Crowley, Michael
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Crowley, Niall
Crowley, Niall (1926–98), businessman, was born in Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, on 18 September 1926, the eldest son of Vincent Crowley (qv), accountant, of Donnybrook, Dublin, and his wife Eileen (née Gunning). After an education in…...
Crowley, Vincent
Crowley, Vincent (1890–1965), businessman, was born 12 May 1890 in Farnham Street, Cavan town, the youngest of three sons of Patrick Crowley, a teacher hailing from Ballymore, Co. Cork, and his wife Bridget (née Halpin), who was from Co. Armagh. His father taught English at St Patrick…...
Cuffe, Charles Richard
Cuffe, Charles Richard (1914–72), solicitor and employers’ leader, was born 5 August 1914 in Dublin, the son of Laurence Cuffe, livestock sales master, and Catherine Johanna Cuffe (née Hague), of Peafield Terrace, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. He attended St Gerard's school, Bray, Co.…...
Cunningham, Timothy
Cunningham, Timothy (d. 1789), legal writer and antiquary, was of Irish birth. It is possible that records refer to two or even three men of the same name, all members of the legal profession and more or less contemporary, and perhaps related; if so, their careers are…...
Curran, Constantine Peter (‘Con’)
Curran, Constantine Peter (‘Con’) (1883–1972), lawyer and writer, was born 30 January 1883 in Dublin, younger of two children of Patrick Curran (d. 1924), head of the General Post Office (GPO) telegraph division, of Dublin, and Mary Elizabeth Curran (née McGahan), daughter of a Monaghan…...
Curwin (Curwen, Coren), Hugh
Curwin (Curwen, Coren), Hugh (c.1507–1568), catholic and Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin, was born in High Knipe, in the parish of Bampton, Westmorland. He attended Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating Bachelor of Civil Law in 1528 and Doctor of Civil Law on 5 July 1532…...
Cusack, James
Cusack, James (c.1590–c.1659), lawyer and politician, was third son of Edward Cusack and Elizabeth Aylmer, both of whom belonged to prominent Old English catholic families of the Pale. The Cusacks had a distinguished history of governmental service, and James…...
Dalton, James
Dalton, James (1834–1919), Irish-Australian merchant and pastoralist, was born 24 May 1834 at Duntryleague, Co. Limerick, third child of James Dalton, farmer, and his first wife Ellen (née Ryan). While Ellen was pregnant with James, his father assisted in the failed kidnapping of a…...
Daly, Denis
Daly, Denis (c.1638–1721), judge, was the first son of James Daly of Carrownakelly, Co. Galway, and his wife, Anastase Darcy, granddaughter of James Riveagh Darcy, vice-president of Connacht in the late sixteenth century. While the details of his early life are obscure, it is…...
Darcy, Patrick
Darcy, Patrick (1598–1668), lawyer, was seventh son of Sir James Darcy, mayor of Galway at the time of his death (1603), and his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Martin, also of Galway. He entered the Middle Temple in 1617 and five years later commenced practice in…...
Dargan, Michael James
Dargan, Michael James (1918–2005), Aer Lingus chief executive and businessman, was born at Ballivor, Co. Meath, on 14 September 1918, the eldest son among seven children of Peter Dargan, farmer and butcher, and his wife Gretta (née O'Conor), a national school teacher. He was educated at…...
Darragh, Austin
Darragh, Austin (1927–2015), doctor and businessman, was born in the family home in Heytesbury Street, Dublin, on 27 April 1927, the sixth of nine children of Alexander Darragh, a mathematics teacher, and his wife Frances (née McDonnell). He grew up in Terenure, Dublin, and spent his…...
Davin, Tom
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Davitt, Cahir
Davitt, Cahir (1894–1986), judge, was born 15 August 1894 in Co. Dublin, second son and fourth child among six children of Michael Davitt (qv) of Straide, Co. Mayo, and Mary Davitt (née Yore) of Michigan, USA. The family lived in the…...
Davy, Eugene O'Donnell
Davy, Eugene O'Donnell (1904–96), rugby player and stockbroker, was born 26 July 1904 in Dublin, the eighth of nine surviving children of Thomas Davy (d. 1923), a Dublin publican, originally from Newtown, Ballymurreen, Co. Tipperary, and Alice Davy (née O'Donnell; d. 1955) of Annameedle…...
Davy, James Joseph
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Dawson, Charles
Dawson, Charles (1842–1917), businessman, MP and civic reformer, was born in Limerick city, son of Michael Dawson, baker and long-serving Limerick alderman, and his wife Maryanne (née Clarke), also of Limerick. Dawson's father appears to have been responsible for the foundation of the…...
Deale, Kenneth Edwin Lee
Deale, Kenneth Edwin Lee (1907–74), barrister, judge, and author, was born 17 January 1907, third son of four children of Edwin Lee Deale (d. 1948), stationer and merchant, of 11 Effra Road, Rathmines, Dublin, and Mary (‘Minnie Hill’) Deale (née Martin; d. 1939) of Co. Kerry. The…...
Deane, Anne (Duff)
Deane, Anne (Duff) (c.1834–1905), businesswoman, philanthropist, and nationalist, was born at Ballaghadereen, Co. Roscommon, the daughter of Joseph Duff and Monica Duff (née Dillon), a younger sister of the Young Irelander, …...
Delahunt, Katherine
Delahunt, Katherine Mary (‘Kay’, ‘Katryn’) (1956–2015), first female solicitor appointed to the Circuit Court, was born on 28 April 1956, the third of four girls and a boy, to Thomas (Tom) A. Delahunt, director of the Wicklow-based home décor firm S. V. Delahunt & Co, and his wife…...
Dermott, Anthony
Dermott, Anthony (1708?–1784), merchant and catholic activist, was born probably in the parish of St Michan, Dublin, son of Christopher Dermott, merchant, and his wife Mary. No information on his education has been discovered. With the death of his father (1727), Dermott had at an…...
Devereux, John Corish
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Devereux, John Thomas
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Devereux, Nicholas
Devereux, Nicholas (1791–1855), merchant, banker, and philanthropist, was born 7 June 1791 in The Leap near Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, youngest child of Thomas Devereux and Catherine Devereux (née Corish). Family tradition claims that the Norman Devereux family was descended from…...