Lavery, Cecil Patrick Linton
Lavery, Cecil Patrick Linton (1894–1967), lawyer and judge, was born 6 October 1894 in Armagh, the second son in a family of five sons of Patrick Lavery, solicitor, and his wife Rose (née Vallely). He was educated at St Patrick's College, Armagh, Castleknock College, Dublin, and…...
Law, Hugh Alexander
Law, Hugh Alexander (1872–1943), politician and lawyer, was born in Dublin, second son of Hugh Law (qv), of Co. Down, later lord chancellor of Ireland, and his wife Ellen Maria, daughter of William White of Dublin. Educated at Rugby and University…...
Lawless, John
Lawless, John (1780?–1837), lawyer, journalist, and political agitator, was the eldest son among twenty-one children of Philip Lawless, brewer, of Warren Mount, Mill St., Dublin, and his wife Bridget (née Savage). Philip's younger brother, Barry, of Cherrywood, near Bray, was a delegate…...
Lawless, Luke
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Leamy, Edmund
Leamy, Edmund (1848–1904), writer, politician, and lawyer, was born 25 December 1848 in Waterford city. Educated at University High School, Waterford, St John's College, Waterford, and St Stanislaus College in Tullabeg, he was admitted a solicitor in 1878 and called to the Irish…...
Lehane, Con
Lehane, Con (1912–83), republican, politician, solicitor and actor, was born in Belfast on 7 May 1912, the only surviving child of Denis Lehane (Donncadh Ó Liatháinn), an excise officer originally from Co. Cork, and his wife Mary (née Connolly), a native of the Falls Road in Belfast…...
Lenihan, Brian
Lenihan, Brian (1959–2011), politician, was born on 21 May 1959 in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, eldest of five sons and one daughter of Brian Lenihan (qv), Fianna Fáil politician, and his wife Ann (née Devine). His grandfather…...
Lindsay, Patrick James
Lindsay, Patrick James (1914–93), barrister and politician, was born 18 January 1914 in the Rotunda hospital, Dublin, eldest of three sons and four daughters of Patrick Lindsay, post office worker, and his wife Mary (née Keegan). When he was eighteen months old his parents returned to…...
Little, Patrick John (‘P. J.’)
Little, Patrick John (‘P. J.’) (1884–1963), journalist, lawyer, and politician, was born 17 June 1884 in Dundrum, Co. Dublin, son of Philip Francis Little and Mary Jane Little (née Holdwright). His father, born in Canada of Irish parents, was a former leader of the Liberal party in…...
Lynch, Fionán (Finian)
Lynch, Fionán (Finian) (1889–1966), politician and judge, was born 17 March 1889 in Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry, fourth son of Finian Lynch of Kilmakerin, Cahirciveen, national teacher, and Ellen Maria Lynch (née McCarthy). Educated at St Brendan's, Killarney; Rockwell College, Co. Tipperary…...
Lynch, (Robert) Roebuck
Lynch, (Robert) Roebuck (c.1606–1667), 2nd baronet, lawyer, and politician, was eldest son of Henry Lynch (d. 1634), 1st baronet (1622), and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Martin and widow of James Darcy. The Lynches, one of the ‘tribes of Galway’, had extensive…...
Lynch, Stanislaus John
Lynch, Stanislaus John (1831–1915), landed estates court registrar, land commissioner, and estates commissioner, was the second son of Patrick Lynch, JP, of Tara Hall, Co. Meath, and Rathermon, Co. Sligo, and his wife, Marcella, daughter…...
Macauliffe, Max
Macauliffe, Max, also known as Michael McAuliffe (1838–1913), Indian Civil Service judge and Sikh scholar, was born 11 September 1838 in Glenmore, Monagea, Co. Limerick, eldest of five sons and seven daughters of John McAuliffe, schoolteacher and farmer, and Julia McAuliffe (née Browne…...
MacBride, Seán
MacBride, Seán (1904–88), lawyer and politician, was born in Paris on 26 January 1904. He was the only child of the marriage of Major John MacBride (qv) and (Edith) Maud Gonne (qv) and…...
MacCarthy, John George
MacCarthy, John George (1829–92), MP and land commissioner, was the son of John MacCarthy, of Cork, merchant, and his wife, Jane, daughter of George O'Driscoll, of Cork, distiller. He was educated at St Vincent's Seminary in Cork. In 1845 he delivered the welcome address to the…...
MacDermot, Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke
MacDermot, Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke (1834–1904), solicitor general and attorney general for Ireland, was born 1 July 1834 at the family seat at Coolavin, Co. Sligo, the eldest of twelve children of Charles Joseph MacDermot (1794–1873), JP and…...
MacDonagh, Donagh
MacDonagh, Donagh (1912–68), writer and judge, was born 22 November 1912 in Temple Villas, Rathmines, Dublin, elder of the two children of Thomas MacDonagh (qv), one of the executed leaders of the 1916 rising, and his wife…...
MacDonagh, Maire (Mary McDonagh)
MacDonagh, Maire (Mary McDonagh) (1918–97), trade unionist, was born 20 March 1918 in Kilconnell, Co. Galway, the second of three daughters who lived into adulthood of Michael MacDonagh, customs official, and his wife, Caroline, née Keary, both of Co. Galway. She appears to have…...
MacDonagh, Terence
MacDonagh, Terence (1640–1713), soldier, poet, Jacobite, and lawyer, also known as ‘Turlough Óg’ or ‘Tirlough Caoch’ (one-eyed), was second son of Terence (Turlough) MacDonagh, of Creevagh, Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo, and his wife Mary, daughter of the poet…...
MacDonnell, Eneas
MacDonnell, Eneas (d. 1858), barrister, pamphleteer, and agent of the Catholic Association, was born in Co. Mayo, fourth son of Charles MacDonnell, a merchant of Clonagh, Westport, and his wife Jane (née Miller). Eneas MacDonnell was educated at the Lay College, Maynooth (opened…...
MacDonnell, James Joseph
MacDonnell, James Joseph (1766–c.1848), lawyer, United Irishman, and French army officer, was born 12 August 1766 at Carnacon or Carnacun, near Hollymount, Co. Mayo, the youngest of three sons of Joseph MacDonnell (1720?–1806?), a large grazier, and his wife Mary (née…...
Macken, Peter Paul (Peadar)
Macken, Peter Paul (Peadar) (1878–1916), trade unionist and revolutionary, was born 29 June 1878 at 13 Nassau Place (latterly part of the Setanta building, Nassau Street), Dublin, youngest of three children of George Macken, house painter, and Anne Macken (née Shanahan) (d. 1901), both…...
Mackey, Rex
Mackey, Rex (1911–99), barrister, actor, and writer, was born Arthur Joseph Connel Mackey on 7 December 1911, the eldest of three sons and two daughters of Joseph Arthur Mackey of Liosnamara, Bray, Co. Wicklow, and his wife Gertrude (née Gallagher). Educated at Castleknock College…...
MacNally, Leonard
MacNally, Leonard (1752?–1820), barrister, writer, United Irishman, and informer, was born in Dublin, the only son of William MacNally (d. 1756), a grocer. It seems that his mother brought him up with the support of his uncle, a merchant named Featherstone of St Mary's Lane. A…...
MacPartlin, Thomas
MacPartlin, Thomas (1879–1923), trade unionist, was born 22 August 1879 in Thomas Street, Sligo town, son of John McPartland, builder, and Margaret McPartland (née Burns). The family moved to Dublin in his infancy. After attending St Mary's Christian Brothers' School, he apprenticed as…...