O'Hegarty (Ó hÉigeartuigh), Diarmuid
O'Hegarty (Ó hÉigeartuigh), Diarmuid (1892–1958), civil servant and revolutionary, was born Jeremiah Stephen Hegarty on 26 December 1892 in Lowertown, Schull, Co Cork, the eldest of seven children (four sons and three daughters) of Jeremiah Hegarty (1856–1934), a teacher, and his wife…...
O'Hegarty, Patrick Sarsfield (‘P. S.’)
O'Hegarty, Patrick Sarsfield (‘P. S.’) (1879–1955), revolutionary, writer, and civil servant, was born 29 December 1879 at Carrignavar, Co. Cork, son of John Hegarty, plaster and stucco worker, and Katherine Hegarty (née Hallanan), who came of west Cork farming stock, as did…...
O'Higgins, Ambrosio
O'Higgins, Ambrosio (1720–1801), viceroy of Peru and marquis de Osorno , was born Ambrose Higgins in Ballinary, Co. Sligo, son of Charles Higgins (occupation unknown) and Margaret Higgins (née O'Higgins). Sent to Spain to be educated by an uncle who was a Jesuit, he showed little…...
O'Kelly de Gallagh et Tycooly, Gerald Edward
O'Kelly de Gallagh et Tycooly, Gerald Edward (1890–1968), diplomat, was born 11 March 1890 at Gurtray, Portumna, Co. Galway, third among seven sons of Count John Appleyard O'Kelly – his ancestor Festus O'Kelly de Gallagh et Tycooly had been created a count of the Holy Roman Empire…...
O'Leary, Daniel Florence
O'Leary, Daniel Florence (1801–54), soldier, historian, and diplomat, was born in February 1801 in 89/90 Barrack St., Cork, eighth of ten children of Jeremiah O'Leary, butter merchant, and his wife, Catherine O'Leary (not related), both natives of Cork. In Europe in 1816…...
O'Leary, Jeremiah
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O'Neill, Joseph James (Seosamh Ó Néill)
O'Neill, Joseph James (Seosamh Ó Néill) (1878–1953), writer and civil servant, was born 18 December 1878 at Tuam, Co. Galway, son of Martin O'Neill, a member of the RIC, and his wife Mary (née Quigley). O'Neill spent his childhood on the…...
O'Rahilly, Aodogán John Eoin O'Sullivan
O'Rahilly, Aodogán John Eoin O'Sullivan (1904–2000), republican and engineer, was born 22 September 1904, third son among four sons of…...
O'Reilly, Joseph Patrick
O'Reilly, Joseph Patrick (1829–1905), chemist, engineer, and mineralogist, was born 11 July 1829 in Monaghan, fifth son among thirteen children of Thomas O'Reilly, solicitor, and Cecilia O'Reilly (née Devin). The family moved to Dublin on his father's appointment as master of the…...
O'Shiel, Kevin Roantree
O'Shiel, Kevin Roantree (1891–1970), barrister and land commissioner, was born 23 September 1891 in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, eldest of four sons and two daughters of Francis Shields , solicitor, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of D. J. Roantree, school inspector. While his father…...
O'Sullivan, Daniel
O'Sullivan, Daniel (1758/61?–1814), middleman and magistrate, was second son of Daniel O'Sullivan and his wife Honora, daughter of Morgan O'Connell (1739–1809) of Carhen, Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry, and therefore first cousin to Daniel O'…...
O'Sullivan, Edward (Eamon; ‘the Doc’)
O'Sullivan, Edward (Eamon; ‘the Doc’) (1897–1966), athlete, Gaelic football trainer, sports administrator, and psychiatrist, was born 8 May 1897 in Ballincarrig, Firies, Co. Kerry, only son among three children of James ‘J. P.’ O'Sullivan, farmer, originally from Beaufort near…...
Oviedo, Mateo (Matthew)
Oviedo, Mateo (Matthew) de (c.1547–1610), Observant Franciscan priest, diplomat, and archbishop of Dublin (1600–1610), was born into a minor noble family of Asturian origin in Segovia. Education and Irish interests During the 1560s and 1570s, he…...
Pigot, David Richard
Pigot, David Richard (1797–1873), lawyer, politician, and chief baron of the exchequer in Ireland, was born in Kilworth, Co. Cork, the only son of John Pigot, a physician, and his wife, Margaret (née Nagle), also of Kilworth. He was educated in Fermoy before entering…...
Plunkett, Sir Francis Richard
Plunkett, Sir Francis Richard (1835–1907), diplomat, was born 3 February 1835 at Corbalton Hall, Co. Meath, sixth son of Arthur James Plunkett, 9th earl of Fingall, KP, and his wife Louise Emilia (d. April 1866), only daughter…...
Power, Richard (Dick) (de Paor, Risteard)
Power, Richard (Dick) (de Paor, Risteard) (1928–70), civil servant and writer, was born 24 February 1928 in a private nursing home at 17 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, the eldest of five sons of Patrick Joseph Power, a bank official, originally of Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford, and…...
Purcell, Pierce Francis
Purcell, Pierce Francis (1881–1968), civil engineer, peat fuel pioneer, and university professor, was born 6 October 1881 at the Quay, Kilkenny city, only son of Thomas Purcell of Albert House, Dalkey, Co. Dublin, and Margaret Purcell (née Phelan). Educated in Dublin at St Vincent…...
Quigley, Paul
Quigley, Paul (1923–2003), semi-state company executive, was born 4 February 1923 at 40 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, the youngest of four sons of James Quigley (see below), and his wife Linda (née Hynes). He grew up in the family residence at Leinster Road, Rathmines, attending the…...
Redington, Sir Thomas Nicholas
Redington, Sir Thomas Nicholas (1815–62), landlord, MP, and under-secretary for Ireland, was born 2 October 1815 at Kilcornan, Oranmore, Co. Galway, the only son of Capt. Christopher Redington (1780–1825), a catholic landowner, and his wife Frances, daughter of Henry Dowell of…...
Reynolds, Charles
Reynolds, Charles (c.1496–1535), Fitzgerald envoy to the pope, was most likely born into the Mac Raghnaill ecclesiastical dynasty based around the Augustinian priory at Mohill and the cathedral chapter at Ardagh. He was the son of a Maurus Mac Raghnaill, and someone of that…...
Rice, Peter Ronan
Rice, Peter Ronan (1935–92), structural engineer, was born 16 June 1935 at the Leinster nursing home, 26 Upper Pembroke St., Dublin, son of James Patrick Rice, head of the Louth vocational education committee, and Maureen Rice (née Quinn), living at 11 Faughart Terrace, St Mary's…...
Rinuccini, GianBattista
Rinuccini, GianBattista (1592–1653), archbishop of Fermo and papal nuncio to the confederate catholics of Ireland, was born 15 September (NS) 1592 in Rome, son of Camillo Rinuccini, a Florentine patrician, and his wife Virginia Bandini, sister of the important Cardinal Ottavio…...
Robinson, Paschal
Robinson, Paschal (1870–1948), journalist, medieval historian, diplomat and papal nuncio to Ireland, was born 26 April 1870 in 49 Percy Place, Dublin, and christened Charles Edward Neville, second of three sons of Nugent Robinson, treasurer of Dublin corporation, and Jannet Robinson (…...
Roche, Stephen Anselm
Roche, Stephen Anselm (1890–1949), civil servant, was born in Caherciveen, Co. Kerry. His father was an excise officer in the British civil service who was posted on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and as a result Roche spent much of his childhood there. He…...
Ronan, Sean Gerard
Ronan, Sean Gerard (1924–2000), civil servant and diplomat, was born 11 January 1924 in Cork city, the eldest of the three children, two boys and a girl, of John Ronan of Ballintemple, Cork, and his wife, Mary, née Hogan, of Portumna, Co. Galway. He was educated locally and then…...