Máel-rubai
Máel-rubai (c.642–722), founder and first abbot (673–722) of the monastery of Applecross in Skye, Scotland, was born into the Cenél nÉogain (in the present Co. Derry–Co. Tyrone area). His mother was a niece of Comgall (qv), founder of…...
Magennis, James Joseph
Magennis, James Joseph (1919–86), Royal Navy submariner and frogman, was born 27 October 1919 at 4 Majorca St., west Belfast, third child of William Magennis (a packer in a local mill, who also worked as a musician) and Mary Magennis (née Murphy). His early years were ones of…...
Mainchín (Munchin)
Mainchín (Munchin) of Limerick, saint, whose pedigree assigns him to a leading branch of the Dál Cais, bears a name under which a large number of supposedly distinct saints named Mainchín/Manchán are recorded. One of these, Manchán (qv), otherwise Manchianus (…...
Manchán
Manchán (d. 665) of Liath Mancháin (Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly), Irish ecclesiastic and scholar, has been given contradictory genealogies, perhaps through confusion with one of the several ecclesiastics named Manchán/ Mainchín. The most reliable source states that his father was Sillán…...
Marianus Scottus (Muiredach son of Robartach)
Marianus Scottus (Muiredach son of Robartach) (fl. 1067–c.1080), Benedictine monk and founder of the Schottenklöster of Regensburg in the reign of the emperor Henry IV, was born in Donegal within the first quarter of the eleventh century. He belonged to…...
Mauchteus (Mochtae)
Mauchteus (Mochtae) (fl. late 5th/early 6th cent.), a British priest or bishop, associated with Louth and a saint in the Irish tradition, was (his Life relates) brought to Ireland as a baby by his mother, who was a servant in the household of a druid. The Life, preserved in…...
McCarthy, Mortimer
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McCarthy, Timothy (‘Tim’)
McCarthy, Timothy (‘Tim’) (1887–1917), sailor and Polar explorer, was born 15 July 1887 in Kinsale, Co. Cork, a younger son of John McCarthy, farmer and fisherman of Lower Cove, Kinsale, and Mary McCarthy (née Ford) who was originally from Garrylucas, near the Old Head of Kinsale.…...
McClintock, Sir Francis Leopold
McClintock, Sir Francis Leopold (1819–1907), Royal Naval officer and Arctic explorer, was born 8 July 1819 at 1 Seatown Place, Dundalk, Co. Louth, eldest surviving son of Henry McClintock, collector of customs in Dundalk and formerly an officer in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, and his…...
McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier
McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier (1807–73), Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer, was born 28 January 1807, at the Rectory, Main St., Wexford, son of Capt. Robert McClure of the 89th Foot and his wife Jane, daughter of Archdeacon Elgee, rector of Wexford. His father died…...
McGuinness, Charles John
McGuinness, Charles John (1893–1947), sailor and adventurer, was born 6 March 1893 in Derry city, elder of two sons of John McGuinness, sea-captain and harbourmaster, and Margaret McGuinness (née Hernand). In 1908, at the age of 15, McGuinness left home, stowing away in a ship and…...
McHugh, Kevin
McHugh, Kevin (1946–2006), fisherman and businessman, was born in Bullsmouth, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, on 26 May 1946, the fourth of eight children of Michael McHugh, ESB maintenance engineer, and his wife Norah (née Lavelle). Educated…...
Mel
Mel (d. 487), founder and first bishop of Ardachad (Ardagh, Co. Longford), and saint in the Irish tradition, was seemingly a Briton. The genealogists identify his father as Conis and his mother as Darerca, who is represented as a sister of St…...
Mo-Bí (Berchán)
Mo-Bí (Berchán) (d. c.545), founder and first abbot of Glas Naíden (Glasnevin, in the north Dublin suburbs) and saint in the Irish tradition, is alternately traced to the Luigne of Connacht, or to the Fothairt, a subject people of Leinster, from whom St…...
Mochóe (Mochaoí, Mahee, Cóelán)
Mochóe (Mochaoí, Mahee, Cóelán) (d. 497), founder and first bishop of Nendrum and saint in the Irish tradition, is traced to a lineage of the Cruthin. According to the genealogists, Mochóe (a hypocoristic form of Cóelán, meaning ‘slender one’) was a son of Luachán, who is said to…...
Mochóemóc (Pulcherius)
Mochóemóc (Pulcherius) , monastic founder and saint in the Irish tradition, of Liath Mochóemóc (‘Leamakevogue’ – now Leigh (Leighmore), Co. Tipperary). No dates can be assigned to Mochóemóc's life, but his father, Beoán, is said to have belonged to the Conmaicne of Connacht, and his…...
Mo-Chonóc (Mo-Chonna, Mo-Chanóc, Colmán)
Mo-Chonóc (Mo-Chonna, Mo-Chanóc, Colmán) (7th cent.), founder of Cell Muccraisse and of Gallen, and saint in the Irish tradition, is almost certainly of British origin. Most commonly referred to by the hypocoristic name-forms of Mo-Chonóc or Mo-Chonna, he is also known as Colmán…...
Mo-Chua (Crónán)
Mo-Chua (Crónán) (7th cent.), founder and first abbot of Tech Mo-Chua (Timahoe, Co. Laois) and saint in the Irish tradition, was a son of Lonán son of Senach, whose lineage is traced in the genealogies to the Fothairt of north-west Co. Kildare. The Latin Life of Mo-Chua (whose name…...
Mo-Chua (Crónán)
Mo-Chua (Crónán) (d. 694), founder and first abbot of Balla and saint in the Irish tradition, was a son of Beccán son of Barr, whose line seemingly belonged to the Luigne of Connacht. His tribal group leaves its name on the barony of Leyney, Co. Sligo. The name Mo-Chua is a…...
Mo-Chua (Crónán)
Mo-Chua (Crónán) (d. 573), founder and first abbot of Cluain Dolcáin (Clondalkin, Co. Dublin) and saint in the Irish tradition, was a son of Lugaid son of Nath Í, who belonged to the minor north Leinster dynasty of Uí Chéthig. His ancestral lineage leaves its name on the barony of…...
Mo-Domnóc (Dominicus)
Mo-Domnóc (Dominicus) (6th cent.), founder and first abbot of Tipra Fachtnai in Osraige (Tibberaghney, Co. Kilkenny) and saint in the Irish tradition, is linked by early-modern scholarship to Cenél nÉogain, a dynasty of Uí Néill. His father is identified as Sárán son of…...
Molag(g)a (Lóichín)
Molag(g)a (Lóichín) , saint, of Áth Cros Molaga (Aghacross, near Mitchelstown, north Co. Cork), and Tech Molaga (Timoleague, west Co. Cork), among other churches, is the best documented of the several saints named Molag(g)a. He is attached to the Fir Maige Féine of the area…...
Mo-Laisse
Mo-Laisse (d. 564), abbot of Devenish (Dam-inis, ‘Ox-island’, Lower Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh), was according to tradition the son of Nad-fraích, chieftain of an Ulster dynasty, and Monoa, whose ancestors came from Tara. Tradition also relates that he was the uncle of…...
Mo-Ling Luachra (Dairchell, Tairchell)
Mo-Ling Luachra (Dairchell, Tairchell) (d. 697), founder and first abbot of Tech Mo-Ling (St Mullins, Co. Carlow) and saint in the Irish tradition, is traced to the Leinster lineage of Uí Dego, which (at least in a later period) was located in the barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford. His…...