Browne, Sir Valentine
Browne, Sir Valentine (1638–94), 3rd baronet, 1st Viscount Kenmare , politician, and soldier, was son and heir of Sir Valentine Browne, 2nd baronet, and his wife Mary, daughter of Charles MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy at the age of two…...
Browne, Thomas
Browne, Thomas (1726–95), 4th Viscount Kenmare , improving landlord, and catholic activist, was born in April 1726, second (and only surviving) son among two sons and a daughter of Valentine Browne (qv), 3rd viscount, and his first…...
Browne, Thomas Wogan
Browne, Thomas Wogan (1758?–1812), whig politician, was the elder son of Michael Browne (d. c.1778), a French army colonel with a modest property, Castle Browne, near Clane in Co. Kildare, and of his cousin and wife Catherine, daughter and (with her sister Frances) co-…...
Browne, Valentine
Browne, Valentine (1695–1736), 5th baronet and 3rd Viscount Kenmare , was first son of Nicholas Browne (qv), 2nd viscount, and his wife Helen, daughter of Thomas Browne of Hospital, Co. Limerick. The inheritance to which he succeeded…...
Browne, Valentine
Browne, Valentine (1754–1812), 5th Viscount and 1st earl of Kenmare , catholic activist, and landlord, was born in January 1754, only son of Thomas Browne (qv), 4th Viscount Kenmare, and his wife Anne, daughter of Thomas Cooke of…...
Browne, Valentine Charles Edward
Browne, Valentine Charles Edward (1891–1943), Viscount Castlerosse , 6th earl of Kenmare , journalist and socialite, was born 29 May 1891 in Grosvenor Square, London, eldest son of Valentine Browne, 5th earl of Kenmare, and Elizabeth Browne (née Baring), eldest daughter of Lord…...
Brugha, Cathal
Brugha, Cathal (1874–1922), revolutionary, was born Charles William St John Burgess 18 July 1874 at 13 Richmond Avenue, Fairview, Dublin, tenth among fourteen children (four sons and ten daughters) of Thomas Burgess (d. 1899), art dealer and native of Carlow, and Maryanne Burgess (née…...
Brugha, Ruairí
Brugha, Ruairí (1917–2006), politician and businessman, was born 15 October 1917 in Dublin, fourth child and only son (he had five sisters) of the republican revolutionary Cathal Brugha (qv) and his wife Cathleen (Caitlín) (née Kingston),…...
Bryan, George
Bryan, George (1770–1843), militia officer and catholic politician, was born 3 November 1770 in Devonshire Square, London, the younger son of George Bryan (1720–96) of London and his wife, Catherine Xaveria (d. 1778), daughter and heir of Henry Byrne of Oporto, Portugal. His great…...
Bryan, George Leopold
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Bryan, Patrick
Bryan, Patrick (d. 1663), lawyer and politician, was third son of James FitzJohn Bryan of Whiteswall and Eleanor, daughter of Piers Butler of Callan, Co. Kilkenny. Patrick qualified as a barrister, having studied in Gray's Inns in the late 1630s, and married a daughter of James…...
Buckley, Timothy
Buckley, Timothy (1862–1945), tailor and storyteller, was born 23 December 1862 in Lounihan, Kilgarvan, Co. Kerry, seventh among thirteen children of Pádraig Buckley, farmer; his mother was one of the Healys Seamhrach of east Kerry. He attended Kilgarvan primary school, and at the…...
Burke (Bourke), James Aloysius
Burke (Bourke), James Aloysius (Séamus de Búrca) (1893–1967), politician, was born on 15 June 1893 in Newgrove House, Rathnavogue, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, eldest son of Tobias Henry Burke, farmer, originally of Burkington, Borrisoleigh, and his wife, Bridget Agnes, the daughter of…...
Burke (Bourke), John
Burke (Bourke), John (d. 1607), of Brittas, Co. Limerick, landowner and Roman catholic martyr, was eldest son of Richard Burke of Brittas (younger brother of Sir William Burke, Lord Castleconnell) and his wife Honora, daughter of Conor O'Mulrian, chief of Owny. In the late 1590s…...
Burke (de Burgh), John
Burke (de Burgh), John (d. 1583), baron of Leitrim , rebel, known as John of the Shamrocks or John of the Clovers, was the eldest son of Richard Burke (qv), 2nd earl of Clanricard, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter…...
Burke (de Burgh), John (Seaan, Shane Mac Oliverus)
Burke (de Burgh), John (Seaan, Shane Mac Oliverus) (d. 1580), 17th lord of MacWilliam Íochtair, was the son of Oliver of the Sliocht Ricaird of Tirawley and great-grandson of Richard (Richard O'Cuairsge) (qv; see under Risdeard Burgh (de Burgh)), 7th lord…...
Burke (de Burgh), Richard
Burke (de Burgh), Richard (1527/8?–1582), 2nd earl of Clanricard , was the eldest son of Ulick Burke (qv), ‘Uilleag na gCeann’, 1st earl of Clanricard, and his first wife, Grace, daughter of…...
Burke (de Burgh), Richard (Risdeard Mac Oliverus)
Burke (de Burgh), Richard (Risdeard Mac Oliverus) (d. 1585), nineteenth lord of MacWilliam Íochtair , was the son of Oliver Burke of the Sliocht Ricaird of Tirawly and great-grandson of Richard Burke (Richard Ó Cuairsge) (qv); see under Risdeard Burgh (de…...
Burke (de Burgh), Sir Richard (Risdeard an Iarainn, Richard an Iron, ‘Iron Dick’)
Burke (de Burgh), Sir Richard (Risdeard an Iarainn, Richard an Iron, ‘Iron Dick’) (d. 1583), 18th lord of MacWilliam Íochtair , was the son of David Burke of the Sliocht Ulick, 15th lord of MacWilliam Íochtair, and his second wife, Finola O'Flaherty. In 1553 he fought a battle…...
Burke, Dominic
Burke, Dominic (c.1603–1649), Dominican priest and political agent, was a scion of the Burke family, earls of Clanricard and St Albans. Having entered the Dominican order, he entered its house at Athenry, and then studied at the studium generale at Bologna,…...
Burke, James Michael
Burke, James Michael (1873–1936), barrister, newspaper editor, and politician, was born 4 November 1873 at 31 Bridge St., Skibbereen, Co. Cork, seventh among twelve children (seven sons and three daughters survived to adulthood) of Patrick Burke, grocer and farmer, and Mary Burke (née…...
Burke, Joan
Burke, Joan (1929–2016), nurse, politician and farmer, was named Hanna Teresa at her birth on 8 February 1928, at Roughgrove House, Bandon, Co. Cork, the last of four children, and the only daughter, of Denis Crowley and Bridgid (‘Cissie’) (née Russell). The family farmed at Roughgrove…...
Burke, John
Burke, John (1789–1845), priest and political activist, was born in January 1789 at Rochfortbridge, Co. Westmeath, and was educated at St Finian's College, Navan; nothing is known of his parents. He began his final theological training at Maynooth in August 1808 and was ordained…...
Burke, Richard
Burke, Richard (c.1569–1635), 4th earl of Clanricard, nobleman, was the second, but eldest surviving, son of the six sons and two daughters of Ulick Burke, 3rd earl of Clanricard, and his wife, Honora, daughter of John Burke of Clogheroka, Co. Galway. His date of birth is…...
Burke, Sir Thomas
Burke, Sir Thomas (c.1750–1813), baronet and landowner, was born in Marble Hill, Co. Galway, son of John Burke (1713–93) of Grallough, Co. Galway, a catholic landowner, and Mary Burke, eldest daughter of Michael Carroll of Killoran, Co. Galway. With the passing of the…...