Hourican, Bridget

This is a co-subject for the entry on MacDonagh, Michael. View the original entry.

MacDonagh, Michael (1860–1946), journalist and historian, was born 26 August 1860 in Limerick, son of Michael MacDonagh (d. 1893). He was educated locally by the Christian Brothers and then joined a local paper as a reporter. In 1882 he moved to Dublin to work for the Freeman's…

MacDonnell, Randal (1762–1821), merchant and catholic politician, may have been born in Cartagena, Spain, where he was prominent as a merchant until he moved to Ireland c.1790. He first attended a meeting of the Catholic Committee on 6 February 1791. Soon he was, with…

MacGowran, Jack (1918–73), actor, was born 13 October 1918 in Ranelagh, Dublin, the only son among three children of Matthew MacGowran, a sporadically employed travelling salesman, and Gertrude MacGowran (née Shanahan). ‘Jackie’, as he was always known, was educated at the…

Macken, Walter (1915–67), writer, actor, and theatre director, was born in Galway city on 3 May 1915, youngest son of Walter Macken, a carpenter and actor who was killed in the trenches at St Eloi, Flanders, in March 1916, and Agnes Macken (née Brady). Walter was educated at St Mary's…

MacMahon, Bryan Michael (1909–98), writer and teacher, was born 29 September 1909 in Listowel, Co. Kerry, one of four children of Patrick MacMahon, clerk in a law office and later a butter-buyer and exporter, and Joanna MacMahon (née Caughlin), schoolteacher. From an early age…

MacMahon, Ella (1864–1956), novelist, was born Eleanor Harriet on 23 July 1864 in Dublin, elder of two children of the Rev. John Henry MacMahon (1829–1900), curate of St Werburgh's, Dublin (1860–71), and later chaplain of Mountjoy prison (1887–1900), and Frances MacMahon (née…

MacManus, Henry (c.1810–78), artist, was born probably in Monaghan. According to his close friend Charles Gavan Duffy (qv), he was left orphaned after his father, a catholic soldier, died with his regiment, and he was…

This is a co-subject for the entry on Devas, Nicolette. View the original entry.

MacVeagh (MacVeigh), Jeremiah (1870–1932), politician, was born in Belfast, son of Thomas MacVeagh, shipbuilder; his mother's name is not known. He was educated at St Malachy's college, Belfast, graduated from the RUI, and went into…

Madden, Dodgson Hamilton (1840–1928), judge, scholar, and politician, was born 28 March 1840 in Cashel, Co. Tipperary, only surviving son and eldest of the six children of the Rev. Hugh Hamilton Madden (1806–78), rector of Templemore and chancellor of Cashel, and Isabella Madden (née…

Madden (Maddyn), Daniel Owen (1815–59), writer, was born in Mallow, Co. Cork, the only son of Owen Madden, Cork merchant, and Margaret Madden (née Quain). He was educated in Cork and worked for a time as a merchant before enrolling in King's Inns in 1838. Over the next four…

Maffey, John Loader (1877–1969), 1st Baron Rugby , ‘UK representative to Éire’, was born 1 July 1877 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, younger son of Thomas Maffey, commercial traveller, and Mary Penelope Maffey (née Loader). He was educated at Rugby School and was a scholar of…

Magill, Robert (1788–1839), presbyterian minister, was born 7 September 1788 in the village of Broughshane, near Ballymena, Co. Antrim, eldest of the five children of George Frederic Magill (1762–1828) and his wife, Sarah Boyd. He was educated locally by teachers named O'Hara,…

Maginess, (William) Brian (1901–67), politician and judge, was born 10 July 1901 in Hillsborough, Co. Down, son of William George Maginess, a Lisburn solicitor, and Mary Sarah Maginess (née Boyd). Brian (as he was always known) was educated at the Downshire School, Hillsborough; Lisburn…

Maginn, William (1794–1842), writer, was born 10 July 1794 in Cork, eldest son of John Maginn, a classical scholar who kept a private school in Marlborough St., and Anne, daughter of William Eccles of Ecclesville, Co. Tyrone. William was educated by his father and was…

Maher, Margaret (c.1845–1924), servant, was born in Killusty, Co. Tipperary, the third of four children, to Michael and Mary Maher. About 1865 she emigrated to America with her older sister Mary, her brother Michael and possibly their youngest sibling, Thomas. Soon…

Mahon, Catherine (1869–1948), president of the Irish National Teachers Organisation, was born 15 May 1869 in Laccah, north Co. Tipperary, eldest among seven children of James Mahon, labourer, and Winifred Mahon (née O'Meara). She was educated locally and at the Convent of Mercy in…

Mahoney, James (c.1810–1879), artist, was born in Cork city, son of William Mahoney, carpenter and brother to Patrick Mahoney, an architect; nothing is known of his mother. He studied in Rome and had his first public exhibition in the Cork Society for Promoting the Fine…

Mahony, Pierce (1792–1853), solicitor, was born 19 December 1792, probably in Co. Kerry, son of Pierce Mahony (1750–1819), landowner and JP of Co. Kerry and Co. Limerick, and his second wife, Anna Maria, daughter of John Maunsell of…

Manning, Mary (1905–99), playwright, novelist, and critic, was born on 30 June 1905 in Dublin, the eldest of three children, to Fitzmaurice Manning, a civil servant in the colonial service, and his wife Susan (née Bennett), sister of the suffragist and peace activist…

Mathew, Mary (1724–77), diarist, was daughter of the landowner Theobald Mathew (d. 1699) of Thurles Castle, Co. Tipperary, and his third wife, Catherine Nevill (d. 1742) of Leicestershire, England. Theobald Mathew had five children from his first marriage, one from his second, and four…

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Maxwell, Somerset Henry (1849–1900), 10th Baron Farnham , unionist, was born 7 March 1849 in Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford, eldest son of Richard Thomas Maxwell (1815–74) and his wife Charlotte Anne (d. 1910), daughter of the Rev. Henry Preston Elrington. His uncle was Sir James…

McAllister, Randal (c.1760?–p. 1794?), printer and United Irishman, was made a freeman of the city of Dublin in October 1786 and was then a stationer; nothing else is known of his background. The following year, on 23 October 1787, he was indicted for forging a…