O'Connor, Arthur
O'Connor, Arthur (1763–1852), politician, revolutionary, and writer on economics, was born Arthur Conner on 4 July 1763 at Connerville, near Bandon, Co. Cork, the youngest son of the five sons and four daughters of Roger Conner (1728–98), army officer, and his wife, Anne Conner (née…...
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'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'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'Kelly, William
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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…...
Oldham, Charles Hubert
Oldham, Charles Hubert (1859–1926), economist and nationalist, was born in Monkstown, Co. Dublin, seventh among eight children of Eldred Oldham, silk merchant, draper, and house furnisher, and Anne Oldham (née Alker), daughter of a house furnisher. For many years the family ran a…...
Petrus de Hibernia (Peter of Ireland)
Petrus de Hibernia (Peter of Ireland) (fl. c.1200–p.1260), philosopher and teacher at Naples, probably of Anglo-Irish descent, was known as gemma magistrorum, the ‘gem of teachers’. He received his education probably at Oxford and Paris and may also have…...
Punch (Pontius, Ponce), John
Punch (Pontius, Ponce), John (1603–c.1660×73), philosopher, theologian, and controversialist, was born in Cork of an Anglo-Irish family. Nothing is known of his parents, his early years, or his education before he entered the novitiate of the Irish Franciscans at St…...
Rawson, Thomas James
Rawson, Thomas James (1748?–1814), yeomanry captain and author of the Dublin Society's statistical survey of Kildare, was a son of James Rawson of Punchestown, Co. Kildare. His mother was born a James of Ballycrystal, Co. Wexford. It seems both parents were of humble origin, as…...
Roseingrave, Tomás
Roseingrave, Tomás (1918–93), social scientist, was born Thomas Roseingrave on 4 July 1918 in Gort, Co. Galway, son of Thomas Roseingrave, engineer, of Gort, and Nora Roseingrave (née McMahon). From 1928 to 1934 he was educated at the O'Brien Institute in Dublin and subsequently…...
Sampson, George Vaughan
Sampson, George Vaughan (1763–1827), clergyman, linguist, survey writer, and agricultural and social reformer, was born in Co. Antrim, though his father, Arthur Sampson, was at the time rector of Templemore, Co. Londonderry. His mother was Mary Mercer, daughter of George Spaight…...
Smiddy, Timothy Aloysius
Smiddy, Timothy Aloysius (1875–1962), economist, academic, and diplomat, was born 30 April 1875 in Cork, son of William Smiddy, a businessman and victualler, of Kilbarry House, Cork, and Norah Smiddy (née Mahony). He was educated at St Finbarr's College, Cork, at…...
Smith, Louis Patrick Frederick
Smith, Louis Patrick Frederick (1923–2012), agricultural economist and academic, was born on 21 December 1923 in Kevit Castle in Crossdoney, Co. Cavan, the youngest of eight children of Dr Frederick Paul Smith, a farmer and ophthalmologist of Kevit Castle, and his wife Isabella (née…...
Taylor, William Cooke
Taylor, William Cooke (1800–49), historian and economist, was born 16 April 1800 at Youghal, Co. Cork, son of Richard Taylor, manufacturer, and his wife, Mary (née Cooke). Both his parents’ families had lived at Youghal since Cromwellian times; Mary was descended from the regicide…...
Temple, Sir William
Temple, Sir William (1555–1627), philosopher and provost of TCD, was born in Warwickshire, England, son of Anthony Temple. Educated at Eton, William entered King's College, Cambridge, where he was a fellow, graduating BA (1578) and…...
Thompson, William
Thompson, William (1775–1833), political economist and social reformer, was born in Cork city. His father, John Thompson, a wealthy merchant and landowner, was high sheriff of the county and, in 1794, was elected mayor of Cork city. John Thompson died in 1814 (his wife, of whom no other…...
Toland, John
Toland, John (1670–1722), freethinker and polemical writer, was probably born in Inishowen, Co. Donegal, on 30 November 1670. Reputed to be the illegitimate son of a catholic priest, Toland may have been baptised ‘Joannes Eugenius’, which he later altered to a pen name, ‘Janus Junius’.…...
Torrens, Robert
Torrens, Robert (c.1780–1864), political economist, was born in Ulster, probably at Hervey Hill rectory, Kilrea, Co. Londonderry (though Hazelwood House, Rasharkin, Co. Antrim, has also been suggested). He was eldest among three children of Robert Torrens and his wife…...
Townshend, Horatio
Townshend, Horatio (1750–1837), clergyman and author, was born 5 November 1750, third son of Capt. Philip Townshend (1700–86), soldier and landowner, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hungerford. The Townshends had come to Ireland in the seventeenth century; Horatio's…...
Turner, William
Turner, William (1871–1936), catholic bishop and professor of philosophy in the USA, was born 8 April 1871 in Ardkilmartin, near Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, in a farming family, son of Patrick Turner and Bridget Turner (née Carey). He was one of five sons and five daughters; three…...
Usher, James
Usher, James (c.1720–1772), philosopher and schoolmaster, was born in Co. Dublin, son of a gentleman farmer; nothing else is known of his parents. He was probably a descendant of James (qv) and…...
Walsh, Richard Hussey
Walsh, Richard Hussey (1825–62), economist, born in King's Co. (Offaly) on 25 July 1825, was the fifth son in the family of eight sons and one daughter of John Hussey Walsh (1791–1863), a justice of the peace, of Kilduff, near Tyrrellspass, King's Co., and Cranagh and Mulhussey, Co…...
Whitelaw, James
Whitelaw, James (1749–1813), clergyman, statistician, and philanthropist, was born in Co. Leitrim; nothing is known of his family. He was educated in Cavan by Rev. Lewis Kerr before entering TCD (8 July 1766), becoming a scholar (1769…...
Wilson, Thomas
Wilson, Thomas (1916–2001), economist, was born on 23 June 1916 on the family farm at Ballylagan, Ballynure, Co. Antrim, the only child of John Bright Wilson (d. 1948), and his wife Margaret (née Ellison). His father, while keeping the farm, established a grocery and animal feed…...