Gillespie, William (Billy)
Gillespie, William (Billy) (1891–1981), footballer, was born 6 August 1891 in Kerrykeel, Co. Donegal, the eldest son of seven children (four girls and three boys) of Robert Gillespie, an RIC sergeant, and his wife Eliza, a native of Co.…...
Graves, Alfred Perceval
Graves, Alfred Perceval (1846–1931), writer, folklorist, and schools inspector, was born 22 July 1846 at 12 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, the second son of nine children of Charles Graves (qv), clergyman and mathematician, and Selina…...
Graves, Arnold Felix
Graves, Arnold Felix (1847–1930), early promoter of technical education in Ireland, was born 17 November 1847 in Dublin, third son of Dr Charles Graves (qv), FTCD, later bishop of…...
Graves, Robert James
Graves, Robert James (1796–1853), physician and teacher, was born 28 March 1796 in Dublin, youngest of three sons and seventh among ten children of Richard Graves (1763–1829), author, professor of divinity at TCD, and dean of Ardagh, and his…...
Gregory, (William) Robert
Gregory, (William) Robert (1881–1918), painter, theatre designer, sportsman, and airman, was born 20 May 1881 in London, only child of Sir William Gregory (qv) of Coole Park, Co. Galway, and his second wife, Isabella Augusta…...
Guiney, David
Guiney, David (1921–2000), athlete, sports journalist, sports historian, and author, was born 31 January 1921 in Kanturk, Co. Cork, one of four sons of John Guiney, solicitor and nationalist MP for Cork North (1913–18), and Mary Guiney (née Buckley) of O'Brien St., Kanturk. Guiney…...
Gwynn, Edward John
Gwynn, Edward John (1868–1941), Celticist and provost of TCD, was born 1 April 1868 at Aughnagaddy, Ramelton, Co. Donegal, the second son of Rev. John Gwynn (qv), DD, fellow of…...
Hall, George
Hall, George (1753–1811), clergyman and academic, was born in Northumberland, son of the Rev. Mark Hall, and was baptised on 14 May 1753 at Earsdon ‘by North Shields’ (distinguishing it from another Earsdon further north), and educated at the Free Grammar school, Newcastle upon…...
Halloran (O'Halloran), Laurence Hynes
Halloran (O'Halloran), Laurence Hynes (1765–1831), schoolmaster, clergyman, writer, and forger, was born 29 December 1765 in Co. Meath. Orphaned while still a young child, he was raised by his uncle, Judge William Gregory, before attending Westminster School. In 1785 he opened a…...
Hamilton, James
Hamilton, James (c.1560–1644), 1st Viscount Claneboye , academic, and Scottish settler, was eldest son of Hans Hamilton, vicar of Dunlop, Ayrshire, and his wife Janet, daughter of James Denham of West Shield. He probably studied at St Andrews, where a man bearing his name…...
Hancock, William Neilson
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Hawkey, John
Hawkey, John (1703–59), schoolmaster and editor, may have been born in Cove, Devon, or East Looe, Cornwall, son of John Hawkey, gaoler. Nothing is known of his mother. After schooling from Mr Spare in Liskeard, Cornwall, he entered TCD…...
Heath, (Sophie) Mary (‘Lady Heath’) (née Peirce-Evans; other married name Eliott-Lynn)
Heath, (Sophie) Mary (‘Lady Heath’) (née Peirce-Evans; other married name Eliott-Lynn) (1896–1939), athlete and aviator, was born Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans on 17 November 1896 in Knockaderry, Co. Limerick, the only child of Jackie Peirce-Evans and his wife and former…...
Hermon, Sir John Charles ('Jack')
Hermon, Sir John Charles ('Jack') (1928–2008), chief constable of the RUC (1980–89), was born 23 November 1928 in Castletown, Islandmagee (near Whitehead), Co. Antrim, youngest of four children (three sons and a daughter) of William Rowan Hermon, building contractor, and his wife Agnes…...
Hewson, George Henry Philips
Hewson, George Henry Philips (1881–1972), organist, composer, and teacher, was born 19 November 1881, youngest among ten children of Edmund Hewson and his wife Caroline (née Page). In 1888 he joined the school and choir of St Patrick's cathedral, Dublin. He showed an early aptitude…...
Hickey, Emily Henrietta
Hickey, Emily Henrietta (1845–1924), poet, writer, and teacher, was born 12 April 1845 at Macmine Castle, near Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, second daughter of the Rev. John Steuart Hickey, rector of Gorebridge, Co. Carlow, and his wife, formerly a Miss Newton King. She was a…...
Higgins, Alexander Gordon ('Alex'; 'Hurricane')
Higgins, Alexander Gordon ('Alex'; 'Hurricane') (1949–2010), snooker player, was born on 18 March 1949 in Belfast, the only son of Alexander Gordon Higgins, a labourer, of Abbingdon Drive, Sandy Row, Belfast, and his wife Elizabeth (née Stockman); he had three sisters. Educated locally…...
Hilliard, Robert (‘Bob’) Martin
Hilliard, Robert (‘Bob’) Martin (1904–37), clergyman, boxer, and revolutionary, was born 7 April 1904 in New St., Killarney, Co. Kerry, one of six children of Robert M. Hilliard, a wealthy protestant draper, and Alice Hilliard (née Martin). The family subsequently resided at…...
Hinton, Edward
Hinton, Edward (c.1643–1702), master of Kilkenny College, was born in Malden, Surrey, England, son of the Rev. Dr Edward Hinton, rector of Malden; nothing is known of his mother. The family then moved to Islip, Oxfordshire, where Hinton's father had been appointed rector…...
Huntington, Robert
Huntington, Robert (1637–1701), provost of TCD and bishop of Raphoe, was the second of four sons of Robert Huntington, curate of Deerhurst in Gloucestershire. He was educated at Bristol grammar school and matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1654, graduating…...
Ingram, John Kells
Ingram, John Kells (1823–1907), economist, poet, and academic, was born 7 July 1823, eldest of five children of the Rev. William Ingram and Elizabeth Ingram (née Cooke). His father, a scholar at TCD in 1790, was rector of Templecarne,…...
Ireland, John Evan de Courcy
Ireland, John Evan de Courcy (1911–2006), socialist, activist, teacher, and maritime historian, was born 19 October 1911 in Lucknow, India, only child of De Courcy Ireland (1873–1915), a British army major of Irish ancestry, and his English-born wife Gabrielle (née Byron). …...
Irvine, George
Irvine, George (1877–1954), republican, language activist and campaigner, was born in August 1877 in Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, the son of John Irvine, a bookseller, and Jane Irvine (née Boyle). George was one of seven children, four of whom were living in 1911. John Irvine’s shop on…...
Jeffares, Alexander Norman
Jeffares, Alexander Norman (1920–2005), literary scholar (known in academia as A. Norman Jeffares, to friends as 'Derry ') was born 11 August 1920 at Elmgrove House, Milltown, Co. Dublin, son of Cecil Norman Jeffares, accountant to the …...
Jellett, John Hewitt
Jellett, John Hewitt (1817–88), mathematician and provost of TCD, was born 25 December 1817 at Cashel, Co. Tipperary, eldest among four sons and one daughter of the Rev. Morgan Jellett (d. 1831), rector of Pallasgrean, near Cashel, and Harriette Anne Jellett (née Poole; d. 1829),…...