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George Cunningham, FSA, D.Litt., (hc UL), M.Litt., MA (hc NUI Galway), author, historian, editor, publisher and bibliophile is a former primary school principal (Coolderry Central School, Birr) and a community activist at many levels, focusing on the promotion of heritage and the environment. He has been involved with promoting the south tip of Offaly since his first guided tour to Ely O Carroll territory in 1973, and was part of the first voluntary archaeological survey of Offaly in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He is also the founder and life president of Roscrea Heritage Society/Centre .

Now a national director of Crann, he has revived its South West Midlands branch, incorporating it into Roscrea’s Tidy Towns. He has taught and lectured at all levels and gave seventeen years public service to the Governing Authority, many years as Deputy Chair, of UL and chairman of its library development committee. Chairman of the Bolton Library Board, 1994 to 2010. He directed the Roscrea Conference (1987 to 2017) and the Spring conference in April 2017 was the 60th consecutive gathering at the Cistercian Abbey, Roscrea.

Prominently associated all his life with all aspects of Irish heritage and a noted bibliophile, his personal library contains in excess of 20,000 volumes. A major book project has been ongoing since 1987; to date over 65,000 books have been donated to schools, colleges, and charitable institutions. He has written or edited some sixteen books and hundreds of minor publications mainly on the Irish midlands and on the Burren.

Sir William Parsons, 2nd Baronet of Birr Castle was the eldest son of Sir Laurence Parsons, 1st Baronet of Birr Castle, and Lady Frances Savage. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet of Birr Castle in 1698. Sir William Parsons was first married to Lady Elizabeth Preston of Craigmiller, and they had one son, William, before she died in 1701. He then remarried to Lady Elizabeth St. George. On 17 March 1740, he died and was succeeded by his grandson, Sir Laurence Parsons.

Sir Laurence Parsons, 3rd Baronet of Birr Castle, was the eldest son of Sir William Parsons and Lady Martha Pigott. He married his first wife, Lady Mary Sprigge in 1730. They had a single son the following year named William. Laurence Parsons succeeded his grandfather as 3rd Baronet of Birr Castle on 17 March 1740. He married again in 1742 to Lady Anne Harman, and had two more sons, Laurence in 1742, and Wentworth in 1746. Sir Laurence Parsons died in 1749 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son by his first marriage, Sir William Parsons.

Francis William John Alexander Lamb, son of Alice Ann Kerr and William Lamb LLD, was born 8 June 1874.
He studied at Trinity College Dublin where he became a Doctor of Medicine. In 1902 Francis Lamb married Constance Charlotte Plunkett-Johnston. They had three children: Alice Blanche Anna Lamb (20 Sep 1903 - 1932), Reverend Francis Adam Johnston Lamb (29 May 1905 - 19 June 1989), and John George Dalkeith Lamb (b. 19 Aug 1919). Francis Lamb MD died at Woodfield House on 11 January 1959.

Fr. Thomas Feighan Gillooley was born in 1920, in Fore Co. Westmeath. He was Parish Priest of Tubberclair and a man who led Offaly to their first ever all Ireland Senior Football title. He served as a curate in Tullamore from 1958 to 1975 and in 1989 he became an Offaly Sports Star. After coming close to taking All Ireland glory in the early 1960s Offaly then returned to the bad old days of being eliminated in the first round. The first changes came about when Fr. Gillooley was appointed curate and shortly after his arrival he took over the Tullamore Minor Football Club. They won the Leinster in 1960 and 1962 and the All Ireland in 1964. He died aged 73 in 1993.

County architectural surveyor for County Clare and County Offaly.