Caball, Marc

Feiritéar, Piaras (Ferriter, Pierce) (c.1600–c.1653), Gaelic poet, royalist and folk hero, was the son of Edmund Ferriter (c.1568–1628) of Ballysyble and Ballyferriter, west Co. Kerry; nothing is known of his mother. The Ferriters, a minor landed family of…

Haicéad (Hackett), Pádraigín (1610s?–1654), Dominican priest and Gaelic poet, was probably born in the second decade of the seventeenth century, second son of James Hackett FitzPiers and his wife Margaret Kearney, of Baltarsna in the parish of Ballysheehan, Co. Tipperary. ‘Pádraigín’…

Hitchcock, Richard (1824–56), antiquarian and librarian, was born 6 April 1824 (however, in 1891 his wife reportedly stated he was born in March 1825) at Annagh near Blennerville, Tralee, Co. Kerry, one of three children of Rodney Hitchcock, originally of Spring Vale, Co. Cork.…

Mac an Bhaird, Eoghan Ruadh (1560s?–1625?), possibly son of Uilliam Óg Mac an Bhaird (d. 1576), bardic poet and retainer of Ruaidhrí O'Donnell (qv) and Hugh O'Neill (qv), was a…

Mac an Bhaird, Fearghal Óg (late 1540s–c.1618), bardic poet and retainer of the O'Donnells of Tyrconnell, was the son of the poet and guesthouse keeper, Fearghal (d. 1550) son of Domhnall Ruadh Mac an Bhaird. Both Fearghal Óg and his brother Eoghan Ruadh (d. 1572) followed…

Ó hEódhusa (O'Hussey), Eochaidh (c.1568–1612), bardic poet and confidant of the Maguires of Fermanagh, was a son of the poet Maoileachlainn Ó hEódhusa (de Brún et al., 1). The Ó hEódhusa family emerged as professional poets in the early fourteenth century, and by the end of…

Ó hUiginn, Tadhg Dall (c.1550–c.1591), bardic poet and scholar, was born probably in the barony of Leyney (in modern Co. Sligo). His father, Mathghamhain (d. 1585), and grandfather, Maolmhuire, were also poets who practised the family profession in a direct line of…

Ó hUiginn, Tadhg Óg (d. 1448), praise poet, was the son of the poet Tadhg Ó hUiginn (d. 1391). Of his mother, nothing is known other than her Christian name, Áine. The Ó hUiginn family of Connacht was closely linked with bardic poetry and scholarship in the later medieval and…

O'Reilly, Philip (Pilib Ó Raghallaigh) (d. 1596), Gaelic nobleman and bardic patron, was the son of Aodh Conallach O'Reilly, lord of east Bréifne from 1565 till his death in 1583, and his wife Janet, daughter of Betagh of Moynaltie. As with other Gaelic families in the borderlands…

Rowan, Anne Margaret (1832–1913), novelist, historian, and political activist, was born 21 November 1832 in Tralee, Co. Kerry, to Arthur Blennerhasset Rowan (qv), Church of Ireland clergyman and antiquarian, and his wife…

Rowan, Arthur Blennerhasset (1800–61), Church of Ireland clergyman and antiquarian, was born in October 1800 in Tralee, Co. Kerry, only surviving son of William Rowan of Arabella, Tralee, barrister and sometime provost of Tralee (1803–5), and his wife Letitia, daughter of Sir…