| Pro | Father | Sorin | The priest at the university. |
| | Martin | Kilmartin | A young Notre Dame professor. Deceased. |
| | Father | Carmody | The Knight brother's close friend. |
| | Roger | Knight | Kilmartin's colleague. A professor. |
| | Father | MacAvoy | The archivist. |
| | Joe | Evans | Director of the Jacques Maritain Center. |
| | Branigan | | In charge of the building when Kilmartin died. |
| | Melissa | Shaw | A graduate student who discovered Kilmartin's body. |
| | | | Part 1 |
| 1 | Padraig | Maloney | Sit-in Director of Celtics studies. |
| | Pope | Joan | The director. |
| | Arne | Jensen | Kilmartin's student. The boy who likes Melissa. |
| | Deirdre | Lacey | Kilmartin's girlfriend. The girl that Padraig likes. |
| | Patrick | Maloney | Padraig's father. |
| | Kathleen | Maloney | Padraig's mother. |
| 2 | James | Elliott | Owner of Elliott's waste. The school's donator. |
| | Diane | Elliott | James's wife. |
| | Malachy | O'Neill | Professor of English. James's teacher. |
| | Frank | O'Mally | O'Neill's predecessor. |
| | T.S | Eliot | A catholic author. |
| | Geoffrey | Sauer | The person hired. A joyce scholar. |
| | William | Elliott | James's son. |
| | Gregory | Elliott | James's son. |
| | Dolores | Elliott | James's daughter. |
| | David | Simmons | One of the school's fundraisers. |
| | Joyce | Kilmer | A famous poet. |
| 3 | Philip | Knight | Roger's brother. |
| | Donald | Weber | A Midlothian professor. |
| | Brian | Elliott | One of James's sons. Melissa's classmate. |
| 5 | Greg | Whelan | Assistant university archivist. |
| | William | Butler-Yeats | A famous poet. |
| | Charles | O'Donell | The Notre Dame President. |
| | F. Marion | Crawford | A famous author. |
| | Henry | James | A famous author. |
| 10 | Prudence | Bumstead | Padraig's secretary. |
| | Eric | Bumstead | Mrs. Bumstead's son. |
| | Lady Anne | Gregory | The girl in W.B. Yeats' poem. |
| 11 | Mortimer | Adler | A philosopher. |
| | Robert | Hutchins | An educational philosopher. |
| 12 | Becky | Fontana | One of Roger's English class students. |
| 14 | Louise | O'Neill | Malachy's sister. |
| | Maurice | Devereux | Legal counsel to the university. |
| 16 | Baron | Corvo | A Polish poet. |
| 18 | Fritz | Davis | Deirdre's husband. |
| | Molly | | Fritz's girlfriend. |
| 20 | Katie | Schwenk | The witness on Kilmartin's case. |
| | | | Part 2 |
| 1 | Jimmie | Stewart | A South Bend detective. |
| | Chief | Kocinski | Chief of Police. |
| | Hupp | | The medical examiner. |
| 3 | Lefty | Smith | A former hockey coach. |
| 4 | Gilbert | Plaisance | A private detective. |
| 5 | Millie | | The female bartender. |
| 10 | Xavier | Laxalt | Maloney's lawyer. |
| Epi | Bobbie | | The man who stole Fritz's bike. |
