Ó Síocháin (Sheehan), Pádraig Augustine
Ó Síocháin (Sheehan), Pádraig Augustine (1905–95), journalist, barrister, and Irish-language activist, was born 26 May 1905 in Kanturk, Co. Cork, sixth child and fourth son among five sons and five daughters of Daniel D. Sheehan…...
Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig (‘An Seabhac’)
Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig (‘An Seabhac’) (1883–1964), teacher, writer and Irish language activist, was born 10 March 1883 in Burnham East, near Dingle, Co. Kerry, one of nine children of gamekeeper Patrick Sugrue and his wife, Ellen Cleary. Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha (1901?–1986), dramatist…...
Ó Súilleabháin, Amhlaoibh (O'Sullivan, Humphrey)
Ó Súilleabháin, Amhlaoibh (O'Sullivan, Humphrey) (1783–1838), diarist, seanchaí (storyteller), schoolteacher, and draper, was born 1 May 1783 in Glenfesk, near Killarney, Co. Kerry, probably the eldest of several children born to Donncha Ó Súilleabháin (1738–1808),…...
Ó Súilleabháin, Eoghan ‘Rua’
Ó Súilleabháin, Eoghan ‘Rua’ (c.1748–1784), poet, was born in Meentoges, some 12 km east of Killarney in the parish of Kilcummin, Co. Kerry, one of three or four sons of Parthalón Ó Súilleabháin, tenant farmer, and his wife, whose surname may have been Ní Scannail. Any account…...
Ó Súilleabháin, Seán
Ó Súilleabháin, Seán (1903–96), folklorist, was born 30 November 1903 in Derrylough in the parish of Tuosist, Co. Kerry, second youngest of six children of teachers Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin and his wife, Helena Ní Shúilleabháin. Of the six children, five became national schoolteachers. Ó…...
Ó Súilleabháin, Tadhg ‘Gaelach’
Ó Súilleabháin, Tadhg ‘Gaelach’ (O'Sullivan, Timothy) (1715?–1795), poet, was probably born in the parish of Killeedy, about 8 km south of Newcastle West, Co. Limerick. Nothing is known about his immediate family or early life, but his Irish translations of prayers in the Latin breviary…...
Ó Tuathail (O'Toole), Éamonn
Ó Tuathail (O'Toole), Éamonn (1882/3–1956), Irish-language scholar, was born in 1882/3 in Barndarrig, a townland on the border between counties Dublin and Wicklow, the son of Terence O'Toole of Rathvilly, Co. Carlow (who was a brother of the Rathvilly schoolmaster Éamonn O'Toole), and…...
Pearse, Patrick Henry
Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879–1916), writer, educationalist, and revolutionary, was born 10 November 1879 at the family home, 27 Great Brunswick Street (latterly Pearse Street) Dublin, the elder son and second of the four children of James Pearse, stone carver and monumental sculptor,…...
Pléimeann, Seán
Pléimeann, Seán (Fleming, John) (1814–97), lexicographer, scribe, and editor, was born in Ballyneil, Mothel, Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Waterford, where his father worked on the estate of the Barron family. Seán received his earliest education in the Irish language and Irish literature from…...
Plunkett, Richard (Risteard Pluincéid)
Plunkett, Richard (Risteard Pluincéid) (fl. 1662), Franciscan friar and dictionary compiler, is of obscure origins. The Plunketts were one of the most prominent Old English families of the Pale, with titles such as ‘lord of Louth’, ‘Lord Dunsany’, and ‘baron of Killeen’.…...
Power, Maura Wyse (Máire)
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Power, Richard (Dick) (de Paor, Risteard)
Power, Richard (Dick) (de Paor, Risteard) (1928–70), civil servant and writer, was born 24 February 1928 in a private nursing home at 17 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, the eldest of five sons of Patrick Joseph Power, a bank official, originally of Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford, and…...
Rogers, John Cecil Kelly-
Rogers, John Cecil Kelly- (1905–81), aviation pioneer, was born 8 February 1905 at Raven Lodge, Sandycove, Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, second child of Capt. Theodore Rogers, RN (later of the Dublin–Liverpool passenger service), and Violet…...
Rushe, Denis Carolan
Rushe, Denis Carolan (1852–1928), historian, antiquary and public servant, was born in Monaghan town, where his father worked as a doctor in the county infirmary. Both his parents came from the south of the county; other details of them are unknown. He attended St Louis convent, St…...
Ryan, Matthew
Ryan, Matthew (1844–1937), catholic priest, agrarian agitator, and Gaelic Leaguer, was born at Kilduff, Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick, in September 1844, a son of Matthew Ryan, a farmer and a native of Ballyluddy. He learned Latin from an itinerant teacher and was educated at St…...
Sayers, Peig (‘Peig Mhór’)
Sayers, Peig (‘Peig Mhór’) (1873–1958), storyteller, was born in Vicarstown, Dunquin, Co. Kerry, one of thirteen children of Tomás Sayers, storyteller and small farmer, and his wife Peig (née Ní Bhrosnacháin). She was baptised 29 March 1873 in Ballyferriter, Co. Kerry. Of English…...
South (Sabhat), Seán
South (Sabhat), Seán (1928–57), republican, journalist and Irish-language activist, was born 8 February 1928 at 47 Henry St., Limerick, one of three sons of John South, grocer, and Mary South (née O'Donovan). His father died when he was 13. Educated locally by the Christian…...
Stapleton, Theobald (‘Teabóid Gálldubh’)
Stapleton, Theobald (‘Teabóid Gálldubh’) (c.1589–1647), priest and author, was born probably in Kilkenny, son of John Stapleton and his wife Fionnuala (née Nic Conmara). He was of English extraction, and his Irish sobriquet ‘Gálldubh’ signified ‘dark foreigner’. Details of his…...
Uí Choisdeailbh, Eibhlín (Edith Costello)
Uí Choisdeailbh, Eibhlín (Edith Costello) (1870–1962), folksong collector, Irish language enthusiast, and political activist, was born 27 June 1870, probably in the Strand union workhouse, St Pancras, London. She was christened Edith Drury and raised a member of the Church of…...
Walsh (Bhailís, Wallis, Uailis), Francis (Proinsias)
Walsh (Bhailís, Wallis, Uailis), Francis (Proinsias) (1654–1724), lexicographer and Franciscan priest, was born in the Fingal area of north Co. Dublin. Nothing is known of his family or early education. He entered the Franciscan order and was ordained (1677) in the Irish Franciscan…...
Winder, Frank (Francis Gerard Augustine)
Winder, Frank (Francis Gerard Augustine) (1928–2007), biochemist, naturalist and mountaineer, was born 14 April 1928 in Dublin, one of four sons of Percy Winder (d. 1950), secretary of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society and a freeman of the city of Dublin, and his second…...
Zeuss, Johann Kaspar
Zeuss, Johann Kaspar (1806–56), philologist, linguist, and founder of Celtic studies, was born 22 July 1806 in the village of Vogtendorf, near Kronach in Upper Franconia, Germany, fourth among six children of Michael Zeuss, stonemason, and Margaretha Zeuss (neé Hanna). Although he…...