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De Vere (Hunt), Sir Aubrey

De Vere (Hunt), Sir Aubrey (1788–1846), 2nd baronet, dramatist, poet, and country gentleman, was born 28 August 1788 at Curragh Chase, parish of Adare, Co. Limerick, eldest son of Sir Vere Hunt, and his wife Eleanor, daughter of William Cecil Pery (1721–94), bishop of Limerick. Sir…

De Vere, Sir Stephen Edward

De Vere, Sir Stephen Edward (1812–1904), polemicist, poet, and country gentleman, was born 26 July 1812 at Curragh Chase, parish of Adare, Co. Limerick, second son of Sir Aubrey de Vere (qv) and Mary de Vere (née Spring-Rice…

Dinneen, Frank Brazil

Dinneen, Frank Brazil (1863–1916), GAA president, proprietor of Croke Park, and journalist, was born in Ballylanders, Co. Limerick, son of Nicholas Dinneen of Ballylanders. In the early 1880s he was one of the leading sprinters in the Munster area and regularly competed at meetings…

Donnelly, Catherine

Donnelly, Catherine (1948–2014), advertising copywriter, arts advocate and novelist, was born on 29 April 1948 in Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, the youngest of four girls and two boys to Thomas Donnelly, a spirit merchant and wine importer, and Margaret Donnelly. Her earliest years were…

Drew, Thomas

Drew, Thomas (1800–70), evangelical clergyman, was born 26 October 1800 near St Mary's abbey, Limerick city, son of George Drew, baker and grocer, and his wife Sara (or Sarah), daughter of the Rev. Thomas Ryan, chancellor of the Church of Ireland diocese of Emly. He had at least one…

Eagar, Margaret Alexandra ('Margaretta')

Eagar, Margaret Alexandra ('Margaretta') (1863–1935), nursery nurse to the Russian imperial family, was born in Limerick on 12 August 1863. She was the fifth of eleven children born to Francis MacGillycuddy Eagar and his wife Frances Holden. From 1855–80, Francis Eagar was governor of…

Egan, James Francis

Egan, James Francis (1847–1909), Fenian, was born in Limerick city, son of the proprietors of a small city hotel, of whom no other details are known. Educated locally, as a young man he worked initially as a commercial traveller for a Dublin ironmongery firm, and subsequently for a…

Evans, Sir George de Lacy

Evans, Sir George de Lacy (1787–1870), British army general, was born 7 October 1787 at Moig, Co. Limerick, son of John Evans, gentleman farmer, from Lisready, Co. Limerick, and Mary Ann Evans (née de Lacy) of Leamlara, Co. Cork. Educated at the Woolwich Military Academy, he joined…

Ferrar, John

Ferrar, John (1742–1804), printer and historian, was born in 1742 in Limerick city, the only son of William Ferrar (sometimes spelt Farrier), bookbinder and printer, and Rose Ferrar (née Paine or Payne). The first member of this family to settle in Limerick was William Ferrar, a cavalry…

Field (Fehily), Thomas

Field (Fehily), Thomas (1546/9–1625), Jesuit priest and missionary, was born in Limerick, in 1546 or 1549, son of a catholic medical doctor, William Field (or Fehily), and his wife, Genet Field (née Creagh). Because of his religion he was sent for his education to Douai and then…

Finucane, (Cornelius) Aengus

Finucane, (Cornelius) Aengus (1932–2009), priest and international aid worker, was born in Limerick city on 26 April 1932, the eldest of four sons of John ('Jack') Finucane and his wife Delia (née Byrnes); he also had three sisters. His father was company secretary in a paper…

FitzGerald, Desmond John Villiers

FitzGerald, Desmond John Villiers (1937–2011), Knight of Glin , scholar, conservationist, and fine arts dealer and collector, was born 13 July 1937 in Cambridge Square, London, the only son and youngest of three children of Desmond Wyndham Otho FitzGerald, Knight of Glin, of Glin Castle…

Fitzgerald, Edward

Fitzgerald, Edward (1833–1907), catholic bishop of Little Rock, was born in October 1833 in Limerick city. He was baptised in St Michael's church, Denmark St., where his parents had married the preceding January. He was the eldest child of James Fitzgerald and Johanna Fitzgerald (…

FitzGerald, James fitz Maurice

FitzGerald, James fitz Maurice (a.1500–1529), 11th earl of Desmond , was son of Maurice fitz Thomas FitzGerald (qv), 10th earl of Desmond, and Ellen Roche. He appears to have taken control of the earldom sometime…

Fitzgerald, John David

Fitzgerald, John David (1816–89), Baron Fitzgerald , Irish law officer and British lord of appeal, was born 1 May 1816 in Co. Limerick, second son of David Fitzgerald, a merchant from Dublin who was believed to have taken part in the abortive rising of…

Fitzgerald, Thomas

Fitzgerald, Thomas (1454–1534), 12th earl of Desmond , was third son of Thomas FitzGerald (qv), 8th earl, and his wife Ellice, daughter of William Barry, 8th Lord Barrymore. In April 1493 he and his older brother…

FitzGerald, Thomas fitz Maurice

FitzGerald, Thomas fitz Maurice (1261–98), lord of Decies and Desmond, deputy justiciar of Ireland, was the only son of Maurice fitz John FitzGerald, the eldest son of John fitz Thomas FitzGerald (qv); his mother was Matilda…

Fitzgibbon, Edward

Fitzgibbon, Edward (1803–57), journalist known as ‘Ephemera’, was born in August 1803 in Limerick, son of a land agent; nothing else is known of his family. On the death of his father (1817) he went to London, aged 14, and two years later was articled to a surgeon. Within two…

Fitzgibbon, Gerald

Fitzgibbon, Gerald (1793–1882), lawyer and political writer, was born at Glin, Co. Limerick, on either 1 January or 31 December 1793 (the sources differ), fourth son of Garret or Gerald FitzGibbon, a farmer and weaver who left the catholic for the established church, and his wife…

Fitzgibbon, John

Fitzgibbon, John (1708?–1780), barrister and politician, was born probably in 1708, the first of the four sons of Thomas Fitzgibbon of Ballyseeda, Co. Limerick, and his wife, Honor, a daughter of William Hayes of Cahirguillamore, Co. Limerick. Thomas Fitzgibbon, whose father,…

Fitzgibbon, John Charles Henry

Fitzgibbon, John Charles Henry (1829–54?), Viscount Fitzgibbon and soldier, was born 2 May 1829 at Mountshannon House, Castleconnell, Co. Limerick, the only legitimate son of Richard Hobart Fitzgibbon, 3rd earl of Clare, and his wife Diana, daughter of Charles Brydges Woodcock,…

Fitzharris, Edward

Fitzharris, Edward (d. 1641), lawyer and politician, was second son of Matthew Fitzharris (or Fitzhenry) of Moghmaine, Co. Wexford, and Margaret, daughter of Sir Walter Browne of Mulrankin, Co. Wexford. His father, a prominent figure in the town of New Ross, sat as member of…

Flanagan, John J.

Flanagan, John J. (1873–1938), athlete, was born 9 January 1873 at Kilbreedy, Co. Limerick, son of Michael Flanagan of Kilbreedy. Having played inter-provincial hurling for Munster and won Irish and British titles throwing the hammer, a discipline of which his father had been a…

Foley, Gerald Robert Edward

Foley, Gerald Robert Edward (1886–1982), soldier and policeman, was born 10 May 1886 at the rectory, Askeaton, Co. Limerick, son of William Foley, the incumbent, and Josephine Foley (née Clarke). After completing his Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), he joined the…

Fossett, Robert (Bobby)

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