Solomons, Michael Joseph Maurice (1919–2007), physician and family planning advocate, was born
3 May 1919 in Dublin, the second child among two sons and one
daughter of Bethel Solomons (qv), a prominent
obstetrician and…...
Swift, (Laurence) John
(1896–1990), trade unionist and
labour historian,
was born 26 August 1896 in
Dundalk, Co. Louth, the eldest of two sons
and two daughters of Patrick Swift, a master baker, and his wife Alice (née Deane),
daughter of a Dundalk businessman. Known generally as…...
Wisdom, John Oulton (J. O.) (1908–93),
philosopher and psychoanalyst, was born in Dublin on
29 December 1908, only child of
Thomas Hume Wisdom, brewery clerk, and his English-born wife Jane, daughter of Dr Henry Oulton
of St Stephen's Green. The Cambridge language philosopher Arthur…...