Old Man Belfield
Michael Byrne, affectionately known as Old Man Belfield (10 January 1949 – 10/11 January 2021), was a homeless man who lived for over 30 years on the campus of University College Dublin (UCD) in Dublin, Ireland leading a "fiercely private" hermitic existence, during which he rarely spoke to anyone. Despite his self-isolation, he came to be "loved and respected by generations of students and staff" alike, was accepted as "part of the UCD community", and "touched people in ways he may not have known".