Evers, Liz

From a publishing and communications background, Liz Evers worked on the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) programme between 2018 and 2023, researching and writing DIB entries, primarily on contemporary figures. She was also the project's copy editor and co-editor of Irish lives in America (RIA, 2021), a collection of fifty biographies of Irish emigrants to the US, with Dr Niav Gallagher

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McCullough, John Edward

McCullough, John Edward (1832–1885), actor, was born on 14 November 1832 in the family home in the townland of Blakes in Dunboe, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, the second of four children (one boy, three girls) to James McCullough, a presbyterian small farmer, and his wife Mary. Mary died…

McKee, Maud

McKee, Maud (1954–2014), medical doctor and psychotherapist, was born Jacqueline Maud McKee on 17 April 1954 in Portballintrae, Co. Antrim, the third of four children (three daughters and one son) of John McKee, vice principal of Bushmills Grammar School, and his wife Mary (née…

Merne, Oscar James

Merne, Oscar James (1943–2013), ornithologist and conservationist, was born on 6 November 1943 in Dublin to Oscar Sean Merne, a bank official, and Madeline Mary (née Patten). He was the middle child between two sisters, Morna (b. 1942) and Cloida (b. 1947). He attended school at the…

Mills, Rosaleen Patricia Broughton

Mills, Rosaleen Patricia Broughton (1905–1993), activist and educator, was born on 16 July 1905 in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, the fourth of five children of John Mills, medical director at the Connaught District Lunatic Asylum (later St Brigid's Hospital), Ballinasloe, and Rosetta Mills (…

Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann

Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann (1955–2015), academic and activist, was born on 15 May 1955 at Calvary Hospital (Bon Secours) in Galway, the eldest of three daughters of Cilian Ó Brolcháin, professor of physics at University College Galway (UCG, now the University of Galway) from Dublin, and…

Noonan, Michael Joseph

Noonan, Michael Joseph (1935–2013), politician, was born on 4 August 1935 in Crean, Bruff, Co. Limerick, the son of John Noonan, a farmer, and Hanorah Noonan (née Slattery) from a farming family. He was educated at the Salesian College in Pallaskenry, Co. Limerick, before studying for a…

O'Hara, Maureen

O’Hara, Maureen (1920–2015), actor, was born Maureen FitzSimons on 17 August 1920 at the family home at 32 Upper Beechwood Avenue in Ranelagh, Dublin. Her father, Charles Stewart Parnell FitzSimons, managed a high-end clothing company and was part-owner of Dublin’s Shamrock Rovers FC.…

Raftery, Mary Frances Thérèse

Raftery, Mary Frances Thérèse (1957–2012), campaigning journalist and documentary maker, was born on 21 December 1957 in Dublin to Adrian Raftery, an Irish diplomat, and Ita Raftery (née Elmes). She had one sister and two brothers. The family lived in France for much of her early life,…

Rice, Noreen

Rice, Noreen (1936–2015), artist, was born in east Belfast on 19 February 1936, the second of two children of Johnny Rice, a master mason, and his wife Nell (née Hayes). During the second world war her father joined the British army and her mother took work in a munitions factory,…

Robertson, Olivia Melian

Robertson, Olivia Melian (1917–2013), writer, artist and co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis, was born on 13 April 1917 at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, to Manning Durdin Robertson (qv), urban planner and architect, and…

Robson, Christopher (‘Chris’)

Robson, Christopher (‘Chris’) (1941–2013), architect and activist, was born on 29 January 1941 in Dublin, one of three children (two boys and a girl) of Harry Stanley Robson (1909–2003), an English architect working at the Office of Public Works (OPW), and his Irish wife Anne (née…

Scott, Patrick

Scott, Patrick (1921–2014), artist, was born Percy Smyth Scott on 24 January 1921 in Kilbrittain, Co. Cork, to Percy Smyth Scott, a gentleman farmer, and his wife Eileen (née Tusker), daughter of an agent of the Bank of Ireland. He was the youngest of four children (two girls and two…

Share, Bernard Vivian

Share, Bernard Vivian (1930–2013), writer and editor, was born on 31 May 1930 in London to Irish parents Frederick Share, a civil servant, and May Share, who had emigrated there from Dublin. He lived in England until he was seventeen, attending school in Pinner, Middlesex, before moving…

Stewart, Louis

Stewart, Louis (1944–2016), jazz guitarist, was born on 5 January 1944 in Waterford to Tony Stewart, a store keeper, and his wife Mary (née Ryan), who were both from Dublin and returned to live in the city shortly after his birth. An only child, Stewart grew up at 7 Harty Place off…

Stoker, Florence

Stoker, Florence (1858–1937), literary executor and wife of Bram Stoker (qv), was born Florence Anne Lemon Balcombe on 17 July 1858 in Falmouth, Cornwall. She was one of seven children (five girls, two boys) of James Balcombe of…

Sugrue, Elizabeth (‘Lady Betty’)

Sugrue, Elizabeth (‘Lady Betty’) (1740/50–1807), executioner, is thought to have been born in Co. Kerry into a tenant farming family between 1740 and 1750. The location of her birth and names of her parents are not known, and available details of her life are largely anecdotal or…

Tallon, Ronald Joseph (‘Ronnie’)

Tallon, Ronald Joseph (‘Ronnie’) (1927–2014), architect, was born on 19 March 1927 in Dublin to Michael Tallon, a shopkeeper, and his wife Jenny (née McDermott). He was the second eldest of eight children (four boys and four girls) and grew up on Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra. After…