Green, William Spotswood
Green, William Spotswood (1847–1919), marine scientist, was born 10 September 1847 in Youghal, Co. Cork, the only son and eldest of six children of Charles Green, JP, merchant of Youghal, and his wife Catherine Frances, daughter of Walter…...
Gregory, (William) Robert
Gregory, (William) Robert (1881–1918), painter, theatre designer, sportsman, and airman, was born 20 May 1881 in London, only child of Sir William Gregory (qv) of Coole Park, Co. Galway, and his second wife, Isabella Augusta…...
Grogan, Nathaniel
Grogan, Nathaniel (c.1740–1807), painter, was born in Cork, son of a woodturner and blockmaker; nothing else is known of his parents. Though apprenticed to his father, he began to show some aptitude for drawing using chalks, the only materials available to him. He received…...
Halpin, George
Halpin, George (1774×1779–1854), civil engineer and lighthouse designer, was probably born in Leinster. Little is known of his life before his appointment (1800) by the ballast board (Dublin's port authority, which replaced the ballast office in 1786) as its engineer or inspector of…...
Halpin, Robert Charles
Halpin, Robert Charles (1836–94), sea captain, was born 16 February 1836 at Wicklow town, the youngest of thirteen children of James Halpin, tavern owner, and his wife, Anne Halpin (née Halbert). Educated locally at Leitrim Place, he left school at the age of eleven, with the…...
Hamilton, Gustavus
Hamilton, Gustavus (c.1739–1775), miniaturist, was one of the younger children of the Rev. Gustavus Hamilton, vicar of Errigal in the diocese of Clogher, rector of Gallen, Co. Meath, and formerly curate in Enniskillen in 1721–2, when he married his wife Jane (née Cathcart…...
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas (1740–1808), portrait- and subject-painter, was son of a Dublin wig-maker. He entered the Dublin Society School of Drawing about 1750 and was a pupil there for some eight years, studying under Robert West (qv) and…...
Hanger, George
Hanger, George (1751–1824), army officer, author, and eccentric, was born 13 October 1751 in Co. Londonderry, third son of Gabriel Hanger, 1st Lord Coleraine, MP and merchant, and Elizabeth Hanger (née Bond) of Cowbury, Hereford, England. Educated at Reading School and Eton, he…...
Havel, Miroslav ('Paddy')
Havel, Miroslav ('Paddy') (1922–2008), glass designer and craftsman, was born in Držkov, Czechoslovakia, on 26 May 1922, the only child of Frantisek Havel, costume jewellery manufacturer of Držkov, and his wife Anna (née Klubelova). He had a prosperous, somewhat sheltered, upbringing in…...
Haverty, Joseph
Haverty, Joseph (1794–1864), portrait and subject painter, was born in Galway. Nothing is known of his early life and artistic training. In 1814 he submitted a painting from Galway to the Hibernian Society of Artists exhibition in Dublin, and by the following year he had taken up…...
Hayes, (Francis) Mahon (Joseph)
Hayes, (Francis) Mahon (Joseph) (1930–2011), lawyer and diplomat, was born on 2 March 1930 at Verdun, Wellington Road, Cork, the second of three sons of Francis Mahon Hayes (d. 1968), official with the Munster and Leinster Bank, and his wife Aileen (née Walsh). The family moved with…...
Hayes, Michael Angelo
Hayes, Michael Angelo (1820–77), painter, was born 25 July 1820 in Waterford, son of Edward Hayes (1797–1864), originally of Tipperary, a painter of fashionable portraits and landscapes; his mother's name is not known. He received his artistic training from his father, and began to…...
Healy (Hayley), Robert
Healy (Hayley), Robert (d. 1771), artist, was born in Dublin. His family background is obscure but it would appear from one contemporary reference that his father was an architect and decorator with a particular flair for designing garden buildings and theatres. Robert Healy…...
Healy, Michael Joseph
Healy, Michael Joseph (1873–1941), stained-glass artist, was born 14 November 1873 at 40 Bishop St., Dublin, one of three sons of Andrew Healy, labourer, and Mary Healy (née Farrell), daughter of a cattle dealer from Carlow. Born into a relatively poor household, Healy was drawing…...
Henderson, John
Henderson, John (1757–88), eccentric scholar, was born 27 March 1757 in Co. Limerick (sources say at Ballygarran or Ballegarance, which may be the townland of Ballycarrane), the only son of Richard Henderson, Wesleyan lay preacher, and his first or second wife, whose name may have been…...
Henderson, Oscar
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Hennessy, Patrick
Hennessy, Patrick (1915–80), painter, was born 28 August 1915 in Cork city, son of John Hennessy, army officer, of 2 Shandon Terrace, Cork, and Bridget Hennessy (née Ring). While still a young child he moved with his family to Arbroath, Scotland, where they joined other relatives.…...
Henry, Paul
Henry, Paul (1876–1958), painter, was born 11 April 1876 at 61 University Road, Belfast, third of four sons of Robert Mitchell Henry (1824–91), minister of the Reformed Presbyterian church, and his wife Kate Anne (1838–1928), eldest of four daughters of Thomas Berry, minister of the…...
Herbert, James Dowling
Herbert, James Dowling (1762/3–1837), painter, was born James Herbert Dowling in Dublin, son of James Dowling (d. 1786), ironmonger, of 53 South Great George's St., Dublin; his mother's name is not known. While involved in the theatre, he adopted ‘Herbert’ as a stage surname. He…...
Hewetson, Christopher
Hewetson, Christopher (c.1737–1798), sculptor, was the son of Christopher Hewetson, landowner, and his second wife Elizabeth (née Hewetson; she was a kinswoman of her husband) of Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. Christopher Hewetson senior was a gentleman of some social standing…...
Hickey, John
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Hickey, Patrick
Hickey, Patrick (1927–98), printmaker, painter, and architect, was born 27 April 1927 in India (in what later formed part of Pakistan), son of Lt-col. H. W. Hickey. The family subsequently returned to England, living in Bedford. He was educated at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire (1939–45…...
Hickey, Ted (Edward Vincent)
Hickey, Ted (Edward Vincent) (1940–2005), arts administrator and traditional music enthusiast, was born 4 March 1940 in Wicklow town. He was educated at the Institute for Science and Technology in Kevin Street, Dublin; the London School of Film Technique; and…...
Hickey, Thomas
Hickey, Thomas (1741–1824), artist, was born in Bachelor's Walk, Dublin, in May 1741 (probably on 13 May), the second among six sons of Noah Hickey (1689–1766), confectioner in Capel St., Dublin, and Anne Hickey; there were also two daughters. Trained at the Dublin Society's schools…...
Hill, (Arthur) Derek
Hill, (Arthur) Derek (1916–2000), artist, was born 6 December 1916 in Bassett, Southampton, youngest of the three sons of A. J. L. Hill, businessman and captain of the Hampshire county cricket team, and his wife (née Mercer). The family was prosperous; in addition to running a shipping…...