Hughes, John
Hughes, John (d. 1840s?), bookseller, United Irishman, and informer, was the son of James Hughes, who seems to have been a farmer in the hinterland of Belfast. Through his mother, whose maiden name was also Hughes, he was related to Samuel…...
Hyde, Sarah
Hyde, Sarah (d. 1750), printer and bookseller, was the only daughter of Joseph (qv) and Elizabeth Ray (qv), booksellers and printers in Dublin. Her early life is unrecorded before she married (1714) John Hyde, printer…...
Illann
Illann (d. 527?), son of Dúnlaing and putatively overking of Leinster, was an early representative of the Uí Dúnlainge dynasty. His father Dúnlaing (qv) son of Énnae Nia, allegedly a grandson of Bressal Bélach, is eponymous ancestor of the…...
Ímar (Ívaar)
Ímar (Ívaar) (d. 873), son of Gofraid, was joint king of the Scandinavians of Dublin. The Irish annals record that he came to Ireland around the mid ninth century and became joint ruler of viking Dublin with Amlaíb Find (Olaf the White). According to some accounts, Ímar, Amlaíb,…...
Ímar (Ívaar)
Ímar (Ívaar) (d. 1000), grandson of Ragnall and king of Waterford, belonged to a junior line of the Hiberno-Scandinavian dynasty known as Uí Ímair. This lineage, which ruled Dublin, claimed descent from Ímar (qv) (d. 873), king of Dublin.…...
Írgalach
Írgalach (d. 702), son or grandson of Conaing (‘nepos Conaing’, AU; ‘mac’, according to some other annals) and a king of the Uí Néill, belonged to the dynasty of Síl nÁedo Sláine. His (grand) father, Conaing son of Congal, had been killed at the battle of Ogoman (662) while…...
Johnston (Johnston-Liik ), Edith Mary
Johnston (Johnston-Liik ), Edith Mary (1930–2008), historian and editor, was born 11 July 1930 in Belfast, eldest of three daughters of John Worthington Johnston (1904–52), athlete, presbyterian minister and army chaplain, and his wife Mary Isobel Giraud (née McFadden); a son died at…...
Jones, Jane
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Jones, Theophilus
Jones, Theophilus (d. 1736), bookseller, printer and newspaper proprietor, was probably descended from Sir Theophilus Jones (qv), son of Lewis Jones (qv) (d. 1646), bishop of Killaloe.…...
Joy, Francis
Joy, Francis (1697–1790), notary, printer, paper manufacturer, and founder of the Belfast News Letter, was born in 1697 at Killead, Co. Antrim, the younger son of Richard Joy, a prosperous presbyterian farmer, and his wife Jane (née Ellis) of Carrickfergus. He settled in…...
Joy, Robert
Joy, Robert (1722–85), printer, manufacturer, and philanthropist, was born probably in Belfast, second son of Francis Joy (qv), attorney, paper manufacturer, and printer, and Margaret Joy (née Martin). He was named for his maternal…...
Kavanagh, Gerald
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Kavanagh, Peter Paul
Kavanagh, Peter Paul (1916–2006), writer and critic, was born 19 March 1916 in Mucker, Iniskeen, Co. Monaghan, youngest of ten children of James Kavanagh, shoemaker and small farmer, and his wife Bridget (née Quinn). His godfather was his elder brother, the poet…...
Kenny, Kevin John
Kenny, Kevin John (1881–1954), advertising pioneer, commercial manager and publisher, was born on 22 June 1881 at 12 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, one of eight children of Michael C. Kenny, a lithographic printer and Fenian, and Catherine Kenny (née Fleming), a book-folder (cloth…...
King, Cecil Harmsworth
King, Cecil Harmsworth (1901–87), publisher, was born 20 February 1901 at Poynter's Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England (home of his grandmother, Geraldine Harmsworth (qv)), second son and fifth child among seven children of…...
King, Jeremiah
King, Jeremiah (1868–1927), historian, printer, and publisher, was born 11 February 1868 in Groin, in the parish of Aghadoe, Co. Kerry, elder of two sons of Laurence King, carpenter, of Currow, and Ellen King (née Counihan), farmer, of Madam's Height, Groin. Early in King's life…...
Lawrence, John Fortune
Lawrence, John Fortune (1833–97), sporting merchant and publisher, was born 13 January 1833 in Dublin, the eldest of six brothers and five sisters (three of each reaching adulthood) of William Lawrence (d. 1887), a clerk of works at the General Post Office (GPO), and his wife Elizabeth…...
Leathley, Joseph
Leathley, Joseph (d. 1757), ‘college binder’, printer, and bookseller, joined the Dublin printers, guild in July 1719, having been sworn a freeman of the city earlier in the year. He initially undertook a small number of joint publishing ventures with other members of the trade in…...
Lethlobar
Lethlobar (d. 873), son of Loingsech and overking of Ulaid, belonged to the dynasty of Dál nAraide. His grandfather, Tommaltach son of Indrechtach, had briefly held the dignity of overking of Ulaid before his death (790). His father, Loingsech, however, does not seem to have…...
Lloyd, Edward
Lloyd, Edward (fl. 1700–1732), coffee house proprietor, publisher, and writer, was born in England and probably moved to Dublin in the 1690s. Nothing is known of his parents. A namesake, Edward Lloyd (d. 1713), founded (c.1688) Lloyd's coffee house in London, which…...
Lóegaire
Lóegaire (d. 461/3), putatively son of Niall and king of Tara, is eponymous ancestor of the dynasty of Cenél Lóegaire. Most sources, including the genealogies, call him a son of Niall Noígiallach (qv), making…...
Logan, Michael J. (Ó Lócháin, Micheál)
Logan, Michael J. (Ó Lócháin, Micheál) (1836–99), editor, publisher, and ‘father of the Gaelic language movement’ in America (Ford, 1899), was born 29 September 1836 at Currach Doire (Curraghderry), Baile an Mhuilinn (Milltown), near Tuam, Co. Galway, son of Patrick Logan, a small…...
Loingsech
Mac Carthaig, Cormac
Mac Carthaig, Cormac (d. 1138), son of Muiredach, king of Desmumu (Desmond) and overking of Munster, belonged to the Clann Donngaile lineage of Éoganacht Chaisil. His father, Muiredach (d. 1092), was a son of the eponymous Carthach, who in turn was a great-grandson of…...
Mac Carthaig, Diarmait Dúna Droignéin
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