Mulvey, Anthony
Mulvey, Anthony (1873–1957), journalist and politician, was born in Ballynaglearagh, between Dowra and Drumshambo, Co. Leitrim, and educated locally. His journalistic career began on the Leitrim Observer (then owned by the Dunne family) in Carrick-on-Shannon, before…...
Murphy, James Vincent
Murphy, James Vincent (1880–1946), journalist and translator, was born 7 July 1880 at Bandon, Co. Cork, the third of seven children of Timothy Murphy, farmer, and his wife Hannah (née Sullivan). He was educated locally, then at the diocesan minor seminary, and finally at St Patrick's…...
Murray, John Fisher
Murray, John Fisher (1811–65), journalist and nationalist, was born in February 1811 in Belfast, the eldest son of the eminent physician and chemist James Murray (qv), and his wife Margaret (née Sherlock). A catholic, he was educated…...
Nash, Robert
Nash, Robert (1902–89), Jesuit priest and apologist, was born 23 April 1902 at Cork, third and only surviving child of Robert Nash (d. Southampton, 21 November 1901) and his wife Delia (née Kearney). He was brought up in Limerick by his mother and maternal uncle Joseph Kearney, a shop…...
Neligan, Maurice Christopher
Neligan, Maurice Christopher (1937–2010), cardiac surgeon and commentator, was born on 15 May 1937 at his parents' home, 31 St Helen's Road, Booterstown, Co. Dublin, the only son among three children of John Neligan, army officer, and his wife Nan (née Kelly). His father was a…...
Newe, Gerard Benedict
Newe, Gerard Benedict (1907–82), journalist and public servant, was born 5 February 1907 in Cushendall, Co. Antrim, the oldest among three sons and two daughters of Patrick Newe, native of Co. Westmeath, gardener for the MacDonnells of Monavert, Cushendall, and Catherine Newe (née…...
Ní Ghráda, Máiréad
Ní Ghráda, Máiréad (1896–1971), playwright, author, and broadcaster, was born 23 December 1896 in Knockadangan, Kilmaley, Co. Clare, younger of two daughters of James O'Grady (1856–1942), farmer and sometime county councillor, and Bridget O'Grady (née Greene; 1854–1934), native of…...
Nolan, Thomas
Nolan, Thomas (1872/3–1939), newspaper editor and publisher, was educated at the CBS, Tralee, Co. Kerry; few other details of his early life are available. As a young man he joined the clerical staff of J. B. Healy, building…...
O'Brennan, Martin Andrew
O'Brennan, Martin Andrew (1812–78), newspaper editor, was born in Co. Mayo, ninth or eleventh son of Martin O'Brennan (occupation unknown) and Sarah O'Brennan (née Cullen). He was educated in St Jarlath's College, Tuam, and came to Dublin c.1836, where he apparently…...
O'Brien, Eileen Mary (Ní Bhriain, Eibhlín
O'Brien, Eileen Mary (Ní Bhriain, Eibhlín ) (1925–86), journalist, was born 23 January 1925 at 37 Lower Leeson St., Dublin, only child of Liam O'Brien (Ó Briain) (qv) of 15 Lower Sherrard St., Dublin, nationalist and professor of romance…...
O'Brien, Francis Cruise
O'Brien, Francis Cruise (1885–1927), journalist, author, and cooperationist, was born 18 November 1885, at 6 Grantham St., Dublin, one of two children of John Cruise O’Brien, a law clerk, and Mary Cruise O’Brien (née Lally); his sister, Cathleen, married the novelist…...
O'Brien, Thomas (‘Tommy')
O'Brien, Thomas (‘Tommy') (1905–88), broadcaster and journalist, was born 20 July 1905 on Wolfe Tone St., Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, one of six sons and two daughters of Martin O'Brien, clerk in a dry-goods store, and Bridget O'Brien (née Moroney), who served ninepenny meals to…...
O'Brien, William
O'Brien, William (1852–1928), Irish nationalist leader, agrarian campaigner, journalist, and author, was born 2 October 1852 in Mallow, Co. Cork, second son of James O'Brien, solicitor's clerk, and his wife Kate, daughter of James Nagle, a local shopkeeper. It was generally believed…...
O'Callaghan, John Cornelius
O'Callaghan, John Cornelius (1805–83), historian and journalist, was born in Talbot St, Dublin, one of at least six children of John O'Callaghan, a prosperous catholic attorney, originally from Ulster. O'Callaghan always attributed his literary tastes and interest in history to…...
O'Callaghan, May
O'Callaghan, May (1881–1973), journalist, translator and communist, was born Julia Mary O'Callaghan in Wexford town on the 14 August 1881, the youngest of four children born to Patrick O'Callaghan, RIC head constable, and Jane O'Callaghan (…...
O Ceallacháin, Seán Óg
O Ceallacháin, Seán Óg (1923–2013), sports broadcaster and hurler, was born on 12 May 1923 in Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, one of four children (three sons and a daughter) of John O’Callaghan (Seán O Ceallacháin), a commercial traveller of Newcastle West, originally from near…...
O'Connor, Michael Patrick
O'Connor, Michael Patrick (1896–1967), doctor, writer, and broadcaster, was born 15 October 1896 in Loughrea, Co. Galway, the son of Thomas O'Connor, RIC sergeant, of Athenry Rd, Loughrea, and Mary O'Connor (née Scanlon). Reared a…...
O'Connor, Thomas Power
O'Connor, Thomas Power (1848–1929), journalist and politician, was born 5 October 1848 in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, eldest son of Thomas O'Connor, shopkeeper and billiard-saloon keeper, and Teresa O'Connor (née Power), daughter of a non-commissioned officer in the British army. His…...
O'Conor, Thomas
O'Conor, Thomas (1770–1855), United Irishman and newspaper editor, was born 1 September 1770 in Dublin, second son of Charles O'Conor (qv) of Mount Allen, Co. Roscommon, who represented Sligo at the Catholic Convention of 1792 and died in America in 1808. His…...
Ó Cuiv, Shan
Ó Cuiv, Shan (1875–1940), journalist and writer, was born in Macroom, Co. Cork, as John Michael O'Keefe, son of John O'Keefe, tanner, and Margaret O'Keefe (née Duggan), both of Macroom. He attended schools in Macroom and Dunmanway but the major event of his formative years was…...
O'Curry, Peadar
O'Curry, Peadar (1907–85), journalist, was born Peter Paul Curry on 7 July 1907 at Irish Street, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, the first of three children of Patrick Curry, a journeyman stonemason resident in Maryhill, Glasgow, and his wife Mary Curry (née Donnelly). O'Curry's early…...
O'Delaney, Mary Barry
O'Delaney, Mary Barry (1862–1947), journalist and nationalist, was born Mary Barry Delany , though from the time she came to notice as a journalist she styled her surname O'Delaney (or sometimes O'Delany). In 1883 she left Ireland for Paris, where she lived in the Avenue Kléber…...
O'Donnell, John Francis
O'Donnell, John Francis (1837–74), poet, journalist, and nationalist, was born in Limerick city, son of a shopkeeper; no further details of his parents are known. Educated by the Christian Brothers, he began to write poetry in his fourteenth year, contributing to the Kilkenny…...
O'Donovan, Edmund
O'Donovan, Edmund (1844–83), journalist, soldier, and Fenian, was born 13 September 1844 in Dublin, second among six sons (surviving infancy) of the celebrated Celticist and antiquarian John O'Donovan (qv) and Mary…...
O'Donovan, Frederick Michael ('Fred')
O'Donovan, Frederick Michael ('Fred') (1929–2010), theatrical impresario, theatre and radio producer, and public figure, was born 27 May 1929 at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin, the fourth of six sons of John O'Donovan, of 53 Casino Road, Croydon Park, Fairview,…...