Walsh, Sr Patricia (1942–2015), missionary nurse, was born Anna Maria Catherine Walsh on 23 September 1942 in Portlick, Glasson, Co. Westmeath, the eldest of three girls and a boy, to Michael Walsh, a fisherman, and his wife Bridget (née Nolan). Having attended Glasson primary school (…...
White, Henrietta Margaret
(1856–1936), principal of Alexandra College, Dublin, horticulturist, and social activist, was eldest child among three daughters and one son of Henry Charles White (1818–1903), of Charleville, Queen's Co. (Laois), JP…...
Young, Mary ('Jenny Diver') (c.1704–41), notorious pickpocket and
head of a criminal gang, was born c.1704 in the north of Ireland. There are no extant records relating to Young's early life so
most accounts rely on the text published by James Guthrie, The…...