Biographies A-Z

Fitzgerald, Martin Thomas (1865–1927), last owner of the Freeman's Journal, was born 9 November 1865 in Charlestown, Co. Mayo, second child of James Fitzgerald, shopkeeper, and Bridget Fitzgerald (née Mullarky). He had an elder brother and two sisters. Moving to Dublin at an…

Fitzgerald, Mary (1885–1960), South African trade unionist and socialist, was born in Ireland; her maiden name, and precise place and date of birth are not known. Emigrating with her father to the Cape Colony (1900), she worked as a typist for the British army at the Castle, Cape Town.…

Fitzgerald, Maurice (1590–1649), catholic landowner and soldier, was eldest son of Gerald fitz Philip Fitzgerald and his second wife, Joan Walsh of Shanganagh, Dublin. Born into a junior branch of the family of the earls of Kildare, he held an estate of 5,000 acres in the parish…

Fitzgerald, Maurice (1772–1849), 18th knight of Kerry and politician, was born 29 December 1772, eldest son of Robert Fitzgerald, 17th knight of Kerry and MP, and his third wife, Catherine, daughter of Lancelot Sandes, MP. Succeeding his father as knight of Kerry in 1781, he served…

fitz Gerald, Maurice (c.1110–1176), second son of Gerald of Windsor, castellan of Pembroke , and his wife Nesta, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, king of Deheubarth, Wales, was one of the early leaders of the Anglo-Norman conquest of Ireland and was ancestor both of the earls of…

FitzGerald, Maurice fitz Gerald (1194–1257), lord of Offaly, justiciar, was son of Gerald fitz Maurice FitzGerald (qv) and his wife Eva, daughter of Robert de Bermingham. He was still a minor at the time of his father's…

FitzGerald, Maurice fitz Maurice (d. 1286), magnate and justiciar of Ireland, was the second son of Maurice FitzGerald (qv) (d. 1257), baron of Offaly and justiciar of Ireland, and Juliana, daughter of John de Cogan.…

Fitzgerald, Maurice fitz Thomas (c.1460–1520), 10th earl of Desmond, was second son of Thomas fitz James FitzGerald (qv), 8th earl of Desmond, and Alice Barry, and succeeded to the earldom after the assassination of…

FitzGerald, Maurice fitz Thomas (c.1321–1390), 4th earl of Kildare , justiciar, was the third of three sons of Thomas fitz John FitzGerald (qv), 2nd earl of Kildare, and his wife Joan (d. 1328), daughter of…

FitzGerald, Maurice fitz Thomas (1293–1356), 1st earl of Desmond , magnate and justiciar of Ireland, was the second son and eventual heir of Thomas fitz Maurice FitzGerald (qv) (d. 1298), lord of Decies and Desmond, and…

Fitzgerald, Maurice mac David Duff (Mac Gearailt, Muiris mac Dáibhí Dhuibh) (a.1581?–c.1630), poet in the Irish language, was presumably born before the death in Aghadoe of his father, David Duff Fitzgerald, during the Desmond rebellion. At the time of his death in…

FitzGerald, Maurice (‘Muiris Ruadh’) (d. 1268), magnate, lord of Offaly, was the only son and heir of Gerald fitz Maurice FitzGerald (d. 1243), the eldest son of Maurice FitzGerald (qv) (d. 1257), baron of Offaly and…

FitzGerald, Oliver Patrick Noel (1910–87), physician and physiologist, was born 23 December 1910, at Grangemore, Waterford, the son of Alexis FitzGerald, medical officer at the district asylum, and Lily FitzGerald (née O'Halloran), a relative of the great eighteenth-century…

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Fitzgerald, Patrick Neville (1851–1907), Fenian, was born 7 March 1851 in Ballinacurra, Co. Cork, son of Edmond Fitzgerald, gardener, and Johanna Fitzgerald (née Neville). He attended Midleton national school until the age of 15 and thereafter worked as a clerk in a local hardware…

Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington (1830–1925), writer, sculptor, and barrister, was born 26 April 1830 at Fane Valley, near Dundalk, Co. Louth, the younger son of Thomas Fitzgerald. His father, a pro-repeal MP for Co. Louth (1830–4), had made his fortune from properties in the West…

Fitzgerald, Peter George (1808–80), 19th knight of Kerry , philanthropist, was born 15 September 1808, eldest surviving son among six sons and four daughters of Maurice Fitzgerald (qv), 18th knight of Kerry, and his first wife Maria…

Fitzgerald, Richard (d. 1647?), politician and agent for the Irish government in London, was born into an Old English background but became a convert to protestantism like his cousin Maurice Eustace (qv). In 1625 he appears on…

Fitzgerald, Dick (‘Dickeen’), Gaelic footballer and revolutionary, was born 2 October 1882 in College Street, Killarney, Co. Kerry, one of at least three sons and three daughters of Michael Fitzgerald, a merchant of College Street, and his wife Bridget (née Healy). His primary education…

Fitzgerald, Robert David (1830–92), surveyor, botanical artist, and naturalist, was born 30 November 1830 at Tralee, Co. Kerry, the son of Robert David Fitzgerald, a banker, and his wife, Mary Ann, née Bell. After studying civil engineering at QCC…

Fitzgerald, Séamus (1896–1972), politician and businessman, was born 3 September 1896 at East Hill, Queenstown (Cobh), the third child of five sons of James Fitzgerald, sailor, merchant navy, and his wife, Alice Archdeacon, both from Cobh. He was educated at the local Presentation…

Fitzgerald, Sir John (d. a.7 May 1712), 2nd baronet, soldier, and patron of the poet Ó Bruadair, was born, probably by 1640, the eldest of at least five sons of Sir Edmund Fitzgerald (d. c.1666), 1st baronet, of Clonlish, Co. Limerick, and his wife, Mary Fitzgerald…

Fitzgerald, Sir John fitz Edmund (c.1528–1612), landowner and loyalist, was the son of Edmund fitz James Fitzgerald, lay dean of Cloyne, and his concubine Honor Ní Donogh, a woman of Muskerry. Both his father and his grandfather, James fitz William, had enjoyed a degree of…

Fitzgerald, Sir John fitz James (d. 1582), nobleman and rebel leader, was second son of James fitz John Fitzgerald (qv), 14th earl of Desmond (d. 1558), and his second wife More, daughter of…