Browne, Nicholas
Browne, Nicholas (1660?–1720), 2nd Viscount Kenmare , soldier and MP, was son and heir of Valentine Browne, 1st viscount, and his wife Jane, daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas Plunkett (qv) of Dublin and Balrath, Co. Meath,…...
Browne, Noel Christopher
Browne, Noel Christopher (1915–97), politician and physician, was born 20 December 1915 at 38 Bath Street, Waterford city, second son and fourth among eight children of Joseph Browne, of Loughrea, Co. Galway, and Mary Theresa Browne (née Cooney), of Hollymount, Co. Mayo. His father was…...
Browne, Patrick
Browne, Patrick (d. 1614), merchant and municipal politician, was the elder of two sons of Patrick Browne of Backweston, Co. Kildare, and his wife Katherine Weston, sister of the former prior of St Wolstan's, Celbridge, Co. Kildare. The Brownes were an old established merchant…...
Browne, Sir Valentine
Browne, Sir Valentine (1638–94), 3rd baronet, 1st Viscount Kenmare , politician, and soldier, was son and heir of Sir Valentine Browne, 2nd baronet, and his wife Mary, daughter of Charles MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy at the age of two…...
Browne, Thomas
Browne, Thomas (1726–95), 4th Viscount Kenmare , improving landlord, and catholic activist, was born in April 1726, second (and only surviving) son among two sons and a daughter of Valentine Browne (qv), 3rd viscount, and his first…...
Browne, Thomas Wogan
Browne, Thomas Wogan (1758?–1812), whig politician, was the elder son of Michael Browne (d. c.1778), a French army colonel with a modest property, Castle Browne, near Clane in Co. Kildare, and of his cousin and wife Catherine, daughter and (with her sister Frances) co-…...
Browne, Valentine
Browne, Valentine (1754–1812), 5th Viscount and 1st earl of Kenmare , catholic activist, and landlord, was born in January 1754, only son of Thomas Browne (qv), 4th Viscount Kenmare, and his wife Anne, daughter of Thomas Cooke of…...
Brugha, Cathal
Brugha, Cathal (1874–1922), revolutionary, was born Charles William St John Burgess 18 July 1874 at 13 Richmond Avenue, Fairview, Dublin, tenth among fourteen children (four sons and ten daughters) of Thomas Burgess (d. 1899), art dealer and native of Carlow, and Maryanne Burgess (née…...
Brugha, Ruairí
Brugha, Ruairí (1917–2006), politician and businessman, was born 15 October 1917 in Dublin, fourth child and only son (he had five sisters) of the republican revolutionary Cathal Brugha (qv) and his wife Cathleen (Caitlín) (née Kingston),…...
Bryan, George
Bryan, George (1770–1843), militia officer and catholic politician, was born 3 November 1770 in Devonshire Square, London, the younger son of George Bryan (1720–96) of London and his wife, Catherine Xaveria (d. 1778), daughter and heir of Henry Byrne of Oporto, Portugal. His great…...
Bryan, George Leopold
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Bryan, Patrick
Bryan, Patrick (d. 1663), lawyer and politician, was third son of James FitzJohn Bryan of Whiteswall and Eleanor, daughter of Piers Butler of Callan, Co. Kilkenny. Patrick qualified as a barrister, having studied in Gray's Inns in the late 1630s, and married a daughter of James…...
Burke (Bourke), James Aloysius
Burke (Bourke), James Aloysius (Séamus de Búrca) (1893–1967), politician, was born on 15 June 1893 in Newgrove House, Rathnavogue, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, eldest son of Tobias Henry Burke, farmer, originally of Burkington, Borrisoleigh, and his wife, Bridget Agnes, the daughter of…...
Burke (de Burgh), Richard
Burke (de Burgh), Richard (1527/8?–1582), 2nd earl of Clanricard , was the eldest son of Ulick Burke (qv), ‘Uilleag na gCeann’, 1st earl of Clanricard, and his first wife, Grace, daughter of…...
Burke, Dominic
Burke, Dominic (c.1603–1649), Dominican priest and political agent, was a scion of the Burke family, earls of Clanricard and St Albans. Having entered the Dominican order, he entered its house at Athenry, and then studied at the studium generale at Bologna,…...
Burke, James Michael
Burke, James Michael (1873–1936), barrister, newspaper editor, and politician, was born 4 November 1873 at 31 Bridge St., Skibbereen, Co. Cork, seventh among twelve children (seven sons and three daughters survived to adulthood) of Patrick Burke, grocer and farmer, and Mary Burke (née…...
Burke, Joan
Burke, Joan (1929–2016), nurse, politician and farmer, was named Hanna Teresa at her birth on 8 February 1928, at Roughgrove House, Bandon, Co. Cork, the last of four children, and the only daughter, of Denis Crowley and Bridgid (‘Cissie’) (née Russell). The family farmed at Roughgrove…...
Burke, John
Burke, John (1789–1845), priest and political activist, was born in January 1789 at Rochfortbridge, Co. Westmeath, and was educated at St Finian's College, Navan; nothing is known of his parents. He began his final theological training at Maynooth in August 1808 and was ordained…...
Burke, Richard
Burke, Richard (c.1569–1635), 4th earl of Clanricard, nobleman, was the second, but eldest surviving, son of the six sons and two daughters of Ulick Burke, 3rd earl of Clanricard, and his wife, Honora, daughter of John Burke of Clogheroka, Co. Galway. His date of birth is…...
Burke, Ulick
Burke, Ulick (1604–58), 1st marquess of Clanricard , politician, was born at Athlone in 1604, the only son of politician and landowner, Richard Burke (qv), 4th earl of Clanricard, and Frances, daughter and heir of the Elizabethan secretary of…...
Burke, William
Burke, William (d. 1687), 7th earl of Clanricard , catholic nobleman, was the second son of Sir William Burke and Joan, daughter of Dermot O'Shaugnessy (qv; see Roger O'Shaugnessy) of Gort, Co. Galway. He was a colonel in the king's service in 1640 and…...
Burns, Lizzie
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Bushell, Ellen Sarah ('Nellie')
Bushell, Ellen Sarah (‘Nellie’) (1884–1948), silk weaver, usher and activist, was born on 23 January 1884 at 57 Francis Street, Dublin, to Edward Bushell (d. 1904), a silk weaver, and his wife Ellen (née Walshe). Bushell’s mother was dead by 1901 and Edward had…...
Butler, Count Walter
Butler, Count Walter (d. 1634), imperial governor and soldier, was born in Ballinakill, near Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, second son of Peter Butler and Catharine Butler (née de Burgo). The family originated in Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny, and were a cadet branch of the house of Ormond.…...
Butler, Edmund
Butler, Edmund (c.1548–1602), 2nd Viscount Mountgarret , nobleman, was the son of Richard Butler (qv) (d. 1571), 1st Viscount Mountgarret, and his fourth wife, Ellen, daughter of Theobald Butler of Neigham, Co. Kilkenny. He…...