Shinrone Community Centre has hosted notable international musicians including Arlo Guthrie in 1988, The Pogues and Shane MacGowan, Christy Moore,[10] The Waterboys and Nanci Griffith.

[citation needed] Arlo Guthrie's visit to Shinrone is mentioned in Tim Winton's novel The Riders - shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995.

A character in the novel overhears locals in the small Irish village of Shinrone recount the night Guthrie came to play.

[10] Shinrone appeared in the titles of the satirical RTÉ television series Hall's Pictorial Weekly on 12 March 1980.

Hand served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the rank of Major-General, and later was a member of several Pennsylvania governmental bodies.