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…...
Rushe, Denis Carolan
Rushe, Denis Carolan (1852–1928), historian, antiquary and public servant, was born in Monaghan town, where his father worked as a doctor in the county infirmary. Both his parents came from the south of the county; other details of them are unknown. He attended St Louis convent, St…...
Ryan, Sir Andrew
Ryan, Sir Andrew (1876–1949), consular official and diplomat, was born 5 November 1876 in Cork, son of Edward Ryan, soap and candle manufacturer of Douglas, Cork. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College, Cork; QCC, receiving his…...
Rynne, Michael Andrew Lysaght
Rynne, Michael Andrew Lysaght (1899–1981), civil servant and diplomat, was born 12 September 1899 in Hampshire, England, the first son of wealthy Irish parents Dr Michael Rynne and Mary Rynne (née O'Mara). The family moved to Limerick in 1907 on the death of his father. His siblings…...
Scarampi, PierFrancesco
Scarampi, PierFrancesco (1596–1656), papal representative to the confederate catholics of Ireland, and provost of the Roman Oratory, was probably born on family lands near Montferrat on the Piedmont–Genovese border in northern Italy. His parents (of whom no other details are known…...
Shea, Patrick
Shea, Patrick (1908–86), civil servant and author, was born 27 April 1908 at Delvin, Co. Westmeath, second son of Patrick Shea, RIC district inspector, and Mary Catherine Shea (née McLaughlin). Shea's childhood was spent in Athlone,…...
Sheil, Justin
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Sheridan, Thomas
Sheridan, Thomas (1646–1712), writer, royal official, and Jacobite, was born in St John's, near Trim, Co. Meath, fourth son of Denis Sheridan (qv), a Church of Ireland clergyman from Co. Cavan, and an Englishwoman named Foster. In the rebellion of 1641…...
Smith, Bernard
Smith, Bernard (1812–92), catholic priest and papal official, was born 12 September 1812 in the townland of Behey or Beaghey in the parish of Lavey, Co. Cavan, son of Bernard Smith and his wife, Rose. Intent on a career in the catholic church, he entered the Irish college at Rome…...
Stanihurst, Richard
Stanihurst, Richard (1547–1618), scholar and diplomat, was born in Dublin, eldest among three sons and two daughters of James Stanihurst (qv) (or Stanyhurst), lawyer and politician, and Anne Stanihurst (née Fitzsimon), both of the…...
Staunton, Sir George Leonard
Staunton, Sir George Leonard (1737–1801), physician and colonial official, was born 19 April 1737 in Cargin, Co. Galway, son of Col. George Staunton and his wife Margaret (d. 1784), daughter of John Leonard of Carra, Co. Galway. He was sent abroad for his education and attended…...
Sweetman, Michael John
Sweetman, Michael John (1935–72), director of the Irish Council for the European Movement, was born 27 June 1935 in Dublin, elder son among two sons and four daughters of Patrick Sweetman, solicitor and county registrar, of Johnsbrook, Fordstown, Navan, Co. Meath, and his wife Mary (‘…...
Taaffe, Francis
Taaffe, Francis (1639–1704), 4th Viscount Taaffe and 3rd earl of Carlingford soldier , and diplomat, was born at Ballymote, Co. Sligo, second son (third, according to Murtagh) of Theobald Taaffe (qv), 2nd Viscount and 1st earl of…...
Taaffe, James
Taaffe, James (1623/4–1681), Franciscan friar and papal envoy, was a son of Sir John Taaffe, 1st Viscount Taaffe, of Coreen, Co. Sligo, and his wife, Ann Dillon, daughter of Theobald (qv), Viscount Dillon. The Taaffes were a…...
Taaffe, Sir William
Taaffe, Sir William (d. 1631), soldier, official, and landowner, was second son of John Taaffe of Harristown and Ballybraggan, a member of a family who had long been prosperous landowners in Co. Louth. He found employment in the service of Sir…...
Talbot, Richard Francis
Talbot, Richard Francis (1710–52), titular earl of Tyrconnell, soldier, and diplomat, was baptised 26 December 1710 at Saint-Germain, France, son of Richard Talbot (d. 1716), who styled himself Lord Talbot from 1691 and had married his cousin Charlotte Talbot (1676?–1721), only…...
Taylor, John James
Taylor, Sir John James (1859–1944), civil servant, was born 18 May 1859 in Umballa, India, the third of eight children of James Benjamin Taylor, a paymaster sergeant in the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot of the British army, and Barbara Taylor (née Keely). Taylor…...
Therry, John Joseph
Therry, John Joseph (1766–1853), commissioner of revenue, was the first son of James Therry of Castle Therry, near Glanworth, Co. Cork, and his wife Elizabeth (née Nagle), who appears to have been a first cousin of Edmund Burke (qv),…...
Tinney, Mary Catherine
Tinney, Mary Catherine (1924–2006), diplomat, was born on 15 February 1924 in Scotland, where her parents were living briefly. When her father, Eamonn Tinney, an income tax official, was posted to Letterkenny, they returned to his home county, Donegal; her mother, Winifred Tinney (née…...
Tobin, Liam
Tobin, Liam (1895–1963), republican, soldier, businessman, and civil servant, was born 15 November 1895 at 13 North Great George's St., Cork, son of David Tobin of Clolefin (Cloughleafin, near Mitchelstown, north Co. Cork), furniture salesman at Clery's department store, Dublin, and…...
Twomey, Daniel
Twomey, Daniel (1886–1968), civil servant, was born 29 December 1886 at Rockborough House, Macroom, Co. Cork. He was educated at Presentation College, Cork, and UCC. In 1905 he won a scholarship to the College of Science, Dublin,…...
Waddell, Samuel John (‘Rutherford Mayne’)
Waddell, Samuel John (‘Rutherford Mayne’) (1878–1967), playwright, actor, and civil servant, was born 15 July 1878 in Tokyo, Japan, the fourth child (and fourth son) among eight sons and two daughters of the Revd Hugh Waddell (1840–1901), a presbyterian missionary born in Glenarm, Co.…...
Wall, Mervyn Eugene Welply
Wall, Mervyn Eugene Welply (1908–97), novelist, playwright, broadcaster, and civil servant, was born 23 August 1908 at 27 Palmerston Rd, Dublin, the third eldest of three sons and one daughter of Thomas Patrick Wall, barrister, and Beatrice Agnes Wall (née Morrissey), both of Co.…...
Walshe, Joseph Patrick
Walshe, Joseph Patrick (1886–1956), diplomat, was born 2 October 1886 in Killenaule, Co. Tipperary, fifth among six children of James Walshe (1835–1900), hotelier, retailer, farmer, and nationalist county councillor for Tipperary South Riding (1899–1900), and Frances Ellen (‘Fannie’)…...
Walsh, John Joseph
Walsh, John Joseph (1916–88), industrialist and public servant, was born 31 August 1916 in Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, third child of Patrick Walsh, schoolteacher, and Mary Walsh (née Halliden). He was educated at St Brendan's, Killarney, Co. Kerry, and graduated…...