Brown, William
Brown, William (1777–1857), merchant captain and first admiral-in-chief of the Argentine navy, was born 22 June 1777 in Foxford, Co. Mayo. (John De Courcy Ireland has suggested that Brown was the extramarital son of a Roman catholic woman from Foxford and George Browne (c.…...
Bulkeley, Sir Richard
Bulkeley, Sir Richard (1660–1710), politician and eccentric philanthropist, was born 17 August 1660 in Dublin. His great-grandfather was Archbishop Lancelot Bulkeley (qv), while his father, Richard Bulkeley (1634–85), MP for…...
Burke, Mary
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Button, Sir Thomas
Button, Sir Thomas (d. 1634), naval officer, was the fourth son of Miles Button of Worlton, Glamorgan, thrice sheriff of that county, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Edward Lewis of Y Fan. He married Mary, daughter of Sir Walter Rice of Dynevor, Carmarthenshire, and may have…...
Cairell
Cairpre
Cairpre (fl. c.501?), putatively son of Niall and king of Tara, is the eponymous ancestor of the Cenél Cairpri. He may be regarded as a proto-historical figure; quite apart from his role as a dynastic ancestor, his inclusion in the seventh-century tract ‘Baile Chuinn’…...
Cairpre (Corpre) Lifechair
Cairpre (Corpre) Lifechair , son of Cormac and putatively king of Tara, is a pseudo-historical character and an ancestor-figure of the Connachta and Uí Néill. He is represented in genealogical tradition as a son of Cormac (qv) son of Art,…...
Cameron, Robert Rupert Gibson
Cameron, Robert Rupert Gibson (1903–79), naval architect, was born 24 October 1903 at Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, second of three children of Gibson Cameron, a baker, and his wife Jane, daughter of Henry Beattie, master mariner of Carrickfergus. He was educated at Carrickfergus model…...
Cammock (Camocke, Camock), George
Cammock (Camocke, Camock), George (c.1666–1722), sailor and Jacobite, was born in Co. Down, son of a Mr Camocke and Mary Arney. Little is known of his early life but he joined the Royal Navy in the mid 1680s, serving as a midshipman 1687–90. He served as first lieutenant of…...
Cano
Cano (d. 688), son of Gartnait and a contender for the kingship of Dál Riata in Scotland, was among the leading figures of the royal line of Cenél nGartnait. He is probably to be identified as a son of Gartnait son of Accidán, whose followers opposed the Dál Riata ruling lineage of…...
Carden, John Rutter
Carden, John Rutter (1811–66), landlord, was born 5 February 1811, eldest among six sons and a daughter of John Carden (1772–1822) of Barnane, near Templemore, Co. Tipperary, landowner, DL, and high sheriff (1796) of the county, and Ann Carden…...
Carroll, Donal Shemus Allingham (‘Don’)
Carroll, Donal Shemus Allingham (‘Don’) (1928–2000), tobacco manufacturer and banker, was born 26 December 1928 in Cork, only son of John Donal Carroll, Cork county medical officer, and Sheila Maureen Carroll (née Flynn), daughter of Joseph John Flynn of Leeson St., Dublin. He had…...
Carroll, James Marmion Gilmor
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Carroll, Patrick James
Carroll, Patrick James (1803–79), tobacco manufacturer, was born 23 December 1803 in Dundalk, Co. Louth, only son of James Carroll, farmer, and his second wife, Anne, daughter of Nicholas Marmion, a merchant in Dundalk, and Elizabeth Marmion (née Boylan). He received a basic…...
Carroll, Vincent Stannus
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Cassidy, James Archbold
Cassidy, James Archbold (1827/8–90), distiller and brewer, was the second of three sons of Robert Cassidy (1791–1858), a strong farmer at Jamestown, Co. Kildare, who in 1839 took over the distilling and brewing firm at nearby Monasterevan founded in 1784 by his father, John…...
Cathaír Már
Cathaír Már (‘the great’), ancestor-figure of the Laigin and putatively king of Ireland, was credited in the regnal lists with a reign of fifty years. The genealogists present Fedelmid Fer Aurglas as his father, and Mairne, daughter of Morann of the Cruithni, as his principal…...
Cathal
Cathal (d. 742), son of Finguine and king of Munster, was a member of the Éoganacht Glendamnach dynasty (Rawl. B. 502, 148a 44, b1; LL, 320c 54). His father Finguine was a son of Cathal Cú cen Máthair (qv), but there is no…...
Cathal
Cathal (d. 819), son of Dúnlaing and king of Uí Chennselaig (south Leinster), belonged to the lineage of Síl Máeluidir, which gave its name to the baronies of Shelmaliere East and West, Co. Wexford. Nothing is recorded of his father Dúnlaing, although his grandfather Cú-chongelt (…...
Cathal
Cathal (d. 925), son of Conchobar and king of Connacht, belonged to the Síl Muiredaig lineage of Uí Briúin Aí, which had virtually monopolised the provincial kingship of Connacht since the second half of the eighth century. His immediate predecessors in the kingship were his…...
Cathal
Cathal (d. 1010), son of Conchobar and overking of Connacht, belonged, like his earlier namesake Cathal (qv) (d. 925), to the Síl Muiredaig lineage of Uí Briúin Aí. Indeed, repetitive name-patterns in the pedigree of this dynasty have, in the…...
Cathal Cú Cen Máthair
Cathal Cú Cen Máthair (d. 665/6), son of Cathal and king of Munster, belonged to the dynasty of Éoganacht Glendamnach (Rawl. B. 502, 148b 1, 32; LL, 320bb 56). A misplaced notice of his death at 604 (AU 603; AFM 600) led both…...
Causantín (Cusantín, Constantine)
Causantín (Cusantín, Constantine) (d. 820), son of Fergus and king of the Scots and Picts, is traced to the dynasty of Dál Riata. He was king of the Picts from 789 and held a joint kingship of the Scots and Picts from c.811, one of only three rulers to achieve that…...
Cellach
Cellach
Cellach (d. 776), son of Dúnchad and overking of Leinster, belonged to the dynasty of Uí Dúnlainge. His father Dúnchad (qv) (d. 728), ancestor of the lineage of Uí Dúnchada, briefly enjoyed the overkingship of Leinster, but Cellach's…...