Brandt, Ruth
(1936–89), artist and teacher, was born 22 June 1936 in Dublin, eldest child of Frank Brandt, graphic designer, and the artist Muriel Brandt (qv) (née McKinley). She was educated at the Dominican convent, Santa…...
Dhammaloka (Carroll, Laurence) (fl.1900–11), Buddhist monk in Burma (Myanmar), was probably born in the early to mid 1850s in south Co. Dublin, son of a grocer in Booterstown. All that is known of his life prior to his emergence as a public figure in colonial Burma in 1900…...
Dillon, Michael (1915–62), medical doctor, writer, Buddhist monk, and the world's first surgically and hormonally reassigned transgender man, was born Laura Maud Dillon on 1 May 1915 in Ladbroke Grove, London, England, second child of Robert Arthur Dillon (1865–1925), former…...
MacQuitty, William Baird (1905–2004), traveller, film
producer, photographer and polymath, was born
in Belfast on 15 May 1905, elder of two sons of James Baird MacQuitty, managing
director of the Belfast Telegraph (a cousin of the
principal proprietors), and his wife…...
O'Halloran, Maura Eileen
(1955–82), Zen master, was born 24 May 1955 in Boston, Mass., USA, eldest among one son and five daughters of Fionan Finbarr O'Halloran, civil engineer from Tralee, Co. Kerry, and Ruth O'Halloran (née Libbey), teacher, from Maine, USA. She was educated…...
