Clancy, James
Clancy, James (1846?–1911), Fenian and journalist, was born in Waterford city, but reared and educated in London, where at the age of 12 he met Joseph I. C. Clarke (qv), who became a lifelong friend; nothing further is…...
Clancy, John Joseph
Clancy, John Joseph (1847–1928), journalist, politician, and barrister, was born 15 July 1847, the eldest son of William Clancy (1809?–1874), a farmer of Carragh Lodge, Claregalway, Co. Galway, and his wife Mary (née Burke). He was educated at Summerhill College, Athlone, and at…...
Clandillon, Seamus (‘Clan’)
Clandillon, Seamus (‘Clan’) (1878–1944), musician, civil servant, and first director of radio broadcasting at 2RN, was born 6 June 1878 near Gort, Co. Galway, son of William A. Clandillon, national…...
Clanny, William Reid
Clanny, William Reid (1776–1850), doctor and inventor of a safety lamp, was born in 1776 at Bangor, Co. Down, of a presbyterian family. He joined the Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon and was present at the battle of Copenhagen (1801); on leaving the navy, he completed his training…...
Clare, Anthony Ward
Clare, Anthony Ward (1942–2007), psychiatrist and media personality, was born 24 December 1942 in Dublin, the youngest of three children (two girls and a boy) of Bernard Clare, state solicitor with the land registry, and his wife Agnes (née Dunne). Clare recalled his father as a gentle…...
Clarendon, Frederick Villiers
Clarendon, Frederick Villiers (c.1820–1904), architect and civil engineer, was born in Dublin, one of several sons of Thomas Clarendon (fl. 1800–20), linen draper, of Westmoreland St., and estate developer. Nothing is known of his mother. He entered…...
Clarke, Joseph
Clarke, Joseph (1758–1834), physician, was born 8 April 1758 at Tamnadoey in the parish of Desertlin, Co. Londonderry, second son of James Clarke, well-to-do farmer; his mother may have been a Maconchy. He attended local schools and was taught Latin by a clergyman; his mother's…...
Clarke, Joseph Ignatius Constantine
Clarke, Joseph Ignatius Constantine (1846–1925), Fenian, journalist, and author, was born 31 July 1846 in Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, son of William Clarke, barrister, and Ellen Clarke (née Quinn). He received his early education at Mountrath monastery, Queen's Co. (…...
Cleary, Michael
Cleary, Michael (1933–93), priest and publicist, was born 23 November 1933 at 34 Lower Sheriff St., Dublin, the only son among five children of Daniel Cleary, publican, originally from Co. Tipperary, and Nellie Cleary (née Lavin), from Co. Roscommon. In his youth the family moved…...
Cleeve, Brian Talbot
Cleeve, Brian Talbot (1921–2003), writer and broadcaster, was born 22 November 1921 in Thorpe Bay, Essex, England, second of three sons of Charles Edward Cleeve (1891–1966), businessman, and the first of his four wives, Josephine (née Talbot) (d. 1924), daughter of an Essex estate…...
Cleghorn, George
Cleghorn, George (1716–89), doctor, was born 18 December 1716 at Granton, near Edinburgh, Scotland, youngest of five children; his father (possibly also named George), a farmer, died when Cleghorn was three years old. He attended Cramond Grammar School and went to Edinburgh…...
Clements, Nathaniel
Clements, Nathaniel (1705–77), treasury official, property developer, architect, and MP, was third of four surviving sons of Robert Clements (1664–1722), landowner, of Rathkenny, Co. Cavan, and Abbotstown, Co. Dublin, and his wife Elizabeth (d. 1742), daughter of…...
Clerke, Ellen Mary
Clerke, Ellen Mary (1840–1906), journalist and writer, was born 26 September 1840 in Skibbereen, Co. Cork, elder daughter among three children of John William Clerke (1814–90), manager of the Provincial Bank, and his wife Catherine Mary, sister of lawyer…...
Clery, Anthony Burton
Clery, Anthony Burton (1899–1979), surgeon, was born 28 January 1899 in Reendesert, Co. Cork, youngest of four sons and one daughter of Patrick Francis Clery (d. c.1909), bank official, from Limerick, and Gertrude Clery (née Dolan) of Co. Cavan. He was educated (1912–15) at…...
Clossy, Samuel
Clossy, Samuel (c. 1724–1786), pioneering anatomist, was born in Dublin, son of Bartholomew Clossy, a prosperous city merchant, and Anne Ogle. After early schooling in Cashel, Co. Tipperary, he entered TCD (1739) under the…...
Coakley, Daniel John
Coakley, Daniel John (1872–1951), accountant, teacher, and town planner, was born 29 September 1872 at Donoughmore, Co. Cork, one of five sons and two daughters of John Coakley, farmer, and Mary Coakley (née Hegarty). A railway audit accountant, he was one of five candidates…...
Cobbe, Frances Power
Cobbe, Frances Power (1822–1904), feminist, journalist, anti-vivisectionist, and philanthropist, was born 4 December 1822 in Dublin, the fifth child and only daughter of Charles Cobbe (1781–1857), a landlord and magistrate of Newbridge House, Co. Dublin, and Frances Cobbe (née…...
Cobden, Thomas Alfred
Cobden, Thomas Alfred (fl. 1814–42), architect, was born in England; his family background and early life are unknown. In 1814 and 1815 he produced drawings for Gurteen le Poer house, Kilsheelan, Co. Waterford, and he exhibited designs for buildings in Ireland at the Royal…...
Cochrane, Robert
Cochrane, Robert (1844–1916), engineer, architect, and antiquarian, was born 21 July 1844 in Co. Down, eldest son of Hugh W. Cochrane, of an ancient Scottish-Danish family that came to Ireland in the seventeenth century. He graduated in engineering from…...
Code, Henry Brereton
Code, Henry Brereton (c.1770–1838), journalist, dramatist, and government agent (whose real name appears to have been Cody), was educated in a seminary. He began his career as a retailer of hose at Skinner Row, Dublin (1793). After the failure of this business and other…...
Coffey, Victoria
Coffey, Victoria (1911–99), one of the first female paediatricians in Ireland, was born 16 September 1911 at 108 Brunswick Street, Dublin, the daughter of John Coffey, a weigh-master, and Ellie Coffey (née McCall). Her paternal grandfather, William Coffey, had been lord mayor of Dublin…...
Colahan, Arthur Nicholas Whistler
Colahan, Arthur Nicholas Whistler (1885–1952), medical doctor and songwriter, was born in Galway city, eldest son of Nicholas Whistler Colahan (d. 1930), professor of materia medica at QCG, and grandson of Nicholas Colahan (president of…...
Cole, John Morrison
Cole, John Morrison (1927–2013), journalist and broadcaster, was born into a working-class presbyterian family on 23 November 1927 in Whitewell Road, Belfast, the son of George Cole, a small electrical contractor of Whitewell Road, and his wife Alice (née Morrison). Growing up in…...
Colleary, (James) Gordon
Colleary, (James) Gordon (1941–2014), travel entrepreneur and newspaper publisher, was born on 7 March 1941 in Tuam, Co. Galway, the eldest of five children of Gerald Francis Calleary, headmaster of Tuam Vocational School, and his wife Josephine Margaret Calleary (née Gordon). (The…...
Colles, Abraham
Colles, Abraham (1773–1843), surgeon, was born 23 July 1773 at Millmount, Co. Kilkenny, second son among three sons and one daughter of William Colles, owner of Kilkenny marble quarries, and Mary Anne Colles (née Bates). Educated at Kilkenny College, he entered…...