Flinn, Hugo Victor
Flinn, Hugo Victor (1879–1943), businessman and politician, was born 8 September 1879 in Peel, Isle of Man. He was one of four children of Hugh or Hugo Flinn, wholesale fish merchant with wide interests in Ireland and Liverpool, and his wife (Mary) Kate (née Condren or Condran). The…...
Flood, Finbarr
Flood, Finbarr (1938–2016), soccer player, managing director of Guinness brewery and chairman of the Labour Court, was born on 1 December 1938 in Kilmainham, Dublin, one of three children (and only son) to Jack Flood, a worker in Guinness, and his wife Eva Flood (née…...
Folens, Albert Joseph Marcel
Folens, Albert Joseph Marcel (1916–2003) Flemish nationalist and educational publisher, was born 15 October 1916 in Bissegem, west Flanders (latterly part of the municipality of Kortrijk, formerly Courtrai) to a devoutly catholic Flemish‐speaking family. (Folens recalled saying many…...
French (Ffrench), Sir Thomas
French (Ffrench), Sir Thomas (c.1765–1814), 2nd Baron ffrench , catholic baronet, peer, and banker, was the elder son in the family of two sons and five daughters of Charles French of Castle French, Clogher, Co. Galway, who was mayor of Galway (1773–4) and was created a…...
French, Seán
French, Seán (1889–1937), chemist and politician, was born John French on 29 May 1889 in Cork city, son of William French, coach trimmer, and his wife Ellen (née Twomey), of 25 King Street, Cork. After his education at the Christian Brothers' School, St Patrick's Place, Cork, and a…...
Fuller, Bill (William)
Fuller, Bill (William) (1917–2008), ballroom impresario and businessman, was born on 6 May 1917 in Glanoe, Kilfeighny, Co. Kerry, son of Stephen Fuller, a farmer of Glanoe, and his wife Mary (née Trant). He attended Tralee CBS and…...
Fuller, Stephen
Fuller, Stephen (1899–84), farmer, political activist and survivor of the 1923 Ballyseedy massacre, was born on 25 December 1899 at Fahavane, a hamlet just outside the village of Kilflynn, north of Tralee, Co. Kerry. The eldest child of Daniel Fuller, ‘an extensive farmer’, (…...
Gaj, Margaret (née Dunlop)
Gaj, Margaret (née Dunlop) (1919–2011), restaurateur, radical, and political activist, was born on 28 January 1919 in Edinburgh, Scotland, one of four children (two girls and two boys) of James Aloysius Dunlop and his wife Ellen (née O'Malley). Both parents were catholics of Irish…...
Gallagher, Andrew
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Gallagher, Charles
Gallagher, Charles (1927–93), businessman, was born 20 January 1927 at Cashel, Curry parish, Co. Sligo, the second youngest of fourteen children of Matthew Gallagher, farmer, of Cashel, and his wife Margaret (née Reilly). Growing up on a small family farm, he attended Moylough…...
Gallagher, Edward
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Gallagher, Eileen Helen Mary
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Gallagher, Henry Thomas (Harry)
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Gallagher, James
Gallagher, James (1920–83), businessman and politician, was born in Cashel, Curry parish, Co. Sligo, on 12 April 1920, the ninth child (of fourteen) of Matthew Gallagher, small farmer of Cashel, and his wife Margaret (née Reilly). Too sickly to partake in farm work, after attending…...
Gallagher, Matt
Gallagher, Matt (1915–74), businessman, was born on 15 February 1915 in Cashel, Curry parish, Co. Sligo, the second son and one of fourteen children of Matthew Gallagher, small farmer of Cashel, and his wife Margaret (née Reilly). He attended Moylough national school and spent his…...
Gallagher, Patrick
Gallagher, Patrick (1951–2006), businessman, was born on 8 May 1951 in Holles Street hospital, Dublin, the second son of Matt Gallagher, businessman, and his wife Helena Patricia (née Sheeran). He was raised from 1957 in palatial surrounds at Hollywood Rath, Mulhuddart, Co. Dublin. The…...
Gallagher, Redmond
Gallagher, Redmond (1914–2006), businessman and motor-racing enthusiast, was born in the family home at Dunwiley House in Stranorlar, Co. Donegal, on 27 February 1914, the youngest child of Henry Gallagher and his wife Eileen (née Cullen). He represented the third generation of a…...
Galwey, John
Galwey, John (1706–81), wine merchant, was born 19 June 1706, the elder of two sons of William Galwey (b. 1656) and his wife, Margaret Galwey (née MacCurtin) of Killelough, Co. Cork. The Galweys were an Old English family with branches in several parts of Munster. Several of John…...
Geaney, Donal
Geaney, Donal (1951–2005), businessman, was born Daniel John Geaney in Hollis Street hospital, Dublin, on 21 January 1951, the first of two sons of Daniel Geaney, wholesaler, of Raheny, Dublin, and his wife Mary (née Diran), dress designer. He grew up in Clontarf, Dublin, attending…...
Gilbert, Sir John Thomas
Gilbert, Sir John Thomas (1829–98), merchant, historian, archivist, and librarian, was born 23 January 1829 at 23 Jervis St., Dublin, second son and fifth child of John Gilbert (1791–1833), wine and cider importer and Portuguese consul, and Mary Anne Gilbert (née Costello), both…...
Gill, Michael Henry
Gill, Michael Henry (1794?–1879), printer, was born c.1794, son of Henry Gill (d. 1797?) and his wife Catherine (née O'Neill). Henry, whose family probably originated in King's Co., was a woollen draper in Skinners’ Row, Dublin, and in the early 1790s was a member of the…...
Gill, Michael Joseph
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Gill, William Joseph
Gill, William Joseph (1908–81), amateur golfer and businessman, was born 10 May 1908 at 61 Mountjoy Square, Dublin, first child of Richard A. Gill, publisher, and Alice Gill (née Scallan). His great-grandfather was Michael Henry Gill…...
Gilmartin, Tom
Gilmartin, Tom (1935–2013), businessman and tribunal witness, was born on 11 March 1935 in Lislary, a coastland near the village of Grange, Co. Sligo, the eldest son of two sons and five daughters of James Gilmartin, a farmer of Lislary, and his wife Kathleen (née McDermott). His father…...
Gleeson, William Joseph (‘Bill’)
Gleeson, William Joseph (‘Bill’) (1901–82), businessman, was born 24 July 1901 in Caropaden, Dunmore, Co. Galway. The distinguished Galway GAA family, the Mahons, were cousins of the Gleesons. He received his primary education at…...