Hester Dowden
Hester Dowden( 1868–1949), or Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium who is most notable for having claimed to contact the spirits of Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare and other writers.
Dowden's writings were published by various authors.
She wrote" Voices from the Void"( 1919), an account of her life as a medium, and" Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde"( 1923).
Dowden was the daughter of the Irish literary scholar Edward Dowden.
She used both her maiden name and her married name Hester Travers Smith.
Her husband was a prominent Dublin physician.
Dowden was closely linked to the Irish literary world through her father, knowing, among others W.B. Yeats and Bram Stoker.
She was probably the model for the medium in Yeats's play," The Words upon the Window Pane".
Her daughter, the AbbeyTheatre stage designer Dorothy Travers- Smith, married the playwright Lennox Robinson.
Though she wrote only two books under her own name, her writings provided the basis for approximately twelve books published by other authors.
Mary McGuckian
Mary McGuckian (born 27 May 1963) is a film director, producer and screenwriter from Northern Ireland.
Words Upon the Window Pane
Words Upon the Window Pane is a 1994 Irish drama film directed by Mary McGuckian and starring Geraldine Chaplin, Ian Richardson, and Jim Sheridan.
McGuckian directorial debut, it is based on William Butler Yeats' one-act play of the same name.
Pat O'Connor was billed to direct the project but he personally offered McGuckian, who was writing the screenplay at the time, the opportunity to also direct.
The film received its US premiere on 10 June 1994 at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as part of the largest retrospective of Irish film ever shown outside Ireland.
In September that year, the film was screened at the 51st Venice International Film Festival.
Luigi Pane
Luigi Pane( born March 12, 1977 in Naples) is an Italian director and video artist.
He is the founder and creative director of abstract groove( also known as abstr^ct:groove), an independent creative production studio and filmmaking collective based in Milan.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Orla Brady
Orla Brady( born 28 March 1961) is an Irish theatre, television, and film actress born in Dublin.
She has been nominated for several awards from the Irish Film& Television Academy for her work in televised programs, as well as starring in the RTÉ/ BBC co-production" A Love Divided" where she portrayed Sheila Cloney, for which she won the 1999 Golden Nymph Best Actress Award.
She began her career with the Balloonatics Theatre Company as a touring performer, later gaining her first minor role in television as a bank clerk in the series" Minder" in 1993.
Her first role in film was as Vanessa in" Words Upon the Window Pane" in 1994.
Brady starred in recurring roles in a number of US and UK series, and in a Doctor Who special.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Jesse E. Hobson
Jesse Edward Hobson( May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director of SRI International from 1947 to 1955.
Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour Research Foundation.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.

Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film Words Upon The Window Pane?
Answer: Northern Ireland