MacSwiney, Patrick John (1885–1940), catholic priest, Gaelic scholar, antiquarian, historian and teacher, was born on 16 March 1885 in 40 Nile Street (latterly Sheares Street), Cork city, the son of Terence McSweeney (b. 1847), a bootmaker, and his wife Hannah (née McCarthy; b. 1848…
Fleischmann, Ruth
Moriarty, Joan Denise
Moriarty, Joan Denise (c.1912–1992), Irish traditional musician, step dancer, ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and founder of professional ballet in Ireland, was born and brought up in England, her family having left Mallow, Co. Cork, around 1907. Little is known of her…