Higgins, Matthew James
Higgins, Matthew James (1810–68), journalist, was born 4 December 1810 in Westmeath, youngest child and only son of Matthew Higgins of Benown Castle, Co. Westmeath, and his wife Janette, daughter of James Baillie of Dochfour, Inverness-shire, Scotland. His father died soon after…...
Hinkson, Katharine (née Tynan)
Hinkson, Katharine (née Tynan) (1859–1931), novelist, poet, and journalist, was born 23 January 1859 in South Richmond St., Dublin, the fifth of twelve children of Andrew Cullen Tynan , a prosperous farmer and cattle trader, and Elizabeth Tynan (née Reilly). From an early age she was…...
Hodnett, George Desmond ('Hoddy')
Hodnett, George Desmond ('Hoddy') (1918–90), musician, journalist and bohemian, was born 25 February 1918 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, son of George Pope Hodnett (1890–1982), soldier, and Lauré Hodnett (née Faschnacht), a native of Switzerland; he had at least one sibling, a brother…...
Hoey, Frances Sarah (Mrs Cashel Hoey)
Hoey, Frances Sarah (Mrs Cashel Hoey) (née Johnston ) (1830–1908), novelist and journalist, was born 15 February 1830 in Bushy Park, Terenure, Dublin, one of eight children of Charles Bolton Johnston, secretary and registrar of Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin, and his wife Charlotte…...
Hoey, James
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Hoey, James
Hoey, James (d. 1775), printer, publisher, bookseller and circulating library keeper, had premises in Dublin at Pembroke Court, Castle St. (1725–6), Christ Church Yard (1726–8) and Skinner Row (1729–75). As a catholic he became a quarter-brother of the stationers’ guild (1729). He…...
Hoey, John Cashel
Hoey, John Cashel (1828–92), author, editor of the Nation, and administrator, was born 25 October 1828 at Dundalk, Co. Louth, first son of Cashel Fitzsimons Hoey and grandson of John Hoey, a United Irishman hanged in Dundalk in 1798. No details of his mother are known. He…...
Hoey, Peter
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Holland, Denis
Holland, Denis (1826–72), nationalist and journalist, was born in Cork city; details of his parents are not known. He had at least one brother, John Callanan Holland, a journalist; the family were related to J. J. Callanan (qv). As a…...
Horan, Thomas ('Tom'; 'Tommy') Patrick
Horan, Thomas ('Tom'; 'Tommy') Patrick (1855–1916), cricketer and journalist, was born 8 March 1855 near Middleton, Co. Cork, the son of James Horan (d. 1895), a building contractor, and his wife Ellen (née Sheehan) (d. 1876). The family emigrated to Australia soon after Thomas's birth…...
Horgan, John Joseph
Horgan, John Joseph (1905–64), press photographer, was born 20 May 1905 at 13 Moore Street, Dublin, 'in the shadow of Nelson's pillar', the second of two sons of John Horgan, who owned the Boyneview dairy shop (located in the family's house), and his wife Rosanna (née O'Rourke; she was…...
Hourican, Liam
Hourican, Liam (1944–93), journalist, was born in Dublin on 30 May 1944, the only child of William Hourican (1908–74), a schoolteacher in Roscommon, and his wife, Una (née Kilroy) (1907–97), a former teacher and Irish-language activist. He was educated locally by the Christian Brothers…...
Hughes, James Joseph (‘Séamus’)
Hughes, James Joseph (‘Séamus’) (1881–1943), broadcaster, was born in Dublin, one of three sons and three daughters of James Hughes, baker and trade-unionist of Rhode, Co. Offaly, and Elizabeth Hughes (née Doyle) of Dublin. His mother died in 1887; his father's second marriage…...
Jennings, Vincent
Jennings, Vincent (1937–2010), newspaper editor and executive, was born 26 March 1937 in Church Road, East Wall, Dublin, the youngest of five children of Patrick Jennings, a railway clerk, and his wife Maud (née Brett). His mother died when he was four and his father subsequently…...
Jordan, John Edward
Jordan, John Edward (1930–88), writer, actor, academic, and broadcaster, was born 8 April 1930 in Dublin, eldest of two sons and a daughter of John Anthony Jordan, cooper at Guinness's brewery, and Mary Agnes Jordan (née Byrne), born of Irish parents in Jarrow, England; both of Parkview…...
Joyce, William Brooke (‘Lord Haw-Haw’)
Joyce, William Brooke (‘Lord Haw-Haw’) (1906–46), fascist and propagandist, was born 24 April 1906 in Brooklyn, New York, the eldest of three sons of Michael Joyce, building contractor, and his wife, Gertrude (née Brooke), whose forebears were protestants from Cavan. Michael…...
Kavanagh (Caomhánach), Séamus
Kavanagh (Caomhánach), Séamus (1910–64), teacher, actor, and broadcaster, was born 28 October 1910 in Sarsfield Quay, Dublin, son of Jack Kavanagh, shoemaker, and Julia Kavanagh (née Holohan). Educated at the Carmelite school in Whitefriar St., he was a monitor there for four years…...
Kavanagh, Patrick Joseph
Kavanagh, Patrick Joseph (1904–67), poet, novelist, and journalist, was born 21 or 23 October 1904 at the family home in the townland of Mucker, Inniskeen parish, Co. Monaghan, the elder son and fourth of ten children of James Kavanagh, cobbler, and his wife, Bridget (née Quinn) of…...
Keane, Terry
Keane, Terry (1939–2008), socialite and journalist, was born Ann Teresa O'Donnell in Guildford, Surrey, England, on 9 September 1939, only child of Timothy O'Donnell, medical doctor, and his wife Ann, a bank official, both Irish-born. At the age of one, Terry was sent to Ireland to…...
Kelly, Anna
Kelly, Anna (1891–1958), journalist, was born Annie Christina Fitzsimmons on 8 January 1891 in Ballysadare, Co. Sligo, one of four children (two daughters and two sons) of James Fitzsimmons, RIC constable (stationed at the time in…...
Kelly, Jasper
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Kelly, Richard
Kelly, Richard (1810–84), newspaper proprietor and local politician, was born at Loughrea, the son of Jasper Kelly and his wife, Frances (née Davis). The Kellys were a family of minor catholic gentry from Dunmore (near Loughrea); they transmitted the names ‘Jasper’ and ‘Richard’…...
Kelly, Richard John
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Kelly, Rosaline
Kelly, Rosaline (1922–2013), union official and media professional, was born on 27 November 1922 to Laurence Kelly, an insurance agent, and Ellen Kelly (née Fogarty) of 2 Sandyford Terrace, Drogheda, Co. Louth. Rosaline attended primary school at St Patrick's and St Philomena's in…...
Kenealy, William
Kenealy, William (1828–76), journalist, poet, and nationalist, was born 1 July 1828 in Cloyne, Co. Cork, the son of a blacksmith and farmer. He worked as a teacher and was appointed headmaster of Churchtown national school, but was dismissed when authorship of an inflammatory…...