De Lacy, Hugh
(1916–2010), educationalist, was born Laurence Hugh de Lacey on 2 June 1916 ...
Ellmann, Richard
(1918–87), literary historian and critic, was born 15 March 1918 in Highland Park, ...
Huston, John
(1906–87), film director, was born 5 August 1906 in Nevada, Missouri, USA, only ...
Hooker, Helen O'Malley
Roelefs (1905–93), sculptor, was born 1 January 1905 in Connecticut, USA, third ...
Flaherty, Robert
(1884–1951), filmmaker, was born 16 February 1884 in Iron Mountain, Michigan, eldest among ...
McKiernan, Eoin
(1915–2004), cultural entrepreneur and promoter of Irish studies, was born in Manhattan, New ...
Beatty, Alfred Chester
(1875–1968), mining engineer, art collector, and philanthropist, was born in New York ...
Byrne, Donn
(1889–1928), writer, was born Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 20 November 1889 in New York, ...
Cadden, Mary Anne (‘Mamie’) (‘Nurse Cadden’)
(1891–1959), midwife and abortionist, was born 27 October 1891 ...
Bell, (John) Bowyer
(1931–2003), writer on the IRA and artist, was born 15 November 1931 ...
Baker, John Wynn
(1726/7–1775), agricultural improver, was born in New York but lived in Lancashire ...
O'Halloran, Maura Eileen
(1955–82), Zen master, was born 24 May 1955 in Boston, Mass., USA, ...
Roth, Edward
(1922–76), first director general of RTÉ television, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, ...
Mullins, Thomas Lincoln Joseph
(1903–78), politician and Fianna Fáil general secretary, was born 12 February ...
Stewart, Herbert Ray
(1890–1989), agriculturalist, was born 10 July 1890, only son of Hugh Stewart ...
Murnaghan, James Augustine
(1881–1973), judge and jurist, was born 6 July 1881 in St Louis, ...
Cox, Lemuel
(1736–1806), engineer and mechanical innovator, was born in Boston, in the colony of ...
Ferguson, James Frederic
(1807–55), record agent and antiquary, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. ...
O'Connor, Andrew
(1874–1941), sculptor, was born 7 June 1874 at Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, the eldest ...
Lomasney, William Francis Mackey
(1841–84), Fenian, was born in Cincinnati (Ohio), of Irish parents, recently ...
Curtin, Jeremiah
(1835–1906), folklorist, writer, translator, and linguist, was born 6 September 1835 in Detroit, ...
O'Connell, Deirdre
(1939–2001), founder of the Focus Theatre, was born Eleanor O'Connell on 16 June ...
McShain, Mary
(1907–98), landowner and benefactor, was born Mary Horstmann on 27 March 1907 in ...
Segrave, Henry O'Neal de Hane (Dehane)
(1896–1930), land- and water-speed record holder, was born 22 ...
Jenkinson, David Stewart
(1928–2011), soil scientist, was born on 25 February 1928 in Hollywood Hospital, ...