Grainne Yeats; Michael Yeats and Professor Ron Schuchard Director, YISS 1995-1997	Michael Yeats
Professor Brendan Kennelly	John Montague, Poet; Brian Friel, Playwright; Prof. Helen Vendler, Harvard University; Peter Fallon, Poet
Frank Wynne, 1st President, YISS; Professor Henn, guiding light of the first YIS Schools; Jim Gannon, Mayor of Sligo 1962; Dr. Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland	Frank O'Connor & his Wife, 1965
Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureat 1995, Frequent visitor and valued friend of YISS	Professor Gus Martin (1935-1981) Director YISS 1979-1981
Francis Stuart, the fiery young Irish writer who married Iseult Gonne in 1920	John McGahern, writer, opened YISS 1995
Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, 1990-1997. A former student of YISS, who opened the school in 1992	Professor George J. Watson (1942-2009) Director of YISS, 1998-2000