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MacMurrough Kavanagh, Brian (c.1530–1578), third son of Cathaoir MacMurrough Kavanagh (qv) (d. 1554) became after 1560 the principal leader of the Sliocht Diarmada Laimhdeirg and the most powerful of…

MacMurrough Kavanagh, Domhnall (d. 1632), king of Leinster, was the elder of the two sons of Donnchadh Kavanagh, lord of the Art Boy Kavanaghs; he became the last king of Leinster. In the traditional order, among the leading MacMurrough Kavanaghs, the Art Boy Kavanaghs were…

MacMurrough Kavanagh, Domhnall (c.1520–1542?), Gaelic warlord, was eldest son among five sons and a daughter of Cathaoir Kavanagh (d. 1526), leader of the MacMurrough Kavanagh branch of Sliocht Muircheartaigh Óig, based at Garryhill, Co. Carlow. His particular family had…

MacMurrough Kavanagh (Mac Murchadha Caomhánach), Art Mór (1357–1416/17), king of Leinster, second son of Art MacMurrough (qv), king of Leinster, and a daughter of Philip O'Byrne. Little is known of his early life. At first…

MacMurrough Kavanagh (MacMurchadha), Cathaoir (d. 1554), a son of Art MacMurrough, a principal captain of the Sliocht Diarmada Laimhdeirg, was the most politically astute Irish lord of east Leinster from the late 1530s to his death. Cathaoir first appears in the written record in…

MacMurrough (Mac Murchada), Muirchertach (d. 1282), king of Leinster, had for much of his career good relations with the English, but the changed political conditions of the 1270s led him to reassert his dynasty's traditional power. Due to genealogical confusion his parentage is…

MacMurrough (Mac Murchadha), Art (d. 1362), king of Leinster, was eldest son of Muircheartach mac Muiris MacMurrough, king of Leinster. He may be the man captured with Henry Trahene, seneschal of Carlow, by the Butlers in 1326. Very little else is known of his early career…

MacMurrough (Mac Murchadha), Domhnall (d. c.1338), king of Leinster, was son of Art MacMurrough, brother of Muirchertach (qv) (c.1250–1282). He is first mentioned raiding the liberty of Kilkenny…

MacMurrough (Mac Murchadha), Domhnall Riabhach (d. 1476), king of Leinster, was probably second son of Gearalt MacMurrough, de facto king of Leinster, and Sadhbh, daughter of Donnchadh O'Byrne, lord of the O'Byrnes. Nothing is known of Domhnall's early life. After Gearalt's death…

MacMurrough (Mac Murchadha), Muiris (d. 1314), Gaelic lord, was son of Muircheartach MacMurrough (qv) (d. 1282). Nothing is known of his early life. Undoubtedly the landmark event of his youth was the murder, at…

MacMurrough (Mac Murchadha), Murchadh Ballach (d. 1511/12), king of Leinster, was son of Muircheartach mac Donnchadha MacMurrough, lord of Uí Cheinnselaig (killed during an attack on the English of Wexford, 1442). Murchadh Ballach first comes to notice when he succeeds his…

MacMurrough, Muircheartach (c.1495–1547), Gaelic warlord, was probably eldest of the six sons of Art Buidhe Kavanagh (d. 1517), king of Leinster. After the death of Art Buidhe at the friary of Enniscorthy (25 November 1517), Muircheartach apparently became leader of his…

MacMurrough, Muircheartach Óg (1516–86), son of Cathaoir Kavanagh (d. 1526), leader of the MacMurrough Kavanagh branch of Sliocht Muircheartaigh Óig based at Garryhill, Co. Carlow, was the third of five brothers. His family had strong connections with the earls of Kildare, having…

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MacMurrough, Murchadh (c.1510–1557), Gaelic warlord, was probably the third son of Muiris MacMurrough (d. 1530), king of Leinster, and became MacMurrough leader after the death of Cathaoir mac Airt…

MacNaghten, John (1722–61), murderer, was born in 1722, probably in Benvarden, Co. Antrim, elder of two sons of Bartholomew MacNaghten, landowner in Co. Antrim and merchant in Derry city, and his wife Mary (née MacManus); he also had a sister. When John was about six, his father…

Macnaghten, Sir Edward (1830–1913), Baron Macnaghten , judge and MP, was born 3 February 1830 in Bloomsbury, London, second son of Sir Edmund Charles Workman Macnaghten, 2nd baronet, and his wife Mary Anne (née Gwatkin); he grew up in Roe Park, near Limavady, Co. Londonderry. His…

Macnaghten, Sir William Hay (1793–1841), diplomat, was born in Calcutta on 24 August 1793, the second child of the six sons and ten daughters of Sir Francis Workman Macnaghten, first baronet, barrister, of Dundarave, Co. Antrim, and Letitia, eldest daughter of Sir William Dunkin of…

MacNally, Leonard (1752?–1820), barrister, writer, United Irishman, and informer, was born in Dublin, the only son of William MacNally (d. 1756), a grocer. It seems that his mother brought him up with the support of his uncle, a merchant named Featherstone of St Mary's Lane. A…

MacNamara, Desmond Joseph (1918–2008), artist, writer and bohemian, was born 10 May 1918 in a private hospital at 29 Upper Mount Street, Dublin, son of Patrick William MacNamara, secretary of Greenslade and Co., ladies' tailors and costumers of 32 Wicklow Street, Dublin (at which…

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