O'Connell, John
O'Connell, John (1927–2013), medical doctor, businessman and politician, was born in a tenement at 73 Aungier Street, Dublin, on 20 January 1927, the fifth child of three sons and three daughters of John O'Connell, a half-blind, semi-literate British army pensioner, and his wife Mary (…...
O'Connell, Mary
O'Connell, Mary (1778–1836), wife of Daniel O'Connell (qv), was born 25 September 1778 in Tralee, Co. Kerry. Her father Thomas O'Connell, prominent physician and member of the Church of Ireland, was a widower with three children…...
O'Connor, Denis Charles
O'Connor, Denis Charles (1808–88), physician, was born in Bandon, Co. Cork, the son of Denis O'Connor, a shoemaker. Educated locally at one of the schools endowed by the duke of Devonshire, he entered TCD on 18 May 1826, aged nineteen.…...
O'Connor, Fergal
O'Connor, Fergal (1926–2005), priest and philosopher, was born Thomas Francis O'Connor on 6 December 1926 in Rathmorrel, Causeway, Co. Kerry, third of seven children of Henry O'Connor, national school teacher, and his wife Nora (née Egan). O'Connor's grandfather had also been a…...
O'Connor, James Joseph
O'Connor, James Joseph (1874?–1955), principal of the Veterinary College of Ireland, may have been born on 22 May 1874, and was son of a prosperous farmer at Ward House, the Ward, north Co. Dublin. His parents were possibly Daniel O'Connor and Eliza O'Connor (née Moyles), and he…...
O'Connor, James Malachy
O'Connor, James Malachy (1886–1974), physiologist, was born in Limerick on 9 February 1886, the son of Michael Roderick O'Connor, visiting physician at Barrington's Hospital, and Kathleen O'Connor (née Bowler). He was educated at the Crescent College, Limerick, and then entered…...
O'Connor, Mary
O'Connor, Mary (Sister Mary Agnes ) (1815–59), Sister of Mercy, foundress, and social worker, was born 6 January 1815 in Kilkenny city, youngest among ten children of Patrick O'Connor and Mary O'Connor. Like other charitable women of her time she visited the sick poor and made…...
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'Doherty, (Eamonn) Feighin
O'Doherty, (Eamonn) Feighin (1918–98), priest, academic, and psychologist, was born in Dublin on 10 February 1918, youngest son among four sons and two daughters of Séamus O'Doherty (qv), revolutionary, and his wife Kitty O'Doherty (qv). His…...
O'Doherty, Kevin Izod
O'Doherty, Kevin Izod (1823–1905), Young Irelander, MP, and medical doctor, was born 7 September 1823 in Dublin, youngest of two sons and two daughters of William Izod Doherty (d. 1832), a catholic solicitor, and Anne Doherty (née McEvoy). Educated at Dr Wall's school in Hume St.,…...
O'Doherty, Rosa
O'Doherty, Rosa (c.1588–1660), refugee and political activist, was born on the Inishowen Peninsula in northern Co. Donegal, daughter of Sir John O'Doherty (d. 1601) and his first wife, a daughter of Shane O'Neill (qv). Rosa…...
O'Donnell, Nuala
O'Donnell, Nuala (c.1575–c.1630), refugee, was born in Tir Conaill, daughter of Hugh O'Donnell (qv) (d. 1600), lord of Tyrconnell and his second wife,…...
O'Donohue, John Joseph
O'Donohue, John Joseph (1956–2008), priest, philosopher and spiritual writer, was born 2 January 1956 in Ennistymon hospital, Co. Clare, eldest of three sons and one daughter of Patrick O'Donohue (d. 1970s), a small farmer and stonemason (whom John remembered as a profound influence…...
O'Donohue, Maura
O'Donohue, Maura (1933–2015), missionary doctor and public health campaigner, was born on 2 March 1933 at Likeen, her family home in Kilfenora, Co. Clare, the second of four children (two girls and two boys) of Andrew O’Donohue, a farmer, and his wife Kate (née O’Brien). Mary Brigid, as…...
O'Flanagan, Kevin Patrick
O'Flanagan, Kevin Patrick (1919–2006), athlete, rugby and soccer international, Olympics administrator and medical doctor, was born on 10 June 1919 in Dublin, son of Timothy O'Flanagan, tobacconist, and his wife Teresa (née McLaughlin). Raised in Terenure, he attended the Christian…...
O'Glacan (Ó Glacan), Nial
O'Glacan (Ó Glacan), Nial (d. 1665?), physician and writer, was born in Co. Donegal sometime in the last quarter of the sixteenth century. Very little is known of his early life, but his own writings indicate that he was trained as a physician by one of the Mac Duinntsleibhe (…...
O'Halloran, Sylvester
O'Halloran, Sylvester (1728–1807), surgeon and historian, was born 31 December 1728 at Caherdavin, Co. Clare, third son of Michael O'Halloran, a prosperous catholic farmer, and Mary O'Halloran (née McDonnell). His brothers were Joseph Ignatius, later a member of the Society of Jesus,…...
O'Kelly, William
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O'Kelly, William Hugh MacNevin-
O'Kelly, William Hugh MacNevin- (1713?–87), Imperial court physician, was born probably at Ballynahown, near Aughrim, Co. Galway, about 1713, the eldest son in the family of three sons and one daughter of Hugh or Hugo MacNevin or MacNeven and his wife Honoria, who inherited their…...
Ó Laoghaire, Diarmuid
Ó Laoghaire, Diarmuid (1915–2001), writer and lecturer on Celtic spirituality, and Irish-language enthusiast, was born 1 August 1915 in Dublin, one of three children of Michael O'Leary from Doneraile, Co. Cork, and Mary O'Leary (née Flood), from Co. Meath; his father was manager of…...
O'Leary, William Hegarty
O'Leary, William Hegarty (1836–80), surgeon and MP for Drogheda (1874–80), was born in Dublin on 18 June 1836, the son of Thomas J. Leary of Charleston Road, Dublin, a building contractor and part-owner in a quarry in Avoca, Co. Wicklow, and Maria Henrietta Stuart Hegarty,…...
O'Malley, Eoin
O'Malley, Eoin (1919–2007), cardiac surgeon, was born 5 April 1919 in Galway, one of seven children of Michael George O'Malley and his wife Christina (née Ryan). Michael George O'Malley (1886–1961) was the sixth son and second youngest of fourteen children (the youngest being the…...
O'Malley, Patrick Pearse
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O'Meara, Edmund
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O'Meara (Meara), Dermot (Dermod, Dermitius)
O'Meara (Meara), Dermot (Dermod, Dermitius) (fl. 1610–46), physician and author, was born in Ormond, Co. Tipperary, son of the last O'Meara chief, Domhnall O'Meara of Lisaniskey, Co. Tipperary, who levied tax and tribute due to …...