Teeling, Luke
Teeling, Luke (d. 1823), linen merchant and catholic politician, was an elder son in the large family of Bartholomew Teeling of Matt, Co. Louth, and his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Patrick Grace. Luke Teeling is known from a contemporary letter to have had at least five…...
Teevan, Thomas
Teevan, Thomas (1902–76), attorney general and high court judge, was born 29 November 1902 in Bawnboy, Co. Cavan, son of Francis Teevan, medical doctor, of Cavan, and Anne Teresa Teevan (née O'Brien). He was educated at Currin national school, Cavan, Dundalk…...
Therry, Roger
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Thornton, Frank
Thornton, Frank (1891–1965), revolutionary and company director, was born 12 April 1891 in Peter Street, eldest of three sons and five daughters of Hugh Thornton, housepainter, and his wife Mary (née Harte), both of Drogheda, Co. Louth. He was educated at St Joseph's…...
Tobin, Liam
Tobin, Liam (1895–1963), republican, soldier, businessman, and civil servant, was born 15 November 1895 at 13 North Great George's St., Cork, son of David Tobin of Clolefin (Cloughleafin, near Mitchelstown, north Co. Cork), furniture salesman at Clery's department store, Dublin, and…...
Toland, John
Toland, John (1670–1722), freethinker and polemical writer, was probably born in Inishowen, Co. Donegal, on 30 November 1670. Reputed to be the illegitimate son of a catholic priest, Toland may have been baptised ‘Joannes Eugenius’, which he later altered to a pen name, ‘Janus Junius’.…...
Traynor, James Desmond (‘Des’)
Traynor, James Desmond (‘Des’) (1931–94), accountant, banker, and financier, was born 3 June 1931, son of John Joseph Traynor of 39 Grand Canal St. Dublin, motor driver, and Kathleen Traynor (née O'Connor). Educated at the CBS,…...
Tunney, Hugh Thomas
Tunney, Hugh Thomas (1927–2011), businessman, was born on 15 December 1927 in Trillick, Co. Tyrone, the eldest of ten children of James Tunney, a cattle dealer of Trillick, and his wife Mary Anne (née Gallagher). Born into a line of butchers and cattle dealers, he had a troubled…...
Turner, William
Turner, William (1871–1936), catholic bishop and professor of philosophy in the USA, was born 8 April 1871 in Ardkilmartin, near Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, in a farming family, son of Patrick Turner and Bridget Turner (née Carey). He was one of five sons and five daughters; three…...
Tynan, Thomas
Tynan, Thomas (1871–1953), merchant, farmer, greyhound breeder, and politician, was born 17 March 1871 in Jamestown, Ballybrittas, Queen's Co. (Laois), son of Thomas Tynan, farmer, and Mary Tynan (née Connell). Educated locally, in early manhood he entered business as publican and…...
Upington, Sir Thomas
Upington, Sir Thomas (c.1844–98), lawyer and statesman in South Africa, was born at Lisleigh House, Co. Cork, the only son of Samuel Upington, catholic merchant, and Mary Ellen Upington (née Tarrant). Educated at Cloyne diocesan college, Mallow, Co. Cork, he entered…...
Usher, James
Usher, James (c.1720–1772), philosopher and schoolmaster, was born in Co. Dublin, son of a gentleman farmer; nothing else is known of his parents. He was probably a descendant of James (qv) and…...
Waldron, Laurence Ambrose
Waldron, Laurence Ambrose (1858–1923), stockbroker, patron of the arts, and MP, was born on 14 November 1858 at Ballybrack, Co. Dublin, fourth son of Laurence Waldron (1811–75), JP, DL, and MP for Co.…...
Walls, Arthur J.
Walls, Arthur J. (1926–2000), company director, was born 25 May 1926 in Dublin, second child among four sons and one daughter of Arthur Walls, civil servant with the revenue commissioners, and Marie Walls (née Murray). He was educated at O'Connell Schools, Dublin, and graduated…...
Walsh, Brian Cathal Patrick
Walsh, Brian Cathal Patrick (1918–98), judge of the supreme court and of the European Court of Human Rights, was born 23 March 1918 at 4 Great Denmark Street, Dublin, the eldest in a family of three sons of Patrick Walsh, civil servant, and Elsie Walsh (née O'Brien), who died in 1930…...
Walsh, Joseph (‘Joe’)
Walsh, Joseph (‘Joe’) (1931–95), travel agent and tour operator, was born in Bangor, Co. Down, and educated at St Patrick's College, Armagh. On leaving school he worked for the Ulster Transport Authority and later moved to London, where he worked for the travel agency firm Thomas…...
Walsh, Louis Joseph
Walsh, Louis Joseph (1880–1942), author and district justice, was born in Maghera, Co. Londonderry, son of Louie Walsh, owner of a local hotel, and Elizabeth Walsh (née Donnelly) of Maghera. Educated at St Columb's College, Derry, he went to Dublin to study law at…...
Walsh, Sir John
Walsh, Sir John (c.1613–c.1670), lawyer and politician, was eldest son of David Walsh of Rathronan, Co. Tipperary; nothing is known about his mother. A leading merchant in Waterford city, John also held lands in Tipperary and Kilkenny from…...
Walsh, Sir Nicholas
Walsh, Sir Nicholas (d. 1615), government official and judge, may have been a son of James Walsh, who was mayor of Waterford in 1547. He appears to have been a favourite of Thomas Butler (qv), earl of Ormond. Little is known of his…...
Whelan, Michael
Whelan, Michael (1932–2007), businessman, was born on 1 May 1932 in Beaumont nursing home, Co. Galway, the eldest son of Michael Whelan of Bridge Street, Athenry, Co. Galway, and his wife Mary (née Hynes). His father was a wealthy footwear merchant, and Whelan boarded in Castleknock…...
White, (Herbert) Terence de Vere
White, (Herbert) Terence de Vere (1912–94), solicitor and writer, was born 29 April 1912 in Dublin, where his family lived at 61 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook. His father, Frederick Sutton Darley de Vere White, LLD, was then a junior solicitor…...
Williams, (Daniel) Edmund
Williams, (Daniel) Edmund (1928–2007), businessman, was born in Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, on 3 April 1928, the youngest son among three sons and two daughters of John ('Jack') Williams of Tullamore, Co. Offaly, and his wife Sheila ('Julia') (née Moorhead). The Williamses…...
Wisdom, John Oulton (J. O.)
Wisdom, John Oulton (J. O.) (1908–93), philosopher and psychoanalyst, was born in Dublin on 29 December 1908, only child of Thomas Hume Wisdom, brewery clerk, and his English-born wife Jane, daughter of Dr Henry Oulton of St Stephen's Green. The Cambridge language philosopher Arthur…...
Woulfe, Stephen
Woulfe, Stephen (1787–1840), judge, MP, and first catholic baron of the Irish exchequer, was born at Chaude Fontaine, near Liège (then in the Holy Roman Empire, later in Belgium), second son of Stephen Woulfe, landowner, of Tiermaclane, Ennis, Co. Clare, and his wife Honora,…...
Wynne, Thomas Joseph
Wynne, Thomas Joseph (1838–93), photographer and shopkeeper, was born probably in the United States, where it is believed he grew up. His mother was third daughter of Richard MacEvilly, postmaster at Ballyglass, Claremorris, Co. Mayo; the identity of his father is not known. In…...