Noelle Campbell-Sharp operates an art gallery in Dublin, has been a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, and has led the Cill Rialaig project in County Kerry, which has hosted more than 5,000 artists since its establishment in 1991.
15 Facts About Noelle Campbell-Sharp
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp has described how her mother had run away to Northern Ireland, became pregnant at 20 with an American partner, and later built a career in a medical field in the UK.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp researched her birth background, and while her mother died before they could meet, she became acquainted with a half-brother and two half-sisters, and other relatives.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp left school at the age of 15, after taking her Intermediate Certificate.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp moved to Dublin, attended the Brendan Smith Academy of Acting and acted with the Young Dublin Players, and based on that secured a role as a Public Relations Officer for the Gaiety Theatre, with her first client being Peter O'Toole.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp began to work with Irish Tatler magazine, buying it out in 1979, using a company established with Kilkenny People editor, John Kerry Keane.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp shortened Irish Tatler working title to IT, and edited it until 1988.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp purchased a number of other titles, publishing 11 at one point, including Social and Personal, which she later sold to Michael Smurfit's Smurfit Publishing, and Success.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp published Ryanair's in-flight magazine for some years, and later won a legal action to retain that contract.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp was very active on the Dublin social scene, and became friends with Terry Keane.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp secured a nomination for election to the board of directors of Bank of Ireland in 1992 but failed to be elected.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp later sold her Killiney house and made Ballinskelligs her main base, and she continued as the driving force of this project, which has hosted over 5,000 artists on residencies as of mid-2019.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, in June 2007, conferred by Garret FitzGerald.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp was appointed as a member of Ireland's 13-member Arts Council in 2003 by Minister John O'Donoghue.
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Noelle Campbell-Sharp was an active collector of Napoleon-related memorabilia, and member of the Napoleon Society of Ireland, for decades, but in 2019 announced plans to auction off her collection.