Quinn, James

Dr James Quinn joined the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) project in 1995 and played a key role in the landmark launch – in print and online – of the DIB in 2009. In 2012 James became the DIB's Managing Editor, a role he held until his retirement in July 2022 (minus a career break in 2019–21). In addition to writing more than 270 entries and overseeing the ongoing expansion of the DIB, James’s research interests mainly focused on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish history. He has written books on the United Irishman Thomas Russell (2002), the Young Irelander John Mitchel (2008), and published Young Ireland and the writing of Irish history in 2015, as well as contributing widely to journals and essay collections on aspects of political and cultural history, biography and historiography.

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Hanlon, Joe

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Hare, William

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Haughton, James

Haughton, James (1795–1873), social reformer and philanthropist, was born 5 May 1795 in Carlow town, eldest son of Samuel Pearson Haughton (1748–1828), corn merchant, and his wife Mary (née Pim) of Ruskin, Queen's Co. (Laois). Although both parents left the Society of Friends…

Haverty, Joseph ('Joe')

Haverty, Joseph ('Joe') (1936–2009), footballer, was born 17 February 1936 in Dublin, the son of Patrick Haverty, a brushmaker, and his wife Margaret (née Walsh). From the age of 14 he played schoolboy soccer with Home Farm (where he was a teammate of Tony O'Reilly) and won schoolboy…

Higgins, Alexander Gordon ('Alex'; 'Hurricane')

Higgins, Alexander Gordon ('Alex'; 'Hurricane') (1949–2010), snooker player, was born on 18 March 1949 in Belfast, the only son of Alexander Gordon Higgins, a labourer, of Abbingdon Drive, Sandy Row, Belfast, and his wife Elizabeth (née Stockman); he had three sisters. Educated locally…

Hogan, Jim

Hogan, Jim (1933–2015), athlete, was born James Joseph Cregan on 28 May 1933 in Croom hospital, Co. Limerick, the second eldest of nine children (seven girls and two boys) of Michael and Margaret Cregan of Coolboy, Athlacca, Co. Limerick, who owned a small farm. Educated locally, he…

Hope, James (‘Jemmy’)

Hope, James (‘Jemmy’) (1764–1847), United Irishman and social radical, was born on 25 August 1764 in Templepatrick, Co. Antrim, the second of three sons of John Hope, a linen weaver who was the son of a Covenanting Scottish immigrant, and Sarah Hope (née Speers). He received little…

Houlihan, Con

Houlihan, Con (1925–2012), sportswriter, was born on 6 December 1925 in Reineen, near Castleisland, Co. Kerry, the middle child among two boys and a girl of Michael Houlihan and his wife Ellen ('Nell') (née Cronin). His parents farmed a small holding (about five acres of arable land),…

Johnstone, Walter Edgeworth-

Johnstone, Walter Edgeworth- (1863–1937), soldier, DMP commissioner, and sportsman, was born at Kingstown, Co. Dublin, the eldest son of Robert Johnstone (1806–85), QC and county court judge, of Laputa, Co. Donegal, and his wife Doris Tivy. In 1838 a…

Jones, Jimmy

Jones, Jimmy (1928–2014), footballer, was born on 25 July 1928 in Keady, Co. Armagh, the son of Thomas Jones, an RUC sergeant, and Ellen Jones (née Wilson). He was raised in Lurgan, Co. Armagh, and educated at the local Carrick primary…

Keane, Marcus

Keane, Marcus (1815–83), land agent and antiquarian, was born on 7 February 1815, probably at the family seat of Beech Park, near Ennis, Co. Clare, the sixth son of thirteen children (eight boys and five girls) of Robert Keane (1774–1839), a landlord, land agent and JP, and his…

Keane, Maurice Ignatius ('Moss')

Keane, Maurice Ignatius ('Moss') (1948–2010), rugby and Gaelic footballer, was born on 27 July 1948 in Currow, near Castleisland, Co. Kerry, the eldest of three sons of Willie Keane and his wife Cassie (née O'Mahony), who were farmers. He was educated in Currow national school before…

Kelly, Alan

Kelly, Alan (1936–2009), soccer goalkeeper and coach, was born James Alexander Kelly on 5 July 1936 in Holles Street hospital, Dublin, the son of James Kelly, a plasterer, of 5 Sarsfield Street, Sallynoggin, Co. Dublin, and his wife Ellen (née Kirwan). During his childhood the family…

Kelly, Tim

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Kennedy, Arthur Edward

Kennedy, Arthur Edward (1810–83), poor law inspector and colonial governor, was born on 9 April 1810 in Cultra, Co. Down, the fourth son of eleven children (six sons and five daughters) of Hugh Kennedy (1775–1852), a landed gentleman, JP and…

Kenyon, John

Kenyon, John (1812–69), catholic priest and Young Irelander, was born at Thomond Gate, Limerick city, eldest son among three sons and three daughters of Patrick Kenyon, grocery and hardware merchant, and Mary Kenyon (née McMahon). One of five siblings to take religious vows, he…

Knox, John

Knox, John (1758–1800), soldier and MP, was born 9 October 1758, second among seven sons of Thomas Knox (qv), 1st Viscount Northland, and his wife Anne née Vesey (d. 1803), second daughter of John, 1st Lord Knapton, and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of…

Knox, Thomas

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Knox, Thomas

Knox, Thomas (1754–1840), 1st earl of Ranfurly , 2nd Viscount Northland and MP, was born 5 August 1754, eldest among seven sons of Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland of Dungannon , Co. Tyrone, and his wife Anne (d. 1803), second daughter of John, 1st Lord Knapton, and Elizabeth,…

Lake, Gerard

Lake, Gerard (1744–1808), British general and MP, was born 27 July 1744, possibly in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, second son of Launcelot Charles Lake (d. 1751), a Middlesex landowner, and Letitia Lake (née Gumley; d. 1760). Educated at Eton, he was commissioned ensign 9 May…

Lane, Denny

Lane, Denny (1818–95), Young Irelander and businessman, was born 7 December 1818 in Cork, the only son of Maurice Lane (d. 1845), proprietor of the Riverstown distillery and member of Cork corporation, and Ellen Lane (née Madden). Educated at Hamblin and Porter's school in Queen…

Larcom, Sir Thomas Aiskew

Larcom, Sir Thomas Aiskew (1801–79), surveyor, administrator, and under-secretary for Ireland (1853–68), was born 22 April 1801 in Hampshire, one of five children of Captain Joseph Larcom (d. 1817), RN, who administered a dockyard in Malta, and his wife…

La Rue, Danny

La Rue, Danny (1927–2009), female impersonator and entertainer, was born Daniel Patrick Carroll on 26 July 1927 at 10 Horgan's Buildings, Cork, the youngest of five children of Thomas Carroll (1895–1929), a carpenter, and his wife Mary Anne (née Dennehy) (1897–1976), a seamstress. He…

Lynott, Philip Parris (‘Phil’)

Lynott, Philip Parris (‘Phil’) (1949–86), rock singer and musician, was born 20 August 1949 at Halham hospital, West Bromwich, England, son of Cecil Parris and Philomena Lynott (b. 1930), a trainee nurse, originally from Dublin. His parents had parted before he was born, but stayed…

MacCarthy, Denis Florence

MacCarthy, Denis Florence (1817–82), Young Irelander, poet, and translator, was born 26 May 1817 at 24 Lower Sackville St., Dublin, the only son of John MacCarthy (d. 1857), a catholic woollen merchant with premises on Eden Quay, Dublin, and Sarah MacCarthy (née Courtney) (d. 1845…