kathleen Cox, and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
 * Fred Gallaher, journalist.
 * Denis Guiney, retailer
 * John Stephen McArdle, surgeon
 * Denis Taaffe, clergyman, polemicist, and historian