MacCarthy, (Joseph) Aidan
MacCarthy, (Joseph) Aidan (1913–95), RAF physician, was born 19 March 1913 at Castletown, Berehaven (Castletownbere), Co. Cork, one of ten children (five boys and five girls) born to Daniel Florence MacCarthy, a local publican and businessman, and Julia MacCarthy (née Murphy).…...
MacCarthy, Justin
MacCarthy, Justin (c.1643–1694), Viscount Mountcashel and Baron Castleinch , army officer, was born probably in Blarney, youngest of three sons of Donough MacCarthy (qv), Viscount Muskerry and Earl Clancarty, and his wife…...
MacDonagh, Terence
MacDonagh, Terence (1640–1713), soldier, poet, Jacobite, and lawyer, also known as ‘Turlough Óg’ or ‘Tirlough Caoch’ (one-eyed), was second son of Terence (Turlough) MacDonagh, of Creevagh, Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo, and his wife Mary, daughter of the poet…...
MacDonnell, Alasdair (Alexander) MacColla
MacDonnell, Alasdair (Alexander) MacColla (d. 1647), Gaelic lord, was the third son of Coll MacGillespie and (most probably) Mary, daughter of Ranald MacJames of Smerby: both parents were MacDonnells, but the use of fixed hereditary surnames was not normal practice in Gaelic…...
MacDonnell, Alexander
MacDonnell, Alexander (1615–99), 3rd earl of Antrim , politician and soldier, was the second son of Sir Randal MacDonnell, 1st earl of Antrim (qv), and Alice, daughter of Hugh O'…...
MacDonnell, James Joseph
MacDonnell, James Joseph (1766–c.1848), lawyer, United Irishman, and French army officer, was born 12 August 1766 at Carnacon or Carnacun, near Hollymount, Co. Mayo, the youngest of three sons of Joseph MacDonnell (1720?–1806?), a large grazier, and his wife Mary (née…...
MacDonnell, Randell
MacDonnell, Randell (c.1633–1711), naval commander and Jacobite, was second son of Sir James MacDonnell, 2nd baronet of Moye, a cousin of Randal MacDonnell (qv), 2nd earl and later marquis of Antrim. His mother was Mary…...
MacEntee, Sean (John) Francis
MacEntee, Sean (John) Francis (1889–1984), revolutionary, politician, and engineer, was born 1 January 1889 at Mill St., Belfast, eldest among seven children of James MacEntee, publican, and Mary MacEntee (née Owens), who both came from Co. Monaghan. James MacEntee owned three public…...
Mac Eoin, Seán
Mac Eoin, Seán (1893–1973), soldier and politician, was born John Joseph McKeon, 30 September 1893, at Ballinlough, Granard, Co. Longford, eldest of five sons and three daughters of Andrew McKeon, blacksmith and farmer, of Molly, Aughnacliffe, Co. Longford, and Katherine McKeon (…...
MacEoin, Uinseann Ó Rathaille
MacEoin, Uinseann Ó Rathaille (1920–2007), architect, journalist, campaigner, republican, socialist, and mountain climber, was born Vincent O'Rahilly McGuone on 4 July 1920 in Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, one of four children of Malachy McGuone, a wine and spirit merchant who owned the…...
MacKenna, John (Juan)
MacKenna, John (Juan) (1771–1814), general in the Chilean army, was born 26 October 1771 at Clogher, Co. Tyrone, the son of William MacKenna of Willville, Aghaninimy, Co. Monaghan, and his wife Eleanor (née O'Reilly). His uncle, Count…...
Macken, Peter Paul (Peadar)
Macken, Peter Paul (Peadar) (1878–1916), trade unionist and revolutionary, was born 29 June 1878 at 13 Nassau Place (latterly part of the Setanta building, Nassau Street), Dublin, youngest of three children of George Macken, house painter, and Anne Macken (née Shanahan) (d. 1901), both…...
MacMahon, Bernard
MacMahon, Bernard (c.1736–1816), priest, scientist, and translator, was born at Castlering, Co. Louth, one of two brothers. He was educated locally and studied for the secular priesthood at Antwerp, presumably at the Irish College there. His name appears on the 1771 list…...
MacMahon, Heber (Ever, Emer)
MacMahon, Heber (Ever, Emer) (1600–50), catholic bishop of Clogher, confederate politician, and military commander, was born in the barony of Farney in Co. Monaghan. His parents were probably Turlough MacMahon and Eva O'Neill. It seems that Heber's family fell on hard times and…...
MacMahon, Hugh Óg
MacMahon, Hugh Óg (d. 1644), soldier and conspirator, was the eldest legitimate son of Sir Brian MacHugh Óg MacMahon of Dartree (Dartry), Co. Monaghan, by a daughter of Hugh O'Neill (qv), 2nd earl of Tyrone. Fostered until the age of 16…...
MacMahon, Peadar
MacMahon, Peadar (1893–1975), soldier and senior civil servant, was born 10 January 1893 in Coose townland, near Ballybay, Co. Monaghan, son of James MacMahon, farmer and mill-owner, and Sarah MacMahon (née Smith). He was a contemporary of …...
MacSheehy, Bernard (Brian)
MacSheehy, Bernard (Brian) (1774–1807), officer in the French army, was born in Ireland on 2 December 1774, son of Bernard MacSheehy, also a French officer, and his wife, Honora (née Fagan). He was the fourth generation of his family (which had roots in Co. Kerry) to serve in the…...
Madgett, Nicholas
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Madgett, Nicholas
Madgett, Nicholas (d. 1813), French official and translator, was born in Co. Kerry, probably in the early 1740s. He went to France (in or before 1760), studied for the catholic priesthood at the Irish College, Toulouse (licence and doctorat, 1764), was ordained…...
Maguire, Cúchonnacht Mór
Maguire, Cúchonnacht Mór (c.1650–91), Jacobite landowner and soldier, was the only son of Hugh Maguire of Tempo, Co. Fermanagh (an officer of the Irish confederate army who was killed at the battle of Glenswilly in the year of Cúchonnacht's birth) and his wife (née O'…...
Maguire, Hugh
Maguire, Hugh (c.1710–66), soldier, was third (or third surviving) son of Brian Maguire (d. 1712) of Tempo, Co. Fermanagh, and his wife Bridget, daughter and co-heiress of James Nugent of Coolamber, Co. Longford. As a younger son, Maguire had to make his way in the…...
Maguire, Rory (Roger)
Maguire, Rory (Roger) (1619–48), Irish rebel, was the second son of Brian Roe, Lord Maguire of Enniskillen, and Rose, daughter of Art mac Baron O'Neill. The Maguires had supported the government during the Nine Years War (1594–1603) and had been rewarded with land in the Ulster…...
Maguire, Thomas
Maguire, Thomas (1831–89), classicist and unionist, was born 24 January 1831 in Dublin, son of Thomas Maguire, a catholic businessman. He had two sisters, Eliza and Mary. Their father became a colonial magistrate in Mauritius, where Thomas junior, after education in Dublin, lived…...
Mahon, Sir Bryan Thomas
Mahon, Sir Bryan Thomas (1862–1930), general, was born 2 April 1862 in Belleville, Co. Galway, son of Henry Blake Mahon, landowner, and his wife Matilda, daughter of Col. Thomas Seymour, of Ballymore Castle, Co. Galway. Educated locally, he joined the 4th (Militia) Battalion of…...
Malley, James Young (‘Jim’)
Malley, James Young (‘Jim’) (1918–2000), civil servant and airman, was born 24 July 1918 near Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone, one of four sons and one daughter of Francis William Malley, a local farmer and merchant, and his wife Ruby Elizabeth (née Young). The family was methodist. He…...