Flood, Finbarr
Flood, Finbarr (1938–2016), soccer player, managing director of Guinness brewery and chairman of the Labour Court, was born on 1 December 1938 in Kilmainham, Dublin, one of three children (and only son) to Jack Flood, a worker in Guinness, and his wife Eva Flood (née…...
Fox, Richard Michael ('R. M. ')
Fox, Richard Michael ('R. M. ') (1891–1969), writer and trade unionist, was born on 13 November 1891 in Leeds, Yorkshire, the second of four sons of Richard Fox and his wife Elizabeth (née Rathmell). Richard senior worked as a gymnasium instructor in Leeds, and later as a skilled…...
Gallagher, Henry Thomas (Harry)
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Geehan, Thomas
Geehan, Thomas (fl. 1925–64), communist and unemployed workers leader, was born to a catholic family in Belfast, where he was reared in the Falls Road area. Employed as a textile worker, by the mid 1920s he was secretary of the west Belfast branch of the Northern Ireland…...
Geoghegan, James
Geoghegan, James (1886–1951), politician and judge, was born 8 December 1886 in Walshestown, Co. Westmeath, one of two children of farmers Thomas Geoghegan and Bridget Geoghegan (née Carney). Educated at the CBS at Mullingar, he…...
Glynn, Patrick McMahon
Glynn, Patrick McMahon (1855–1931), politician and lawyer in Australia, was born 25 August 1855 in Gort, Co. Galway, third among eleven children of John McMahon Glynn (1824–79), owner of a large general store, and Ellen Glynn (née Walsh; 1835–1918). Patrick was educated by the…...
Grogan, Vincent Benedict
Grogan, Vincent Benedict (1915–97), parliamentary draftsman and philanthropist, was born 10 April 1915 in Dublin, the only son of Capt. Vincent Grogan of Lytham-St Anne's, Lancashire, and Eleanor Grogan (née Kirwan). He began his education at the O'Connell schools in Dublin and…...
Hackett, Rosanna ('Rosie')
Hackett, Rosanna ('Rosie') (1893–1976), trade unionist, was born 25 July 1893 at 14 Prebend Street, off Constitution Hill in the Dublin north city centre, elder of two daughters of John Hackett, described as a labourer at his marriage (October 1891) but working by Rosie's birth as a…...
Hamilton, Liam (William Joseph Lyons)
Hamilton, Liam (William Joseph Lyons) (1928–2000), lawyer and judge, was born 30 January 1928 in Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, the eldest of five children of Richard Hamilton, a member of the Garda Síochána and afterwards a chemist's assistant, of Mitchelstown, and his wife, Mary Ellen Lyons…...
Hanna, Francis (‘Frank’)
Hanna, Francis (‘Frank’) (1915–87), lawyer and politician, was born in the Falls Road area of Belfast and was educated at St Mary's CBS, Belfast, before attending QUB to study law.…...
Haughey, Padraig Columb ('Jock')
Haughey, Padraig Columb ('Jock') (1932–2003), sportsman and would-be arms smuggler, was born in Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath, on 9 October 1932, third of four sons (there were also three daughters) of Sean 'Johnnie' Haughey, farmer and former commandant in the Free State army, and his…...
Haugh, Kevin O'Hanrahan
Haugh, Kevin O'Hanrahan (1901–69), attorney general and judge, was born 17 November 1901 in Dublin, second among four children of Professor John Joseph Haugh (d. 1908), mathematician, of Cooraclare, Co. Clare, and Kathleen (O'Hanrahan) Haugh (d. 1938). His father, author of …...
Hayes, (Francis) Mahon (Joseph)
Hayes, (Francis) Mahon (Joseph) (1930–2011), lawyer and diplomat, was born on 2 March 1930 at Verdun, Wellington Road, Cork, the second of three sons of Francis Mahon Hayes (d. 1968), official with the Munster and Leinster Bank, and his wife Aileen (née Walsh). The family moved with…...
Healy, Francis (‘Frank’) Jerome
Healy, Francis (‘Frank’) Jerome (1869–1931), barrister, was born 29 August 1869 in Cork, son of Jeremiah Healy, victualler, and Mary Theresa Healy (née Burk), who died when Frank was six weeks old. He was educated at St Stanislaus College, Tullamore, King's Co. (Offaly), and at…...
Healy, Maurice
Healy, Maurice (1859–1923), solicitor and politician, was born 3 January 1859 in Bantry, Co. Cork, third son of Maurice Healy, clerk of Lismore Union, and his wife, Eliza, sister of A. M. (qv) and…...
Healy, Maurice Francis
Healy, Maurice Francis (1887–1943), barrister and author, was born at 16 Mountjoy Place, Dublin, on 16 November 1887, the eldest of the three children of Maurice Healy (qv), a Cork solicitor and later an MP, and his wife and cousin,…...
Healy, Timothy Michael
Healy, Timothy Michael (1855–1931), parliamentarian, barrister, and first governor general of the Irish Free State, was born 17 May 1855 in Bantry, west Co. Cork, second son of Maurice Healy, clerk of the Bantry poor law union, and Eliza Healy (née Sullivan). Family background and…...
Hearne, John Joseph
Hearne, John Joseph (1893–1969), diplomat and lawyer, was born 4 November 1893 at 8 William St., Waterford, fourth son and sixth among seven children of Alderman Richard Hearne, mayor of Waterford and leather merchant, and Alice Mary Hearne (née Power). He was educated at Waterpark…...
Hederman, Anthony (‘Tony’)
Hederman, Anthony (‘Tony’) (1921–2014), barrister, attorney general and supreme court judge, was born Anthony James Hederman on 11 August 1921 in 40 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, the middle child of three (two sons and a daughter) of William Hederman of Glenville, Naas, Co. Kildare…...
Henchy, Séamus Anthony
Henchy, Séamus Anthony (1917–2008), barrister and judge, was born 6 December 1917 in Corofin, Co. Clare, the second of three sons (there were also four daughters) of Patrick Henchy, a merchant, and his wife Margaret (née O'Grady). Together with his equally gifted brother…...
Hennig, Paul Gottfried Johannes (John)
Hennig, Paul Gottfried Johannes (John) (1911–86), scholar and businessman, was born 3 March 1911 in Leipzig, Germany, fourth of five children of Fürchtegott Max Hennig, protestant theologian and teacher, and his wife Berta Johanna (neé Clemen) who was from a family of distinguished…...
Henry, Denis Stanislaus
Henry, Denis Stanislaus (1864–1925), lawyer and politician, was born 7 March 1864 in Cahore, Draperstown, Co. Londonderry, one of five sons and two daughters of James Henry, businessman, and Ellen Henry (née Kelly), both of Draperstown. Educated at the local national school, he…...
Heron, Denis Caulfield
Heron, Denis Caulfield (1824–81), lawyer and politician, was born 16 February 1824 in Dublin, eldest son of William Heron, esq., of Newry, Co. Down, and his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Maguire, merchant, of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. He was educated at Downside School, near…...
Hinkson, Henry Albert
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Hogan (Dilloughery), Austin
Hogan (Dilloughery), Austin (1906–74), trade unionist and communist, was born 22 May 1906 in Bogberry, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, fourth son among numerous children of Michael Dilloughery, native of Co. Clare, RIC pensioner (sergeant,…...