title: Proinsias
text: # Proinsias
  
  Proinsias is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
  
  ## People
  
  * Proinsias De Rossa (born 1940), Irish Labour Party politician
  * Proinsias Mac Airt (1922–1992), Irish republican activist
  * Proinsias Mac Aonghusa (1933–2003), Irish journalist, writer, tv presenter, and campaigner
  * Proinsias Mac Cana (1926–2004), academic and Celtic scholar
  * Proinsias Ó Doibhlin (died 1724), Irish Franciscan friar, poet, and scribe
  * Proinsias Ó Maonaigh (1922–2006), fiddler from Ireland
  
  ## Characters
  
  * Proinsias Cassidy, character from the Preacher comic book series
  