See also: Church Lives - Legal Luminaries - Memoirs of the Nobility - Military Leaders
Individuals
Biographical Dictionaries, Compilations
Individuals
with their ancestors and immediate family
By Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D., LL.D. (New York, 1915) - HT
* 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* ANDREWS: Thomas Andrews Shipbuilder
poet, diarist, editor; b. Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, 1824
Ed. by H. Allingham; D. Radford (London, 1907) - OL - William Allingham in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* ANDREWS: Thomas Andrews Shipbuilder
With an Introduction by Sir Horace Plunkett
By Shan F. Bullock (Dublin, London, 1912) - OL - Thomas Andrews 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: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
* 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
* 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: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
* 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
RSAI Journal
By Philip H. Bagenal, B.A. (Dublin, 1914) - OL - Nicholas Bagenal 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* BANIM: The Life of John Banim
- 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* BANIM: The Life of John Banim
The Irish Novelist
By Patrick Joseph Murray (London, 1857) - OL - John Banim in: Irish Graves - 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
* BARRINGTON: Sir Matthew Barrington 1788 - 1861
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: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
* BARRY: 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: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - 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 website - Octavius Charles Beale in: Wikipedia
* BERANGER: Memoir of Gabriel Beranger
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: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
* BARRY: 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: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - 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 website - Octavius Charles Beale in: Wikipedia
* BERANGER: Memoir of Gabriel 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
* BIANCONI: Charles Bianconi - A Biography
1786-1875
By his daughter Mrs. Morgan John O'Connell (London, 1878) - IA - Charles Bianconi in: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* 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 website
* 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
* 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
Some family history in the footnotes
By Aiken McClelland (Reprint from Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, 1963) - Discover Saintfield website
* 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
* 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
* 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 Russion by Seamus O'Coigligh with additional notes (original Moscow, 1957; translation Cork, 2008) - Cork City Libraries website - Elthel Lilian Voynich in: Wikipedia - The Gadfly in: Open Library - Wikipedia; Her father George Boole in: Irish Graves - 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 - Irish Graves
* 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
* BOWEN: 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
* BOYLE:
- 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: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
* BUCHANAN: Life of James Buchanan - Vol I - Vol II
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 Russion by Seamus O'Coigligh with additional notes (original Moscow, 1957; translation Cork, 2008) - Cork City Libraries website - Elthel Lilian Voynich in: Wikipedia - The Gadfly in: Open Library - Wikipedia; Her father George Boole in: Irish Graves - 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 - Irish Graves
* 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
* BOWEN: 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
* BOYLE:
- 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: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
* BUCHANAN: Life of James Buchanan - Vol I - Vol II
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: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
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
- The Leadbeater Papers - Vol II Letters from Edmund Burke heretofore unpublished
By Mary Leadbeater (London, 1862) - OL - Edmund Burke in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Wikipedia - Wikisource
- A Life of Edmund Burke
By Sir James Prior, F.S.A. (London, 1891) - OL
- The Leadbeater Papers - Vol II Letters from Edmund Burke heretofore unpublished
By Mary Leadbeater (London, 1862) - OL - Edmund Burke in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Wikipedia - Wikisource
* BUTLER: The Life of James Duke of Ormond Vol II
with an Appendix and A Collection of Letters
By _____ (new edition, Oxford, MDCCCLI)
C
* 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
* CALVERT: Sir George Calvert
* 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
* CALVERT: Sir George 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
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
* CAREW: The Life and Times of Sir Peter Carew, Kt.
- 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
* CAREW: The Life and Times of Sir Peter Carew, Kt.
(1514? - 1575) from the Original Manuscript
By John MacLean, Esq., F.S.A. (London, 1857) - OL - Peter Carew in: Find A Grave - 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 - Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia
* CARROLL: Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton
By John MacLean, Esq., F.S.A. (London, 1857) - OL - Peter Carew in: Find A Grave - 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 - Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia
* CARROLL: Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton
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
* CARSON: Kit Carson Days
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
* CARSON: The Life of Alexander Carson LL D
of Scotch-Irish descent; b. Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone 1776
By George C. Moore (New York, 1853) - IA
* CARSON: Memoir of Joseph Carson, M.D.
of Scotch-Irish descent
By James Darrach, M.D. (Philadelphia, 1879) - IA
* CASTLEREAGH: - see Stewart
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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: Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia
* CONNOLLY: James Connolly
Irish Republican Leader and International Socialist
By Patrick L. Quinlan (Buffalo, New York, 1922) - IA - James Connolly in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* COOTE: The Life and Administration of Richard [Coote], Earl of Bellomont
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
* 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
* 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
* CROCKETT: Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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: Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia
* CONNOLLY: James Connolly
Irish Republican Leader and International Socialist
By Patrick L. Quinlan (Buffalo, New York, 1922) - IA - James Connolly in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* COOTE: The Life and Administration of Richard [Coote], Earl of Bellomont
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
* 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
* 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
* CROCKETT: Narrative of the Life of David 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
* 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: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
* CUDMORE: Autobiography; Pedigree of the Cudmore Family
I was b. Moorestown, Kilfinane, Co. Limerick 1831
By P. Cudmore (1896, photo-offset Chicago, 1970) - FHB
* CURRAN:
- The Life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran
By Mr. Davis (Dublin, 1846) - OL
- The Life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran
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
* 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: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
* CUDMORE: Autobiography; Pedigree of the Cudmore Family
I was b. Moorestown, Kilfinane, Co. Limerick 1831
By P. Cudmore (1896, photo-offset Chicago, 1970) - FHB
* CURRAN:
- The Life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran
By Mr. Davis (Dublin, 1846) - OL
- The Life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran
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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
- 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 - Irish Graves - 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
* DARLEY: Sir Frederick Matthew 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 website - Frederick Matthew Darley in: Wikipedia
* DAVIS:
- Short Life of Thomas Davis
1840 - 1846
- Thomas Davis
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
* DARLEY: Sir Frederick Matthew 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 website - 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: Irish Graves - 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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
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
* DERMODY: The life of Thomas Dermody - Vol I - Vol II
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
* DERMODY: The life of Thomas Dermody - Vol I - Vol II
Interspersed with pieces of Orignial Poetry
By James Grant Raymond (London, 1806) - IA - Thomas Dermody in: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* DE VALERA: Early Life of Eamonn 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia; His wife Sinead De Valera and son Ruaidhri de Valera in: Irish Graves
By David T. Dwane (Dublin, 1922) - IA - Eamon de Valera in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Wikipedia; His wife Sinead De Valera and son Ruaidhri de Valera in: Irish Graves
* 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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* 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
* DONNELLY: 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
* DONNELLY: 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
* 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: Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia
- 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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* 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
* DONNELLY: 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
* DONNELLY: 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
* 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: Irish Graves - 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
* DUFFY: My Life in Two Hemispheres - Vol I - Vol II
Irish nationalist; Premier of Victoria, Australia
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
* 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 - Irish Graves - 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 website - Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Premier of Tasmania in: Wikipedia; His father, Edmund Dwyer Gray, Irish M.P. in: Irish Graves - 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 website - Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Premier of Tasmania in: Wikipedia; His father, Edmund Dwyer Gray, Irish M.P. in: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
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
Listing of his 21 children in a handwritten record p. 3 - TCD - Richard Lovell Edgeworth in: Wikipedia
* EDGEWORTH:
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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia; Her father Richard Lovell Edgeworth in: Irish Graves
* EMMET, EMMETT:
Sketch of the Life of Robert Emmet
By Varina Anne Davis (New York, 1888) - OL
- Life of Robert Emmett
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
- 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 Graves - Irish Historical Mysteries: The Grave of Robert Emmet - Wikipedia; Thomas Addis Emmet in: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
F
* 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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* 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) - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* FITZGERALD:
* 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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* 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) - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* FITZGERALD:
1456 - 1513
By Donough Bryan, B.A., LL.B., B.L. (Dublin, Belfast, 1933) - AAI - Short review of this book in AAI
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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia; Pamela, Lady Edward Fitzgerald, in: Wikipedia
- 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia; Pamela, Lady Edward Fitzgerald, in: Wikipedia
* 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
- 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
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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* FOSTER: Stephen Collins Foster
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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* FOSTER: Stephen Collins Foster
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
* 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
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
- 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
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: Irish Graves - 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: Life of Sir John T. Gilbert, LL.D., F.S.A.
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) - Irish Graves - 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
- 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 - Irish Graves - 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
* GRATTAN:
- The Life of the Right Honorable Henry Grattan
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: Irish Graves - 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: 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: Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia
* 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
* HEALY: George P. A. Healy
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
* GRATTAN:
- The Life of the Right Honorable Henry Grattan
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: Irish Graves - 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: 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: Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia
* 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
* HEALY: George P. A. Healy
Irish-American painter
By his Daughter Mary (Madame Charles Bigot) (Chicago, 1894) - OL - George Peter Alexander Healy in: Wikipedia
* HEALY:
- 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: Lafcadio Hearn
- 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: Lafcadio Hearn
Orientalist; aka Yakumo Koizumi
By Nina H. Kennard (New York, 1912) - OL - Lafcadio Hearn in: Find A Grave (Zoshigaya Cemetery, Tokyo) - Irish Graves - Wikipedia; Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum in: Wikipedia; Great grandson Prof. Bon Koizumi traces his Irish roots in: The Irish Times
* 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* HOOKE: From Irish Whig Rebel to Bourbon Diplomat
The Life and Career of Nathaniel Hooke 1664 - 1738; b. Corballis House, Dublin; PhD thesis
By Thomas Byrne (Maynooth, 2007) - NUI Maynooth eTheses Archive
* 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
* 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
* HUTCHESON: The Ingenious Mr. Hutcheson
An essay on a neglected Scots-Irishman Francis Hutcheson, philosopher
By Philip Orr (Downpatrick, 2000) - Discover Saintfield website - Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) in: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* HOOKE: From Irish Whig Rebel to Bourbon Diplomat
The Life and Career of Nathaniel Hooke 1664 - 1738; b. Corballis House, Dublin; PhD thesis
By Thomas Byrne (Maynooth, 2007) - NUI Maynooth eTheses Archive
* 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
* 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
* HUTCHESON: The Ingenious Mr. Hutcheson
An essay on a neglected Scots-Irishman Francis Hutcheson, philosopher
By Philip Orr (Downpatrick, 2000) - Discover Saintfield website - Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) in: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
An Craoibhin Aoibhinn
By Diarmid O Cobhthaigh (Dublin, London, 1917) - OL
- Douglas Hyde - President of Ireland
By Diarmid Coffey (Dublin, Cork, 1928) - 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
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: Find A Grave Wikipedia; 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
- 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: Find A Grave Wikipedia; 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
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* 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
* KELVIN: - see THOMSON
* KERNAN: Address in Memory of Hon. Francis Kernan, LL.D.
* 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
* KELVIN: - see THOMSON
* KERNAN: Address in Memory of Hon. Francis Kernan, LL.D.
United States Senator
By William H. Watson (Albany 1893) - OL - Francis Kernan in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* LANE: Hugh Lane's Life and Achievement
with some account of the Dublin Galleries
By Lady Gregory (London, 1921) - IA - Hugh Lane in: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* LANIGAN: Dr. (John) Lanigan, His Life and Times
In the series "Irish Wits and Worthies"
By W. J. Fitz-Patrick (Dublin, 1873) - OL - John Lanigan in: Wikipedia
* LAVERY:
By Walter Shaw-Sparrow (London, 1911) - OL
By Sir John Lavery (Boston, 1940) - IA - John Lavery in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Wikipedia; His wife Lady Hazel Lavery in: Irish Graves
* 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
* Le FANU: Seventy Years of Irish Life
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 - Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia
* 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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* LOWRY: The Life of Edward 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
By Sean J. Murphy (Bray, Co. Wicklow, 2009) - CIGHS - Charles Lucas (politician) in: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
Mac
* Mac CARTHY: The Life and Letters of Florence Mac Carthy - (Continued) - (Continued 2) - (Continued 3)
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: Our First Ambassador to China
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: Notes on Sir John MacCoughlan, Knight of Cloghan
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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
Mc
M
* MADDEN: Memoirs (chiefly autobiographical) of Dr. Richard Robert Madden
(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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
Mc
* McCORMACK: John McCormack - His Own Life Story
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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* McCORMICK: Cyrus Hall McCormick - His life and Work
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
(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: Memoirs (chiefly autobiographical) of Dr. Richard Robert 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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* MALLETT: Robert Mallet: Ireland's 'Father of Seismology'
By Sean Duke (Ireland, 2009) - Science Spin website - 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: The Life and Writings of James Clarence Mangan
By Sean Duke (Ireland, 2009) - Science Spin website - 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: The Life and Writings of James Clarence Mangan
By D. J. O'donoghue (Edinburgh, 1897) - OL - James Clarence Mangan in: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* MARTIN:
- The Diary of 'Honest' John Martin
Young Irelander
Transcribed by Suzanne Ballard (Filmed 2000) - FHB
* MEAGHER:
- Memoirs of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher
* 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
- 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 - Irish Graves - 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 - website
* MITCHEL:
- 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 - website
* 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: The Life of Count (Arthur) Moore
By Albert Barry, C.S.S.R. (Dublin, 1905) - OL - Arthur John Moore in: Wikipedia
* MOORE:
- Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore Vol I - Vol II - Vol III - Vol IV - Vol V - Vol VI - Vol VII - Vol VIII
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
- Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore Vol I - Vol II - Vol III - Vol IV - Vol V - Vol VI - Vol VII - Vol VIII
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 - Irish Graves - 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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia; Her husband Thomas Charles Morgan in: Wikipedia; Her father Robert Owenson (MacOwen) in: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* MURRAY: The Life and Battles of Yankee Sullivan
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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia; Her husband Thomas Charles Morgan in: Wikipedia; Her father Robert Owenson (MacOwen) in: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* MURRAY: The Life and Battles of Yankee Sullivan
...(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
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* 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
* 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
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: Irish Graves Wikipedia
* O'CONNELL:
- Evening Memories
being a continuation of 'Recollections'
By William O'Brien, M.P. (London, 1905, 1920) - OL - William O'Brien in: Irish Graves 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 - Irish Graves - 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
- 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 - Irish Graves - 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
* O'CONNELL: Life of Ja's. F. O'Connell
The Pacific Adventurer. I was born in Dublin...
From His Own Memoranda (New York, 1853) - IA
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: John O'Donovan, LL.D.
Obituary of Celtic scholar in Duffy's Hibernian Magazine
By Unknown author (Dublin, 1862) - OL - John O'Donovan (scholar) in: Irish Graves - 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'KEEFFE: Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe - Vol I - Vol II
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: Irish Graves - 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
- 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
* O'NEILL: 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 - Irish Graves - 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
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 - Irish Graves - 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; Francis Joseph Bigger in: Irish Graves
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
William Orr; in the series 'The Northern Leaders of '98' No. 1
By Francis Joseph Bigger (Dublin, 1906) - OL - William Orr in: Wikipedia; Francis Joseph Bigger in: Irish Graves
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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
- 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 - Irish Graves - 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 - Irish Graves - 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: The Life of William Penn
- 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 - Irish Graves - 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: The Life of William 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
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
- 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
* 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
- Sir Walter Ralegh in Ireland
By John Pope Hennessy (London, 1883) - OL - Sir Walter Raleigh in: Find A Grave - Wikipedia
By Denis Gwynn (1932) - AAI - Short review of this book in AAI
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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
- John Redmond's Last Years
By Stephen Gwynn (New York, 1919) - OL - John Redmond in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* REYNOLDS: The Life of Thomas Reynolds, Esq. - Vol I - Vol II
Formerly of Kilkea Castle, in the County of Kildare
By His Son Thomas Reynolds (1838, 1839) - OL
Scotch Irish settlement in New Hamshire
By Josiah H. Drummond (Machester, New Hampshire, (1897) - OL
* ROSSA: Rossa's Recollections
1838 to 1898. Includes a Chapter on Genealogy
By O'Donovan Rossa (1898) - IA - Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
includes genealogical notes
By Harry Ross-Lewin of Ross Hill, Co. Clare (1904) - IA
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: Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia
* RUSSELL: Lord Russell of Killowen
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: Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia
* RUSSELL: Lord Russell of Killowen
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:
* 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 - Irish Graves - 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
* SHERIDAN: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan
- 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
* SHERIDAN: 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
By her grand-daughter Alicia Lefanu (London, 1824) - OL - Frances Sheridan in: Wikipedia
* 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* STEPHENS: James Stephens - Chief Organiser of the Irish Republic
- 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* STEPHENS: James Stephens - Chief Organiser of the Irish Republic
Embracing an account... of the Fenian Brotherhood, being a semi-biographical sketch...
By Unknown Author (1866) - OL - James Stephens in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - 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
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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia; Charles Vane in: Wikipedia
* STEWART: Robert Prescott Stewart 1824 - 1894
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
* SULLIVAN:
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
* SULLIVAN:
(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
* SULLIVAN:
- 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* SULLIVAN: 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
- 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
* SULLIVAN:
- 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
* SULLIVAN: 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:
- 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
- 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 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
- 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 - Irish Graves - 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 - Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia
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* 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
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 - Irish Graves - 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
- 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 - Irish Graves - 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
- 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
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 - official website - Ernest Walton in: Wikipedia
* 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: Biographical Sketch of the Honorable Edward Whelan
Nobel Laureate; b. Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, 1903; d. 1995
- nobelprize.org - official website - Ernest Walton in: Wikipedia
* 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: Biographical Sketch of the Honorable Edward 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
- 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
- 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; His Mother 'Speranza' - Lady Jane Wilde in: Irish Graves
* 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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
YZ
* 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia; His brother Jack B. Yeats in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia; Their father John Butler Yeats in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
- 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; His Mother 'Speranza' - Lady Jane Wilde in: Irish Graves
* 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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia
YZ
* 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 - Irish Graves - Wikipedia; His brother Jack B. Yeats in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Mount Jerome Cemetery - Wikipedia; Their father John Butler Yeats in: Find A Grave - Irish Graves - Wikipedia
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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
with Portraits
By Charlotte Milligan Fox (New York, 1912) - HT
* Antrim and Down in '98
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* 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
part history, part sociology, part biography
By Adrian Frazier (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford, 1990) - University of California Press website
* 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
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containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland
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* 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
* 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) - in: Irish Graves
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
* 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 - in: Irish Graves
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) - in: Irish Graves
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
* Chief and Tribune - Parnell and Davitt
By M. M. O'Hara (Dublin, London, 1919) - OL
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
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
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) - in: Irish Graves
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
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
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 - in: Irish Graves
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) - in: Irish Graves
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
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
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
Dictionary of National Biography
London Editions
1885
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 - website
* 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
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 - website
* 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: Irish Graves - Wikipedia - Nathaniel Hone the Younger 1831 - 1917 in: Irish Graves ? - Wikipedia - Thomas Bodkin 1887 - 1961 in: Irish Graves - 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
By Thomas Clarke Luby (New York, 1892) - OL - Thomas Clarke Luby in: Wikipedia
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
* Ireland and her People - Book I - Vol. II - Vol. III - Vol. IV - Vol. V
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 - Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey in: Irish Graves* 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
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
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
* Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen Vol I - Vol I Part II - Vol II - Vol II Part I - Vol II Part II - Vol III Part I - Vol IV Part I - Vol IV Part II - Vol V Part I - Vol VI Part II
from the earliest times to the present period
from the earliest times to the present period
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
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
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
Index of Residents (reproduced below); short biographies of same; illustrated
By Wilmot Harrison (Dublin, 1909) - OL
including The Marquis of Londonderry; the Right Hon. George Canning; Sir Robert Peel
By W. H. Davenport Adams (London, Edinburgh, 1862) - OL
* A New and General Biographical Dictionary... of the Most Eminent Persons - Vol I Index to 15 Vols, A - Vol II B - Vol III C - Vol IV C - D - Vol V D - E - Vol VI E - G - Vol VII G - H - Vol VIII H - J - Vol IX J - L - Vol X L - M - Vol XI M - P - Vol XII P - R - Vol XIII R - S - Vol XIV S - T - Vol XV T - Z
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
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
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...
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
* Worthies of Thomond
dozens of biographical profiles of notable Limerick and Clare people
By Robert Herbert (Ireland, 1940's) - LCC
AAI = Ask About Ireland
CCL = Clare County Library (read online only)
FHB = Family History Books
GB = Google Books
HT = HathiTrust Digital Library (read online only, login to visitor account may be required)
IA = Internet Archive
U-SA = Ulster-Scots Agency
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