Ó Rodaighe, Tadhg ((O) Rod(d)y, Thady/ Thadeus; Roddij, Thadei; Tadhg mac Gearóid Óig)
Ó Rodaighe, Tadhg ((O) Rod(d)y, Thady/ Thadeus; Roddij, Thadei; Tadhg mac Gearóid Óig) (1614–1706), scholar, patron, and Jacobite, was a native of Achadh na Croise (Aroddy), Fenagh, Co. Leitrim. The death (2 August 1680) of his father, Gearóid, is known to us from ‘Truagh an mhaidhmsi…...
Ó Ruairc, Manus
Ó Ruairc, Manus (c.1658–1743), priest, poet, and translator, was born in Clashmore, Co. Waterford. Nothing is known of his parents or his life before he left Ireland. He was educated and ordained in Paris and lived there until 1720, one of 400 Irish priests living in…...
Ó Síocháin (Sheehan), Pádraig Augustine
Ó Síocháin (Sheehan), Pádraig Augustine (1905–95), journalist, barrister, and Irish-language activist, was born 26 May 1905 in Kanturk, Co. Cork, sixth child and fourth son among five sons and five daughters of Daniel D. Sheehan…...
Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig (‘An Seabhac’)
Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig (‘An Seabhac’) (1883–1964), teacher, writer and Irish language activist, was born 10 March 1883 in Burnham East, near Dingle, Co. Kerry, one of nine children of gamekeeper Patrick Sugrue and his wife, Ellen Cleary. Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha (1901?–1986), dramatist…...
Ó Súilleabháin, Amhlaoibh (O'Sullivan, Humphrey)
Ó Súilleabháin, Amhlaoibh (O'Sullivan, Humphrey) (1783–1838), diarist, seanchaí (storyteller), schoolteacher, and draper, was born 1 May 1783 in Glenfesk, near Killarney, Co. Kerry, probably the eldest of several children born to Donncha Ó Súilleabháin (1738–1808),…...
Ó Súilleabháin, Eoghan ‘Rua’
Ó Súilleabháin, Eoghan ‘Rua’ (c.1748–1784), poet, was born in Meentoges, some 12 km east of Killarney in the parish of Kilcummin, Co. Kerry, one of three or four sons of Parthalón Ó Súilleabháin, tenant farmer, and his wife, whose surname may have been Ní Scannail. Any account…...
Ó Súilleabháin, Seán
Ó Súilleabháin, Seán (1903–96), folklorist, was born 30 November 1903 in Derrylough in the parish of Tuosist, Co. Kerry, second youngest of six children of teachers Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin and his wife, Helena Ní Shúilleabháin. Of the six children, five became national schoolteachers. Ó…...
Ó Súilleabháin, Tadhg ‘Gaelach’
Ó Súilleabháin, Tadhg ‘Gaelach’ (O'Sullivan, Timothy) (1715?–1795), poet, was probably born in the parish of Killeedy, about 8 km south of Newcastle West, Co. Limerick. Nothing is known about his immediate family or early life, but his Irish translations of prayers in the Latin breviary…...
Ó Tuathail (O'Toole), Éamonn
Ó Tuathail (O'Toole), Éamonn (1882/3–1956), Irish-language scholar, was born in 1882/3 in Barndarrig, a townland on the border between counties Dublin and Wicklow, the son of Terence O'Toole of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow (who was a brother of the Rathvilly schoolmaster Éamonn O'Toole), and…...
Pearse, Patrick Henry
Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879–1916), writer, educationalist, and revolutionary, was born 10 November 1879 at the family home, 27 Great Brunswick Street (latterly Pearse Street) Dublin, the elder son and second of the four children of James Pearse, stone carver and monumental sculptor,…...
Pléimeann, Seán
Pléimeann, Seán (Fleming, John) (1814–97), lexicographer, scribe, and editor, was born in Ballyneil, Mothel, Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Waterford, where his father worked on the estate of the Barron family. Seán received his earliest education in the Irish language and Irish literature from…...
Plunkett, Richard (Risteard Pluincéid)
Plunkett, Richard (Risteard Pluincéid) (fl. 1662), Franciscan friar and dictionary compiler, is of obscure origins. The Plunketts were one of the most prominent Old English families of the Pale, with titles such as ‘lord of Louth’, ‘Lord Dunsany’, and ‘baron of Killeen’.…...
Power, Maura Wyse (Máire)
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Power, Richard (Dick) (de Paor, Risteard)
Power, Richard (Dick) (de Paor, Risteard) (1928–70), civil servant and writer, was born 24 February 1928 in a private nursing home at 17 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, the eldest of five sons of Patrick Joseph Power, a bank official, originally of Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford, and…...
Quin, Coslett William Charles
Quin, Coslett William Charles (1907–95), clergyman and Irish scholar, was born 27 February 1907 at Derriaghy rectory, Co. Antrim, the only son of the Rev. Charles Edward Quin (d. 1936), rector of Derriaghy, and his wife Edith, daughter of Coslett Waddell of Magheralin, Co. Down.…...
Raymond, Anthony
Raymond, Anthony (1675–1726), clergyman and Irish-language scholar, was born in Ballyloughran, near Listowel, Co. Kerry, second son of Anthony Raymond, sheriff of Kerry, and his wife Ann (née Taylor). His family moved to Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, at some stage during his youth. Little is…...
Rushe, Denis Carolan
Rushe, Denis Carolan (1852–1928), historian, antiquary and public servant, was born in Monaghan town, where his father worked as a doctor in the county infirmary. Both his parents came from the south of the county; other details of them are unknown. He attended St Louis convent, St…...
Ryan, Matthew
Ryan, Matthew (1844–1937), catholic priest, agrarian agitator, and Gaelic Leaguer, was born at Kilduff, Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick, in September 1844, a son of Matthew Ryan, a farmer and a native of Ballyluddy. He learned Latin from an itinerant teacher and was educated at St…...
Sadleir, John
Sadleir, John (1813–56), banker, politician, speculator, and swindler, was born 17 November 1813 at Shronell House in the parish of Shronell near Tipperary town, fifth of seven children born to Clement William Sadleir, a protestant farmer and middleman, whose earliest known…...
Sayers, Peig (‘Peig Mhór’)
Sayers, Peig (‘Peig Mhór’) (1873–1958), storyteller, was born in Vicarstown, Dunquin, Co. Kerry, one of thirteen children of Tomás Sayers, storyteller and small farmer, and his wife Peig (née Ní Bhrosnacháin). She was baptised 29 March 1873 in Ballyferriter, Co. Kerry. Of English…...
Sheehy, Edmund
Sheehy, Edmund (1733–66), farmer executed for murder, of Lodge (parish of Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary), was the son of Ellin Fitzpatrick. He was otherwise known as ‘Buck’ Sheehy, a term indicative of semi-gentleman status, as he had an income of £300 or £400 a year, and was a person…...
Smyth, Brendan
Smyth, Brendan (1927–97), catholic priest and paedophile, was born John Gerard Smyth in Nansen Street, off the Falls Road, west Belfast, on 6 June 1927. He was educated at Barracks Street CBS, Belfast. In 1945 he joined the Norbertine…...
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…...
Stapleton, Theobald (‘Teabóid Gálldubh’)
Stapleton, Theobald (‘Teabóid Gálldubh’) (c.1589–1647), priest and author, was born probably in Kilkenny, son of John Stapleton and his wife Fionnuala (née Nic Conmara). He was of English extraction, and his Irish sobriquet ‘Gálldubh’ signified ‘dark foreigner’. Details of his…...
Stokes, Whitley
Stokes, Whitley (1830–1909), lawyer and Celtic scholar, was born 28 February 1830 in Dublin, the eldest son of Dr William Stokes (qv), heart specialist, and his wife, Mary, daughter of John Black of Glasgow. The Stokes children were raised…...