Coad, Patrick (‘Paddy’)
Coad, Patrick (‘Paddy’) (1920–92), soccer player, was born 14 April 1920 at 100 Lower Yellow Road, Waterford city, son of Michael Coad, sailor, and Johanna (‘Joanie’) Coad (née Morrissey). As a schoolboy at De La Salle College he excelled at hurling and table tennis, winning a…...
Cochrane, Sir Stanley Herbert
Cochrane, Sir Stanley Herbert (1877–1949), baronet, businessman, and patron of music and sport, was born 19 September 1877, the fourth son of Sir Henry Cochrane (qv), 1st baronet, of Woodbrook, Bray, Co. Wicklow, and his wife…...
Coffey, Victoria
Coffey, Victoria (1911–99), one of the first female paediatricians in Ireland, was born 16 September 1911 at 108 Brunswick Street, Dublin, the daughter of John Coffey, a weigh-master, and Ellie Coffey (née McCall). Her paternal grandfather, William Coffey, had been lord mayor of Dublin…...
Colahan, Arthur Nicholas Whistler
Colahan, Arthur Nicholas Whistler (1885–1952), medical doctor and songwriter, was born in Galway city, eldest son of Nicholas Whistler Colahan (d. 1930), professor of materia medica at QCG, and grandson of Nicholas Colahan (president of…...
Colleran, Enda
Colleran, Enda (1942–2004), Gaelic footballer, was born 2 May 1942 in Moylough, Co. Galway, the fifth of six children of James Colleran, farmer, of Moylough, and his wife Ellen (née Wilson), a national school teacher. Born into a strong Gaelic football family, with three older…...
Colleran, Patrick (Paddy)
Colleran, Patrick (Paddy) (1901–75), Gaelic footballer, was born 10 February 1901 in Curracunane, Curry, Co. Sligo, fourth son among seven sons and two daughters of James P. Colleran (d. 1914), farmer, and Margaret Colleran (née McHugh). He was one of the most famous and travelled…...
Colles, Abraham
Colles, Abraham (1773–1843), surgeon, was born 23 July 1773 at Millmount, Co. Kilkenny, second son among three sons and one daughter of William Colles, owner of Kilkenny marble quarries, and Mary Anne Colles (née Bates). Educated at Kilkenny College, he entered…...
Collis, (William) Robert Fitzgerald (‘Bob’)
Collis, (William) Robert Fitzgerald (‘Bob’) (1900–75), paediatrician, author, and rugby player, was born 16 February 1900 at Kilmore, Killiney, Co. Dublin, one of twin sons (his twin was John Stewart Collis (qv)) of William Stewart…...
Colohan, John Fallon Sydney
Colohan, John Fallon Sydney (1862–1932), physician and pioneering motorist, was born in Dublin, son of James Colohan, bank manager; nothing is known of his mother. He studied at the Edinburgh Medical School, and was admitted…...
Conneff, Thomas Patrick
Conneff, Thomas Patrick (1866–1912), athlete and soldier, was born in Kilmurry, Clane, Co. Kildare, the son of James Conneff and his wife Marcella (née Rourke). The Conneff family were blacksmiths plying their trade in the neighbourhood of Clane, in the shadow of the Jesuit college at…...
Connolly, Joe
Connolly, Joe (1922–2008), community activist and politician, was born 11 March 1922 at 5 Tolka Avenue, North Dock ward, Dublin, son of John Connolly, an engine driver, and his wife Esther (née McNally). Growing up in Lusk, Co. Dublin, and later in the East Wall area of the north-…...
Connolly, John
Connolly, John (1858–96), champion flat-racing jockey, was born in Naas, Co. Kildare, nephew of the famous jockey Pat Connolly. His uncle was champion in Ireland, and in England, where he won all the English classics in 1834, and the Epsom Derby twice. John was of slight build, and…...
Connor (O'Connor), Bernard
Connor (O'Connor), Bernard (c.1666–1698), royal physician, anatomist, and historian, was born into a catholic family in Co. Kerry, one of at least three children of Bernard O'Connor, possibly a member of the branch of the lords of Kerry, whose seat was at Carrigafoyle;…...
Cooney, Andrew (‘Andy’)
Cooney, Andrew (‘Andy’) (1897–1968), republican and medical doctor, was born 22 April 1897 in Ballyphillip, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, second of three children of John Cooney and Mary Ann Cooney (née Gleeson), middling farmers. While his grandfather Patrick Cooney, from nearby…...
Coote, Nina Edith
Coote, Nina Edith (1883–1945), croquet champion, was born 23 September 1883 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, only child of Orlando Robert Coote (1855–1927), land agent, and his wife Edith Mary (née Hume) (1858/9–1920). Her father was the third son of Rev. Sir Algernon Coote (1817–99…...
Copley, Clara (‘Ma’)
Copley, Clara (‘Ma’) (1865–1949), boxing promoter, was born 14 May 1865 at Masbrough, Rotherham, England, to Jonas Roddis, fishmonger, and his wife Mary Roddis. Clara was the sixth of their nine children. She married Joseph Copley of Leeds on 22 November 1886 at Darfield, Yorkshire.…...
Coppinger, Richard William
Coppinger, Richard William (1847–1910), naval surgeon, naturalist, and explorer, was born 11 October 1847 in Dublin, youngest among six sons of Joseph William Coppinger, solicitor, of Farmley, Dundrum, Co. Dublin, and Agnes Mary Coppinger (née Cooke), a native of Co. Tipperary. He…...
Corcoran, Peter
Corcoran, Peter (c.1749–c.1781), bare-knuckle boxer and heavyweight champion of England, was born in Athy, Co. Kildare. A strong man, 5 ft 11 in. (1.8 m) tall, he had a violent temper that often caused trouble. He quickly won a reputation as a strong and powerful…...
Corkery, Daniel
Corkery, Daniel (1883–1961), revolutionist and politician, was born 20 September 1883 into small farming stock in Clondrohid parish, near Macroom, Co. Cork, youngest of two sons and one daughter of James Corkery and Johanna Corkery (née Buckley). Educated at Macroom national school…...
Corrigan, Sir Dominic John
Corrigan, Sir Dominic John (1802–80), physician, was born 1 December 1802 in Thomas St., Dublin, where an Augustinian church now stands, second of five children of John Corrigan, dealer in agricultural implements, and his wife Celia O'Connor. Educated at the lay college at…...
Corry, Daniel
Corry, Daniel (1902–90), army officer and showjumper, was born 30 August 1902 in Loughrea, Co. Galway, the second of five children of Daniel Corry, shopkeeper, and Ellen Corry (née Morrissey); he was educated locally and as a boarder at St Joseph's College, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway.…...
Corry, Thomas Charles Steuart
Corry, Thomas Charles Steuart (1825/6–1896), doctor, poet, and entrepreneur, was born in 1825 or 1826, possibly in Brandon, Suffolk, elder of two sons of Thomas Charles Stewart Corry and Mary Corry (née Britnell; 1795–1871), who may have been his second wife. The family home was at…...
Cosgrave, Ephraim MacDowel
Cosgrave, Ephraim MacDowel (1853–1925), physician and antiquary, was born 17 July 1853, a son of William Alexander Cosgrave of Corrstown House, Co. Dublin, clerk of the peace for Co. Longford, and his wife, Anna Maria, daughter of Ephraim MacDowel (1798–1835), surgeon at the…...
Cosgrave, Mary Anne (Patrick)
Cosgrave, Mary Anne (Patrick) (1863–1900), pioneer nurse in Rhodesia, educationist, and Dominican prioress, was born 22 May 1863 in Summerhill, Co. Meath, one of four children of a member of the Irish Constabulary, who came from Ballysilla, near Oulart Hill, Co. Wexford. Her…...
Costello, Thomas Bodkin
Costello, Thomas Bodkin (1864–1956), medical doctor and antiquary, was born 4 February 1864 in Tuam, Co. Galway, son of Michael Costello, a shopkeeper, and his wife, Sarah Bodkin. His mother was a descendent of the Kilcloony branch of the Bodkin family, one of the original…...