Biographies A-Z

Crowley, (Mary) Patricia (1933–2013), fashion designer, was born on 17 May 1933, in Taylor's Hill, Galway, the daughter of Hubert Vernon , who worked in a local branch of the Bank of Ireland, and Margaret ('Netta') Vernon (née Morrissey), daughter of a prosperous family of grain…

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Crowley, Niall (1926–98), businessman, was born in Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, on 18 September 1926, the eldest son of Vincent Crowley (qv), accountant, of Donnybrook, Dublin, and his wife Eileen (née Gunning). After an education in…

Crowley, Nicholas Joseph (1819–57), portrait and subject painter, was born 6 December 1819 in Dublin, the third son of Peter Crowley (d. 1835), a propertied gentleman. As a child he was something of an artistic prodigy. He received his first art training in 1827 at the…

Crowley (Ó Cruadhlaoich), Diarmuid (1875–1947), civil servant and judge, was born Jeremiah Crowley on 30 April 1875 at Glanbuss, Kilbrittain, Co. Cork, younger son of John Crowley and Ellen Crowley (née Grace). Educated locally, he entered the civil service, having taken first place…

Crowley, Peter O'Neill (1832–67), Fenian, was born 23 May 1832 at Ballymacoda, Co. Cork, into a family of tenant farmers. He was named after his great-uncle, Fr Peter O'Neill, who had been a 1798 rebel. Another great uncle was said to have been flogged on the streets of Youghal for…

Crowley, Vincent (1890–1965), businessman, was born 12 May 1890 in Farnham Street, Cavan town, the youngest of three sons of Patrick Crowley, a teacher hailing from Ballymore, Co. Cork, and his wife Bridget (née Halpin), who was from Co. Armagh. His father taught English at St Patrick…

Crozier, Francis Rawdon Moira (1796–1848), Royal Navy captain and polar explorer, was born in September 1796 in Banbridge, Co. Down, one of thirteen children of George Crozier, attorney-at-law, and his wife Jane Elliot Crozier (née Graham). He joined the RN…

Crozier, Frank Percy (1879–1937), soldier and RIC officer, was born 9 January 1879, probably in India, only son of Maj. Burrard R. Crozier, Royal Scots Fusiliers, and his wife Rebecca Frances, daughter of J. W. Percy, RM.…

Crozier, John Baptist (1853–1920), Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh, was born 8 April 1853, eldest son of Rev. Baptist Barton Crozier, rector of Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan. He entered TCD at an early age and took an active part in…

Crozier, (Rose Mary) Maurna (1942–2015), social anthropologist, was born in Belfast on 22 January 1942, the only surviving child of Robert Frizzell, the first general manager of the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB), and his wife Molly (née Rands), a rosarian and the daughter of…

Cruise, Jack (John Joseph) (1913–79), entertainer, was born 9 August 1913 in the family home at 14 Arranmore Avenue, Phibsborough, Dublin, third child and eldest son among four children of Michael Cruise, a hall porter, native of Essex, England, and Brigid Cruise (née O'Kelly), from…

Cruise, Sir Francis Richard (1834–1912), doctor, was born 3 December 1834 in Dublin, son of Francis Cruise (d. 1834), solicitor, and an English mother, Eleanor Mary Cruise (née Brittain). He was educated at Belvedere College, Dublin (1845–8), and Clongowes Wood College, Co.…

Crumpe, Samuel (1766–96), medical doctor and essayist, was born 15 September 1766, eldest of six children of Daniel Crumpe, of Barleymount, near Killarney, Co. Kerry, and Grace Crumpe (née Orpen). Deciding on a medical career, he entered the University of Edinburgh in 1785,…

Crump, Henry (a.1350–p.1401), theologian and scholar, was a native of the Anglo-Irish lordship who joined the Cistercian house of Baltinglass before being sent to Oxford, where he gained the degree of D.Th. and probably served as the master of the Cistercian…

Crundmáel (Cruindmelus) (fl. 9th cent.), Irish scholar in the Carolingian empire, was a contemporary of Clemens Scottus (qv) and author of a metrical grammar, ‘Ars [or ‘De arte’] metrica’, which in its treatment and use of…

Cú-Chuimne (d. 747), monk and scholar of Iona, was (according to a note in Paris, Bibl. Nat., MS lat. 12021) joint compiler with Ruben of Dairinis, a monastery on the Blackwater river, of the Irish collection of canons known as ‘Collectio canonum Hibernensis’. The genealogies…

Cú-Chulainn is among the best-known figures of early and medieval Irish heroic literature and is the central character of ‘Táin Bó Cuailnge’ and other tales of the Ulster cycle. His exploits as leader of the Cráeb Rua (Red Branch) warrior band would make him contemporary with…

Cuffe, Charles Richard (1914–72), solicitor and employers’ leader, was born 5 August 1914 in Dublin, the son of Laurence Cuffe, livestock sales master, and Catherine Johanna Cuffe (née Hague), of Peafield Terrace, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. He attended St Gerard's school, Bray, Co.…

Cuffe, Ellen Odette (1857–1933), countess of Desart, philanthropist, and senator, was born 1 September 1857 in London into a Jewish family, eldest daughter of Henri Louis Bischoffsheim (1829–1908), millionaire banker, and Clarisse Bischoffsheim (née Biedermann), and educated privately.…

Cuffe, Hamilton John Agmondesham (1848–1934), 5th earl of Desart , civil servant and politician, was born 30 August 1848 at Richmond, Surrey, the third child and second son of Otway O'Connor Cuffe, 3rd earl of Desart (d. 1865), MP (1842), Irish representative peer (1846–65) and…

Cuffe, James (1747?–1821), 1st Baron Tyrawley of Ballinrobe and MP, was eldest among two sons and five daughters of James Cuffe (d. 1762) of Elm Hall, Co. Mayo, landowner and MP for Co. Mayo 1742–60, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Arthur Gore (1682–1742), 2nd baronet, of…

Cuffe, Otway Frederick Seymour (1853–1912), benefactor and Gaelic revivalist, was born 11 January 1853 in London, third and youngest son of John Otway O'Connor Cuffe (1818–1865), 3rd earl of Desart (an Irish title), and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Lucy Campbell (1822–1898), third daughter…

Cullen, Denis (1886–1971), trade unionist and politician, was probably born 19 August 1886 at Seafield, Donabate, Co. Dublin (the family estate of John Hely Hutchinson (1836–1919)), son of John Cullen, a groom, and Anne Cullen (née Redmond). It is probable that he attended Artane…

Cullen, James Aloysius (1841–1921), Jesuit priest and temperance reformer, was born 23 October 1841 in New Ross, Co. Wexford, the eldest of five sons and three daughters of James Cullen, a businessman, and Mary Cullen (née Bolger). He was educated locally by the Christian Brothers…