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Fainche

Fainche (6th cent.), anchoress, abbess of Ros Airthir (Rossory, Co. Fermanagh), and saint in the Irish tradition, most likely belonged to the dynasty of Cenél Lóegaire. Later medieval genealogies (Book of Lecan and Leabhar Breac) name her father as Crimthann son of Guaire –…

Fairbrother, Samuel

Fairbrother, Samuel (c.1684–1758?), printer, bookseller, and ‘king's stationer’ in Ireland. Details of his early life and ancestry go unrecorded, though he probably served his apprenticeship in Dublin under Joseph Ray (qv), inheriting…

Fedelmid (Feidlimid)

Fedelmid (Feidlimid) (p. 770?–847), son of Crimthann and king of Cashel, belonged to the dynasty of Éoganacht Chaisil. A retrospective entry in the Annals of Inisfallen places his birth at 770, which is perhaps a little early. His father, a descendant of Fíngen (a seventh-…

Fer-dá-Chrích

Fer-dá-Chrích (d. 748), also known as Áed grandson of Aithmet, was abbot of Dairinis and a prominent member of the Céli Dé reform movement in the eighth-century Irish church. The familiar name ‘Fer-dá-Chrích’ (man of two districts) was accorded to several distinguished…

Fiacc

Fiacc (d. late 5th cent.), bishop of Sléibte (Sletty, Co. Carlow), was a younger contemporary of St Patrick (qv). The only sources for the life of this obscure bishop are the materials on the life of Patrick, the…

Fíngen

Fíngen (d. 1004/5), abbot of the monasteries of Saint-Félix/ Saint-Clément and St Symphorien in Metz and finally of St Vannes in Verdun, was a reformer and restorer of the monasteries of Metz who became a personal friend of Adalbero II, bishop of Metz 984–1005. He succeeded…

Finglas, Patrick

Finglas, Patrick (d. 1537), judge and advocate of political reform, was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 29 December 1503, where he acted as Christmas steward in 1506. In 1509 he was a king's sergeant and was described as being of Piercetown, Co. Meath. He was appointed second…

Fínshnechtae Cetharderc

Fínshnechtae Cetharderc (d. 808), son of Cellach and overking of Leinster, belonged to the Uí Dúnchada lineage of Uí Dúnlainge. His sobriquet, meaning ‘looking four ways’, may be intended to convey a circumspect character; he certainly proved to be a political survivor and did much…

Fintan (Munnu)

Fintan (Munnu) of the moccu Moíe (d. 637), abbot of Tech Munnu (Taghmon, Co. Wexford) and defender of the Celtic Easter, was son of Tailchán or Tulchán, a member of the Cenél Conaill branch of the Northern Uí Néill. His father was a descendant of Fiachra Róede, whose descendants the…

Fitton (Fytton), Sir Edward

Fitton (Fytton), Sir Edward (1528–79), administrator, was the eldest son of Sir Edward Fitton of Gawsworth, Cheshire, and his wife, Mary, daughter and co-heiress of Guicciard Harbottle, of Northumberland. At the age of twelve he married Anne, daughter of Peter Warburton of Arley,…

FitzDermot, John fitz Ralph

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FitzDermot (Mac Gilla Mo Cholmóc), Sir Ralph

FitzDermot (Mac Gilla Mo Cholmóc), Sir Ralph (c.1225–1291), baron of Rathdown, landowner, son of John fitz John FitzDermot (c.1205–64), and direct descendant of the Mac Gilla Mo Cholmóc, lords of Uí Briúin Chualann, was a prominent figure in the marches of Dublin.…

Fitzgerald (Butler), Eleanor

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…

Fitzgerald, Elizabeth

Fitzgerald, Elizabeth (d. 1645), countess of Kildare and patroness of the Jesuits in Ireland, was born (date and place unknown) second eldest among six daughters and six sons of Christopher Nugent (qv), 14th…

FitzGerald, Elizabeth

FitzGerald, Elizabeth (c.1527–1589), the ‘Fair Geraldine’, was second daughter among five children of Gerald FitzGerald (qv), 9th earl of Kildare, and his second wife, Lady Elizabeth Grey, fourth…

Fitzgerald, Gerald

Fitzgerald, Gerald (1525–85), 11th earl of Kildare , was the son of Gerald FitzGerald (qv), 9th earl of Kildare, and his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Grey, marquis of Dorset. He was born on…

Fitzgerald, James fitz John

Fitzgerald, James fitz John (d. 1558), 14th earl of Desmond , treasurer of Ireland, was the second but eldest surviving son of Sir John fitz Thomas Fitzgerald and More, daughter of Donogh O'Brien of Carrigogunnell in Co. Limerick, lord of Pobblebrien. He actively supported his…

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, James fitz Maurice

Fitzgerald, James fitz Maurice (d. 1579), catholic militant and prominent member of the Fitzgerald family of Munster, instigated two rebellions against Queen Elizabeth with the intention of halting the reformation in Ireland and restoring the catholic faith. He was the second son…

Fitzgerald, James fitz Thomas

Fitzgerald, James fitz Thomas (d. 1607), ‘sugán’ earl of Desmond , was eldest son of Sir Thomas fitz James Fitzgerald (‘Thomas Roe’). The identity of his mother is uncertain but she appears to have been a daughter of Theobald Butler, 3rd Baron Cahir. Sir Thomas was bastardised when his…

FitzGerald, James fitz Thomas

FitzGerald, James fitz Thomas (c.1459–1487), 9th earl of Desmond, magnate, was son of Thomas fitz James FitzGerald (qv), 8th earl, and Alice Barry, and succeeded to the earldom after the execution of his father (…

Fitzgerald, John fitz Edmund

Fitzgerald, John fitz Edmund (d. 1589), landowner and rebel, was the son of Edmund fitz Maurice Fitzgerald, 6th seneschal of Imokilly, and Shylie, daughter of Mulroney O'Carroll, lord of O'Carroll Ely. He succeeded his father as seneschal, in which office he played a key role in…

Fitzgerald, Mary

Fitzgerald, Mary (1885–1960), South African trade unionist and socialist, was born in Ireland; her maiden name, and precise place and date of birth are not known. Emigrating with her father to the Cape Colony (1900), she worked as a typist for the British army at the Castle, Cape Town.…

Fitzgerald, Sir John

Fitzgerald, Sir John (d. a.7 May 1712), 2nd baronet, soldier, and patron of the poet Ó Bruadair, was born, probably by 1640, the eldest of at least five sons of Sir Edmund Fitzgerald (d. c.1666), 1st baronet, of Clonlish, Co. Limerick, and his wife, Mary Fitzgerald…

Fitzgerald, Sir John fitz Edmund

Fitzgerald, Sir John fitz Edmund (c.1528–1612), landowner and loyalist, was the son of Edmund fitz James Fitzgerald, lay dean of Cloyne, and his concubine Honor Ní Donogh, a woman of Muskerry. Both his father and his grandfather, James fitz William, had enjoyed a degree of…