**Link to the n*de photos**

No offense to aficionados, but I have never been able to get into Irish literature. It's either vaguely disturbing or incomprehensible.

Ulysses: "Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls... which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine"

Dude is into water sports?

"The Isle of Innisfree": "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, and a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made."

Or you could use bricks.

The Unamable: A novel consisting of the ruminations of a featureless entity living (if you can call it that) in a jar.

Nuff said

Artemis Fowl: The first of an 11-volume series of young adult novels about a teenage richter, a villain who eventually reforms, in a world where goblins run organized crime syndicates and fairies have a police force.

It sounds interesting, but it put me to sleep.

In 2020, a movie version appeared, starring Ferdia Shaw as 12-year old Artemis, Tamara Smart as his girlfriend, Colin Farrell as his kidnapped Dad, Laura McDonnell as an 800-year old Elf cop, and Josh Gad (below) as a Dwarf giant who joins the Fellowship of the...um...

The plot had little connection to the book series, which enraged fans, and it was too convoluted to draw in new viewers. It got an 8% on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics called it a "confused, muddled, sloppy mess of bad intentions and worse execution."

Disney expected a theatrical hit that would lead to a long-running franchise. Instead, Artemis Fowl was plopped onto the streaming service Disney Plus, and after a few years quietly removed.

Ferdia Shaw, who beat out 1200 hopefuls for the chance to play Artemis and become a Disney star, was born in Dublin in 2004, but grew up in Kilkenny. Although he comes from a show biz family (grandson of famous actors Robert Shaw and Mary Ure, nephew of Ian Shaw, some sort of relation to "angry young man" John Osborne), he has only two other acting credits listed on the IMDB:

Poster Boys (2020): Petty thief Al (Trevor O'Connell) and his smart-aleck nephew (Ryan Minogue-Lee) go on a cross-country road trip. Ferdia plays a hooligan.

Wellness (2025): a group of wellness influences attend a team-building exercise in the wilderness that goes terribly wrong. He plays minor character Duine Aisteach.

More after the break

Ferdia attended the Gaelscoile Osrai, a secondary school in Kilkenny where the language of instruction is Irish (although the website is in both Irish and English). He graduated in 2023 and enrolled in the Gaiety School of Acting, the national theater school of Ireland. It offers a two-year program with courses like stagecraft, Shakespeare, improvisation, clowning, and stage combat (unarmed, daggar, rapier).

And a lot of classic plays. Ferdia appeared as:

Vasily in Three Sisters

Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Juan in Yerma

George in Our Town

He also wrote a play, Scratch That, which seems to feature three actors tying each other up and talking on tin can-phones.

More about Ferdia: he's a fan of science fiction, board games, and Star Wars

He's a vegan.

He's best friends with Lara McDonnell (who played the Elf in Artemis Fowl), but is "too busy" to date at the moment. Code: he's gay.

His Instagram contains a lot of artwork, a few pictures of him hugging Laura, but no other girls. But there's one cuddling a guy.

I found some potential n*de photos, but you have to be careful: Google thinks that Ferdia is a girl's name.

And the d*cks are different sizes.

See also: "House of Guinness": Heirs to a beer empire in 1868 Ireland. With a gay brother, shirtless hunks, Irish hiphop, and a heck of a lot of d*cks

James Stockdale: Disability advocate, solicitor, Caliban, gay guy who refused to make out with Dylan Llewellyn

Erin go Feirc: Nine Kilkenney c*cks and Dublin d*cks, plus a castle, a dolmen, and the Londonderry wall

The Gay Connection of "Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles"