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McCole, Brigid (Bridget) Ellen

McCole, Brigid (Bridget) Ellen (1942–96), hepatitis C campaigner, was born 21 June 1942 at her family home in Bunawack, Glenties, Co. Donegal, daughter of John Sharkey , labourer, and Ellen Sharkey (née McCole). She was raised and educated locally and lived within Co. Donegal…

McElligott, Thomas J.

McElligott, Thomas J. (1888–1961), police man, union activist, and republican, was born 2 April 1888 at Duagh, Listowel,Co. Kerry, second eldest of sixteen children of a small farmer named McElligott and his wife Julia (née McCarthy). He received a local national school education…

McGinley, Thomas Colin

McGinley, Thomas Colin (1830?–1887), schoolmaster and antiquary, was born probably at Meenacross (a family stronghold), Glencolumbkille, Co. Donegal, possibly the only child of a father who died when the infant Thomas was six months old, leaving his wife Catherine McGinley (née…

McGrath, Aedan

McGrath, Aedan (1906–2000), missionary priest, was born 22 January 1906 in the Dublin suburb of Drumcondra, second son among five sons and one daughter of William McGrath, barrister (subsequently KC and a county court judge for Dublin), and his…

McGuire, John Francis

McGuire, John Francis (1873–1953), department store owner, was born 1 August 1873 in Passage East, Co. Waterford, sixth of nine sons (a daughter died in infancy) of Edmund McGuire, policeman, and his wife Margaret Leahy. The family subsequently moved to Templemore, Co. Tipperary,…

McNeill, Hugh Hyacinth (‘Hugo’)

McNeill, Hugh Hyacinth (‘Hugo’) (1900–63), soldier, was born 16 April 1900 at Aberdelghy, Howth, Co. Dublin, son of Hugh McNeill, lecturer in classics at UCD, and Abigail (‘Mary’) McNeill (née Murphy).…

McPeake, John (‘Jock’)

McPeake, John (‘Jock’) (1894–1974), soldier, was born and raised in Glasgow, son of an Irish immigrant family (his mother's name was Logan) from Co. Tyrone. He enlisted for war service in the British army in 1915, first with the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, but in 1916 joined…

Mitchel, Charles Gerald

Mitchel, Charles Gerald (1920–96), actor and broadcaster, was born 8 November 1920 at Montpelier Manor, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, third among four children of Albert David Mitchel, manufacturer of religious goods, and Netta Mitchel (née Fitzgerald), also a company director, from…

Moore, Sir John

Moore, Sir John (1761–1809), British soldier, was born 13 November 1761 in Trongate, Glasgow, eldest surviving son of Dr John Moore (1729–1802), distinguished physician and author, and his wife, Jeanie, daughter of the Rev. John Simson, professor of divinity at Glasgow University.…

Moylan, Stephen

Moylan, Stephen (1734?–1811), soldier in the US army, was born in Co. Cork, son of John Moylan, a prominent catholic merchant. His father, socially restricted by the penal laws, was obliged to send his four sons to Paris for a catholic education. While Stephen's brother…

Mulcahy, Patrick Anthony

Mulcahy, Patrick Anthony (1897–1987), soldier, was born 4 November 1897 at 70 Manor St., Waterford city, third youngest child among two sons and five daughters of Patrick Mulcahy, post office official, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick and Maria Slattery, also of…

Nagle, John Charles (‘Jack’)

Nagle, John Charles (‘Jack’) (1910–96), civil servant, was born 7 March 1910 at ‘Archville’, Commons Road, Cork, fourth child among three sons and two daughters of Michael James Nagle, local cattle dealer, and Mary Nagle (née Scriven) of Killeens, Blarney, Co. Cork. About 1918 his…

Nally, William Francis

Nally, William Francis (1890–1961), civil servant, was born 12 July 1890 in Templemore, Co. Tipperary. His father was court clerk at Templemore; his mother was Mary Nally (née McNamee) from near Tralee, Co. Kerry. He had two brothers, Nicholas and Frank, and three sisters, Louise,…

Newman, William Alexander (‘Alec’)

Newman, William Alexander (‘Alec’) (1905–72), journalist, was born 5 March 1905 at 11 Daisy Terrace, Waterford city, son of William Newman and Amy Newman (née Longmire). He had one brother and a sister. Moving with his family to Belfast (1912), he was educated at the…

Oates, James

Oates, James (d. 1821), canal engineer, is unknown before the 1780s, when with a partner named Delahunty he constructed lock gates on the Grand Canal's branch line in Co. Kildare, extending in 1783–5 from near Robertstown down to the River Barrow at Monasterevin, and thereafter to…

O'Brien, William

O'Brien, William (1872–1941), civil servant, was born in Cappamore, Co. Limerick; no details of his family background are available. Educated at Mungret College, he joined the Post Office at the age of 19 as a clerk, and transferred in March 1896 to the inland revenue service, the…

O'Dea, James Augustine (‘Jimmy’)

O'Dea, James Augustine (‘Jimmy’) (1899–1965), actor and comedian, was born 26 April 1899 at 11 Lower Bridge St., Dublin, over his parents’ toyshop in the historic but dilapidated Liberties. Both parents, twice-widowed James O'Dea and his third wife, Martha (née O'Gorman), former…

O'Duffy, Eoin

O'Duffy, Eoin (1890–1944), soldier, policeman, and politician, was born 28 January 1890 on the family farm at Carrickaduff (Cargaghdoo), near Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, youngest among five sons and two daughters of Eugene (‘Owen’) Duffy and Brigid Duffy (née Fealy) of the nearby…

O'Hart, John

O'Hart, John (1824–1902), teacher and genealogist, was born in December 1824 into an Irish-speaking family in Crossmolina, Co. Mayo, fifth and longest surviving among six sons of Shane (John) O'Hart and Nora O'Hart (née Geraghty) from the nearby parish of Glenhest. Of his four sisters,…

O'Keeffe, Patrick (‘Paudeen’) (Ó Caoimh, Páraig

O'Keeffe, Patrick (‘Paudeen’) (Ó Caoimh, Páraig ) (1881–1973), politician and soldier, was born in Nohovaldaly, Co. Cork, near to the border with Co. Kerry, the son of Daniel Keeffe, farmer, and his wife Bridget (née O'Leary). Educated locally, he joined the Post Office as a clerk,…

Ó Murthuile, Seán

Ó Murthuile, Seán (1881–1941), teacher, author, Irish language enthusiast and revolutionary, was born 24 June 1881 in the coastal village of Leap, west Co. Cork, son of Patrick Hurley, boatman, and Margaret Hurley (née Driscoll). He had one brother and two sisters. Educated at nearby…

O'Riordan, Michael

O'Riordan, Michael (1857–1919), rector of the Irish College, Rome, was born in Kilmurray, Co. Limerick, son of John O'Riordan, a wealthy local farmer. Educated at the local national school and at the diocesan seminary in Limerick, he proved intellectually gifted and subsequently…

Osborne, Richard Boyse

Osborne, Richard Boyse (1815–1900), civil engineer and urban planner, was born 3 November 1815 in London, eldest son of Richard Boyse Osborne of Graige, Bannow, Co. Wexford, and his wife Lucinda, daughter of John Humphrey (or Humfrey) of Killerig, Co. Carlow. Childhood details are…

O'Shaughnessy, Michael Maurice

O'Shaughnessy, Michael Maurice (1864–1934), hydraulic engineer, was born 6 June 1864, according to his official birth certificate, at Jointer, Kilteery, midway between Glin and Loghill, Co. Limerick, son of Patrick O'Shaughnessy, farmer, and Margaret O'Shaughnessy (née O'Donnell).…

O'Shea, William Henry

O'Shea, William Henry (1840–1905), politician and adventurer, was born in Dublin, son of Henry O'Shea (pronounced ‘O'Shee’), a catholic solicitor from an indebted Limerick gentry family, and his wife Catherine, a papal countess and daughter of Edward Craneach Quinlan of Rosana, Co…