Co. Mayo

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Lynn, Kathleen (1874–1955), medical practitioner and political activist, was born 28 January 1874 in Mullafarry, near Killala, Co. Mayo, second oldest of three daughters and one son of Robert Lynn, Church of Ireland clergyman, and Catherine Lynn (née Wynne) of Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo.…

Lyons, John Benignus (J. B.) (1922–2007), medical doctor, historian and author, was born 22 July 1922 in Highland Lodge, just outside the village of Kilkelly, Co. Mayo, third son of John Lyons and his wife May (née Higgins); there was also a sister. His father was dispensary…

MacBride, John (1865–1916), officer in the Boer army and republican, was born 7 May 1865 at Westport, Co. Mayo, the youngest of the five sons of Patrick MacBride and his wife, Honoria (née Gill), shopkeepers in the town. MacBride was educated at the Christian Brothers' School in…

MacDonnell, Antony Patrick (1844–1925), Baron MacDonnell of Swinford , civil servant, was born 7 March 1844 at Carracastle, near Swinford, Co. Mayo, eldest son of Mark Garvey MacDonnell, catholic landowner, and his wife, Bedelia (née O'Hara). He was educated at Summerhill College,…

MacDonnell, Eneas (d. 1858), barrister, pamphleteer, and agent of the Catholic Association, was born in Co. Mayo, fourth son of Charles MacDonnell, a merchant of Clonagh, Westport, and his wife Jane (née Miller). Eneas MacDonnell was educated at the Lay College, Maynooth (opened…

MacDonnell, James Joseph (1766–c.1848), lawyer, United Irishman, and French army officer, was born 12 August 1766 at Carnacon or Carnacun, near Hollymount, Co. Mayo, the youngest of three sons of Joseph MacDonnell (1720?–1806?), a large grazier, and his wife Mary (née…

MacDonnell (MacDonald), Ustian (Austin, Justin) (d. 1588), rebel, was the son of Maolmhuire MacDonald. He became the leader of the somewhat obscure Clann Aedh Buidhe sept of Clandonnell (MacDonald, MacDonnell), gallowglass of Mayo, who were based in the barony of Kilmaine. He was…

MacEvilly, John (1816–1902), catholic archbishop of Tuam, was born 24 April 1816 at Bunowen, in the parish of Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, one of the family of five sons and three daughters of William MacEvilly (1786?–1872) and his wife, Sarah (née Boland, 1787?–1886), both of whom…

MacHale, John (1791–1881), catholic archbishop of Tuam, was born 6 March 1791 at Tubbernavine, Co. Mayo, the sixth child and fifth son of Patrick MacHale and his wife Mary Mulkieran. MacHale's father was a prosperous farmer and innkeeper and was also active in the linen trade. The…

MacManus, Emily Elvira Primrose (1886–1978), matron of Guy's Hospital, London, was born 18 April 1886 in Wandsworth, south London, the daughter of Leonard Strong MacManus (d. 1911), a doctor, and his wife Julia Emily (née Boyd). Leonard MacManus was from a catholic gentry family with an…

Mac Suibhne, Micheál (c.1760–c.1820), poet, was born at Funshinaugh, near Cong, Co. Mayo. The names of his parents are not known, but his family is said to have migrated from Ulster to Connacht in Cromwellian times. Micheál Mac Suibhne and his brother Toirdhealbhach…

Maguire, Conor Alexander (1889–1971), lawyer, revolutionary, and politician, was born 16 December 1889 in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, twin son among four sons of Conor Joseph O'Loughlin Maguire (qv), medical doctor, and…

Maguire, Conor Joseph O'Loughlin (1861–1944), physician and folklorist, was born in Carraroe, Co. Galway, the only son of the two children of Edward Maguire, also a physician, and his first wife, whose maiden name was O'Loughlin. His father later married a second time and had another…

Maguire, Tom (1892–1993), revolutionary and republican, was born 28 March 1892 in Cross, Co. Mayo, fourth of eleven children of William Maguire, coach-builder and Fenian, and Mary Maguire (née Grehan). Joining the Irish Volunteers on their foundation in 1913 and encouraged by the…

McGarry, James Gerard (1905–77), priest, was born 28 January 1905 in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, the youngest of three sons and one daughter of James McGarry, businessman, and his wife, Margaret Fallon, both from Mayo. His father, a small farmer's son, went into business, then into…

McHugh, Kevin (1946–2006), fisherman and businessman, was born in Bullsmouth, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, on 26 May 1946, the fourth of eight children of Michael McHugh, ESB maintenance engineer, and his wife Norah (née Lavelle). Educated…

Molloy, Dorothy (Mary) (1942–2004), poet, painter and journalist, was born 10 June 1942 in Ballina, Co. Mayo, third child of Patrick Molloy, who was in the building trade, and his wife Kathleen, known as Doris (née Murphy). The family of two daughters and three sons moved to Dublin…

Moore, George Augustus (1852–1933), novelist, critic, memoirist, and cultural activist, was born 24 February 1852 at Moore Hall, Ballyglass, in Co. Mayo, a ‘big house’ in the Anglo-Irish style, built by his grandfather (another George Moore) in 1792 with money accumulated in the Spanish…

Moore, George Henry (1810–70), politician, landowner, and horse-trainer, was born 1 March 1810 in Moore Hall, Ballyglass, Co. Mayo, eldest among three sons of George Moore (1770–1840), landlord and historian, and Louisa Moore (née Browne), granddaughter of the 1st earl of Altamont…

Moore, Maurice George (1854–1939), soldier and politician, was born 10 August 1854 at Moore Hall, Ballyglass, Co. Mayo, second child among four sons and one daughter of George Henry Moore (qv), MP for Mayo and leader of the tenant…

Murphy, Delia (1902–71), ballad singer, was born 16 February 1902 at Ardroe, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, second of eight daughters of John (‘Jack’) Patrick Murphy of Mayo and Anna Agnes Murphy (née Fanning) from Tipperary. Her father worked in the gold mines in Klondike, where he met and…

Nally, Patrick William (1855–91), athlete and Fenian, was born 17 March 1855 in Rockstown House, Balla, Co. Mayo, fourth among eight children of William Nally, a prosperous farmer and former landlord's agent, and Bridget Nally (née Dolan). As a young man he joined the republican…

Ní Chanainn (Ní Cheanainn) (Cannon), Áine (1907–99), headmistress and co-founder of Cumann Scannán na nÓg, was born Annie Delia Cannon on 22 October 1907 in Derryvea, Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo, daughter of Michael Cannon, farmer and shopkeeper, and his wife Annie (née Kelly). She received…

O'Brennan, Martin Andrew (1812–78), newspaper editor, was born in Co. Mayo, ninth or eleventh son of Martin O'Brennan (occupation unknown) and Sarah O'Brennan (née Cullen). He was educated in St Jarlath's College, Tuam, and came to Dublin c.1836, where he apparently…