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Paddy Cullinan's name surfaces in a number of documents in Ireland. According to the Irish Ancestry Guild, he was the owner of Knockdrin Castle and was a relative of Sir Thomas Major Cullinan. Much of this has been disproved, however, more research may be able to provide some insight into the possibility of connections between the families. Paddy Cullinan was a member of the Irish International Bobsled team during the Olympics of 1920 at St. Moritz, Switzerland.

This photograph was taken from a brochure produced by the Film Institute of Ireland. The film was called 'Irish Destiny' and was considered at the time to be on the vanguard of motion film technology. It was an motion film, produced in 1926 by Director George Dewhurst. The film has as its heroin, Denis O'Hara, who "volunteers his services to the IRA cause after witnessing British aggression in the fictional village of Clonmore. He is shot, wounded and imprisoned, but escapes in time to save his fiancee Moira, from the clutches of villainous poteen distillers." Denis O'Hara is played by Paddy Cullinan. He was offered a role in a Hollywood movie, but declined.

Source
Irish Destiny Programme (The Film Institute of Ireland, Dublin, 1993).