Co. Tipperary

Davin, Maurice (1842–1927), athlete and first president of the Gaelic Athletic Association, was born 29 June 1842 in Deerpark, Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, eldest of five children surviving infancy of John Davin, farmer and river haulage contractor, and Bridget Davin (née Walsh…

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Deasy, Henry Hugh Peter (1866–1947), soldier, explorer, and pioneer motorist, was born 29 June 1866 in Dublin, second son of Rickard Deasy (qv), privy councillor for Ireland and previously lord justice of appeal, of Carysfort,…

Deasy, Rickard (1916–99), army officer and a founder of the National Farmers’ Association, was born 13 March 1916 in Leeson St., Dublin, the youngest of three children (one son and two daughters) of Major Henry Hugh Peter Deasy, car manufacturer, explorer and son of the Clonakilty…

De Brún, Pádraig (Browne, Patrick) (1889–1960), priest, scholar, and academic administrator, was born 13 October 1889 in Grangemockler, Co. Tipperary, third child and second son among four sons and two daughters of Maurice Browne (1844–1911), a national school teacher from Cappoquin, Co…

Delahunty, Michael (‘Mick’; ‘Mick Del’) (1915–92), musician and bandleader, was born 11 November 1915 at 13 Raheen Road, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, son of Michael Delahunty, private in the Royal Irish Regt, and Mary Delahunty (née Ahearne). Reared in Clonmel at 7 Glenagad Road, Old…

Doheny, Michael (1805–62), Young Ireland nationalist and author, was born 22 May 1805 at Brookhill, parish of Fethard, Co. Tipperary, the second son of Michael Doheny of Brookhill, a small farmer, and Ellen Doheny (née Keley). He received a rudimentary education from an itinerant…

Donnelly, John (1934–1991), chemist, was born 8 August 1934 in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, second son among three sons and two daughters of Michael Donnelly, garda sergeant, originally from Dublin, and Maureen Donnelly (née Carroll) from Tipperary. He spent his early life in Nenagh,…

Dowling, Richard (1846–98), writer, was born 3 June 1846 in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, only son of David Jeremiah Dowling (d. c.1855), schoolmaster, and Margaret Dowling. His father died when he was 9 years old. He was educated in Clonmel, Waterford, and St Munchin's Jesuit…

Doyle, Jimmy (1939–2015), hurler, was born on 20 March 1939 at Bohernanave, Thurles, Co. Tipperary, the eldest among six children (two surviving sons and three daughters; another son died in infancy) of Gerry Doyle, a shoemaker, and Bridget Doyle (née Slattery). Gerry Doyle was also a…

Doyle, John (1930–2010), hurler, was born on 12 February 1930 in Glenbane, Holycross, Co. Tipperary, the only child of Timothy Doyle, farmer, and his wife Margaret (née Spillane). His mother died forty-six days later from blood poisoning, after which his father struggled with raising…

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Duane, William John (1780–1865), lawyer, journalist, and US treasury secretary, was born 9 May 1780 in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, eldest son of William Duane (1760–1835), catholic Irish-American radical journalist, and Catherine Duane (née Corcoran; 1760–98), a local protestant woman.…

Emmet, Robert (1729–1802), state physician, was born 29 November 1729 at Tipperary, younger of two sons of Christopher Emett, physician, and Rebecca Emett (née Temple); his mother was a descendant of the powerful Temple political dynasty based at Stowe, Buckinghamshire. Educated…

Everard, Patrick (c.1751–1821), catholic archbishop of Cashel and Emly, was born in or about 1751 in Fethard, Co. Tipperary. There is no certainty about the identity of his father, who probably was either a George Everard or a Patrick Everard, and is known to have been…

Everard, Sir Redmond (1689–1742), 4th baronet, MP, and later Jacobite, was born in Co. Tipperary, probably in Fethard, elder of two sons of Sir John Everard, baronet, of Fethard, and his wife Eleanor, eldest daughter of Pierce Butler, 6th Lord Caher, and Elizabeth Mathew. Sir John…

Everard, Sir Richard (c.1590–1660?), 1st baronet and Confederate, was born in Fethard, Co. Tipperary, second among three sons of Sir John Everard (qv), knight, of Fethard, lawyer, second justice of the king's bench, and his…

Fahey, Denis (1883–1954), catholic priest and anti-Semite, was born in Kilmore, Golden, Co. Tipperary, on 2 July 1883, youngest of three sons of Timothy Fahey, farmer, and his wife, Brigit Fahey (née Clery). Timothy Fahey's farm was located in the parish of Knockavilla, whose pastor,…

Falkiner, Sir Frederick Richard (1831–1908), recorder of Dublin, was born 19 January 1831 at Mount Falcon, Co. Tipperary, third son of Richard Falkiner (1778–1833), a soldier in the 4th Dragoon Guards, and Tempe Falkiner (née Litton; 1796–1888). His older brother Travers Hartley…

Feehan, John (Seán) (1916–91), publisher and writer, was born 8 September 1916 in Ballinree, Dualla, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, the elder of two sons of Thomas Feehan, teacher, Ballytarsna, and his wife, Catherine O'Connor, teacher, of Dualla. His brother Gerard died aged two, and his…

Fennell, Gerald (d. c.1666), physician and confederate, was born in Co. Tipperary, where he owned Ballygriffin in the barony of Clanwilliam, and was recorded as taking a lease of Athassal in 1634. He married Ellen, daughter and heir of John O'Mahony of Cloonakeany, in the…

Ffennell, William Joshua (1799–1867), fishery reformer, was born 16 August 1799 at Ballybrado, near Cahir, Co. Tipperary, eldest son (among six sons and ten daughters) of Joshua William Ffennell, country gentleman, and his wife Elizabeth. Educated locally, though not well, he was…

Fitzgerald (Butler), Eleanor (c.1545–1638?), countess of Desmond, was born in Kiltinan castle, near Fethard, Co. Tipperary, second daughter of Edmund Butler, baron of Dunboyne, and his wife Cecilia MacCarthy Reagh. Her father was a liegeman of…

Fitzmaurice, Henry Charles Keith Petty - (1845–1927), 5th marquess of Lansdowne , landowner, and politician, was born 14 January 1845 at Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London, eldest son of Henry Thomas Fitzmaurice (1816–66), 4th marquess of Lansdowne, and his second wife, Emily…