Sall, Andrew Fitzjohn
Sall, Andrew Fitzjohn (1624–82), scholar and sometime Jesuit, was born into an Old English family in the city of Cashel, Co. Tipperary; nothing is known of his parents. More than five Jesuits bore the name Sall (Sál, Sale). With such a background it is not surprising to find the young…...
Sayers, Robert McMaster
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Scanlan, Thomas
Scanlan, Thomas (1872–1930), MP, journalist, lawyer, and magistrate, was born 21 May 1872 at Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo, the second son of Matthew Scanlan, farmer, and his wife Catherine. After his education at Summerhill College, Sligo, he moved to Glasgow, where he worked for a time…...
Sears, David
Sears, David (1899–51), newspaper proprietor, journalist, playwright, was born 24 May 1899 in the family home at Parnell Street, Wexford town, son of William Sears (qv), proprietor of the Enniscorthy Echo, and his wife, Gretta (née…...
Sexton, Thomas
Sexton, Thomas (1847–1932), politician, was born in Waterford city, eldest son and second among six children of John Sexton, constable in the RIC, and Mary Sexton (née Phelan). Educated by the Christian Brothers at Mount Sion school,…...
Sheehan, Daniel Desmond (‘D. D.’)
Sheehan, Daniel Desmond (‘D. D.’) (1873–1948), journalist, labour leader, MP, barrister, and soldier, was born 28 May 1873 at Dromtariffe, Kanturk, Co. Cork, the eldest of the three sons and one daughter of Daniel Sheehan, tenant farmer, and his wife, Ellen (née Fitzgerald). He…...
Sheehan, John
Sheehan, John (1809–82), journalist, was born in Celbridge, Co. Kildare, the only son of Thomas Sheehan, a prosperous farmer, and Alicia Sheehan (née Dunn). John was educated at Clongowes Wood College, where he was tutored by…...
Sheehan, Remigius (Remy)
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Sheehan, Thomas
Sheehan, Thomas (c.1790–1881), newspaper owner, was born probably in Cork city, younger son of Thomas Sheehan, nursery and seed gardener of Grand Parade, Cork, and his wife, Ann (née White). He was educated in Cork but nothing else is known of his early life. In 1824 he was…...
Sheridan, John Desmond
Sheridan, John Desmond (1903–80), journalist and writer, was born 7 July 1903 at 29 Park Road, Glasgow, the eldest of nine children of Thomas Sheridan, a spirit merchant, and Ellen-Maria Sheridan (née Deeney); both parents were from Rathmullen, Co. Donegal. They returned to Ireland soon…...
Sherlock, Thomas
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Smyth, Patrick James
Smyth, Patrick James (1823–85), Young Irelander, journalist, and MP, was born at Mount Brown, Kilmainham, Dublin, the son of James Smyth originally of Co. Cavan, proprietor of a tanning business, and his wife Ann (née Bruton) of Portaine, Co. Meath. In 1839 he entered Clongowes…...
Snow, Carmel
Snow, Carmel (1887–1961), magazine editor, was born on 27 August 1887 in Dalkey, Co. Dublin, one of six children to Peter White (1850–93), businessman, and his wife Anne (née Mayne), daughter of Thomas Mayne, an MP for the Irish Home Rule Party from 1883–90. Snow’s father was managing…...
South (Sabhat), Seán
South (Sabhat), Seán (1928–57), republican, journalist and Irish-language activist, was born 8 February 1928 at 47 Henry St., Limerick, one of three sons of John South, grocer, and Mary South (née O'Donovan). His father died when he was 13. Educated locally by the Christian…...
Stanihurst, Richard
Stanihurst, Richard (1547–1618), scholar and diplomat, was born in Dublin, eldest among three sons and two daughters of James Stanihurst (qv) (or Stanyhurst), lawyer and politician, and Anne Stanihurst (née Fitzsimon), both of the…...
Starkie, William Joseph Myles
Starkie, William Joseph Myles (1860–1920), classical scholar, last resident commissioner of education under British rule in Ireland, and privy councillor, was born 10 December 1860 at Elsinore Lodge, Rosses Point, Co. Sligo, the fifth son (baptised a catholic, in contrast to his older…...
Sullivan, Alexander Martin
Sullivan, Alexander Martin (1830–84), nationalist, journalist, and politician, was born 15 May 1830 at Bantry, Co. Cork, the second of seven children of Daniel Sullivan, house painter, and his wife, Catherine (née Baylor), a teacher. As a teenager he led a lively group of young…...
Sweetman, William Nicholas (‘Bill’)
Sweetman, William Nicholas (‘Bill’) (1903–99), journalist and judge, was born 6 December 1903 at 47 Merrion Square, Dublin, one of six children of John Sweetman (qv), of private means, and Agnes Sweetman (née Hanly). The family were…...
Tansey, Paul Joseph Anthony
Tansey, Paul Joseph Anthony (1949–2008), economist and journalist, was born 17 August 1949 in the Leinster private nursing home, Pembroke Street, Dublin, eldest child of John Joseph Tansey, of 8 North Earl Street, who was owner of the Wolfe Tone Café at that address, and had served in…...
Thornley, David Andrew Taylor
Thornley, David Andrew Taylor (1935–78), academic, broadcaster, and politician, was born 31 July 1935 in Sutton, Surrey, youngest child among two sons and one daughter of Frederick Edward Thornley (d. 1953) and Maud Helen Thornley (née Browne). His parents, both civil servants,…...
Tighe, Joan
Tighe, Joan (1922–2014), journalist, editor and historian, was born on 28 June 1922 in Dublin, the second eldest of six children of Robert Tighe and his wife Catherine Angela (née Moloney). Robert Tighe served as a British army lieutenant during the first world war and was later…...
Tullio, Paolo Luigi Mario
Tullio, Paolo Luigi Mario (1949–2015), restaurant owner, writer and food critic, was born on 20 August 1949 in Falkirk, Scotland, the only child of Dionisio Tullio, a restaurant owner and his wife Irene (née Fusco). Although Tullio’s parents were Italian, his mother was raised between…...
Wadding, Luke
Wadding, Luke (1588–1657), Franciscan priest, scholar, and churchman, was born 16 October 1588 at Waterford and baptised on 18 October, the son of Walter Wadding, a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Anastasia (née Lombard), a relative of Peter…...
Walker, Dorothy
Walker, Dorothy (1929–2002), writer and critic, was born 16 January 1929 at 3 Mountjoy Square, Dublin, the daughter of Walter Cole, a stallholder at the city of Dublin fruit and vegetable market, and his wife, Moira. Following her education at the Dominican convent in Wicklow (1937–46)…...
Wall, Mervyn Eugene Welply
Wall, Mervyn Eugene Welply (1908–97), novelist, playwright, broadcaster, and civil servant, was born 23 August 1908 at 27 Palmerston Rd, Dublin, the third eldest of three sons and one daughter of Thomas Patrick Wall, barrister, and Beatrice Agnes Wall (née Morrissey), both of Co.…...