Biographies A-Z

O'Toole, Brian (c.1525–1549), Gaelic warlord, was second of four sons of Toirdhealbhach (the elder) O'Toole (qv) (d. 1542), lord of the O'Tooles, and Sadhbh MacMurrough. Brian proved himself to be a powerful…

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O'Toole, Feilim (c.1525–1603), was the third son of Toirdhealbhach O'Toole (qv) (d. 1542), lord of the O'Tooles, and Sadhbh MacMurrough, daughter of …

O'Toole, Feilim (c.1565–1604?), was the younger son of Fiach O'Toole (qv), lord of Castlekevin and Fartry, and Rice Basnett, daughter of Dean Edward Basnett (d. 1545) of St Patrick's cathedral. For much of his career Feilim was in…

O'Toole, Fiach (c.1525–1578), Gaelic lord, eldest son of Art Óg O'Toole (qv), was an influential figure among the Leinster Irish and the marchers of Dublin. The first mention of Fiach is from November 1546. Then Art Óg's lands of Fartry, which he had…

O'Toole, Fiach (Luke) (1584–1653), Gaelic lord, was the eldest of four sons and at least two daughters of Barnaby O'Toole (qv), lord of Fartry and Ferter, and Honora O'More (d. c.1636), daughter of Muircheartach O'More of…

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O'Toole, Luke (1873–1929), GAA official, was born in Ballycumber, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow, second son among five children of John O'Toole and Bridie O'Toole (née Doran). Of farming stock on both sides, he was educated at the local national school at Ballycumber and at a Dublin…

O'Toole (Ó Tuathail), Adam (d. 1327), heretic, was son of Walter Dubh O'Toole of Kildare, a prominent anglicised Irish lord of Leinster, and an unknown woman. Very little is known of Adam's youth and upbringing. His father's privileged position may have allowed him to be educated by…

O'Toole (Ó Tuathail), Aodh (d. 1376), lord of Imaal, was the son of David O'Toole (qv) (d. 1328), lord of the O'Tooles. On his father's death Aodh did not succeed to the lordship, and between 1328 and 1352 there was no…

O'Toole (Ó Tuathail), David (d. 1328), lord of the O'Tooles, was one of at least four sons of Faelán O'Toole (d. in or after 1307), lord of the Glen of Imaal, son of Gilla Chaimgin O'Toole, a leader of the O'Tooles of Imaal. The emergence of their family as a powerful force…

O'Toole (Ó Tuathail), Feidhlim (d. 1404), king of Uí Mhuireadhaigh, was the eldest son of Aodh O'Toole (qv) (d. 1376), king of Imaal. He succeeded his uncle Sir John Ruadh O'Toole (qv) (d. 1388), king of…

O'Toole (Ó Tuathail), Muirchertach (Meyler) (d. 1264), landholder and lord of the O'Tooles, probably the son of Lorcán O'Toole (c.1190–1214), came from a family who had a long history of good relations with the archbishops of Dublin. Despite this connection with the…

O'Toole (Ó Tuathail), Toirdhealbhach (d. 1542), son of Art O'Toole, lord of the O'Tooles (his mother is unknown), was a powerful Irish lord in Leinster in the aftermath of the Kildare rebellion. His father was a client of the FitzGerald earls of Kildare. After 1516 the rival O'Tooles of…

O'Toole, Rose (d. c. 1629), politically significant member of O'Toole family, was the eldest child of Fiach O'Toole (qv) (d. 1578), lord of Fartry and Ferter, and Rose Basnett, daughter of Edward Basnett (d. 1545), dean of St…

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Ó Tuairisc, Eoghan (1919–82), writer, was born Eugene Rutherford Watters in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, on 3 April 1919, eldest of two sons and two daughters of Thomas Watters, shoemaker, who had been wounded in 1916 while fighting with the Connaught Rangers at the Somme, and Maud Watters…

Ó Tuama, Seán (1926–2006), poet, playwright and critic, was born 28 January 1926 at 35 Dublin Street, Blackpool, Cork city, the third of ten children (seven boys and three girls (one of whom died in infancy)), of Aodh Ó Tuama (1890–1985), insurance official, and his wife Eibhlín Ní…

Ó Tuama, Seán ‘an Ghrinn’ (1707/8–1775), poet, was born probably at or near the village of Croom, Co. Limerick. According to one account, his mother was a Walsh from Fantstown, near Kilmallock, and he may have attended school there. He had a good knowledge of English and Latin as well…

Ó Tuathail (O'Toole), Éamonn (1882/3–1956), Irish-language scholar, was born in 1882/3 in Barndarrig, a townland on the border between counties Dublin and Wicklow, the son of Terence O'Toole of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow (who was a brother of the Rathvilly schoolmaster Éamonn O'Toole), and…

Otway, Caesar (1780–1842), protestant clergyman, travel writer, and antiquary, was the elder son in the family of two sons and two daughters of Loftus Otway (1755–89), a merchant at Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, and his wife Sarah, daughter of William Woodward of Cloughprior. Born in Co.…

Otway, Thomas (1616–93), Church of Ireland bishop of Ossory, was born 1 November 1616 in Aldebury, Wiltshire, where his father, George Otway, was vicar. He attended school at Winchester and entered Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1632, graduating BA…

Ould, Sir Fielding (1710–89), obstetrician, was born in Galway, one of two sons of Abraham Ould (c.1689–1715), an English army captain in the Royal Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers, and Lettice Ould (née Shawe). In 1715 his father was murdered in London and the family returned to…

Oulton, Walley Chamberlain (c.1765–c.1820), dramatist and theatre historian, was born in Dublin, son of Walley Oulton, a merchant, and his wife Catherine (née Walker). Very little is known of his life outside his work. Educated locally by Dr Thomas Ball (1718?–…

Ouseley, Gideon (1762–1839), methodist preacher, was born 24 February 1762 at Kiltecacley, Dunmore, Co. Galway, the eldest son of John Ouseley of Dunmore and his wife, Elizabeth, née Surrage, of Tuam, Co. Galway. The family had settled in Ireland in 1625. His father directed him towards…