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…...
Flood, Peter
Flood, Peter (c.1742–1803), priest and president of Maynooth College, was born in Co. Longford; there are no details of his early life. He went to France, where he studied for the priesthood. After ordination, he entered the Irish Collège des Lombards, Paris, in 1772,…...
Foster, Alexander Roulston ('Alec')
Foster, Alexander Roulston ('Alec') (1890–1972), rugby international, schoolmaster and political activist, was born on 22 June 1890 in Derry city, the younger son among two sons and four daughters of John Foster and his wife Christina ('Chrissie') (née Roulston(e)). John Foster was…...
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…...
Freyne, Seán
Freyne, Seán (1935–2013), theologian, was born on 23 April 1935 in Kilkelly, Co. Mayo, to John Vincent Frain, a warehouse manager and one-time IRA captain, and Lucy Ellen (née Flaherty), a primary school teacher. He had one older sister, Mary. Following his father's death in 1940 when…...
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…...
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, Henry Thomas (Harry)
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Gallagher, Hugh Patrick
Gallagher, Hugh Patrick (1815–82), educator and priest in the USA, was born 26 March 1815 at Killygordon, Co. Donegal, eldest of at least two sons of a Roman Catholic farmer; nothing else is known of his family. Educated locally, he studied theology and philosophy and in 1837…...
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, Michael Paul
Gallagher, Michael Paul (1939–2015), Jesuit theologian, writer and lecturer, was born 26 August 1939 at 15 Hatch Street, Dublin, the only child of Andrew Gallagher and his wife Christine (née O’Brien), both doctors. He grew up in Collooney, Co. Sligo, and attended Camphill National…...
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…...
Gargan, Denis
Gargan, Denis (1819–1903), catholic priest and president of Maynooth College, was born in June 1819 at Cromwell's Bush, Duleek, Co. Meath, the second son of Patrick Gargan, who seems to have farmed there, and his wife, Jane (née Branagan). Having been taught at home by a tutor,…...
Gately, Stephen Patrick
Gately, Stephen Patrick (1976–2009), pop singer and entertainer, was born 17 March 1976 at the Rotunda hospital, Dublin, third son and fourth child among four sons and one daughter of Martin Francis Gately, house painter and decorator, and Margaret Gately (née Martin), homemaker and…...
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…...