Capper, Wilfrid Meredyth
Capper, Wilfrid Meredyth (1905–89), conservationist and creator of the Ulster Way, was born in Belfast on 12 July 1905, the second son of four children (two boys and two girls) of John Malcolmson Capper, a cotton yarn merchant, and Elizabeth Jane Capper (née Stewart); the family was…...
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…...
Carey, Mathew
Carey, Mathew (1760–1839), author, bookseller and publisher, was born 28 January 1760 in Dublin, one of five sons to Christopher Carey, a baker who prospered provisioning the British navy, and Mary Carey (née Sheridan). Small and lame from infancy (having been dropped by his nurse),…...
Carlisle, Alexander Montgomery
Carlisle, Alexander Montgomery (1854–1926), ship designer and businessman, and his two brothers John Carlisle (1856–1945), engineer and shipowner, and Henry Montgomery Carlisle (1863?–1945), shipowner, were sons of John Carlisle (d. 1884), teacher, and Catherine Carlisle (née…...
Carter, Cornelius
Carter, Cornelius (d. 1734), printer, was admitted to the Dublin printers’ guild in 1696 but was never sworn and, though listed until 1716, paid no quarterage. His press was housed at different addresses in Fishamble Street (1696–1727). He began his career as a pamphleteer and…...
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…...
Cellach
Cellach (d. 705), son of Rogallach and overking of Connacht, belonged to the dynasty of Uí Briúin Aí. He is called Cellach ‘of Loch Cime’ (Lough Hacket, near Headford, Co. Galway), perhaps the location of a family residence. His father Rogallach, who earlier reigned as overking, was…...
Cellachán Caisil
Cellachán Caisil (‘of Cashel’) (d. 954), son of Buadachán and overking of Munster, was the last notable overking of the dynastic federation of the Éoganachta. Although Cellachán's lineage, Clann Donngaile of Éoganacht Chaisil, had provided several previous kings, his immediate…...
Cellach Cualann
Cellach Cualann (d. 715), son of Gerthide and overking of Leinster, was the last and arguably the most colourful representative of the Uí Máil dynasty to hold that dignity. His sobriquet associates him with Cualu, the Bray area in north Wicklow. While Cellach's father Gerthide…...
Cennétig
Cennétig (d. 903), son of Gáethíne and king of Loíches, was probably the most distinguished representative of Síl Mescill, the ruling lineage of Loíches Cúile ocus Réta. From their caput at Ráith Baccáin in Mag Réta (Morret Heath near Port Laoise), the forebears of…...
Cennétig
Cennétig (d. 951), son of Lorcán and overking of north Munster, was the first representative of the Dál Cais dynasty to achieve prominence at national level. He belonged to the lineage of Uí Thairdelbaig, which in the early tenth century was contesting the kingship of Dál Cais (…...
Cenn-Fáelad
Cenn-Fáelad (d. 675), son of Blathmac and king of Tara, was an early representative of Síl nÁedo Sláine, a dynasty of the Uí Néill confederation. A decade earlier, his father Blathmac (qv) (d. 665) and uncle…...
Cerball
Cerball (d. 888), son of Dúngal and king of Osraige, was certainly among the most distinguished representatives of the dynasty of Dál mBirn. As in the case of his nephew Cennétig (qv) son of Gáethíne, the most detailed account of Cerball's…...
Cerball
Cerball (d. 909), son of Muirecán and overking of Leinster, the last noteworthy ruler of the Uí Dúnlainge dynasty before the battle of Clontarf, belonged to the lineage of Uí Fháeláin. His father Muirecán, king of Nás and Airther Liphi (Naas and the eastern Liffey plain), was…...
Chambers, John
Chambers, John (1754–1837), printer and United Irishman, was born in Dublin in January 1754, the son of a wine merchant and his wife, Elinor, daughter of Charles Carter of Chapelizod, Co. Dublin. Apprenticed to a printer by his widowed mother (1 July 1767), he was printing on his…...
Chetwood, William Rufus
Chetwood, William Rufus (d. 1766), prompter, publisher, and author, was most probably born in England. Little is known of his early life, but his own accounts, and the fact that he wrote several seafaring adventures, indicate that he had travelled around the world as a young man,…...
Cian
Cian (d. 1015), son of Máel-muad and king of South Munster, belonged to Uí Echach Muman, a dynasty of the Éoganachta. His father, who heads the pedigree of Cenél nÁedo, a lineage of Uí Echach, was his predecessor in the kingship. Cian had at least two brothers, Cathal and…...