Malone, James
Malone, James (d. 1721), printer and bookseller, was of obscure origin. A catholic, he was admitted free of the city of Dublin in 1672, and of the guild of stationers in 1676. He came to prominence under James II (qv); when the…...
McCarthy, Charles James (C. J. )
McCarthy, Charles James (C. J. ) (1858–1947), architect, was born on 8 December 1858 in Dublin, the only son of four children of James Joseph McCarthy (qv), architect, and his wife Agnes Mary (née Byrne; 1819–85). Charles served…...
McCarthy, James Joseph
McCarthy, James Joseph (1817–82), architect and nationalist, was born 6 January 1817 in Dublin, son of Charles McCarthy, possibly of Co. Kerry, whose family circumstances, like much of James's early life, remain obscure. The McCarthys appear to have been poor, having an address at…...
McCormick, Liam
McCormick, Liam (1916–96), architect, was born William Henry Dunleavy McCormick on 24 October 1916 at 25 Clarendon St., Derry city, son of Hugh McCormick, a prosperous dentist, and Mary Christina McCormick (née Breslin). His parents came from prominent, prosperous catholic…...
Moore, Theophilus
Moore, Theophilus (c.1730–c.1809), almanack compiler, may have been born in King's Co. (Offaly), but details of his life are scant and conflicting. John McCall (qv) in his comprehensive ‘History of Irish almanacks’ (written 1878; unpublished…...
Mulvany, John Skipton
Mulvany, John Skipton (1813–70), architect, was probably born in Dublin, fourth son of Thomas James Mulvany (qv), painter, biographer, and founder member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and his wife, Mary (1779–1865), daughter of Dr…...
Murnaghan, George
Murnaghan, George (1847–1929), businessman, farmer, and politician, was born 4 July 1847 in Greenan, Loughbrickland, Co. Down, the fourth of nine children of James Murnaghan, a local farmer, and his wife Rose (née Mulligan). He attended the Royal School, Armagh, from 1864 to 1866,…...
Murphy, John
Murphy, John (c.1755–1832), engraver and educational publisher, was born in Cork city and reared in its northern suburbs, around Mallow Lane. At the age of seventeen he emigrated to London, led by his ‘predilection for the Fine Arts and a desire to cultivate an inclination for…...
Nolan, Thomas
Nolan, Thomas (1872/3–1939), newspaper editor and publisher, was educated at the CBS, Tralee, Co. Kerry; few other details of his early life are available. As a young man he joined the clerical staff of J. B. Healy, building…...
O’Brien, Paddy Terence
O’Brien, Paddy (Terence) (1916–89), head barman, was the son of John O’Brien, a bread van driver of Grangegorman, Dublin (originally from Rochestown, Stackallen, Co. Meath), and his wife Mary (née Kerrigan), originally from Barristown, Slane, Co. Meath. He was probably…...
O'Callaghan, Lucius
O'Callaghan, Lucius (1877–1954), architect, was born 18 August 1877 at 31 Harcourt St., Dublin, the second eldest of six sons and two daughters of John Joseph O'Callaghan (qv), architect, and his wife Eva. He was educated at the…...
O'Connor, Thomas
O'Connor, Thomas (1817–87), ‘cattle king of Refugio county, Texas’, was baptised and probably born in February 1817 in Kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford, second son of Thomas O'Connor, tenant farmer at Kilmuckridge, and Margaret O'Connor (née Power). As a younger son, he had no prospect of…...
Ó Cuinneagáin, Gearóid Seán Caoimhín
Ó Cuinneagáin, Gearóid Seán Caoimhín (1910–91), political activist and publisher, was born 2 January 1910 at Belfast, the third child of Sean Cunningham and his wife Caitlín. He was educated in Belfast, at St Brigid's school, Malone Rd, and the …...
O'Daly, John
O'Daly, John (1800–78), writer and publisher, was born 5 February 1800 in Fernane, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, eldest among three sons and three daughters of Eamonn O'Daly and Brigid O'Daly (née Kyley). He was educated at a local hedge school before going to work, in 1826, for the…...
O'Ferrall, Roderic Charles Francis (‘Roddy’) More
O'Ferrall, Roderic Charles Francis (‘Roddy’) More (1903–90), horse breeder, trainer, and arboriculturist, was born in Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, on 25 July 1903, eldest among three sons and a daughter of Dominic More O'Ferrall of Kildangan, Co. Kildare, landowner and…...
O'Leary, Con
O'Leary, Con (1915–98), pioneer of the co-operative movement, was born 18 May 1915 in Glendine, Inchigeela, west Co. Cork, son of Daniel O'Leary, farmer, and Kate O'Leary (née Barrett). He was educated at the local national school, before being forced to leave school to work on…...
Ó Lochlainn, Colm
Ó Lochlainn, Colm (1892–1972), printer, publisher and Gaelic scholar, was born William Gerard O'Loughlin at Drumcondra, Dublin, on 11 October 1892, the second of four surviving children (from six) of John O'Loughlin, publisher, and his wife Delia Bridget (née Carr), whose family were…...
O'Rourke, Horace Tennyson
O'Rourke, Horace Tennyson (1880–1963), architect and town planner, was born 21 March 1880 in the family home at 34 Richmond Place North, Dublin, son of Francis P. O'Rourke, an accountant from ‘a noted professional family’, and Martha O'Rourke (née Rafferty). Horace's name on his…...
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'…...
Pinkerton, John
Pinkerton, John (1845–1908), tenant farmer, magistrate, and MP, was the son of John Pinkerton of Seacon, near Ballymoney, north Antrim, and his wife Nancy (née Pinkerton). John Pinkerton senior was a unitarian tenant farmer and linen merchant who died young after falling from his…...
Pollen, John Hungerford
Pollen, John Hungerford (1820–1902), architect, artist, and author, was born 19 November 1820 in London, second son of Richard Pollen, barrister, and his wife Anne, daughter of Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Educated at Durham House (1829–33) and Eton (1833–8), in May 1838 he…...
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore (1812–52), architect, designer, and architectural theorist, was born 1 March 1812 in Keppel St., Russell Square, London, only child of Augustus Charles Pugin, an architectural draughtsperson who emigrated to England from France, and Catherine Pugin…...
Pugin, Edward Welby
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Purcell, Seamus
Purcell, Seamus (1923–2003), businessman , was born James Purcell in the family home in Cumberland Street (later Emmet Street), Birr, Co. Offaly, on 3 January 1923, the third of eight sons and two daughters of Patrick Purcell (d. 1961), cattle and sheep dealer, and his wife Florence (…...
Rea, Joe
Rea, Joe (1938–2007), farm leader, was born 2 May 1938 in Cahir, Co. Tipperary, eldest of two sons and a daughter of Michael Rea, farmer of Farmlee House, Ballyea, near Cahir, and his wife Catherine (‘Kathleen’, née O’Keeffe), originally from Co. Wexford. A voracious reader from early…...