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Individuals

A
* ACHESON
   of Market Hill, Co. Armagh; M.P. for Co. Armagh; 2nd Earl of Gosford
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Archibald Acheson in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

 * ADDIS
   with their ancestors and immediate family
   By Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D., LL.D. (New York, 1915) - HT

* AGAR
   also known as Henry Welbore Agar-Ellis; Member of the Irish House of Lords; M.P. for Heytesbury in U.K. Parliament
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - Henry Ellis in Wikipedia

* ALCOCK
   M.P. for Waterford and for Co. Wexford
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - William Congreve Alcock in Wikipedia

* ALEXANDER
   of Glentogher, Co. Donegal
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - Henry Alexander in Wikipedia

 * ALLINGHAM
   William Allingham - A Diary
   poet, diarist, editor; b. Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, 1824
   Ed. by H. Allingham; D. Radford (London, 1907) - OL - William Allingham in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* ANDREWS
   With an Introduction by Sir Horace Plunkett
   By Shan F. Bullock (Dublin, London, 1912) - OL - Thomas Andrews in: Wikipedia

* ANNESLEY
   of Catlewellan, Co. Down, M.P. for Downpatrick, 3rd Earl; Sheriff, Co. Down, Capt. Castlewellan Inf.
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - William Annesley in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* ARCHDALL
   of Castle Archdall, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh and Trilleck, Co. Tyrone. M.P. for Co. Fermanagh
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Mervyn Archdall, Sr. in Wikipedia
   of Castle Archdall, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, M.P. for Co. Fermanagh
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Mervyn Archdall, Jr. in Wikipedia

* ARTHUR
   Chester Alan Arthur - Twenty-First President
   Father from Co. Antrim was an 'English-Irish' emigrant; section from Lives of the Presidents of the United States
   By William O. Stoddard (New York, 1889) - OL - Chester Alan Arthur in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (Albany, New York)

 * ASHE
   Memoirs and Confessions of Captain Ashe - Vol I - Vol II - Vol III
     Thomas Ashe, author; b. 'Glassniven, a village near Dublin', 1770
     By Himself (London, 1815) - IA - Thomas Ashe (writer) in: Wikipedia

B
* BAGENAL
   RSAI Journal
   By Philip H. Bagenal, B.A. (Dublin, 1914) - OL - Nicholas Bagenal in: Wikipedia
  M.P. for Co. Carlow
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Walter Bagenal in Wikipedia

* BAGWELL
   M.P. for Co. Tipperary; Governor Co. Tipperary, Sheriff, Col. Militia
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - John Bagwell in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Cashel; Capt., Maj., Lieut.-Col. Drag. Gds.
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Lieut-Col. John Bagwell in Find A Grave
   M.P. for Cashel; Dean of Kilmacduagh, and of Clogher
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Richard Bagwell (priest) in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Clonmel and for Co. Tipperary, Gov. Co. Tipperary, etc.
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliamentm - William Bagwell in Wikipedia

* BALFE
   Balfe
     His Life and Work; composer, Michael William Balfe, b. Dublin, 1808 noted for the opera 'The Bohemian Girl'
     By Wm. Alexander Barrett (London, 1890) - OL
   A Memoir of Michael William Balfe
     By Charles Lamb Kenney (London, 1875) - OL - Michael Balfe in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

 * BANIM
   The Irish Novelist
   By Patrick Joseph Murray (London, 1857) - OL - John Banim in: Wikipedia - Wikisource
   includes a chapter on "Pedigree Hunting"
   By Jonah Barrington (Dublin, London,1918) - OL
   American edition of Recollections of Jonah Barrington
   By Jonah Barrington (New York, 1853) - OL - Jonah Barrington in: Wikipedia
   The Real Founder of Barrington's Hospital (Limerick); includes his obituary reprinted from 'The Warder', Apr 1861
   Extract from The Old Limerick Journal - Barrington's Edition (Limerick, ) - LCC

 * BARRY
   Commodore Barry, Father of the American Navy
   John Barry, b. Tacumshane, Co. Wexford, Ireland; Address at the Commemoration of the One Hundreth Anniversary of his Death under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus
   By Michael J. Ryan, Esq. (Philadelphia, 1903) - OL - Commodore John Barry in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (Philadelphia)
   The Works of James Barry, Esq., Historical Painter - Vol I
     to which is prefaced Some account of the Life and Writings of the Author; b. Cork, 1741 son of John Barry and Julian Roerden; bur. St. Paul's, London
     Pub. for T. Cadell and W. Davies (London, 1809) - OL - James Barry (painter) in: Wikipedia - Find A Grave (St. Paul's London)
   John Maxwell Barry (1767-1838) of Newton Barry, Co. Wexford
   M.P. for Co. Cavan; 5th Baron Farnham
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - John Maxwell Barry in Wikipedia

* BEALE
   Octavius Charles Beale 1850 - 1930
   piano manufacturer of Melbourne and Sydney, b. Mountmellick, Queen's County son of Joseph Beale, Quaker; d. Stroud, NSW
   By Neville Hicks; E.J. Lea-Scarlett (Australia, 1979) - Australian Dictionary of Biography - Octavius Charles Beale in: Wikipedia

 * BERANGER
   and his labours in the cause of Irish Art and Antiquities
   By Sir William Wilde, M.D. (Dublin, 1880) - IA - Grave of William Wilde (1815 - 1876) in: Mount Jerome Cemetery

* BERESFORD
   M.P for Dublin and for Co. Waterford, Lord Mayor of Dublin, etc.
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - John Claudius Beresford in Wikipedia - Find a Grave
   M.P. for Co. Londonderry, for Coleraine, and for Co. Waterford
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Lord George Beresford in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Co. Waterford (Irish and UK Parliaments)
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - John Beresford in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Co. Waterford, Governor of Cork and Jersey, etc.; 1st Viscount Beresford
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - William Beresford in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (Tunbridge Wells)

* BERNARD
   M.P. for Youghal, for Co. Cork, and for Bandon Bridge; Viscount Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - James Bernard in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Bandon Bridge, Dean of Leighlin
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Richard Bernard in Wikipedia
   M.P. for King's Co., Sheriff King's Co., Governor, etc.
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Thomas Bernard in Wikipedia

* BIANCONI
   1786-1875
   By his daughter Mrs. Morgan John O'Connell (London, 1878) - IA - Charles Bianconi in Wikipedia

* BINGHAM
   M.P. for St. Albans; styed Lord Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - Richard Bingham in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (Laleham, Surrey)

* BIRCH
   Thomas Ledlie Birch, United Irishman
   Some family history in the footnotes
   By Aiken McClelland (Reprint from Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, 1963) - Discover Saintfield

* BLACKWOOD
   M.P. for Killyleagh, Co. Down in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Helston and for Aldeburgh in U.K. Parliament, 3rd Bt., 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye
   Authors: Winifred Stokes, R. G. Thorne; James Blackwood in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (including family stories)

* BLAKE
   M.P. for Galway
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament

* BLAQUIERE
   M.P. for Rye and for Downton; 1st Bt., 1st Baron de Blaquiere; Bailiff Phoenix Park, etc.
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament

* BLAYNEY
   M.P. for Old Sarum; 11th Baron Blayney, Lieut.-Gen., etc.
   Author: M. G. Hinton - History of Parliament - Andrew Blayney in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (Kensal Green, London)

* BLENNERHASSETT
   The Life of Harman Blennerhassett
   an authentic narrative of the Burr Expedition; b. Hampshire, England, 1767 son of an Irish gentleman while family was on a temporary visit; called to Irish Bar
   By William H. Safford (Cincinnati, 1853) - OL - Harman Blennerhassett in: Wikipedia

* BLIGH
   M.P. for Canterbury; Lord Clifton, 5th Earl Darnley, Lord Lieut. Co. Meath, etc.
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - Edward Bligh in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (Cobham, Kent)
   M.P. for Athboy in Irish Parliament and for Co. Meath in the U.K. Parliament
    Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Thomas Cherburgh Bligh in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (Southwark, London)

* BLOOD
   Remarks on the Life and Death of the Fam'd Mr. (Thomas) Blood
   Of his plot in Ireland, to surprize Dublin Castle...Seizing on the Crown and scepter in the Tower, etc.
   Published for Richard Janeway London, 1680 (Reprinted London, 1817) - OL - Thomas Blood in: Wikipedia

* BLOOMFIELD
   M.P. for Plymouth, Soldier, served in Vinegar Hill, Lieut.-Gen., Baron Bloomfield of Ciamhaltha in the Co. of Tipperary
   Authors: P. A. Symonds, David R. Fisher - History of Parliament - Benjamin Bloomfield in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* BLUNDEN
   M.P. for Kilkenny, Lieut-Gen.
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament

* BONNELL
   The Exemplary Life and Character of James Bonnell, Esq.
   Late Accomptant (Accountant) General of Ireland
   By William Hamilton, A.M., Archdeacon of Armagh (London, 1707) - OL

* BOOLE
   Our Friend Ethel Lilian Boole / Voynich
   Born in Cork, 1864, one of 5 daughters of the famous mathematician George Boole and feminist Mary Everest; Lilly Boole mar. the revolutionary Wilfrid Voynich who is noted for the curiosity the 'Voynich Manuscript'; she was a musician and author of  the novel 'The Gadfly' (1897); She died in New York 1960 aged 96
By Evgeniya Taratuta; translated from Russian by Seamus O'Coigligh with additional notes (original Moscow, 1957; translation Cork, 2008) - Cork City Libraries - Elthel Lilian Voynich in: Wikipedia - The Gadfly in: Open Library - Wikipedia; Her father George Boole in Wikipedia; Her mother Mary Everest Boole in: Wikipedia; Her husband Wilfrid Michael Voynich in: Wikipedia - The Voynich Manuscript in: Open Library -  Wikipedia

* BOUCICAULT
   Dion Boucicault
   author, actor; native of Dublin, b. 1822 son of Samuel Boucicault, well known merchant; extract from 'Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day'
   By Frederick Waddy (London, 1873) - OL - Dion Boucicault in: Find A Grave (Westchester, New York)

* BOURKE
   - A Life of the Earl of Mayo - Vol I - Vol II
     fourth Viceroy of India; Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl, b. Dublin, 1822
     By W. W. Hunter, B.A., LL.D. (London, 1876) - OL
   - Rulers of India - The Earl of Mayo
     By Sir. William Wilson Hunter, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., M.A., LL.D. (Oxford, 1892) - OL - Earl of Mayo in: Wikipedia
* BOWEN
   - Edward Bowen - A Memoir
     Schoolmaster at Harrow; b. Glenmore Co. Wicklow, 1836, his father the Rev. Christopher Bowen was the eldest representative of an Irish family holding property in county Mayo
     By Rev. the Hon. W. E. Bowen, M.A. (London, 1902) - OL - Edward Bowen in: Wikipedia
   - Lord Bowen - A Biographical Sketch with a selection from his Verses
     Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, brother of Edward Bowen (see above)
     By Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham, K.C.I.E. (London, 1897) - OL - Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen, judge, in: Wikipedia
   Thirty Years of Colonial Government - Vol I - Vol II
     Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G.; Governor successively of Queensland, New Zealand, Victoria, Mauritius and Hong Kong; b. Ireland, 1821, son of Rev. Edward Bowen of Taughboyne, Co. Donelgal and was brother of the Dean of Raphoe.
     By Stanley Lane-Poole (London, 1889) - OL - George Bowen in: Wikipedia

Admiral Courtenay Boyle
(National Maritime Museum)

* BOYLE
   M.P. for Bandon Bridge, Knight, Admiral
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Courtnay Boyle in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Co. Cork, for Bandon Bridge, and for Youghal; Visc., 3rd Earl of Shannon, 2nd Baron Carleton
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament
   Robert Boyle - a Biography
    17th century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, also noted for his writings in theology; b. Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford
    By Flora Masson (London, 1914) - OL
   Robert Boyle - Inventor and Philanthropist
    A Biographical Sketch
    By Lawrence Saunders (London, 1885) - OL - Robert Boyle in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (St. Martin in the Fields)

* BROOKE
   M.P. for Donegal Borough, for  Co. Donegal and for Augher, Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Donegal in U.K. Parliament Sheriff, Col. Co. Militia
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Henry Vaughan Brooke in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* BROWNE
   M.P. for Co. Mayo, Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Mayo and for Kilkenny, in U.K. Parliament
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Denis Browne in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Co. Mayo; Lord Lieut. of Mayo; 1st Baron Oranmore and Browne
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Dominick Brown in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Co. Mayo
    Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - James Browne in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Rye, Secretary of Legation, Copenhagen
   Author: J. M. Collinge - History of Parliament - Peter Browne in Wikipedia

* BROWNLOW
   M.P. for Co. Armagh, Capt. Lurgan Infantry, 1st Baron Lurgan
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Charles Brownlow in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Co. Armagh, Sheriff, Capt. Lurgan Yeomanry
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - William Brownlow in Wikipedia

* BRUEN
   M.P. for Co. Carlow, Col. Carlow Militia, Governor Co. Carlow
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Henry Bruen in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* BUCHANAN
   15th President of the United States. "My father, James Buchanan, was a native of county Donegal, in the kingdom of Ireland..."
   By George Ticknor Curtis (New York, 1883) - OL - James Buchanan in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (Pennsylvania)

* BURGH
   M.P. for Co. Carlow, and for Queenborough; General Lord Downes, 2nd Baron Burgh
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Ulysses Burgh in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* BURKE
   Burke
    The life of Edmund Burke
    By John Morley (New York, 1897) - OL
   A Life of Edmund Burke
     By Sir James Prior, F.S.A. (London, 1891) - OL
   M.P. for Wendover, for Bristol, and for Malton, Paymaster General,  writer, philosopher
    Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament
    The Leadbeater Papers - Vol II Letters from Edmund Burke heretofore unpublished
     By Mary Leadbeater (London, 1862) - OL - Edmund Burke in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia - Wikisource
   M.P. for Malton, son of Edmund Burke
   Authors: Arthur Aspinal and R.G. Thorne - History of Parliament

* BURROUGHS
   M.P. for Enniskillen, for Colchester and for Taunton; Advocate General Bengal, 1st Baronet of Castle Bagshaw
    Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - William Burroughs in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (Bath, Somerset)

* BURTON
   M.P. for Co. Clare Irish Parliament, M.P, for Clare in U.K. Parliament; Governor of Co. Clare, Lieut. Gov. Lower Canada; Knight
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Francis Nathaniel Burton in Wikipedia - DCB
   M.P. for Gowran, Irish Parliament, M.P. for Co. Carlow in U.K. Parliament, Governor Co. Carlow
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - William Henry Burton in Wikipedia - DIB

* BUTLER
   M.P. for Kilkenny and Co. Kilkenny, Sheriff and Mayor of Kilkenny
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Charles Harward Butler in Find A Grave
   with an Appendix and A Collection of Letters
   By _____ (new edition, Oxford, MDCCCLI) - James Butler, 1st Duke in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Co. Kilkenny, A.D.C. to William IV and Queen Victoria; 1st Marquess of Ormonde
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - James Butler, 1st Marquess in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Co. Carlow in both the Irish Parliament and in U.K. Parliament, 7th Baronet, High Sheriff of Carlow
   Author: Arthur Aspinal - History of Parliament - Sir Richard Butler in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Co. Tipperary, Visc. Caher, 2nd Earl of Glengall
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Richard Butler in Wikipedia

C
* CAHER - see BUTLER

* CALDWELL
   Autobiography of Charles Caldwell, M.D.
   parents from north of Ireland who settled in Delaware, later in North Carolina
   By Harriot W. Warner (Philadelphia, 1855) - IA

 * CALHOUN
   John C. Calhoun - Opportunist
    A Reappraisal; Vice President of the United States; son of Pat Calhoun of Donegal
    By Gerald M. Capers (Gainesville, Florida, 1960) - Questia - John C. Calhoun in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
   The Life of John Caldwell Calhoun
    By John S. Jenkins (Auburn, 1857) - OL
   Patrick Calhoun
    Grandson of the above; President of United Railroads of San Francisco (the Streetcar system) extract from 'San Francisco its Builders past and present - Vol I'
    Published by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. (San Francisco, 1913) - OL - Patrick Calhoun in: Wikipedia

* CALLAGHAN
   M.P. for Dundalk and for Cork
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Gerard Callaghan in DIB

* CALVERT
   created Baron of Baltimore in the County of Longford, Ireland and Projector of the Province of Maryland
   By Edward D. Neill (Baltimore, Maryland, 1869) - OL - George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore in: Wikipedia

* CALVERT (nee PERY)
   An Irish Beauty of the Regency
   The Hon. Mrs. Frances Calvert, born Sackville Street, Dublin 1767
    By Warrenne Blake (London, New York, 1911) - IA

* CANNING
   George Canning
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 'in the year 1618 King James I granted to George, youngest son of Richard Canning of Foxcote, the manor of Garvagh, in Ireland. Here for six generations the Cannings continued...
    By W. Alison Phillips (New York, 1903) - IA
   Review of 'The Life of the Right Honourable George Canning' by Robert Bell
     extract from 'The Patrician'
     By John Burke, Esq. (London, 1846) - OL 
    George Canning (1770 - 1827) Prime Minister, in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia;
    His son Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, 1st Viceroy of India (1812 - 1862) in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
    His First Cousins: George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh (1778 - 1840) in: Wikipedia
                                  Henry Canning (1774 - 1841) in: Wikipedia
                                  Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786 - 1880) in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
   Prime Minister of the U.K.
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament
   M.P. for Sligo and for Petersfield, Lord Lieut. of Co. Londonderry; 1st Baron Garvagh
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - George Canning, 1st Baron in Wikipedia - DIB
* CAREW
   (1514? - 1575) from the Original Manuscript
   By John MacLean, Esq., F.S.A. (London, 1857) - OL - Peter Carew in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
   Robert Shapland Carew I (1752-1829) of Castleborough, Co. Weford
   M.P. for Waterford City in Irish Parliament, and for Co. Wexford in U.K. Parliament
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Robert Shapland Carew I in Wikipedia
  M.P. for Co. Wexford, Lord Lieut. for Co. Wexford, 1st Baron Carew, KP
  Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Robert Shapland Carew II in Wikipedia

 * CARLETON
   The Life of William Carleton - Vol I - Vol II
   Novelist; I was born 1794 in the townland of Prillisk in the Parish of Clogher, Co. Tyrone
   By William Carleton, David J. O'Donoghue (London, 1896) - OL - William Carlton in: Find A Grave - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia

 * CARROLL
   The only Catholic signatory of the American Declaration of Independence... the first Charles Carroll came from Kings County, Ireland in 1688
    By Lewis A. Leonard (New York, 1918) - OL - Charles Carroll in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
   M.P. for New Ross
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament 

* CARSON
   1809-1868 Frontiersman of Scotch-Irish descent; original name Christopher Houston Carson
   By Edwin L. Sabin (Chicago, 1914) - IA - Kit Carson in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
   of Scotch-Irish descent; b. Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone 1776
   By George C. Moore (New York, 1853) - IA
   of Scotch-Irish descent
   By James Darrach, M.D. (Philadelphia, 1879) - IA

* CASTLEREAGH: - see STEWART

* CAULFEILD
   M.P. for Co. Armagh
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Henry Caulfeild in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* CHICHESTER
   M.P. for Carrickfergus, and for Belfast, Weighmaster for Cork, Sheriff Co. Donegal, etc., 1st Baronet
   Author: Arthur Aspinal - History of Parliament - Sir Arthur Chichester in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Carrickfergus, for Belfast, and for Co. Antrim, Earl of Belfast, 3rd Marquess of Donegall
   Author: Arthur Aspinal - History of Parliament - George Chichester in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Belfast in the Irish Parliament and for Carrickfergus in U.K. Parliament
   Author: Arthur Aspinal - History of Parliament - Spencer Stanley Chichester in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* CHINNERY
   M.P. for Castlemartyr and for Bandon Bridge in the Irish Parliament, and for Bandon in U.K. Parliament, 1st Baronet
   Author: Arthur Aspinal - History of Parliament - Broderick Chinnery in Wikipedia

* CLEMENTS
   M.P. for Co. Leitrim and for Co. Cavan, Governor Co. Leitrim, etc. - Henry John Clements in Wikipedia
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament
   M.P. Jacobite Parliament, also M.P. for Duleek, Cavan Borough, Co. Leitrim, Carrick, Co. Leitrim
   Contributed by James Quinn - Dictionary of Irish Biography
   M.P. for Co. Leitrim, 2nd Earl of Leitrim
   Author: Arthur Aspinal - History of Parliament - Nathaniel Clements in Wikipedia

* CLERKE
   Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke
   An appreciation; Foreword by Aubrey St. John Clerke; Astronomers, writers of Skibbereen, Co. Cork daughters of judge's registrar John William Clerke and Margaret Deasy; Agnes (1842 - 1907); Ellen (1840 - 1906)
   by Lady Huggins Hon. Mem. R.A.S. (Printed for Private Circulation, London? 1907) - OL - Agnes Mary Clerke in: Wikipedia - Clerke (crater) on the Moon, named for Agnes Mary Clerke in: Wikipedia - Ellen Mary Clerke in: Wikipedia - Margaret Lindsay Huggins (Lady Huggins, nee Murray), b. Dublin 1848, in: Wikipedia

 * CLEVELAND
   Grover Cleveland
   22nd and 24th President of the United States; his ancestry includes two ladies of Irish descent: Abigail Waters who married Captain Aaron Cleveland and  Ann Neale who married Richard Falley Cleveland
   By William O. Stoddard (New York, 1888) - OL - Grover Cleveland in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* CLIFDEN - see AGAR

* CLIFFORD
   M.P. for Bandon Bridge and for Dungarvan, Admiral, Baronet
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Augustus Clifford in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* CLIFTON - see BLIGH

* CLINTON
   -Life of Dewitt Clinton
     Governor of New York; his ancestor, Charles Clinton sailed from Dublin 1729
     By James Renwick, LL.D. (New York, 1840) - OL
   The Birth Place of De Witt Clinton
     extract from 'Olde Ulster: an Historical and Genealogical Magazine'
     By De Witt Roosa (Kingston, New York, 1910) - IA - DeWitt Clinton in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* COLCLOUGH
   M.P. for Co. Wexford
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Caesar Colclough in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Co. Wexford
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament

* COLDEN
   Cadwallader Colden - a Representative Eighteenth Century Official
   b. Ireland, 1688; physician, farmer, surveyor, botanist, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New York
   By Alice Mapelsden Keys, Ph.D. (New York, 1906) - OL - Cadwallader Colden in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia - Colden Cemetery for family members and slaves in: Find A Grave - See also Irish-American Family Histories A - C

* COLE
   M.P. for Co. Fermanagh, Viscount Cole, 2nd Earl of Enniskillen
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - John Cole in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Enniskillen in the Irish Parliment, M.P. for Co. Fermanagh in U.K. Parliament, Governor of Mauritius and for Cape Collony, Knight, General
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Galbraith Lowry Cole in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave

 * COLE HAMILTON - see HAMILTON

* COLLES
   Selections from the Works of Abraham Colles
   surgeon; with A Memoir
   By Robert McDonnell, M.D., F.R.S. (London, 1881) - IA - Abraham Colles in Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia

* COLTHURST
   M.P. for Cork City; 4th Baronet
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Nicholas Colthurst in Wikipedia

* CONCANNON
   M.P. for Appleby and for Winchelsea; nephew of Andrew Concannon, Tobacconist, of College Green, Dublin
   Authors: J. M. Collinge, and R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament

* CONNOLLY
   James Connolly
   Irish Republican Leader and International Socialist
   By Patrick L. Quinlan (Buffalo, New York, 1922) - IA - James Connolly in: Find A Grave -  Wikipedia

* CONYNGHAM
   M.P. for Westbury and for Co. Donegal, 2nd Marquess Conyngham
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - Francis Conyngham in Wikipedia - co-entry with Henry Conyngham in DIB
   M.P. for Co. Donegal, Earl of Mount Charles
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Henry Conyngham in Wikipedia

* COOPER
   M.P. for Co. Sligo
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Edward Synge Cooper in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Co. Sligo, Governor Co. Sligo
   Author: Arthur Aspinal - History of Parliament - Joshua Edward Cooper in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* COOTE
   M.P. for Queen's Co., genealogist to the Order of St. Patrick, Sheriff Queen's Co., 2nd Baron of Castle Coote, etc
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament 
   M.P. for Ballynakill and for Maryborough in the Irish Parliament; M.P. for Queen's Co., and for Barnstaple in U.K. Parliament, Governor of Jamaica, General, stripped of honours in 1816
   Author: P. A. Symonds - History of Parliament - Sir Eyre Coote in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave
   Governor of the Provinces of New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire from 1697 to 1701; b. 1636, son of Richard, Baron Coote of Colooney, County Sligo and Mary, 2nd dau. of Sir George St. George, Baronet of Carrickdrumruske, County Leitrim
   By Frederic de Peyster, LL.D., F.R.H.S. (New York, 1879) - OL - Earl of Bellomont (or Bellamont) in: Wikipedia - Brother (?) of Mary St. George, Sir Oliver St. George, 1st Baronet in: Wikipedia

* COPE
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Armagh in U.K. Parliament, Sheriff Armagh
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Robert Camden Cope in Wikipedia

* COPLEY
  A Life of Lord Lyndhurst
  John Singleton Copley, 3 times Lord Chancellor; b. Boston, Massachusetts, 1772, the son of American painter John Singleton Copley (see following) and Susanna Farnham Clarke and grandson of Richard Copley of Limerick and Mary Singleton of Co. Clare; 'To those who remember his lordship's celebrated reference to Irishmen as aliens, it will be a matter of some interest to learn that Lord Lyndhurst's family came itself from the Emerald Isle' - John Burke, Esq. in 'The Patrician'. Having no son the title became extinct.
  By Sir Theodore Martin, K.C.B. (London, 1883) - OL - John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst in Find A Grave - Hansard - National Register of Archives - The Patrician - Wikipedia; His daughter, Lady Sophia Clarence Beckett in Find A Grave
  Copley
  John Singleton Copley, b. Boston, 1737; Masters in Art - American School
  Published by Bates and Guild (Boston, 1904) - OL
  The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley
   By Frank W. Bayley (Boston, 1915) - IA - John Singleton Copley (painter) in Find A Grave -  Wikipedia

* CORRY
   M.P. for Newry in the Irish Parliament; M.P. for Dundalk, for Newry, and for Newport I.o.W. in U.K. Parliament
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Isaac Corry in Wikipedia - DIB
   M.P. for Co. Monaghan, Sheriff Co. Monaghan
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament
   M.P. Ballyshannon and Co. Tyrone in last Irish Parliament and Co. Tyrone in U.K. Parliament; Governor Jamaica; 2nd Earl Belmore
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Somerset Lowry-Corry in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave

* COSTIGAN
   John Costigan
   (in French) Canadian judge and politician; son of Irish immigrants John Costigan and Bridget Dunn; from the series Les Hommes du Jour 
   By W. O. Farmer (Montreal, 1893) - OL - John Costigan in: Wikipedia

* COTTER
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P.  for Mallow in U.K. Parliament; 3rd Baronet
   Author: P. J, Jupp - History of Parliament - Sir James Cotter in Wikipedia

* CRAIG
   M.P. for Carrickfergus; died at Glen Park, 1 June 1833 aged 62 years
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - James Craig in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* CRAWFORD
   M.P. for Old Sarum, Major North Down Militia
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - Arthur Johnston Crawford in Wikipedia

* CROCKETT
   ...My father's name was John Crockett and he... was either born in Ireland or on a passage from that country to America...
   Written by Himself (Philadelphia, Baltimore, 1834) - OL - David 'Davy' Crockett in: Find a Grave - Wikipedia

* CROMWELL
   An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Oliver Cromwell
   Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland after the Manner of Mr. Bayle; Drawn from Original Writers and State Papers
   By William Harris (London, (1762) - OL
   The Life of Oliver Cromwell
   Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
   By John Banks, Esq. (London, 1779) - OL - Oliver Cromwell in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* CROSBIE
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Kerry in U.K. Parliament
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament

* CROSBY
   Call Me Lucky
   Crooner; son of Harry Lincoln Crosby and Catherine Helen Harrigan who was 2nd generation Irish-American
   By (Harry Lillis) Bing Crosby (Reader's Digest condensed book, New York, 1954) - Borrow from OL - Bing Crosby in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* CUDMORE
   Autobiography; Pedigree of the Cudmore Family
   I was b. Moorestown, Kilfinane, Co. Limerick 1831
   By P. Cudmore (1896, photo-offset Chicago, 1970) - FHB

* CUFFE
   M.P. for Tulsk in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Tralee in U.K. Parliament
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - James Cuffe in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Bossiney, 2nd Earl of Desart, Lord of the Treasury, Mayor of Kilkenny
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - John Otway Cuffe in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

   Late Master of the Rolls in Ireland
   By his son William Henry Curran (Chicago, St. Louis, 1882) - OL
  Memoirs of the Legal, Literary and Political Life of the late Rt. Hon. John Philpot Curran
   Once Master of the Rolls in Ireland
   By William O'Regan (London, 1817) - IA
  Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries
   By Charles Phillips, Esq. (London, 1822) - OL
   John Philpot Curran in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* CURTIN
   Andrew Gregg Curtin - his Life and Services
   Governor of Pennsylvania; son of Roland Curtin whose ancestors resided at Dysert in County Clare
   By William H. Egle, M.D. (Philadelphia, 1895) - OL - Andrew Gregg Curtin in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
D
* DALWAY
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Carrickfergus in U.K. Parliament; Mayor of Carrickfergus
   Author: P. J. Jupp in History of Parliament - Noah Dalway in Find A Grave

* DALY
   M.P. for Galway Borough, and for King's Co. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for King's Co., for Galway and for Co. Galway in U.K. Parliament
   Author: P. J. Jubb - History of Parliament - Denis Bowes Daly in Wikipedia - DIB
   M.P. for Galway, and for Co. Galway; 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - James Daly in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (includes notes on genealogy)
   M.P. for Galway in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Galway Borough in U.K. Parliament
   Author: Arthur Aspinal - History of Parliament - St George Daly in Wikipedia

* DARLEY   
   Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor Australia; b. Ireland, 1830, son of Henry Darley of Wingfield, Bray, Co. Wicklow and Maria Louisa West
   By J. M. Bennett (Australia, 1972) - Australian Dictionary of Biography - Frederick Matthew Darley in: Wikipedia

* DAVIS
  Short Life of Thomas Davis
   1840 - 1846
  Thomas Davis
   The Memorials of an Irish Patriot
   By Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G. (London, Dublin, 1895; London, 1899) - OL - Thomas Davis (Young Irelander 1814 - 1845) in Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia

* DAVITT
   Revolutionary, Agitator and Labour Leader
   By F. Sheehy-Skiffington (London, Leipsic, 1908) - IA
   With a History of the rise and development of the Irish National Land League
   By D. B. Cashman (Boston, 1881) - OL - Michael Davitt in Wikipedia 

* DAWSON
   M.P. for Co. Londonderry and for Harwich, Privy Councillor etc.
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - George Robert Dawson in Wikipedia- DIB
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Monaghan in U.K. Parliament, Sheriff Co. Monaghan
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Richard Dawson in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Co. Monaghan; 2nd Baron Cremorne
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Richard Thomas Dawson in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
Mary Delany Memorial
St. James's Church, Piccadilly, London
(Photograph by PJC)

* DELANY
   Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville)
   1700 - 1788; English 'bluestocking' who mar. Dr. Patrick Delany, Dean of Down, 1743
   By George Paston (Mrs. Symonds) (London, 1900) - OL - Mary Delaney in: Wikipedia

* DENNY
   M.P. for Tralee, Sheriff Co. Kerry; 4th Baronet; publisher of his own hymns and poems
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Sir Edward Denny in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave

* DERMODY
    Interspersed with pieces of Orignial Poetry
   By James Grant Raymond (London, 1806) - IA - Thomas Dermody in Wikipedia

* DE VALERA
   b. New York, 1882 to Irish immigrant Catherine Coll. No evidence for paternal ancestry has ever been found.
   By David T. Dwane (Dublin, 1922) - IA - Eamon de Valera in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* De VERE
  Aubrey De Vere - A Memoir
   Poet. Based on his unpublished diaries and corresponcence
   By Wilfrid Ward (London, 1904) - OL
  Recollections of Aubrey de Vere
   By Edward Arnold (New York, London, 1897) - OL - Aubrey Thomas de Vere in Wikipedia

* DOMVILE
   M.P. for Bossiney, for Okehampton, and for Plympton Erle; 1st Baronet; Governor Co. Dublin
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - Sir Compton Domvile in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* DONGAN
  An address delivered before the Dongan Club of Albany, N.Y.
   regarding Thomas Dongan 2nd Earl of Limerick, Governor of the Province of New York
   By Franklin M. Danaher (Albany, 1889) - OL - Thomas Dongan in: Wikipedia
  John Dongan of Dublin - An Elizabethan Gentleman and His Family
   mar. Margaret Forster, dau. of Walter Forster, Mayor of Dublin; Dongan was grandfather of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Limerick
     By Thomas P. Dungan (Baltimore, Maryland, 1996) - FHB

 * DONNELLY
   Life and Battles of Sir Dan Donnelly
   (boxing) Champion of Ireland
   By Ed. James (New York, 1879) - OL - Dan Donnelly in: Wikipedia
   Charles Francis Donnelly - A Memoir
   grandfather was Dominick Donnelly of Clogher, Co. Tyrone
   By Katherine E. Conway, Mabel Ward Cameron (For Private Distribution, New York, 1909) - OL
   Donnelliana
   incl a biography of Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, b. Philadelphia, 1831, whose father Dr. Phillip Carroll Donnelly and mother Catherine Frances Gavin were natives of Fintona, Co. Tyrone
   By Everett W. Fish, M.D. (Chicago, 1892) - OL - Ignatius L. Donnelly in: Find A Grave - Minnesota Historical Society - Wikipedia
  
* DOYLE
   M.P. for Mullingar in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Newport I.o.W.; 1st Baronet
   Author: Brian Murphy & R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - Sir John Doyle in Wikipedia - DIB

* DRUMMOND
  Thomas Drummond - Under-Secretary in Ireland
   1835 - 1840 Life and Letters
   By R. Barry O'Brien (London, 1889) - OL
  Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R.E., F.R.A.S.
   By John F. M'Lennan, M.A. (Edinburgh, 1867) - OL - Thomas Drummond (1797 - 1840)  in Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia

* DRUMMOND
   William Henry Drummond
   Canadian poet, b. Mohill, Co. Leitrim, 1854 son of George Drummond, R.I.C.; Makers of Canadian Litterature
   By J. F. MacDonald (Toronto, 1923) - OL - William Henry Drummond in: Wikipedia

* DUIGENAN
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Armagh in U.K. Parliament; K.C., Grand Secretary Orange Order, etc.
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Patrick Duigenan in Wikipedia - DIB

* DUFFY
   My Life in Two Hemispheres - Vol I - Vol II
   Irish nationalist; Premier of Victoria, Australia
   By Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (Vol I - Colonial edition, Vol II - New York, 1898) - IA - Sir Charles Gavan Duffy in: Australian Dictionary of Biography - Wikipedia 

* DUNNE
   Dunne - Judge, Mayor, Governor
   Mayor of Chicago, Governor of Illinois
   By William L. Sullivan (Chicago, 1916) - OL - Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

 * DWYER-GRAY
   Edmund John Chisholm Dwyer-Gray
   Australian journalist and politician; b. Dublin, 1870, son of Edmund Dwyer Gray, M.P. and Caroline Agnes Chisholm
   By R. P. Davis (Australia, 1981) - Australian Dictionary of Biography - Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Premier of Tasmania in: Wikipedia; His father, Edmund Dwyer Gray, Irish M.P. in Wikipedia

E
* EDGEWORTH
   Begun by Himself and Concluded by his Daughter Maria Edgeworth (London, 1844) - IA
   Listing of his 21 children in a handwritten record p. 3 - TCD - Richard Lovell Edgeworth in: Wikipedia
   in the series Famous Women
   By Helen Zimmern (Boston, 1883) - IA
    Edited by Augustus J. C. Hare (Boston, New York, 1895) - IA
     in the series English Men of Letters
     By the Hon. Emily Lawless  (New York, 1905) - IA - Maria Edgeworth in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* ELLIS - see AGAR

* EMMET, EMMETT
    Sketch of the Life of Robert Emmet
    By Varina Anne Davis (New York, 1888) - OL
   Life of Robert Emmett
   The celebrated Irish Patriot and Martyr
    By John W. Burke (Charleston, South Carolina; Philadelphia,1853) - OL
   The Life and Times of Robert Emmet
    also a Memoir of Thomas Addis Emmet
    By R. R. Madden, M.D., M.R.I.A. (New York, 1857) - OL
    Leader of the Irish Insurrection of 1803 and, the Celebrated Speech...
    By Unknown Author (Stereotyped from the last Dublin Edition, New York, 1850) - OL
   with their ancestors and immediate family
   By Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D., LL.D. (New York, 1915) - HT
   A Memoir of John Patten Emmet M.D.
    formerly Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medic in the University of Virginia; with a Brief Outline of the Emmet Family History
     By Thos. Addis Emmet M.D., LL.D. (50 copies Privately Printed, New York, 1898) - OL - Robert Emmet in Irish Historical Mysteries: The Grave of Robert Emmet - Wikipedia; Thomas Addis Emmet in Wikipedia

F
* FALKINER
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Dublin and for Carlow in U.K. Parliament; Sheriff Co. Dublin; 1st Baronet
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Sir Frederick Falkiner in Wikipedia

* FERGUSON
   Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of His Day - Vol I - Vol II
    poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist, public servant
    By Lady Ferguson (Mary Catherine Guinness Ferguson) (Edinburgh, London, 1896) - OL - Samuel Ferguson in Wikipedia

* FETHERSTON alias FETHERSTON HAUGH
   M.P. for Co. Longford; Sheriff Co. Longford; 3rd Baronet
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Sir George Fetherston in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for St Johnstown and for Co. Longford in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Longford in U.K. Parliament; 2nd Baronet
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Sir Thomas Fetherston in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* FIELD
   John Field of Dublin
   Inventor of the Nocturne
   By W. H. Grattan Flood, Mus. D. (Dublin, 1920) - OL - John Field in: Find A Grave (Vvedenskoe Cemetery, Moscow) -  Wikipedia

* FISH
   M.P. for Wexford, Admiral
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament

* FITZGERALD
   M.P. for Co. Clare, and for Ennis; Lieut. General; Baronet
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Augustine Fitzgerald in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Arundel, 1st Baron Lecale, Sheriff Co. Down, Rear-Admiral of the Red, etc.
   Authors: M. H. Port, R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - Charles Fitzgerald in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
     Being some Account of their Lives Compiled from the Letters of those who knew them
     By Gerald Campbell (London, 1904) - OL
     1763 - 1798
     By Ida A. Taylor (New York, London, 1904) - OL
   The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald
    By Thomas Moore (New York, 1855) - IA - For more on the Fitzgeralds/Geraldines see Nobility and Landed Gentry; Gerald Fitzgerald (1513 - 1534) in: Find A Grave (Tower of London Chapel); Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763 - 1798) in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia; Pamela, Lady Edward Fitzgerald, in: Wikipedia
    1456 - 1513
    By Donough Bryan, B.A., LL.B., B.L. (Dublin, Belfast, 1933) - AAI - Short review of this book in AAI
   M.P. for Kildare in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Kildare in U.K. Parliament
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Lord Henry Fitzgerald in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Ennis, K.C., P.C. (Ireland); Prime Sergeant
   Author:P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament
   M.P. for Co. Kerry in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Kerry in U.K, Parliament; 18th Knight of Kerry
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Maurice Fitzgerald in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Co. Kildare; diplomat in France, Switzerland, Denmark and Portugal
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Lord Robert Stephen Fitzgerald in Find A Grave
   (formerly Uniacke) M.P. for Co. Cork in Irish Parliament and in the U.K. Parliament; Governor Co. Cork
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Ennis, for Co. Clare, for Newport, for Lostwithiel; Chancellor of the Exchequer, Envoy to Sweden, etc.
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament
   M.P. for Co. Kildare in U.K. Parliament
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Lord William Fitzgerald in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* FITZMAURICE
    William Petty-Fitzmaurice; afterwards First Marquess of Lansdowne; b. Dublin 1737; Prime Minsiter of Great Britain
    By Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice (London, 1875 - 1876) - OL
   Lettres de L'Abbé Morellet de L'Académie Francaise a Lord Shelburne
    Depuis Marquis de Lansdowne 1772 - 1803
    Par Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice (Paris, 1898) - IA - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737 - 1805) in: Wikipedia

* FITZPATRICK
   M.P. for Bedfordshire; 1st Baron Gowran; 1st Earl of Upper Ossory; inherited extensive Irish estates
   Author: R. S. Lea - History of Parliament - John Fitzpatrick in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Bedfordshire; 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory
   Author: David R. Fisher - History of Parliament

* FLOOD
   and Banna Lodge, Co. Wexford; M.P. for Enniscorthy, Arfert, and Carlow in Irish Parliament;
   M.P. for Co. Wexford, U.K. Parliament; K.C.; 1st Baronet
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Frederick Flood in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave
   Colonel of the Volunteers. Notice of his lineage and family
   By Warden Flood, Esq. (Dublin, 1838) - OL - Henry Flood in: Wikipedia

* FOLEY
   John Henry Foley, R.A.
   A Sketch of the life and Works of the Sculptor of the O'Connell Monument
   By S. A. (Dublin, 1882) - OL - John Henry Foley in Wikipedia

* FORBES
   M.P. for Co. Longford; Major-General, Viscount
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - George Forbes in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* FORTESCUE
   M.P. for Co. Louth in Irish Parliament and U.K. Parliament; 2nd Viscount Clermont
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - William Fortescue in Wikipedia

* FOSTER
   M.P. for Cockermouth; diplomat, PC, 1st Baronet
   Author: J. M. Collinge - History of Parliament - Augustus Foster in Wikipedia - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds
   Author: Winifred Stokes - History of Parliament - Frederick Foster in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Dunleer in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Louth in U.K. Parliament; Last Speaker of Irish House of Commons; 1st Baron Oriel, etc.
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - John Foster in Wikipedia - DIB
   M.P. for Dublin University, Yarmouth IoW, Armagh, and Co. Louth
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - John Leslie Foster in Wikipedia
   Folk song composer - Oh Susanna, Camptown Races, Swanee River, etc. Foster's great-grandfather emigrated from Londonderry, 1728
   By Harold Vincent Milligan (New York, Boston, 1920) - IA - Stephen Foster in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
   M.P. for Dunleer in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Drogheda, and for Co. Louth in U.K. Parliament
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Thomas Skeffington in Wikipedia

* FRENCH
   M.P. for Roscommon Co., in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Roscommon in U.K. Parliament
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Arthur French in Wikipedia

* FULLER
   Omniana: An Autobiography of an Irish Octogenarian
   Actor, architect, novelist; includes pedigree
   By James Franklin Fuller, F.S.A., M.R.I.A. (London, 1916) - OL - James Franklin Fuller in: Wikipedia

* FULTON
  The Life of Robert Fulton
   Engineer and inventor (steamboat, submarine).  "His father Robert Fulton, was a native of Kilkenny..."
   By His Friend Cadwallader D. Colden (New York, 1817) - OL
  An Examination of Cadwallader D. Colden's BOOK, entitled 'A Life of Robert Fulton'
   By a friend of John Fitch, deceased (USA, 1818) - OL
  A Vindication of the Steam Boat Right granted by the State of New-York
   By Cadwallader D. Cohen (Albany, 1818) - OL - Robert Fulton in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia; Cadwallader D. Colden (grandson of Colonial leader Cadwallader Colden who was b. Ireland) in: Wikipedia

G
* GALLAGHER
   American Poet, Editor and Public Official. his father Barney Gallagher was an Irishman
   By W. H. Venable (Ohio, 18--) - OL - William Davis Gallagher in: Wikipedia

* GANDON
   The Life of James Gandon, Esq., M.R.I.A., F.R.S. etc. Architect
   English architect of Huguenot descent who worked extensively in Ireland
   By Thomas J. Mulvany, Esq., R.H.A. (Dublin, 1846) - IA - James Gandon in Wikipedia

* GAVIN
   Michael Freebern Gavin
   A Biography; b. Roscommon, 1844; emigrated aged 13; doctor at Boston City Hospital
   Ed. by his son; Introduction by Clarence John  Blake, M.D. (Privately printed, Cambridge, Massachusetts? 1895) - OL

* GILBERT
   Irish historian and archivist
   By his wife Rosa Mulholland Gilbert (London, 1905) - OL - John Thomas Gilbert in Find A Grave (follow links for other family members) - Wikipedia

* GLEADOWE NEWCOMEN
   M.P. for Carrickglass, Co. Longford in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Longford in U.K. Parliament; 1st Baronet, Banker
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Sir William Gleadowe-Newcomen in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* GORDON
   M.P. for Athlone; Vicar
   Author: J. M. Collinge - History of Parliament

* GORE
   M.P. for Baltimore, and Donegal Borough in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Donegal in U.K. Parliament; Viscount Sudley, 3rd Earl of Arran
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Arthur Gore in Wikipedia

* ORMSBY-GORE
   M.P. for Co. Leitrim, Caernarvan Boroughs, Shropshire North
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - William Ormsby-Gore in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* GORGES
   M.P. for Co. Meath in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Meath in U.K. Parliament
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Hamilton Gorges in Wikipedia

* GOLDSMITH
  The Family Letters of Oliver Goldsmith
   a paper read before the Bibliographical Society, 1917
   By Sir Ernest Clarke, M.A., F.S.A. (London, 1920) - OL
  Goldsmith
   By William Black (New York, 1883) - OL
  Life of Oliver Goldsmith
   By Washington Irving (New York, 1883) - OL
  The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. - Vol I - Vol II
   from a variety of original sources
   By James Prior (London 1837) - OL
  Oliver Goldsmith
   By Col. John A. Joyce (Washington, 1900) - OL
  Oliver Goldsmith
   By Richard Ashe King (London, 1910) - IA - Oliver Goldsmith in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* GOWAN
   Life of Hon. Sir James Robert Gowan, K.C.M.G., LL.D., Senator of Canada
   b. Cahore, Co. Wexford, 1815, son of Henry Hatton Gowan and Elizabeth Burkitt
   By his Nephew Henry H. Ardagh, Barrister-at-Law (For Private Circulation, Toronto, 1911) - OL - James Robert Gowan in: Wikipedia

* GRADY
   Sometimes O'Grady; M.P. for Limerick in Irish Parliament and in U.K. Parliament; K.C.
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Henry Deane Grady in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

   (of Tinnehinch, Co. Wicklow1746-1820)
   By Mr. D. O. Madden (Dublin, 1846) - OL
  Henry Grattan
   The Stanhope Essay 1902
   By Alfred E. Zimmern (Oxford, 1902) - OL
  Henry Grattan: A Historical Study
   By John George Mac Carthy (Dublin, 1886) - OL
  Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan - Vol I - Vol II - Vol III - Vol IV - Vol V
   By his son, Henry Grattan, Esq., M.P. (London, 1846,1849) - Henry Grattan in Wikipedia - THoP

* GREENE
   M.P. for Dungarvan
   Author: J. W. Anderson - History of Parliament - William Greene in Wikipedia

* GREER
   David Hummell Greer
   Eighth Bishop of New York
   By Charles Lewis Slattery (New York, London, 1921) - OL - David H. Greer in: Wikipedia

* GRIMES
   The Life of James W. Grimes
   Governor of Iowa 1854 - 1858, A Senator of the United States 1859 - 1869
   Surnames in Ireland: Grimes, Wilson, Cochran
   By William Salter (New York, 1876) - IA - James Wilson Grimes in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
H I
* HAMILTON
   M.P. for Co. Fermanagh and for Enniskillen in Irish Parliament, M.P. for Enniskillen in U.K. Parliament, Sheriff Co. Fermanagh
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Arthur Cole Hamilton in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Dungannon
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Lord Claud Hamilton in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Co. Dublin in Irish Parliament and U.K. Parliament
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Hans Hamilton in Wikipedia
   Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton - Vol I - Vol II - Vol III
   Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin  and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, etc. etc.
   By Robert Perceval Graves, M.A. (Dublin, London, 1882 - 1889) - OL - William Rowan Hamilton (1805 - 1865) in Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia

* HARDMAN
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Drogheda in U.K. Parliament; Mayor of Drogheda
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Edward Hardman in Wikipedia

* HARE
   M.P. for Athy in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Cork in U.K. Parliament; Viscount Ennismore
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Col. Richard Lysaght Hare in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* HARPER
   William Rainey Harper
   First President of the University of Chicago; ancestry... had been part of that migration of Presbyterians from Scotland to the North of Ireland; emigrated from County Down 1795
   By Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed (Chicago, 1928) - IA - William Rainey Harper in: Wikipedia

* HART
   M.P. for Co. Donegal; General; Governor Londonderry and Culmore
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - George Vaughan Hart in Wikipedia

* HATTON
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Lisburn in U.K. Parliament
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Pedigree in Library of  Society of Genealogists

* HAWTH0RNE
   and Bellcamp House, Co. Dublin; M.P. for Downpatrick; Barrister
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament

* HEALY
   Irish-American painter
   By his Daughter Mary (Madame Charles Bigot) (Chicago, 1894) - OL - George Peter Alexander Healy in: Wikipedia
   Patrick Joseph Healy - An appreciation
    Founder of the House of Lyon and Healy (Chicago); b. on a farm near Burnfort, Co. Cork, 1840
    By Unknown author (Chicago, 1907) - OL
   A Little Journey to the Home of Patrick J. Healy
    in the series Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Americans
    By Elbert Hubbard (East Aurora, New York, 1911) - OL - Lyon and Healy in: Wikipedia

* HEARN
   Orientalist; aka Yakumo Koizumi
   By Nina H. Kennard (New York, 1912) - OL - Lafcadio Hearn in Find A Grave (Zoshigaya Cemetery, Tokyo) - Wikipedia; Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum in: Wikipedia; Great grandson Prof. Bon Koizumi traces his Irish roots in: The Irish Times

* HELY-HUTCHINSON
   M.P. for Cork in Irish Parliament and in U.K. Parliament; Barrister
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Christopher Hely-Hutchinson in Wikipedia - DIB
   M.P. for Cork in Irish Parliament and in U.K. Parliament; General; 2nd Earl of Donoughmore, etc.
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - John Hely-Hutchinson in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave

* HEMANS nee BROWNE
  Felicia Hemans
   with a Critical and Biographical Introduction; poet; born Liverpool, England 1793,her father was a merchant belonging to a branch of the Sligo family; she lived in Ireland from 1831
   By W. M. Rossetti (New York, London, 1900) - OL
  Memorials of Mrs. Hemans
   with illustrations of her literary character from her private correspondence
   By Henry F. Chorley (Philadelphia, 1836) - OL
  Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Hemans
     By Her Sister (Philadelphia, 1839) - OL - Felicia Hemans in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* HERBERT
   M.P. for East Grinstead, for Co. Kerry, and  for Tralee; a major landowner in Kerry
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Henry Arthur Herbert in Wikipedia

* HILL
   M.P. for Co. Down; 2nd Baron Sandys; Colonel
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Ireland - Arthur Hill in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Coleraine in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Londonderry and for Londonderry in U.K. Parliament; Member Orange Order; Privy Councillor Ireland and U.K.; Governor of St. Vincent and of Trinidad; 2nd Baronet
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Sir George Hill in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave (Trinidad)

* HOOKE
   From Irish Whig Rebel to Bourbon Diplomat
   The Life and Career of Nathaniel Hooke (1664 - 1738); b. Corballis House, Dublin
   By Thomas Byrne (PhD thesis, Maynooth, 2007) - NUI Maynooth eTheses Archive - Nathaniel Hooke in Wikipedia

 * HOUSTON
   Sam Houston
   President of Texas, Senator, etc.; his father also called Sam Houston 'was a courageous Scotch-Irishman and a good soldier'
   By George S. Bryan (New York, 1917) - OL - Sam Houston in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* HUME
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Wicklow in U.K. Parliament
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - William Hoare Hume in Find A Grave

* HUNT
   The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt - Vol I - Vol II - Vol III
   critic, essayist, poet and writer; on the female side... we derive ourselves from... Irish kings! - personages (not to say it disrespectfully...) who rank pretty much on a par with the negro chief, surrounded by half a dozen lords in ragged shirts...
   By James Henry Leigh Hunt (London, 1850) - IA - James Henry Leigh Hunt in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* HUSSEY
   M.P. for Aylesbury; 19th Baron of Galtrim
   Author: David R. Fisher - History of Parliament - Thomas Hussey in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* HUTCHESON
   The Ingenious Mr. Hutcheson
   An essay on a neglected Scots-Irishman Francis Hutcheson, philosopher
   By Philip Orr (Downpatrick, 2000) - Discover Saintfield - Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) in Wikipedia
   See also HELY-HUTCHINSON


 * HYDE
   Douglas Hyde
    An Craoibhin Aoibhinn
    By Diarmid O Cobhthaigh (Dublin, London, 1917) - OL
   Douglas Hyde - President of Ireland
    By Diarmid Coffey (Dublin, Cork, 1928) - OL
    By Janet Egleson Dunleavy and Gareth W. Dunleavy (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1991) - IA - Douglas Hyde in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

I J
* JACKSON
    7th President of the United States. His family came from near Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim
    By John Spencer Bassett, Ph.D. (Garden City, New York, 1911) - OL
   Andrew Jackson
   Andrew Jackson (Sr.) family, neighbours and connections migrated to the Wax haw Settlement in Mecklenburgh County, North Carolina
   by William Graham Sumner (Boston, New York, 1910) - OL - Andrew Jackson in - Wikipedia - Find A Grave; His father Andrew Jackson Sr. in: Find A Grave; His mother Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson in: Find A Grave; His brother Robert Jackson in: Find A Grave
   M.P. for Coleraine and Co. Mayo in Irish Parliament and for Co. Mayo in U.K. Parliament
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - George Jackson in Wikipedia

* JEPHSON
   M.P. in Irish Parliament and for Mallow in U.K. Parliament
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Denham Jephson in Wikipedia (stub)

* JOCELYN
   M.P. for Dundalk in the last Irish Parliament and for Co. Louth in U.K. Parliament; Sheriff Co. Louth
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - John Jocelyn in Find A Grave
   M.P. for Co Louth; Viscount, 3rd Earl of Roden, Baron Clanbrassill
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Robert Jocelyn in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave (report of funeral)

* JONES
   M.P. for Co. Leitrim, Coleraine and for Monaghan Borough in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Leitrim in U.K. Parliament
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Theophilus Jones in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, Denbigh Boroughs, Athlone, and Shrewsbury
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (Shrewsbury)
   M.P. Coleraine in Irish Parliament and in U.K. Parliament; Sheriff, Co. Leitrim
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Walter Jones in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (Maidstone, Kent)

K
* KAVANAGH
   The Right Honourable Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh
    A Biography; from papers chiefly unpublished; Irish politician
    Compiled by his cousin Sarah L. Steele (London, 1891) - OL - Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh in: Wikipedia

* KEAN
   The Life and Adventures of Edmund Kean - Vol. I - Vol. II
   Tragedian 1787 - 1833
   By J. Fitzgerald Molloy (London, 1888) - OL - Edmund Kean in: Wikipedia

* KEANE
   M.P. for Bangor and for Youghal in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Youghal in U.K. Parliament; Baronet
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - John Keane in Wikipedia (stub) - Find A Grave

* KEATINGE
   M.P. for Co. Kildare in Irish Parliament and. for Kildare in U.K. Parliament; soldier, writer; d. Paris
   Author: Arthur Apinall - History of Parliament - Maurice Keatinge or Keating in Wikipedia

* KEILY
   M.P. for Clonmel
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament

* KELVIN - see THOMSON

* KER
   M. P. for Newport IoW; Sheriff, Co. Antrim
   Author: Brian Murphy - History of Parliament

* KERNAN
   United States Senator
   By William H. Watson (Albany 1893) - OL - Francis Kernan in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* KING
   M.P. for Co. Roscommon; naval officer; d. & bur. Barbados
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Edward King in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Co. Cork; Viscount Kingsborough; writer on Mexican antiquities
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Edward King in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Enniskillen; Under Secretary of State at the Home Office
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - John King in Wikipedia

* KNOX
   M.P. for Dungannon in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Dublin University in U.K. Parliament; Barrister, P.C. (Ireland)
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - George Knox in Wikipedia (stub)
   M.P. for Carlingford, Dungannon and for Co. Tyrone in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Tyrone in U.K. Parliament; Viscount Northland, 1st Earl of Ranfurly
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Thomas Knox in Wikipedia - DIB - Find A Grave
   M.P. for Co. Tyrone and for Dungannon; Viscount Northland, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly, Baron Welles
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl in Wikipedia - Find A Grave (including death notice)

L
* LALOR
   James Fintan Lalor
   Patriot and Political Essayist 1807 - 1849; with a Preface by Arthur Griffith
   By L. Fogarty, B.A. (Dublin, London, 1918) - OL - James Fintan Lalor in Wikipedia

* LANE
   with some account of the Dublin Galleries
   By Lady Gregory (London, 1921) - IA - Hugh Lane in Wikipedia

* LANIGAN
   In the series "Irish Wits and Worthies"
   By W. J. Fitz-Patrick (Dublin, 1873) - OL - John Lanigan in: Wikipedia

* LATOUCHE or LA TOUCHE
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Carlow in U.K. Parliament; Governor Co. Carlow, Sheriff, etc.
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Irish Parliament
   M.P. for Newcastle in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Kildare in U.K. Parliament
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - John La Touche in  Wikipedia (stub) - DIB
   M.P. for Newtownards and for Harristown in the last Irish Parliament; M.P. for Dublin City and Co. Leitrim in U.K. Parliament; Sheriff
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - John La Touche in Wikipedia (stub)
   M.P. for Co. Leitrim; Trustee of Linen Board, Landowner
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - Peter La Touche in Wikipedia
   M.P. for Co. Carlow; Sheriff
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament
   M.P. for Harristown in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Co. Kildare in U.K. Parliament; Sheriff
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament - Robert La Touche in Wikipedia (stub)

* LAVERY
    By Walter Shaw-Sparrow (London, 1911) - OL
    By Sir John Lavery (Boston, 1940) - IA - John Lavery in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* LEECH
    Held at the Grolier Club, New York
    Introduction by Stanley Kidder Wilson (New York, 1914) - OL
    A Biographical Sketch
    By Fred G. Kitton (London, 1883) - OL
    Caricaturist, b. London, 1817, of Irish extraction
    By William Powell Frith, R.A. (London, 1891) - OL - John Leech in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* Le FANU
   being anecdotes and reminiscences; I was born in 1816 in the Royal Hibernian Military School in the Phoenix Park, Dublin
   By W. R. Le Fanu (New York, 1894) - OL - His brother Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 1873) in: Find A Grave - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia

* LEIGH
   M.P. for New Ross; Captain
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament
   M.P. in Irish Parliament; M.P. for Wexford and New Ross in U.K. Parliament
   Author: P.J. Jupp - History of Parliament
   M.P. for New Ross in Irish Parliament and U.K. Parliament
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament

* LESLIE
   M.P. for Co. Monaghan and New Ross; Sheriff, Trustee Linen Board, Col. Monaghan Militia, etc.
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament

* LEVER
     extract from 'Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day'
     By Frederick Waddy (London, 1873) - OL
     Novelist
     By W. J, Fitzpatrick, LL.D., M.R.I.A. (London, 1879) - OL - Charles Lever in - Wikipedia

* LLOYD
   M.P. for King's Co., Lt.-Col. South Down Militia
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament

* LOFTUS
   M.P. for Co. Wexford in Irish and U.K. Parliaments; Viscount Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely (Ireland), Baron Loftus (U.K.)
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament - John Loftus in Wikipedia - Find A Grave

* LONGFIELD
   M.P. for Mallow in Irish and U.K. Parliaments; Sheriff Co. Cork
   Author: Arthur Aspinall - History of Parliament
   M.P. for Cork in Irish and U.K. Parliaments; Governor Cork
   Author: P. J. Jupp - History of Parliament

* LOWRY
   I was born in Leeds, in Yorkshire, of Irish parents. My father, Patrick Lowry, was a native of Roscrea...
   Written by Himself (London, 1884) - IA

* LOWRY CORRY - see CORRY

* LUCAS
   By Sean J. Murphy (Bray, Co. Wicklow, 2009) - CIGHS - Charles Lucas (politician) in Wikipedia

* LUDLOW
   M.P. for Huntingdonshire; Baron Ludlow, 1st Earl Ludlow
   Author: R. G. Thorne - History of Parliament - Peter Ludlow in Wikipedia

Mac
* Mac CARTHY
   The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society 1858 - 1861; for further continuation see same and subsequent volumes (Journals - General)
   By Daniel Mac Carthy (Glas), Esq. (Dublin, 1859, 1861) - OL - Florence MacCarthy in Wikipedia

* MACARTNEY
   An Account of the life of George, Earl of Macartney; b. Lissanoure, Loughguile, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, 1737
   By Helen H. Robbins (London, 1908) - OL - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney in Wikipedia

* MacCOGHLAN
   RSAI Journal
   By Lord Walter Fitzgerald (Dublin, 1913) - OL

* Mac-MAHON
   Le Marechal de Mac-Mahon
   (in French) Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, 1st Duke of Magenta; General, politician, Chief of State, President of the Third Republic; of Irish descent
   By L. De La Provostier (Paris, 1899) - OL - Patrice de Mac-Mahon in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

 * MacSWINEY
   A Short Memoir of Terence MacSwiney
   Lord Mayor of Cork, playwright; d. Brixton prison on hunger strike 1920
   By P. S. O'Hegarty; A chapter by Daniel Corkery (New York, 1922) - IA - Terence MacSwiney in Wikipedia
Mc
* McCORMACK
   Illustrated from Photographs; Irish tenor
   Transcribed by Pierre V. R. Key (Boston, 1918) - AAI - Short review of this book in AAI; John F. McCormack in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* McCORMICK
  Inventor of a reaping machine ...His great-grandfather, Thomas McCormick quit Ulster in the troublous days of 1735... His mother's father was Patrick Hall whose forefathers had been driven out of Armagh by the massacre of 1641
   By Herbert N. Casson (Chicago, 1909) - OL - Cyrus McCormick in: Wikipedia; His father Robert McCormick (Virginia) in: Wikipedia; His brother William Sanderson McCormick in: Wikipedia; His brother Leander J. McCormick in: Wikipedia

* McSHANE
   M. James McShane
   (In French) Depute de Montreal-Ouest, Assemblee-Legislative de Quebec. Son of a native of County Armagh
   Par P.A. J. Voyer (Trois-Rivieres, 1883) - OL - James McShane in: Wikipedia

 M
* MADDEN
   My father, Edward Madden, was an eminent manufacturer in the city of Dublin...
   By Dr. R. R. Madden, edited by his son Thomas More Madden (Dublin, 1892) - OL - Richard Robert Madden in Wikipedia

* MALLETT
   Robert Mallet: Ireland's 'Father of Seismology'
   By Sean Duke (Ireland, 2009) - Science Spin w- Robert Mallet in Wikipedia

* MALONE
   Life of Edmond Malone
   Editor of Shakespeare
   By Sir James Prior, M.R.I.A., F.S.A. etc. (London, 1860) - OL - Edmond Malone in Wikipedia

* MANGAN
   By D. J. O'donoghue (Edinburgh, 1897) - OL - James Clarence Mangan in Wikipedia

* MARTIN
   The Diary of 'Honest' John Martin
    Young Irelander
    Transcribed by Suzanne Ballard (Filmed 2000) - FHB

 * MEAGHER
   Memoirs of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher
     By Michael Cavanagh (1892) - OL
   Meagher of the Sword
     Speeches of Thomas Francis Meagher in Ireland 1846 - 1848; His Narrative of Events in Ireland in July 1848, Personal reminiscences of Waterford, Galway and his Schooldays
     Edited by Arthur Griffith (Dublin, 1916) - OL - Thomas Francis Meagher in: Australian Dictionary of Biography - Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* MELLON
   Thomas Mellon and His Times
    1. Family History; 2. Autobiography; entrepreneur, lawer, judge, founder of 'Mellon Bank'; b. Casteltown, Co. Tyrone, 1813
     By Thomas Mellon (printed for his family and descendants exclusively, Pittsburgh, 1885, reprint New York, 1969) - Borrow this book from OL
   The Mellons of Pittsburg
    By Frank R. Denton (New York, 1948) - Borrow this book from OL - Thomas (Alexander) Mellon in: Wikipedia; His son Andrew William Mellon in: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Find A Grave - The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies 

* MITCHEL
    By William Dillon (London, 1888) - OL
    With Some Account of Young Ireland
    By P. S. O'Hegarty (Dublin, London, 1917) - OL - John Mitchel in: Wikipedia

* MOORE
   By Albert Barry, C.S.S.R. (Dublin, 1905) - OL - Arthur John Moore in: Wikipedia
    By the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, M.P. (Mixed editions, Boston, London, 1853, 1854, 1856) - OL
   Moore: Poet and Patriot
    By John P. Gunning (Dublin, 1900) - OL
   Tom [Thomas] Moore in Bermuda
     A Bit of Literary Gossip
     By J. C. L. Clark (1909) - OL - Thomas Moore in Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* MORGAN (nee OWENSON)
   Lady Morgan; her Career Literary and Personal
   with a glimpse of her Friends, and a word to her Calumniators
   By William John FitzPatrick, J.P. (London, 1860) - OL - Sydney, Lady Morgan in Wikipedia; Her husband Thomas Charles Morgan in: Wikipedia; Her father Robert Owenson (MacOwen) in Wikipedia
* MURRAY
  ...(whose right name was Frank Murray) was a native of the village of Bander (Bandon?), near the city of Cork... Champion prizefighter
   Compiled by Ed. James (1880) - OL - James 'Yankee' Sullivan in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

N
* NEWCOMEN - see GLEADOWE NEWCOMEN

* NUGENT
   Life Work of Thomas L. Nugent
   His father, Thomas Nugent, was a native of Ireland, having been born on his father's estate near Rashsowney (Rathdowney?), Queen's County, Ireland, in 1792.
   By Mrs Catherine Nugent (Stephenville, Texas, 1896) - OL


                 Daniel O'Connell
O'
* O'BRIEN
   The Life of William O'Brien
    The Irish Nationalist
    By Michael MacDonagh (London, 1928) - HT
   Recollections
   Evening Memories
    being a continuation of 'Recollections'
    By William O'Brien, M.P. (London, 1905, 1920) - OL - William O'Brien in Wikipedia

 * O'CONNELL
     including his pedigree
     By Sister M. F. Cusack (New York, 1872) - OL
   The Life, Opinions, Conversations and Eloquence of Daniel O'Connell
     with a Preliminary Sketch of Irish History
     By Thomas Clarke Luby, Esq., A.B.T.C.D. (New York, 1872) - OL
   The Life and Times of Daniel O'Connell
     By T. C. Luby, Esq., T.C.D. (Glasgow, 1870) - OL
   Life and Times of Daniel O'Connell - Vol I
    with sketches of his contemporaries (subsequent vols not found)
    Compiled from the works of W. J. O'N. Daunt, Mr. Fegan, R. L. Sheil, etc. (Dublin, 1867) - OL
   Rev. Dr. Miley's Funeral Oration on the Death of The Liberator
     with The Funeral Obsequies Celebrated at Rome
     By the Rev. Dr. Kirby (Dublin, 1847) OL
   Personal Recollections of the late Daniel O'Connell, M.P. - Vol I - Vol II
     By William J. O'N. Daunt, Esq. (London, 1848) - IA - Daniel O'Connell in Find A Grave - Wikipedia; His son Maurice O'Connell, M.P. in: Wikipedia; His son John O'Connell (MP) in: Wikipedia; His son Daniel O'Connell, Jr. in: Wikipedia; His son Morgan O'Connell in: Wikipedia
   Life of Ja's. F. O'Connell
   The Pacific Adventurer.   I was born in Dublin...
   From His Own Memoranda (New York, 1853) - IA

* O'DONNELL
   Prince of Tirconnell ( in Irish with a translation in English)
   By Lughaidh O'Clery (Dublin, 1893) - OL - Hugh Roe O'Donnell in: Wikipedia

* O'DONOVAN
   Obituary of Celtic scholar in Duffy's Hibernian Magazine
   By Unknown author (Dublin, 1862) - OL - John O'Donovan (scholar) in Wikipedia

 * O'DONOVAN ROSSA - see ROSSA

* O'FALLON
   Biography of John O'Fallon
   extract from the 'O'Fallon Centennial 1854 - 1954'
   Souvenir Program (O'Fallon, Illinois,  1954) - OL - John O'Fallon in: Wikipedia; His brother Benjamin O'Fallon in: Find A Grave; O'Fallon (city), Illinois (named after John) in: Wikipedia; Fallon County, Montana (named after Benjamin) in: Wikipedia

* O'GRADY see GRADY

* O'KEEFFE
   Actor and dramatist. "I was born in Abbey-street, Dublin on 24th of June 1747..."
   By John O'Keeffe (London, 1826) - OL - John O'Keeffe (Irish writer) in Wikipedia

* O'NEILL
     Called by the English, Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, with some account of his predecessors Con, Shane and Tirlough
     By John Mitchel (New York, 1868) - OL
   Red Hand of Ulster; or, The Fortunes of Hugh O'Neill
     By Mrs. J. Sadlier (Boston, 1859) - OL
     By J. F. Taylor (London, Dublin, 1904) - OL - Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone in: Wikipedia; Owen Roe O'Neill in: Wikipedia

   Memoirs of Miss O'Neill
   her public character, private life and Dramatic Progress from her entrance upon the stage; dau. of John O'Neill of Drogheda and __________ Featherstone; mar. William Wrixon Becher, an Irish M.P. who was created a baronet in 1831
   By Charles Inigo Jones, Esq. (London, 1816) - IA - Eliza O'Neill in: Wikipedia

 * O'REILLY
   Life of John Boyle O'Reilly
     Poet, writer, journalist
     By James Jeffrey Roche (New York, 1891) - OL
   An Account of the ... Dedication ... of the O'Reilly Monument
     By Order of the City Council (Boston, 1897) - OL; John Boyle O''Reilly in: Australian Dictionary of Biography - Find A Grave - Wikipedia

 * O'SULLIVAN, Ui SHUILLEABHAIN
   Beatha Eoghain Ruaidh Ui Shuilleabhain
   (in Irish - life of Eoghan Roe O'Sullivan)
   leis an Athair Padraig Ua Duinnin (i mBaile Atha Cliath, 1902) - OL - Eoghan Rua O'Suilleabhain in: Wikipedia - Eoghan Rua O Suilleabhain isteach: Vicipeid

 * O'SULLIVAN
   The Songs of Tomas Ruadh O'Sullivan - The Iveragh Poet 1785 - 1848
   with a Sketch of the Poet's Career; Iveragh in pre-famine times
   By James Fenton (Dublin, 1900) - OL

O
* ORMOND: see BUTLER

* ORR
   'Remember Orr'
   William Orr; in the series 'The Northern Leaders of '98' No. 1
   By Francis Joseph Bigger (Dublin, 1906) - OL - William Orr in: Wikipedia

 P
* PARNELL
   Gladstone - Parnell, and The Great Irish Struggle
     with biographies; Introduction by Hon. Charles Stewart Parnell, M.P.
     By T. P. O'Connor; R. M. McWade (Philadelphia, 1886) - OL
     A memory
     By T. P. [Thomas Power] O'Connor, M.P. (London, New York, Melbourne, 1891) - OL
     including a chapter on Parnell's ancestors Vol I
     By R. Barry O'Brien (London, 1898) - OL
     Third Edition Vol II
     By R. Barry O'Brien (London, 1899) - OL
   A Patriot's Mistake
     being Personal Recollections of the Parnell Family
     By 'A Daughter of the House' Emily Monroe Dickinson (Dublin, 1905) - OL - Charles Stewart Parnell in: DNB - Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* PEARSE
   An Appreciation of Padraic H. Pearse
   First President of the Irish Republic
   By William C. O'Farrell, O.C.C. (New York, 1919) - OL
   The Man Called Pearse
     By Desmond Ryan (Dublin, London, 1919) - OL - Patrick Pearse in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

 * PEEL
   Sir Robert Peel
     M.P. for Cashel, Chief Secretary for Ireland, proposed a specialist police force 'Peelers'; later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; his eldest son Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, also served as Chief Secretary for Ireland
     By Justin McCarthy, M.P. (London, 1891) - OL
   Sir Robert Peel - Vol I - Vol II - Vol III
     from his private papers
     By Charles Stuart Parker (London, 1899) - OL - Robert Peel in: Find A Grave - The Patrician - Wikipedia

 * PENN
   With selections from his Correspondence and Auto-Biography
   By Samuel M. Janney (Philadelphia, 1852) - OL - William Penn in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* PETTY
   The Life of Sir William Petty
   travelled with Cromwell in Ireland; maker of the 'Down Survey' of Ireland; landowner at Kenmare
   By Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice (London 1895) - IA - William Petty (1623 - 1687) in: Wikipedia; Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice in: Wikipedia; The Down Survey of Ireland - Trinity College, Dublin - Wikipedia; History of the Down Survey by Thomas Aiskew Larcom (Dublin, 1851) - OL; Thomas Larcom in: Wikipedia

* PETTY Prime Minister, Earl of Shelburne, Marquess of Lansdowne, etc. - see FitzMaurice

 * POE
   Edgar Allan Poe
     By Edmund Clarence Stedman (Original 1885, Privately reprinted, limited to 200 copies, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1909) - OL
   Edgar Allan Poe
     John Poe, father of Lady Blessington and great-grandfather of Edgar Allen Poe; David Poe, born in Londonderry, the grandfather of the poet, married the daughter of John McBride, Scotch-Irish Admiral
     By Colonel John A. Joyce (New York, London) - OL
   Edgar Poe
     Life of Edgar Allan Poe, in French; Vers le milieu du XVIII siecle, un Irlandais d'Ulster, John Poe, emigra avec femme et enfants en Amerique
     By Emile Lauvriere (Paris, 1911) - OL
   The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
     Illustrated
     By William F. Gill (New York, 1877) - OL - Edgar Allan Poe in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

 * POLK
   The Life of James Knox Polk
    11th President of the United States; "...the name is obviously the Irish corruption of Pollock. Robert Polk was born in Ireland..." married a Miss Gullet; their son Ezekiel Polk was  grandfather of the President
     By John S. Jenkins (Auburn, 1850) - OL
   James K. Polk
    A Political Biography
    By Eugene Irving McCormac, Ph.D. (Berkeley, California, 1922) - OL
   James Knox Polk in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

 * PLUNKETT
   Sir Horace Plunkett
     and his place in the Irish Nation
     By Edward E. Lysaght (Dublin, London, 1916) - OL
   Count Plunkett - The Man and His Message
     By Louis George Reddy (Dublin, 1917) - OL - Horace Plunkett in: Wikipedia

Q
* QUIN
   The Life of Mr. James Quin, Comedian
   Dedicated to David Garrick, Esq. 1766 (Reprinted London 1887) - OL - James Quin (1693 - 1766) in: Wikipedia

 R
* RALEGH, RALEIGH:
   Life of Sir Walter Ralegh
     with Portrait and Maps
    By Louise Creighton (London, 1882) - OL
   Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Ralegh
     With Notices relative to the Potatoe and to Tobacco
     By Mrs. A.T. Thomson (Philadelphia, 1831) - OL
   Sir Walter Ralegh in Ireland
     By John Pope Hennessy (London, 1883) - OL - Sir Walter Raleigh in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* REDMOND
   - The Life of John Redmond
     By Denis Gwynn (1932) - AAI - Short review of this book in AAI
   The Life of John Redmond
     By Warre B. Wells (New York, 1919) - OL
   John Redmond
     The Man and the Demand
     By L. G. Redmond-Howard (1910) - OL
   John Redmond's Last Years
     By Stephen Gwynn (New York, 1919) - OL - John Redmond in: Find A Grave- Wikipedia

* REYNOLDS
   Formerly of Kilkea Castle, in the County of Kildare
   By His Son Thomas Reynolds (1838, 1839) - OL

* ROGERS
   Scotch Irish settlement in New Hamshire
   By Josiah H. Drummond (Machester, New Hampshire, (1897) - OL

* ROSSA
   1838 to 1898. Includes a Chapter  on Genealogy
   By O'Donovan Rossa (1898) - IA - Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* ROSS-LEWIN
   includes genealogical notes
   By Harry Ross-Lewin of Ross Hill, Co. Clare (1904) - IA

* ROWAN
   Born in Ireland 1808
   By S.C. Ayres, M.D. (1910) OL - Stephen Clegg Rowan in: Wikipedia

* RUSK
   "Uncle Jerry" - Life of General Jeremiah M. Rusk
   Stage Driver, Farmer, soldier, Legislator, Governor, Cabinet Officer; his grandfather James Rusk b. near Londonderry came to America 'under circumstances not without a tinge of romance'
   By Henry Casson; with a chapter by Ex-President Benjamin Harrison (Madison, Wisconsin, 1895) - OL - Jeremiah McLain Rusk in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* RUSSELL
   AE (George W. Russell)
   A Study of a Man and a Nation
   By Darrell Figgis (New York, 1916) - OL - George William Russell (1867 - 1935) in Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia

 * RUSSELL
   Lord Chief Justice of England
   By R. Barry O'Brien (1901) - IA - Charles Arthur Russell in: Find A Grave Wikipedia; His wife Ellen Mulholland Russell in: Find A Grave; Her sister Lady Rosa Mulholland Gilbert (wife of John Thomas Gilbert - see above) in: Find A Grave
George Bernard Shaw with Archibald Henderson

S
* SHAW
     By Holbrook Jackson (Philadelphia, London, 1907) OL
    By Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909) - IA
     A facsimile of page 54 of letter to the biographer signed by G. Bernard Shaw between pages vi and vii; MISSING: Appendix with genealogical chart of the Shaw family of Counties Tipperary, Kilkenny and Dublin together with other lineal ancestors of GBS
     By Archibald Henderson, M.A., Ph.D. (Cincinnati, 1911) - OL - George Bernard Shaw in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

     By Lloyd C. Sanders (1891) - IA
   Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Vol I - Vol II
     By Thomas Moore (London, 1825, 1858 - different editions) - IA
   Memoires sur la Vie Privee, Politique et Litteraire de Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Tome Premier
     par Thomas Moore
     Traduite de L'angais par J. R. Parisot (Paris, 1826) - IA - Richard Brinsley Sheridan in: Wikipedia
   Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan
   Mother of the late Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan; b. 1724 Frances Chamberlaine, dau of Dr. Philip Chamberlaine, Prebend of Rathmichael, Diocese of Dublin, Archdeacon of Glendalough, Rector of St. Nicholas Without
   By her grand-daughter Alicia Lefanu (London, 1824) - OL - Frances Sheridan in: Wikipedia

* SKEFFINGTON - see FOSTER

* SPENSER
   Edmund Spenser
     English poet; works include 'A View of the Present State of Ireland'. 'Ireland under Elizabeth and James the First', etc.; Secretary to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Lord Grey of Wilton); in 1586 received a grant of land 3, 028 acres in Co. Cork (forfeited from the Earl of Desmond); Spenser resided at Kilcolman, Co. Cork and became Clerk of the Council of Munster; in 1594 mar. Elizabeth ___________, the dau. of 'an Irish peasant of obscure descent'; 4 children all living in Ireland; Spenser's sister Sarah mar. John Travers, Esq., - their son Sir Robert Travers, Knt. mar. Elizabeth Boyle, dau of Bishop of Cork (see The Patrician by John Burke, Esq. for Irish connections)
     By Daniel Wise, D.D. (New York, 1883) - OL
   Spenser
     includes chapter on 'Spenser in Ireland' (1580)
     By R. W. Church (London, 1902) - OL - Edmund Spenser in: Find A Grave - The Patrician - Wikipedia

* STANFORD
   Sir Charles V. (Villiers) Stanford
     composer, music teacher, conductor, b. 2 Herbert Street, Dublin, 1852; bur Westminster Abbey
     By John F. Porte (London, 1921) - OL
   Charles Villiers Stanford - Masters of English Music
     By Charles Willeby (New York, 1894) - OL
   Pages from an Unwritten Diary
     beginning with memories of Dublin
     By Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (New York, 1914) - IA - Sir Charles Villiers Stanford in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

 * STEPHENS
   Embracing an account... of the Fenian Brotherhood, being a semi-biographical sketch...
   By Unknown Author (1866) - OL - James Stephens in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* STEWART
   Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Business Men - A. T. Stewart
   Alexander Turney Stewart, b. Lisburn, Co. Antrim, 1803, built a huge fortune in retailling; his mother 'married again, and was busy raising a goodly brood of Callahans...'
   By Elbert Hubbard (East Aurora, New York, 1909) - OL - Alexander Turney Stewart in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

 * STEWART
   Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart - Vol I - Vol II - Vol III
     Second and Third Marquesses of Londonderry; Charles William Stewart (later Vane)
     By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., D.C.L., LL.D., etc. (Edinburgh, London, 1861) - OL
     By the Marchioness of Londonderry (London, 1904) - IA - Robert Stewart in Wikipedia; Charles Vane in: Wikipedia
   A Victorian Musician in Dublin; PhD Thesis
   By Lisa Parker (Maynooth, 2009) - NUI Maynooth eTheses Archive - His son-in-law Sir John de Fonblanque Pennefather (great grandson of Sir Jonah Barrington) in: Wikipedia

* STOKES
   Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart. - Vol I - Vol II
     b. Skreen, Co. Sligo, 1819, one of 8 children of Gabriel Stokes and Elizabeth Haughton; pioneer in fluid dynamics; notes on his family and ancestry
     By Joseph Larmor, D.Sc., LL.D., Sec.R.S. (Cambridge, 1907) - OL - Stokes' law in: Wikipedia; Stokes wave in: Wikipedia; Campbell-Stokes recorder in: Wikipedia

* STUART
   The Life of James the Second, King of England etc. - Vol I - Vol II
     collected out of Memoirs writ of his own hand; including campaigns in Ireland
     By the Rev. J. S. Clarke, LL.B., F.R.S. (London, 1816) - OL

 * SULLIVAN
   Anne Sullivan Macy - the Story behind Helen Keller
     her Irish born parents were Thomas Sullivan and Alice Chloesy
     By Nella Braddy (New York, 1933) - IA
   The Story of My Life
      ...and letter of her Teacher Anne Mansfield Sullivan
      By John Albert Macy (New York, 1908) - OL
   Valiant Companions - Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy
     By Helen Elmira Waite (Philadlephia, 1959) - IA - Anne Sullivan in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
      (Gilbert and Sullivan) Of Irish and Italian descent
      By H. Saxe Wyndham (1903) - IA
   Souvenir of Sir Arthur Sullivan
      A Brief Sketch of his Live and Works; his grandfather was from Co. Kerry
      By Walter J. Wells (London, 1901) - OL - Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
   Barry Sullivan: A Biographical Sketch
   Thomas Barry Sullivan, classical actor, son of Peter Sullivan and Mary Barry of Cork
   By W. J. Lawrence (London, 1893)
   Barry Sullivan and his Contemporaries - Vol I - Vol II
     A Histrionic Record; with portraits
     By Robert M. Sillard (London, 1901) - OL - Barry Sullivan (stage actor) in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
   The Life of James Sullivan - Vol I - Vol II
    with Selections from his Writings; Governor of Massachusetts
    By Thomas C. Amory (Boston, 1859) - OL - James Sullivan (Governor) (1744 - 1808) in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
   Sullivan as he lived
      The Shaping of American Architecture; Louis Henry (or Henri) Sullivan, 'father of skyscrapers' son of Irish born Patrick Sullivan; Chicago school; similarities with the fictional hero (?) of Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead'
     By Willard Connely (New York, 1960) - IA
   The Testament of Stone
      By Maurice English (Chicago? 1963) - IA - Louis Sullivan in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia



* SWIFT
   Dean Swift
     By Sophie Shilleto Smith (London, 1910) - OL
   Dean Swift and his Writings
      By Gerald P. Moriarty, B. A. (London, 1893) - OL
   Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington Vol I - Vol II - Vol III
     Wife to the Rev. Mr. Matthew Pilkington; All her Poems; with the Conclusive Part of the Life of the Inimitable Dean Swift
     By Herself (London, 1754) - OL - See Query and Reply in Notes and Queries for short review of these Memoirs
   Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift
     Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin
     In a series of Letters from John, Earl of Orrery to his Son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle (1752) - OL
   Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift
     Illustrated
     Edited by George Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L., LL.D. (London, 1899) - OL - Jonathan Swift in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

* SWIFT MacNEILL
   What I Have Seen and Heard
   14 Illustrations
   By J. G. Swift MacNeill (Boston, 1925) - HT - J. G. Swift MacNeill in: Wikipedia

 * SYNGE
   John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre
     By Maurice Bourgeois (London, 1913) - OL
   John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections with Biographical Notes
     By John Masefield (500 copies, New York, 1915) - OL
   Synge and the Ireland of his Time
     with a Note concerning a Walk through connemara with him by Jack Butler Yeats
     By William Butler Yeats (350 copies, Churchtown, Dundrum, 1911) - OL - John Millington Synge in: Find A Grave - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia

 T
* THOMSON
   The Life of William Thomson - Baron Kelvin of Largs - Vol I
     Mathematical physicist and engineer; b. Belfast, 1824 son of James Thomson, farm labourer and maker of sun dials who was b. Annaghmore, 1786; William attended school at Ballykine near Ballynahinch, Co. Down
     By Silvanus P. Thompson (London, 1910) - OL
   Lord Kelvin - His Life and Work
     By Alexander Russell, M.A., D.Sc., M.I.E.E. (London, 1912) OL
   In Memoriam - The Right Honorable William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
     b. 1824; d. 1907; interred in Westminster Abbey
     Published by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (New York, 1908) - OL - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

     Abridged and Edited by Sean O'Faolain (1937) - IA
   The Letters of Wolfe Tone
     Edited by Bulmer Hobson (Dublin, 1920) - OL
   The Life of Wolfe Tone
     Written by Himself and Completed by his Son; Together with Extracts from his Political writings
     Abridged and Edited by Bulmer Hobson (Dublin, 1921) - OL - Theobald Wolfe Tone in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

U
* UNIACKE
    Robert Uniacke, later Uniacke Fitzgerald - see Fitzgerald

W X
* WALKER
   Governor of Derry during the Siege in 1688. Ulster Journal of Archaeology
   By the Rev. Abraham Dawson, A.B. (Belfast, 1854) - OL - George Walker in: Wikipedia

* WALTON
   Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
   Nobel Laureate; b. Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, 1903; d. 1995
   nobelprize.org - Ernest Walton in: Wikipedia

* WEBB (see DALWAY formerly WEBB)

* WENTWORTH
   The Life of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford - Vol I - Vol II
   and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
   By Elizabeth Cooper (London, 1874) - IA

 * WHELAN
   one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation, born County Mayo, 1824
   By Peter McCourt (Charlottetown, P.E.I., 1888) - OL - Edward Whelan in: Wikipedia

* WHISTLER
   James McNeill Whistler
     Painter
     By H. W. Singer (London, 1905) - OL
   James McNeill Whistler
     son of Major George Washington Whistler, whose father, a well-born Irish gentleman, Major John Whistler, emigrated to America early 19th century
     By Mrs. Arthur Bell (London, 1904) - OL
   Recollections and Impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler
     By Arthur Jerome Eddy (Philadelphia, London, 1904) - IA - James Abbott McNeill Whistler in: Find A Grave (follow links for relatives) - Wikipedia

* WILDE
   The Life of Oscar Wilde
     By Robert Harborough Sherard (1906) - IA
   In Memoriam Oscar Wilde
     By Ernest La Jeunesse, Andre Gide and Franz Blei; translation and introduction by Percival Pollard (limited to 975 copies, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1905) - OL
   Oscar Wilde
     Fragments and Memories
     By Martin Birnbaum (New York, 1914) - OL
  Oscar Wilde - Vol I - Vol II
     His Life and Confessions
     By Frank Harris (New York, 1918) - OL
   Audiobook by LibriVox
     Oscar Wilde in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia

 * WOOFINGTON
   The Life and Adventures of Peg Woffington - Vol I - Vol II
   Irish actress in London
   By J. Fitzgerald Molloy (New York, 1892) - IA - Peg Woofington in Wikipedia

Y Z
* YEATS
   Four Years
     1887 - 1891
     By William Butler Yeats (Churchtown, Dundrum, 1921) - OL
   Passages from the Letter of John Butler Yeats
     written to W.B. Yeats
     Selected by Ezra Pound (Churchtown, Dundrum, 1917) - OL - William Butler Yeats in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia; His brother Jack B. Yeats in: Find A Grave - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia; Their father John Butler Yeats in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
   

Biographical Dictionaries, Compilations
Search over 100 encyclopaedias and dictionaries: encyclopedia.com
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  Dean Swift, Sir Richard Steele... Oliver Goldsmith
   By John Timbs, F.S.A. (London, 1863) - IA

* Annals of the Irish Harpers
   with Portraits
   By Charlotte Milligan Fox (New York, 1912) - HT

 * Antrim and Down in '98
   The lives of Henry Joy M'Cracken, James Hope, William Putnam M'Cabe, Rev. James Porter, Henry Munro
   By Dr. Madden (Glasgow, 1844) OL

* Behind the Scenes - Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre
   part history, part sociology, part biography
   By Adrian Frazier (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford, 1990) - University of California Press

* Biographia Britannica Literaria or Biography of Literary Characters - Anglo Saxon Period - Anglo Norman Period
   of Great Britain and Ireland in chronological order
   By Thomas Wright, M.A. (London, 1842) - OL

 * Biographia Hibernica - A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland - Vol I - Vol II
   from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
   By Richard Ryan (London, 1821) - IA

   Printed for Henry Colburn (London, 1816) - OL

* British and Irish Public Characters of 1798
   Memoirs of Personages
   Printed for J. Milliken, John Rice (Dublin, 1799) - OL

 * The British Plutarch Vol I - Vol II
   incl. George Browne and Hugh Corwin, Archbishops of Dublin - Vol III incl. Sir Walter Raleigh; Richard Boyle, Earl of Corke; Dr. James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh - Vol IV incl. James Butler, Duke of Ormond - Vol V incl. Sir William Temple; Robert Boyle - Vol VIincl. Dr. Jonathan Swift; Sir Hans Sloane - Vol VII - Vol VIII incl. Oliver Goldsmith
   containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland
   Printed for Charles Dilly (London, 1791) - OL
John Philpot Curran

* The Cabinet of Irish Literature - Vol I
   Geoffry Keating (1570 - 1650)
   Gerald Nugent (fl.cir. 1588)
   Teige Macdaire (1570 - 1650)
   Michael O'Clery (1580 - 1650)
   Owen Ward (fl. cir. 1600 - 1610)
   Richard Stanihurst (1545 - 1618)
   Ludovick Barry (fl. cir. 1611)
   James Usher (1580 - 1656)
   Maurice Fitzgerald (fl. cir. 1612)
   Sir James Ware (1594 - 1666)
   Sir John Denham (1615 - 1660)
   Nicholas French (1604 - 1678)
   Maurice Dugan (fl. cir. 1641 - 1660)
   Duald MacFirbis (1585 - 1670)
   Richard Flecknoe (1600 - 1678)
   Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery (1621 - 1679)
   William Molyneux (1656 - 1698)
   Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon (1633 - 1684)
   The Hon. Robert Boyle (1626 - 1691)
   Thomas Duffet (fl. cir. 1676)
   George Farquhar (1678 - 1707)
   Henry Dodwell (1641 - 1711)
   The Hon. Mrs. Monk (1677 - 1715)
   Nahum Tate (1652 - 1715)
   Nicholas Brady (1659 - 1726)
   Roderic O'Flaherty (1628 - 1718)
   Anthony, Count Hamilton (1646 - 1720)
   John Toland (1669 - 1722)
   Thomas Parnell (1679 - 1717)
   Robert Viscount Molesworth (1656 - 1725)
   Mrs. Susanna Centlivre (1667 - 1723)
   Dr. William King (1650 - 1729)
   John O'Neachtan (fl. cir. 1695 - 1729)
   Sir Richard Steele (1672 - 1729)
   Mrs. Constantia Grierson (1706 - 1733)
   William Congreve (1672 - 1729)
   Turlough O'Carolan (1670 - 1738)
   John Abernethy (1680 - 1740)
   Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
   Samuel Boyse (1708 - 1749)
   Sir Hans Sloane (1660 - 1752)
   Thomas Southerne (1660 - 1746)
   Mathew Concanen (d. 1749)
   Bishop [George] Berkeley (1684 - 1753)
   Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington (1712 - 1760) - see Dean Swift below
   John Boyle, Earl of Cork (1707 - 1762)
   John MacDonnell (1691 - 1754)
   Charles Molloy (1706 - 1767)
   Samuel Madden (1686 - 1765)
   Mrs. Barber (1712 - 1757)
   Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
   Philip Francis (1719 - 1773)
   John Cunningham (1729 - 1773)
   Henry Jones (1721 - 1770)
   Patrick Delaney 1686 - 1768)
   Frances Sheridan (1724 - 1766)
   Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)
   Hugh Kelly (1739 - 1777)
   James Delacour (1709 - 1781)
   William Havard (1710 - 1778)
   Kane O'Hara (d. 1782)
   Thomas Leland (1722 - 1785)
   Henry Brooke (1706 - 1783)
   Francis Gentleman (1728 - 1784)
   Thomas Sheridan (1721 - 1788)
   Andrew Magrath (abt. 1723 - aft. 1790)
   General [John] Burgoyne (cir. 1728 - 1792)
   Charlotte Brooke (1740 - 1793)
   Selections from the Works of the Chief Poets, Orators, and Prose Writers of Ireland with Biographical Sketches and Literary Notices
   By Charles A. Read, F.R.H.S. (London, 1893) - OL
Thomas Moore

* The Cabinet of Irish Literature - Vol II
  Selections from the Works of the Chief Poets, Orators, and Prose Writers of Ireland with Biographical Sketches and Literary Notices
   Sir Jonah Barrington (1760 - 1834)
   John Philpot Curran (1750 - 1817)
   James Orr (1770 - 1816)
   Eaton Stannard Barrett (1785 - 1820)
   Henry Grattan (1746 - 1820)
   John Lanigan, D.D. (1758 - 1828)
   Charles Wolfe (1791 - 1823)
   Charles Robert Maturin (1782 - 1824
   Mary Leadbeater (1758 - 1826)
   John O'Keefe (1747 - 1843
   Thomas Furlong (1794 - 1827)
   James Joseph Callanan (1795 - 1829)
   James Warren Doyle (1786 - 1834)
   Charles Kendal Bushe (1767 - 1843)
   Maria Edgeworth (1767 - 1849)
   Daniel O'Connell (1775 - 1847)
   William Maginn, LL.D. (1794 - 1842)
   John Banim (1794 - 1842)
   James Kenney (1780 - 1849)
   Countess of Blessington [Marguerite Gardiner (nee Power)] (1789 - 1849)
   Caesar Otway (1768 - 1842)
   Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788 - 1846)
   Richard Henry Wilde (1789 - 1847)
   Thomas Moore (1780 - 1852)
   William Conyngham Plunket (1764 - 1854)
   George Darley (1785 - 1846)
   Sir Martin Archer Shee (1760 - 1850)
   Gerald Griffin (1803 - 1840)
   James Clarence Mangan (1803 - 1849)
   Richard Lalor Sheil (1791 - 1851)
   John Keegan (1809 - 1849)
   Lieut.-Gen. Sir Chas. J. Napier (1782 - 1853)
   William Hamilton Maxwell (1794 - 1850)
   George Croly, LL.D. (1780 - 1860)
   Sir Wm. Francis Patrick Napier (1785 - 1860)
   John D. Fraser (1809 - 1849)
   Thomas Crofton Croker (1798 - 1854)
   Edward Walsh (1805 - 1850)
   William Thompson (1805 - 1852)
   James Sheridan Knowles (1784 - 1862)
   Mrs. Jameson (1794 - 1860)
   William Hamilton Drummond (1778 - 1865)
   George Petrie, LL.D. (1789 - 1866)
   Eugene O'Curry (1796 - 1862)
   William Archer Butler (1814 - 1848)
   Thomas Osborne Davis (1815 - 1845)
   John Anster, LL.D. (1793 - 1867)
   John D'Alton (1792 - 1867) - see also Papers relating to the historian John D'Alton 1844 - 1864 - Louth County Council
   Cardinal [Nicholas] Wiseman (1802 - 1874)
   Michael Banim (1796 - 1874)
   Arthur Gerald Geoghegan (1809 - 1889)
   John O'Hagan (1822 - 1890)
   Dr. John Kells Ingram (b. 1823)
   By Charles A. Read, F.R.H.S. (London, Revised, 1903) - OL



* The Cabinet of Irish Literature - Vol III
  Selections from the Works of the Chief Poets, Orators, and Prose Writers of Ireland with Biographical Sketches and Literary Notices
   By Charles A. Read, F.R.H.S. (London, 1880) - OL
James Sheridan Knowles

* The Cabinet of Irish Literature - Vol IV
   Selections from the Works of the Chief Poets, Orators, and Prose Writers of Ireland with Biographical Sketches and Literary Notices
   Charles James Lever (1806 - 1872)
   Archbishop M'Hale (b. 1791)
   Sir Joseph Napier (b. 1804)
   James Godkin (b. 1806)
   Archbishop Trench (b. 1807)
   John Patrick Prendergast (b. 1807)
   Hon. Mrs. Caroline Norton (1807 - 1877)
   John Edward Walsh (1816 - 1889)
   Mrs. S. C. Hall
   Aubrey T. de Vere (b. 1814)
   Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 1873)
   Marmion W. Savage (1823 - 1867)
   Sir Samuel Ferguson (b. 1810)
   James Whiteside (1806 - 1876)
   Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee (1825 - 1868)
   William M'Cullagh Torrens (b. 1813)
   Lady Wilde ('Speranza') 
   Meadows Taylor (1808 - 1876)
   Thomas Caulfield Irwin (b. 1823)
   Richard Francis Burton (b. 1821)
   James Roderick O'Flanagan (b. 1814)
   William Connor Magee, D.D. (b. 1821)
   William Howard Russell (b. 1821)
   Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (b. 1816)
   Julia Kavanagh (1824 - 1877)
   Richard Dalton Williams (1822 - 1862
   Frances Power Cobbe (b. 1822)
   John Francis Waller (b. 1810)
   John Tyndall (b. 1820)
   John Crawford Wilson (b. 1825)
   Annie Keary (1825 - 1879)
   William Allingham
   Mayne Reid (b. 1819)
   Eva Mary Kelly
   Ellen Downing
   Charles Joseph Kickham (b. 1830)
   Denis Florence MacCarthy (b. 1817)
   Martin Haverty (b. 1809)
   Charles Graham Halpine (1829 - 1863)
   John Francis O'Donnell (1837 - 1874)
   Isaac Butt (1813 - 1879)
   William Alexander, D.D. (b. 1824)
   Mrs. Alexander
   Francis Davis (b. 1810)
   Dion Boucicault (b. 1822)
   Francis Browne (b. 1816)
   Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley (b. 1833)
   John Keegan Casey (1846 - 1870)
   William E. H. Lecky (b. 1838)
   Bartholomew Simmons (d. 1850)
   Earl Cairns (b. 1819)
   J. L. Porter (b. 1823)
   Alfred Perceval Graves (b. 1846)
   Thomas N. Burke (b. 1830)
   William Francis Butler (b. 1838)
   Timothy Daniel Sullivan (b. 1827)
   Alexander Martin Sullivan (b. 1830)
   Patrick Weston Joyce (b. 1827)
   Robert Dwyer Joyce (b. 1830)
   William John Fitzpatrick (b. 1830)
   Earl of Dufferin [Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood] (b. 1826)
   John Cashel Hoey (b. 1828
   Mrs. Cashel Hoey (b. 1830)
   William Gorman Willis (b. 1828)
   William Arthur (b. 1819)
   Sir William Thomson (b. 1824)
   John Todhunter (b. 1839)
   Rosa Mulholland 
   J. A. MacGahan (1845 - 1878)
   Miss Casey (E. Owens Blackburne) (b. 1848)
   John Boyle O'Reilly
   John Peytland Mahaffy (b. 1839)
   Richard Dowling (b. 1846)
   Arthur O'Shaughnessy (b. 1846)
   Hon. Lewis Wingfield (b. 1842)
   Miss Laffan
   Edward Dowden (b. 1843)
   Margaret Stokes
   Justin McCarthy (b. 1830)
   Edmund John Armstrong (1841 - 1865)
   George Francis Armstrong (b. 1845)
   Standish O'Grady (b. 1846)
   Mrs. J. H. Riddell
   John T. Gilbert
   Earl of Dunraven [Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin] (b. 1841)
   Charles A. Read (1841 - 1878)
   By Charles A. Read, F.R.H.S. (London, 1880) - OL
Laurence Sterne

* Chief and Tribune - Parnell and Davitt
   By M. M. O'Hara (Dublin, London, 1919) - OL

* Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century
   including Contemporary Biographies
   By Rev. Richard J. Hodges (Brighton, 1911) - Cork Past and Present - Cork City Council

 * A Compendium of Irish Biography
   comprising sketches of Distinguished Irishmen...
   By Alfred Webb (Dublin, 1878) - OL

   Ireland's national biographical dictionary

* Dictionary of National Biography
London Editions
1885
   - Annesley - Baird - Baker - Beadon - Beal - Biber
1886
   - Bottomley - Browell
1887
   - Conder - Craigie
1888
   - Craik - Damer
1895
   - Owens - Passelewe - Paston - Percy
1889
   - Edward - Erskine
1896
   - Pereire - Pockrich - Pocock - Puckering - Puckle - Reidfurd
1897
   - Scoffin - Sheares - Robinson - Russell - Russen - Scobel
1898 (complete)
   - Smith - Stanger - Stanhope - Stovin - Stow - Taylor - Teach - Tollet
1899 (complete)
   - Tom - Tytler - Ubaldini - Wakefield - Wakeman - Watkins - Watson - Whewell
1900 (Complete)
   - Whichcord - Williams - Williamson - Worden - Wordsworth - Zuylestein
1901
   - Supplement Abbott - Childers - Supplement Chippendale - Hoste
1903
   - Index and Epitome
1904
   - Errata
London 2nd Edition
1909
   - Masquerier - Myles - Myllar - Owen
1912
   - Second Supplement Abbey - Eyre - Second Supplement Faed - Muybridge - Second Supplement Neil - Young
Oxford University Press Editions
1920
   - Abbadie - Young
1950
   - Craik - Drake
New York Editions
1885 (Complete)
   - Abbadie - Anne - Annesley - Baird - Baker - Beadon - Beal - Biber
1886 (complete)
   - Bicheno - Bottisham - Bottomley - Browell - Brown - Burthogge - Burton - Cantwell
1887 (complete)
   - Canute - Chaloner - Chamber - Clarkson - Clater - Condell - Condor - Craigie
1888 (complete)
   - Craik - Damer - Damon - D'Eyncourt - Diamond - Drake - Drant - Edridge
1889 (complete)
   - Edward - Erskine - Esdaile - Finan - Finch - Forman - Forrest - Garner
1890 (complete)
   - Garnett - Gloucester - Glover - Gravet - Gray - Haighton - Hailes - Harriott
1891 (complete)
   - Harris - Henry I - Henry II - Hindley - Hindmarsh - Hovenden - Howard - Inglethorp
1892 (complete)
   - Inglis - John - Johnes - Kenneth - Kennett - Lambart - Lambe - Leigh
1893 (complete)
   - Leighton - Lluelyn - Llwyd - Maccartney - MacCarwell - Maltby - Malthus - Mason
1894 (complete)
   - Masquerier - Millyng - Milman - More - Morehead - Myles - Myllar - Nicholls
1895 (complete)
   - Nichols - O'Dugan - O'Duinn - Owen - Passelewe - Paston - Percy
1896
* Dictionary of National Biography: Pereire - Pockrich (see London edition above)
   - Pocock - Puckering - Puckle - Reidfurd - Reilly - Robins
1897
   - Robinson - Russell - Russen - Scobell
   - Dictionary of National Biography: Scoffin - Sheares (see London edition above)
   - Shearman - Smirke
1898 (complete)
   - Smith - Stanger - Stanhope - Stovin - Stow - Taylor - Teach - Tollet
1899 (complete)
   - Tom - Tytler - Uraldini - Wakefield - Wakeman - Watkins - Watson - Whewell
1900 (Complete)
   - Whichcord - Williams - Williamson - Worden - Wordworth - Zuylestein
1901
   - Supplement Abbott - Childers - Supplement Chippendale - Hoste - Supplement How - Woodward
1904
   - Errata
New York 2nd Edition
1908
   - Beal - Browell - Brown - Chaloner
1909
* Dictionary of National Biography: Owens - Passelewe - Robinson - Sheares - Stow - Tytler
   Edited by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (London, New York, 1885 - 1912) - IA

 * Dictionary of Ulster Biography
   online dictionary of people associated with the 9 historic counties of Ulster
   By Kate Newmann; Ulster History Circle

 * Essays Relating to Ireland
   Biographical, Historical and Topographical
   By C. Litton Falkiner (London, 1909) - OL

 * Famous Irishwomen
   By Katherine A. O'Keeffe O'Mahoney (Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1907) - OL

 * Famous Ulster-Scots
   Pamphlet
   Ulster-Scots Agency (Tha Boord o Ulster Scotch) (Belfast, 2009) - U-SA

* Four Irish Landscape Painters
   George Barret, R.A., James A. O'Connor, Walter F. Osborne, R.H.A., Nathaniel Hone, R.H.A.
   By Thomas Bodkin (Dublin, London, 1920) - OL - George Barret, Sr. in: Wikipedia - James Arthur O'Connor in: Wikipedia - Walter Osborne 1859 - 1903 in Wikipedia - Nathaniel Hone the Younger 1831 - 1917 in Wikipedia - Thomas Bodkin 1887 - 1961 in Wikipedia

* The Great Leaders of an Oppressed but Brave People
   A Memorial Volume to Ireland's Incorruptible son, Patriot and Statesman, Charles Stewart Parnell; including the Life and Public Services of the Great Emancipator Daniel O'Connell
   By Thomas Clarke Luby (New York, 1892) - OL - Thomas Clarke Luby in: Wikipedia

* A Group of Nation-Builders - O'Donovan - O'Curry - Petrie
   John O'Donovan, b. Atateemore, Co. Kilkenny, 1806; Eugene O'Curry, b. Dunaha, County Clare, 1794; George Petrie, b. Dublin 1789; In the battle for intellectual freedom it is true to say the O'Donovan, O'Curry and petrie are national heroes.
   By Rev. Patrick M. MacSweeney (Dublin, 1913) - OL

 * Hardwicke's Annual Biography for 1856 - 1857
   containing Original and Selected Memoirs of Celebrated Characters who have Died during the year 1855, 1856
   By Edward Walford, M.A. (London, 1856, 1857) - OL

   including Rt. Rev. Drs. Doyle and Milner, Thomas Moore, John Lawless, Thomas Furlong, Richard Lalor Shiel, Thomas Steele, Counsellor Bric, Thomas Addis Emmet, William Corbett, Sir Michael O'Loghlen, etc. etc.
   By Thomas D. McGee (Boston, 1845) - OL

* The History of the Lord Chancellors of Ireland
   From A.D. 1186 to A.D. 1874
   By Oliver J. Burke, A.B.T.C.D. (Dublin, 1879) - OL - Oliver J. Burke in: Wikipedia

 * Illustrious Irishwomen - Vol I


 * Illustrious Irishwomen - Vol II
  
    being  Memoirs of some of the Most Noted Irishwomen from the Earliest Ages to the Present Century
   By E. Owens Blackburne (London, 1877) - OL

 * Ireland and her People - Book I - Vol. II - Vol. III - Vol. IV - Vol. V
   A Library of Irish Biography
   By Thos. W. H. Fitzgerald (Chicago, mixed  editions 1906, 1910 - 1911) - IA

   Sketches of the Principal Men at the Time. With Engraved Portraits...
   Robert Emmett, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Thomas Russell, William James M'Neven, Bartholomew Teeling
   Edited by J. Bowles Daly, LL.D. (London, 1888) - OL

  Containing Biographical Sketches of more than Fifteen Hundred Distinguished
   Irish Celts, with a Chronological Index
   By James O'Brien (Detroit, 1884) - OL

* The Irish Chieftains or, A Struggle for the Crown
   By Charles ffrench Blake-Forster (Dublin, 1872) - GB

 * Irish Men of Science
   from 'The Glories of Ireland'
   By Sir Bertram C. A. Windle, Sc.D., M.D., President, University College, Cork (Washington, D.C., 1914) - IA

 * The Irish Nation - Its History and Its Biography - Vol I - Vol II - Vol III - Vol IV - Vol V - Vol VI - Vol VII - Vol VIII
   Portraits, Plates of Genealogies, etc.
   By James Wills, D.D., and Freeman Wills, M.A. (London, Edinburgh, New York, 1860 - 1875) - OL

* Irish Poets and Novelists
   with biographical sketches
   By Rev. D. O. Crowley (San Francisco, 1892) - OL

* Irish Wits and Worthies
   including Dr. Lanigan, his life and times, with glimpses of stirring scenes since 1770
   By W. J. Fitz-Patrick, LL.D., J.P. (Dublin 1878) - IA

 * The Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland
   Swift, Flood, Grattan, O'Connell
   By William Edward Hartpole Lecky, M.A. (New York, 1876) - IA

   By James Wills, A.M.T.C.D., M.R.I.A. (Dublin, 1840 - 1847) - IA

* Lives of Irishmen's Sons and their Descendants
   McMahon, Duke of Magenta, President of France
   Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States
   Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman
   Lieutenant-General Philip H. Sheridan
   Fieldmarshall Leopold O'Donnell, Count of Lucena and Duke of Tetuan
   By Colonel James E. McGee (New York, 1874) - IA

   from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria
   By J. Roderick O'Flanagan, M.R.I.A. (London, 1870) - OL

* The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland - Vol I - Vol II - Vol III - Vol IV
   To the Time of Dean Swift
   By Mr. [Theophilus] Cibber, and other Hands (London, 1753) - OL

 * The Lives and Trials of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, The Rev William Jackson, The Defenders, William Orr, Peter Finnerty
   and other Eminent Irishmen
   by Thomas Mac Nevin, Esq., Barister at Law (Dublin, 1846) - IA

* Memorable Dublin Houses
   Index of Residents (reproduced below); short biographies of same; illustrated
   By Wilmot Harrison (Dublin, 1909) - OL



* The Men at the Helm - Biographical Sketches of Great English Statesmen
   including The Marquis of Londonderry; the Right Hon. George Canning; Sir Robert Peel
   By W. H. Davenport Adams (London, Edinburgh, 1862) - OL

   in every Nation, Particularly the British and Irish. New Edition greatly enlarged and improved.
   Printed in London (1798) - OL

   Contents reproduced below
   By C. J. Hamilton (Dublin, 1904) - AAI - Short review of this book in AAI


   Irish Poets and Dramatists of Today and Yesterday
   By Michael Monahan (New York, 1914) - OL

* Our Exemplars, Poor and Rich
   Biographical Sketches of Men and Women who have... benefited their fellow-creatures
   - Bridget Burke (née Mears), b. Athlone, founder of an Institution for the poor of Dublin
   - Father Mathew, Apostle of Temperance
   - Very Rev. Dr. John Spratt, b. Dublin, 1798, successor of Fr. Mathew
   - Catherine Wilkinson of Liverpool, b. Ireland, abt. 1786, pioneering health campaigner (see also Who do You Think You Are Magazine No. 76, August 2013)
   Preface by Lord Brougham; Ed. by Matthew Davenport Hill (London, 1861) - OL

 * Personal Reminiscences by O'Keeffe, Kelly and Taylor
   John O'Keeffe b. Dublin 1747
   Edited by Richard Henry Stoddard (New York, 1875) - OL

   By D. J. O'Donoghue (Dublin, London, 1912) - OL

* A Round Table of the Representative Irish and English Catholic Novelists
   Louisa Emily Dobree, native of Tours, France, of Irish descent on her mother's side
   Mrs. Frances Blundell, ('M. E. Francis') dau. of Michael James Sweetman of Lamberton Park, Queen's County
   R. B. Sheridan Knowles, who was related to Richard Brinsley Sheridan
   Clara and Rosa Mulholland, daughters of Joseph Stevenson Mulholland, M.D., of Belfast; Rosa m. the author and historian Sir John T. Gilbert
   Katherine Tynan, b. Dublin; m. Mr. H. A. Hinkson
   Printed by Benziger Brothers (Chicago, 1897) - OL

* The Scottish Nation Vol I ABE -CUR - Vol II DAL - MAC - Vol III MAC - ZET
   or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of the People of Scotland - many with Irish connections
   By William Anderson (Edinburgh, London, 1877) - OL

 * Sketches of Celebrated Irishmen, Irish Character, etc.
   By Henry Giles (New York, 1896) - OL

 * Some Celebrated Irish Beauties of the Last Century
   with numerous portraits and illustrations
* Some Fair Hibernians
   being a supplementary volume to the above
   By Frances Gerard (London, 1895, 1897) - OL

 * The Sons of the Emerald Isle
   or Lives of One Thousand Remarkable Irishmen
   Robert Fulton, 'the Washington of Mechanics', b. Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1765 to Irish emigrants
   Sir Richard Steele, 'Father of the Periodical Essay', b. Dublin 1676
   Major General Richard Montgomery, b. north of Ireland 1737, Commander-in-Chief of continental forces in Canada
   Robert Emmet, patriot
   Judge Louis Perrin, King's Bench, Ireland
   Rev. Adam Clarke, LL.D. eminent author and preacher, b. Moybeg, County Londonderry abt. 1760
   Right Rev. James Doyle, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin
   Commodore John Barry, b. Wexford 'father of the American navy'
   Judge Philip Cecil Crampton, justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland
   Rev. Theobald Mathew, abolitionist of slavery, apostle of sobriety and temperance
   Richard Brinsley Sheridan, genius, enlightened statesman, orator
   John and Henry Sheares, martyrs for the cause of country and humanity, publicly executed 1798
   Major General James Clinton, b. 1736, both parents from Longford
   Edmund Burke, b. 1730
   Charles O'Conor, The Irish Antiquary, b. Balanagare, Co. Roscommon, 1710
   Dr. Charles O'Conor, Catholic priest, chaplain to Lady Buckingham, librarian of the Duke's magnificent and costly collection at Stowe
   Dean Swift, b. Cashel, Co. Tipperary, 1667
   Oliver Goldsmith, the Burns of Ireland, b. at Pallas (or Elphin) in Longford
   Chief Justice Matthew Thornton, signer of the Declaration of American Independence
   Colonel James Smith, signer of the Declaration of American Independence
   George Taylor, of Pennsylvania, one of the fathers of the great republic, b. Ireland, 1716
   more...
   By William L. Mackenzie (New York, 1844) - IA

   mainly of the eighteenth century
   By C. Litton Falkiner (London, New York, Bombay, 1902) - OL

* Worthies of Thomond
   dozens of biographical profiles of notable Limerick and Clare people
   By Robert Herbert  (Ireland, 1940's) - LCC
CCL = Clare County Library (read online only)
HT = HathiTrust Digital Library (read online only, login to visitor account may be required)
U-SA = Ulster-Scots Agency

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