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  Dean Swift, Sir Richard Steele... Oliver Goldsmith
   By John Timbs, F.S.A. (London, 1863) - IA

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

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

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

Biographia Britannica Literaria or Biography of Literary Characters - Anglo Saxon Period - Anglo Norman Period

   of Great Britain and Ireland in chronological order
   By Thomas Wright, M.A. (London, 1842) - OL

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

   Printed for Henry Colburn (London, 1816) - OL

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

The British Plutarch Vol I - Vol II

   incl. George Browne and Hugh Corwin, Archbishops of Dublin - Vol III incl. Sir Walter RaleighRichard Boyle, Earl of Corke; Dr. James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh - Vol IV incl. James Butler, Duke of Ormond - Vol V incl. Sir William TempleRobert Boyle - Vol VIincl. Dr. Jonathan SwiftSir Hans Sloane - Vol VII Vol VIII incl. Oliver Goldsmith
   containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland
   Printed for Charles Dilly (London, 1791) - OL


John Philpot Curran

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


Thomas Moore

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



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


James Sheridan Knowles

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


Laurence Sterne

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

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

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

   Ireland's national biographical dictionary

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

Dictionary of Ulster Biography

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

Essays Relating to Ireland

   Biographical, Historical and Topographical
   By C. Litton Falkiner (London, 1909) - OL

Famous Irishwomen

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

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

Four Irish Landscape Painters

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

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

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

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

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

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

Illustrious Irishwomen - Vol I



Illustrious Irishwomen - Vol II

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Irish Wits and Worthies

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Lives and Trials of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, The Rev William Jackson, The Defenders, William Orr, Peter Finnerty

   and other Eminent Irishmen
   by Thomas Mac Nevin, Esq., Barister at Law (Dublin, 1846) - IA

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



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

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

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


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

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

Personal Reminiscences by O'Keeffe, Kelly and Taylor

   John O'Keeffe b. Dublin 1747
   Edited by Richard Henry Stoddard (New York, 1875) - OL

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

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

The Scottish Nation Vol I ABE -CUR - Vol II DAL - MAC - Vol III MAC - ZET

   or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of the People of Scotland - many with Irish connections
   By William Anderson (Edinburgh, London, 1877) - OL

Sketches of Celebrated Irishmen, Irish Character, etc.

   By Henry Giles (New York, 1896) - OL

Some Celebrated Irish Beauties of the Last Century

   with numerous portraits and illustrations
Some Fair Hibernians
   being a supplementary volume to the above
   By Frances Gerard (London, 1895, 1897) - OL

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

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

Worthies of Thomond

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

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