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Some of Irelands Son's and Daughters who have made a name for themselves in History.
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Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, was born in Dublin in 1769. In 1809 he was sent to assume command in Portugal. Wellington gained military distinction in the Peninsular Campaigns during the French Wars, culminating in the victory at Waterloo. He was raised to the peerage as the Duke of Wellington in recognition of his achievements and he sat in the House of Lords for the rest of his life. It is said that he never admitted to his Irish birth. |
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Eric Dorman Smith (General Dorman O'Gowan), was born at Bellamont Forest, Cootehill,on the 24th of July 1895. In World War II Chink is best remembered for his role in the North African campaign, where he was appointed Major-General & Acting Chief of Staff, under General Sir Claude Aunchinleck. "text and graphic taken from for further information visit this site. |
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Michael
Collins
was born on 16th Oct 1890 at a place called Sam's
Cross outside Clonakilty, Co Cork. he took part in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
In 1921 Collins was a signatory to a Treaty bring to an end the war between Britain
& Ireland. This treaty was not to the liking of all Irishmen and a civil war
broke out. Collins had said at the signing "I may have signed my
actual death warrant".". He was killed in an ambush at
Beal na mBlath in County Cork on the 22nd August 1922.
Prior to the treaty Collins was responsible for organising resistance to British rule in
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Eamonn De Valera was born in Manhattan, New York on the 14th October 1882, son of a Spanish immigrant father and an Irish immigrant mother. He was a commandant in the 1916 Rising and had his death sentence commuted because the British authorities were unsure of his nationality and wanted to avoid an international incident with the United States. Elected as a Sinn Fein MP for East Clare in July 1917. He was elected as President of Ireland on the 25th June 1959 at the age of 76, and held office until the 24th June 1973 having been re-elected on 1st July 1966. He died on the 29th of August 1975 at the age of 92. |
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Fitzmaurice. Irish aviator, Officer Commanding Irish Army Air Corps, Baldonnel. Was co-pilot with Captain Hermann Koehl. They flew the Junkers W33 monoplane "BREMEN" from Baldonnel to cross the North Atlantic. First crossing east to west. |
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John Boyle O'Reilly. Born Drogheda 1844. A secret Republican agent who enrolled Irish soldiers from the British army. Discovered in 1866, sent to Australia for 23 years. He escaped from Western Australia to America. Within seven years he returned to WA and rescued the remaining Irish prisoners. |
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Patrick Pearse. Born in Dublin in 1879, leader of Irish nationalism, poet, educator. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic. CIC of the Irish forces on Easter Monday 1916, when the 1916 rising began. After surrendering to British forces he was sent for court-martial and shot in Kilmanaham jail on the 3rd May 1916. |
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Sean T. O'Kelly was born in Dublin on the 25th of August 1882. He was a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising. He was a co-founder of Sinn Fein in 1907 and was Member of Parliament for Dublin from 1918 - 1921. He was the Ceann Comhairle of the first Dail. A TD from 1921 until his inauguration to the presidency in 1945. O'Kelly was an opponent of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, and was subsequently a founding member of Fianna Fail. He was inaugurated as President of Ireland on 16th June 1945 aged 63, and held office until 17th June 1959. He died on 23rd November 1966 at the age of 84 |
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Edmund Burke. Born, raised, and educated in Ireland, he was one of the most well-known British statesmen and political philosophers of the eighteenth century. After gaining early recognition for his literary skills, Burke entered Parliament in 1766 and remained there for the next two decades. Burke is often remembered for his vehement opposition to the French Revolution, presented in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. He saw in the French Revolution a fatal danger: A zealous but misguided state can destroy the delicate attachments on which a free society is built. |
| Thomas Moore. Born in Dublin on May 28, 1779, into a family with revolutionary sympathies, Thomas Moore became one of the first Catholics to be admitted to Trinity College in 1794. His friendship with his heroic compatriot Robert Emmett produced some early inflammatory writings for the cause of Irish freedom, though at his parents' pleading he discontinued his radical activities. Moore did, nonetheless, stand by Emmet, who was arrested, tried, and hanged after he had led an ill-fated rebellion in 1803. The poet refused to cooperate in the inquiry, and after Emmet's death he composed a moving elegy, WHEN HE WHO ADORES THEE, based on the martyr's words at his trial. |
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Mary McAleese. The second and current Female President of The Republic of Ireland and the first to be born in Northern Ireland. Born in 1951 into a Catholic Belfast family, Ms McAleese grew up in a Protestant area, near Ardoyne. She moved to Dublin in 1975 to take up the professorship at Trinity, aged only 24. Four years later she left Trinity to join RTE and worked for two years as a reporter on the Frontline and Today Tonight television programmes. |
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William Massey. Born Limavady Co Derry 1856, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1912 to 1925. Life long spokesman against agrarian interests, and opponent of militant industrial unionism. |
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Daniel O'Connell. Born near Cahirciveen, Kerry 1775. Statesman and Irish leader in the British House of Commons. Known in Ireland as "The Liberator". By his overwhelming victory in an election he forced the British to accept the Emancipation Act of 1829, by which Roman Catholics were permitted to sit in parliament and to hold public office. |
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Thomas Francis Meagher. Irish revolutionary leader, founder of the Irish Confederation.
Became a Union officer during the US Civil War. Later became secretary
of the Montana Territory.
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Charles Stuart Parnell. Born 1846 Avondale Co Wicklow. Irish Nationalist leader in the late 19th century. Elected to Parliament in 1875. He became president of the Irish land League in 1879. he organised massive land agitation as well as obstruction of Parliamentary business. |
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John Barry. Born Wexford 1745 Fought in the American War of Independence. Barry outfitted the first Continental fleet at the outbreak of the Revolution. Often called "Father of the US Navy" |
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Roger Casement. Born Dun Laoghaire Co Dublin 1864. Casement gained international fame when he revealed the atrocities being committed against the natives in the Congo. He was awarded a Knighthood. In 1914 He attempted to recruit Irish POW's in Germany to fight against England. He was arrested in 1916 after being put ashore from a German submarine near Tralee in Co Kerry. He was convicted of treason and hanged. |
| Michael Davitt was born in Straide on March 25th, 1846, the second of five children. When Michael was six years old, his parents, Martin and Sabina Davitt (nee Kielty), were evicted. In 1865, he joined the IRB and two years later gave up his job to become organising secretary of the Fenians in Northern England and Scotland. In 1892 he was elected MP for Mayo but disliked the Institution of Parliament and became increasingly impatient with the inability or unwillingness to right injustice. He left the House of Commons in 1896 with the prophetic prediction that "no just cause could succeed there unless backed by physical force." |
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Oliver Plunkett. Born 1692 Loughcrew Co Meath. Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland. The last man to suffer Martyrdom for the catholic faith in England. He was hung, disembowelled and quartered at Tyburn. His preserved head can be seen in Drogheda . |
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Monsignor
Hugh O'Flaherty. An Irish Priest in the Vatican who
during WW2 developed a rescue service whereby he made it possible for over 6,000 members
of the Allied Expeditionary Force to be safely transported to Switzerland so that they
could be returned to their military units. (These 6,000 Allied Military Personnel
represented those who were shot down over Italy and or became prisoners of war who
escaped. Many of these allied soldiers and sailors were members of the Jewish Faith. One
of his other activities was having many churches in Rome protect many Jewish people by
having Baptismal Certificates made out in their names. Visit the
following sites for more Information
Scarlet Pimpernel of
the Vatican
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Irish Heroes - Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
RTÉ: Ireland's Millennia : People
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Chaim Herzog was born in Ireland in 1918. His father was the distinguished Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog. He immigrated to Palestine in 1935, and served in the Haganah during the Arab revolt of 193638. He acquired a degree in law and served in the British army in World War II, becoming head of intelligence in northern Germany and participating in the liberation of the concentration camps. In Israel's War of Independence (1948) he served as an officer in the battles for Latrun. Herzog headed the IDF Military Intelligence Branch from 1948 50, and again in 1959 62. From 1950 1954 he served as defense attaché in Washington. He retired from the army in 1962 with the rank of major general, and engaged in business and law. During the 1967 Six-Day War, Herzog was the leading military commentator on Israeli radio, and afterwards became the first military governor of the West Bank. Chaim Herzog served as Israel's Ambassador to the UN from 19751978, where he argued against the U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism. He was elected to the Knesset on the Labour ticket in 1981, serving until 1983. Chaim Herzog was chosen as the sixth President of the State of Israel in 1983 and served two terms, until 1993. | |
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Patrick
Ronayne Cleburne was born in Ovens, County Cork, Ireland on
March 16, 1828. The second son of Dr. Joseph Cleburne, the only physician in the locale,
Patrick grew up in comfortable, middle class surroundings and privilege. However life was
not without its tragedy. His mother died when he was eighteen months old, and by the time
the boy reached age fifteen, his father had also died. He pursued the family tradition of
studying medicine, but failed the entrance exam to Trinity College in February 1846. Pride
and his sense of honour led him to enlist in the 41st Regiment of Foot of the
British Army to escape his failure. Three and one half years later, he bought his
discharge and came to America with two brothers and an older sister.
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Catherine Hayes, an extraordinary young 19th century international opera and concert singer, who was born in Limerick, Ireland in 1818.Visit this site Catherine Hayes to Experience her early days in Ireland where she auditioned for the great bass, Luigi Lablache and shared the concert platform with the brilliant pianist and composer, the thirty year old, Franz Liszt. Follow her studies in Paris, with Europe's greatest singing teacher... Manuel P. Garcia, where she arrived a few weeks after Jenny Lind had just completed her studies with the renowned Garcia. Read how Catherine stole the show at Milan's great La Scala opera house on her debut night | |
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Harry George Ferguson was born at Growell, near Hillsborough, Co Down, on 4 November l884. In l902, he joined his brother Joe in a car and bicycle repair business in Belfast, and in 1904 began to race motor-cycles. In 1909, at Hillsborough, he made the first powered flight in Ireland, travelling 130 yd (118.5 m) in a monoplane he had built. He later drove racing cars, and helped to establish the famous Ulster Tourist Trophy races in 1928. He later developed a tractor combined with a plough. In 1953 the firm became Massey Ferguson. | |
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Arthur Guinness. It was in 1759 that young Arthur Guinness, then 34 and already experienced brewer, decided to set up business in Dublin. His new premises covered a mere one acre at St. James's Gate on the banks of the Liffey. Small beginnings certainly, but that did not deter Mr. Guinness's ambition, if the lease is anything to judge by. It was for 9,000 years, at 45 Pounds p.a. The economic climate of the time did not encourage optimism competition was stiff as a result of English imports. Yet, in spite of it all, the Guinness brewery flourished and grew. | |
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Philip Holland. Born
Liscannor, Co. Clare,
emigrated to the USA in the 1870's. His early efforts at submarine
development went unsold but in 1895 the Navy Department contracted with him
to build the submarine Plunger. Specifications as required by the Navy were
unrealistic, so Holland set about to build at his own expense another
submarine, one that followed his own specifications. On April 11, 1900, the United States Navy accepted his boat, called the Holland, and assigned its hull number 1, the first of more than 600 full numbers to appear on the hulls of the submarines of the United States Navy. Click here for more information. |
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John Robert Gregg. Born June 17th 1867 Rockcorry Co Monaghan. Inventor who developed a shorthand system. | |
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Ernest Shackleton. Born Kilkee Co Clare 1874. Explorer. He was a member of Robert F Scott's 1901-04 Antarctic expedition, he sledged partway across the Ross ice shelf. In 1914-16 His expedition ship Endurance was crushed by drifting pack ice. He and five of his men travelled 800 miles in a whale boat to South Georgia Island to get aid. He led four relief expeditions before rescuing his men. | |
| James Hoban. Born Callan Co Kilkenny 1762. Architect, designer and builder of The White House in Washington D.C | ||
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George Berkeley. Born Kilkenny 1865, Philosopher and Bishop, was the proponent of immaterialism. He arrived at the radical theory of perception "to be is to be perceived" | |
| Catherine Elizabeth MCAuley. Founder of the Sisters of Mercy, Dublin 1831. | ||
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Hans Sloane. Born Killyleagh Co Down 1660. Physician and Naturalist, whose collection of books, manuscripts, and curiosities form the basis for the British Museum Bloomsbury. Succeeded Isaac Newton as the president of the Royal Society and became first physician to King George II. | |
| Robert Torrens. Born Cork, Co Cork 1814. South Australian Statesman. Introduced the simplified system of transferring lands. "Known as the Torrens Title System" | ||
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Michael Quill. Born in the village of Gortloughera in Kilgarvan, County Kerry, in 1905. Michael J. Quill, founder of the Transport Workers Union of America in 1934, was also its first International President. , Mike Quill was nurtured by the Irish revolt against British occupation. Because of his involvement with the rebellion, he had to leave his country and travel to America where he found work building the IND (Independent) subway in New York City. He held various other jobs until becoming a change maker on the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit). | |
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CJ Dooge. Geneva, Friday 18
June 1999 - The 44th International Meteorological Organization Prize, known as the IMO
Prize, has been awarded to Professor James C.I.Dooge for his outstanding contributions to
the science of hydrology. Prof. Godwin O. P. Obasi, Secretary-General of WMO, underlined the importance of the enormous contributions of Prof. Dooge throughout his scientific career to the advancement of hydrological sciences and to the enhancement of global scientific cooperation within the framework of WMO's programmes and networks. |
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| Robert Boyle. Born Lismore County Waterford 1627, died 1691 London England. Irish chemist and natural philosopher noted for his pioneering experiments on the properties of gases and his espousal of a corpuscular view of matter that was a forerunner of the modern theory of chemical elements. He was a founding member of the Royal Society of London. He was the first chemist to isolate and collect a Gas. Boyle formulated the law of physics that bears his name "Boyle's law", stating that under conditions of constant temperature the pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional. In chemistry, Boyle recognized the difference between a compound and a mixture and formulated an atomic theory of matter on the basis of his laboratory experiments. He suggested that tiny particles of primary matter combine in various ways to form what he called corpuscles, and that all observable phenomena result from the motion and structure of the corpuscles. | ||
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Michael
William Balfe. Born Dublin 1808. Singer
and composer, best known for the opera The Bohemian Girl , his other works
include The Siege of Rochelle. He sang Papa geno in the first English
performance of The Magic Flute. Visit this site for more details on the life of
Balfe British and Irish World Presents Born Dublin 1808. Singer
and composer, best known for the opera The Bohemian Girl , his other works
include The Siege of Rochelle. He sang Papa geno in the first English
performance of The Magic Flute. Visit this site for more details on the life of
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| Thomas John Barnardo. Born Dublin 1845. Pioneer in social work who founded many homes for destitute children. Under his direction the children were given care and instruction of high quality despite the then unusual policy of unlimited admittance. | ||
| George Barrington. Born Maynooth Co Kildare 1755. Irish adventurer notorious for his activities as a pickpocket in England. Deported to Australia in 1790. Obtained a pardon in 1796. He became a superintendent of the convicts. Given credit as an author by the publishers, there is confusion as to whether he wrote "A Voyage to NSW (1803) and A History of NSW (1802) . Born Maynooth Co Kildare 1755. Irish adventurer notorious for his activities as a pickpocket in England. Deported to Australia in 1790. Obtained a pardon in 1796. He became a superintendent of the convicts. Given credit as an author by the publishers, there is confusion as to whether he wrote "A Voyage to NSW (1803) and A History of NSW (1802) . | ||
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Marshall Kitchener. Born Listowel Co
Kerry June 24th 1850. Educated at the Royal Military college Woolwich. Served in the
Middle East. Died in 1916 when the cruiser HMS Hampshire was hit by a mine.
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| "Robert John Kane died just over 100 years ago and although his name is largely unknown today, he was in his time well-known as a chemist. In 1844 Kane published a book, "The Industrial Resources of Ireland" which made a scientific and an economic case for the utilisation of Ireland's natural resources. Robert Kane's name is remembered in Ireland mainly for this book, though he was also an able university administrator and an important public figure in the last century. (A series of meetings on The Natural Resources of Ireland were held in Dublin in 1944 to mark the centenary of Kane's influential book.) In addition he also had an international reputation as a chemist in the early 1800's." Taken from Famous Irish Scientists.htm @ trench.html | ||
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Henry Stoker. Born Dublin February 2nd 1885 Just before the ANZAC's landed at Gallipoli on the morning of 25 April 1915 an Australian submarine the AE2 set out on an historic journey. Its mission was to force a passage up the treacherous Dardanelle's Strait into the Sea of Marmora, and then, in the words of the Chief of Staff, 'Generally run amuck.' Such an extraordinary order required an extraordinary captain and luckily the AE2 had such a captain, Lieutenant-Commander Henry Hugh Gordon Dacre Stoker an Irishman. Visit Australian Irish Heritage Association for an account by Ian Chambers. Visit the following 2 sites for additional information on Henry Stoker and the AE2. The Ataman Hotel Turkey and Dive into History | |
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Alfred Harmworth, The son of an English barrister, was born in Chapelizod near Dublin, on 15th July, 1865. An indifferent scholar he was educated at St John's Wood, a small, private day school in London. He developed an interest in journalism when he began editing the school magazine. Visit the following site for further details of his life. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/BUharmsworth.htm | |
| Richard Kirwan. Born Aug. 1, 1733, Cloughballymore, County Galway, Ireland .Died. June 1, 1812, Dublin., A founding member of the Royal Irish Society, was born in Cloughballymore, Co. Galway, the second son of Martin Kirwan and Mary French. He attended the University of Poitiers in France from about 1750. In 1754 he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Saint-Omer (Paris), but he returned to Ireland, when his elder brother (and the heir to the family estates) was killed in a duel in 1755. Back in Galway, he soon fitted up a laboratory and amassed a library. Following a brief foray into law (he was called to the Irish Bar in 1766), he returned to science. Visit http://www.irishchristian.com/History/Boyle/index.html for more information. | ||
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Daniel Mannix, Born March 4, 1864, Charleville, County Cork, Ireland. Died. Nov. 6, 1963, Melbourne. Roman Catholic prelate who became one of Australia's most controversial political figures during the first half of the 20th century. Mannix's forthright demands for state aid for the education of Roman Catholics in return for their taxes and his opposition to drafting soldiers for World War I made him the subject of controversy. A zealous supporter of Irish independence, he made an official journey to Rome in 1920 via the United States, where his lengthy speechmaking attracted enthusiastic crowds. His campaign in behalf of the Irish, however, caused the British government to prevent him from landing in Ireland, which he finally visited in 1925. For more information Visit http://www.irishaustralia.com/Australian/Notable Irish/Mannix/mannix.htm
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Daniel Pollen, Born. June 2, 1813, Dublin.
Died. May 18, 1896, New Zealand Irish-born physician, prime
minister of New Zealand (1875-76), and a public figure who combined
business and politics with his profession and worked for such liberal
causes as the enfranchisement of women and the rights of the Maori.
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Doctor Robert James Graves. Born 1796, Dublin Ireland Died. Mar. 20, 1853, Dublin . Irish physician and a leader of the Irish, or Dublin, school of diagnosis, which emphasized the clinical observation of patients and which significantly advanced the fields of physical diagnosis and internal medicine. A founder of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, he served as one of the journal's editors until his death.Graves was one of the first physicians to fully describe exophthalmic goitre, now called Graves' disease. Visit http://www.ballylickeymanorhouse.com/history/index.htm for more information on Robert Graves
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 Sir William Rowan Hamilton |
Born
Aug. 3/4, 1805, Dublin, Ireland. Died. Sept. 2, 1865, Dublin. Irish
mathematician and astronomer who developed the theory of quaternions, a
landmark in the development of algebra, and discovered the phenomenon of
conical refraction. His unification of dynamics and optics, moreover, has
had a lasting influence on mathematical physics, even though the full
significance of his work was not fully appreciated until after the rise of
quantum mechanics. Visit http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Hamilton/
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The
Legendary Molly Pitcher.
Born circa. 1753. Died. Jan. 22, 1832, Carlisle, Pa., U.S. Also
known as MARY MCCAULY, heroine of the Battle of Monmouth during the U.S.
War of Independence. Molly's original surname is unknown, though she is
thought to have been Irish. Military records indicate that her first
husband, William Hays, enlisted as a gunner in a Pennsylvania artillery
regiment in 1777. Molly was with him at the Battle of Monmouth (N.J.) on
June 28, 1778, carrying a pitcher back and forth from a well so that the
exhausted and wounded American soldiers could have water--hence her
nickname, "Molly Pitcher." Popular legend has it that, when Hays
collapsed from the scorching heat that day, Molly took her husband's place
at the cannon, serving heroically for the remainder of the battle.
She is said to have been born in Ireland another account has her a German
born. Visit http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/pamolly.htm
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Robert
Erskine Childers.
Born. June 25, 1870, London, England .Died. Nov. 24, 1922, Beggar's
Bush, County Dublin, Ireland. Writer and Irish nationalist agitator,
executed because of his support for the republican cause in the civil war
that followed the establishment of the Irish Free State. A
first cousin of the English politician Hugh Childers, he was a clerk in
the House of Commons from 1895 to 1910, except for a period of service in
the South African War. He resigned this position to devote himself to the
cause of Irish Home Rule. In July 1914, at Howth, north of Dublin, he
landed from his own yacht a cargo of rifles that he had purchased in
Germany for the Irish revolutionary volunteers. Despite
his position on British rule in Ireland, Childers served the British in
World War I as an intelligence and aerial-reconnaissance officer. But by
the end of the war he supported a wholly independent Irish republic. In
1921 he was elected to the Dáil Éireann (Irish Assembly) as a Sinn Féin
deputy from County Wicklow and became the Dáil's minister of propaganda.
Later that year he was secretary to the Irish delegation to the
Anglo-Irish treaty conference. Opposing the concessions that the Irish
leaders Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins made to the British in signing
the treaty (Dec. 6, 1921), Childers joined the Irish Republican Army
(IRA), which resorted to civil war. Captured by Free State forces,
Childers was court-martialed in Dublin on a charge of unauthorized
possession of a revolver and was shot by a firing squad. Childers was the author of The Riddle of the Sands (1903), a popular spy story involving an imaginary German raid on England.
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John Joly .
Born 1857, Holywood, Meath, Ireland.Died.
Dec. 8, 1933, Dublin. Irish geologist and physicist who, soon after
1898, estimated the age of the Earth at 100,000,000 years. He also
developed a method for extracting radium (1914) and pioneered its use in
cancer treatment. Joly was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he became professor of geology and mineralogy (1897) after having served as demonstrator in civil engineering (1883) and physics (1893). He first sought to estimate the age of the Earth from the salt content of the oceans, then from rocks containing radioactive zircon and alanite. He also tried to explain the formation of the Earth's crust by convection of heat generated by radioactive decay in the Earth's interior. Joly is also noted for his inventions of a thermometer, a steam calorimeter for measuring heat energy, and a photometer for measuring light frequencies. The recipient of many honours, Joly was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London (1892). Picture copied from John Joly, Scientist - Ancestral Research, Family History, Laois, Offaly, Genealogy |
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 John McCormack |
John McCormack, Born June 14, 1884, Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland. Died. Sept. 16, 1945, near Dublin. Irish tenor who was considered to be one of the finest singers of the first quarter of the 20th century. McCormack won the prize at the National Irish Festival (the Feis Ceoil) in Dublin in 1903. Later he studied in Italy. He made his London operatic debut in 1907 at Covent Garden as Turiddu in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. He appeared at the Manhattan Opera House, New York City, in 1909 as Alfredo in Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata. Subsequently he sang with opera companies in Chicago and Boston and with the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York City. In 1911 he toured Australia with Nellie Melba in Italian opera. He later turned to the concert stage and became a fine singer of German lieder. Most popular with his recital audiences were the Irish folk songs he invariably included in the program. He was admired for the beauty of his voice and for his careful musicianship. He became a U.S. citizen in 1919 and was made a count in the papal peerage in 1928. Visit http://www.zilker.net/~pwworth/biodex.html for further information.
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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was born at
Dungarvan, County Waterford on the south coast of Ireland on October 6th,
1903. Awarded the |Nobel Prize in Physic in 1951. For His
pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially
accelerated atomic particles. It was awarded to him along with Sir John
Douglas Cockcroft. "Visit
the Nobel e Museum" for further information. The image of Ernest Walton was copied from the Nobel e Museum |
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John Devoy, Born Kill Co Kildare 1842. At age 18, Devoy joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He was arrested in 1866 for recruiting British soldiers into the IRB and spent several years in prison before being released and deported to the United States in 1871. There he, along with Daniel Cohalan and Joseph Mc Garrity, helped organise Clan na Gael — the IRB’s American counterpart, also known as ‘The Fenians’. "The previous passage and photograph was taken from the following website. Ireland's OWN: John Devoy Visit here for a detailed lokk at his life. | |
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Blair Mayne was
born at the family home, Mountpleasant on the 11th January 1915 in the
small town of Newtownards (Northern Ireland). Highly
decorated soldier WW2. Capped 6 times for Ireland in the sport of Rugby
Union. Visit the following sites for more information.Blair
Mayne WW2 SAS Special Forces Newtownards
Blair Mayne After
The War Awards & Decorations Africa Star & 8th Army Bar, Italy Star, France & Germany Star,Defence Medal, War Medal & Oak Leaf, Legion D'Honneur and Croix De Guerre with Palm. Mentioned in Despatches .... 20/2/42 D.S.O. ... Middle East .... 20/2/42 Rank Lieutenant 1st Bar - Sicily .... 21/10/43 Rank Captain / Temp Major 2nd Bar - Normandy .... 29/3/45 Rank Major / Temp Lt. Colonel 3rd Bar - North West Europe .... 11/10/45 Rank Lt Colonel The image of Blair Mayne was taken from the following website Blair Mayne WW2 SAS Special Forces Newtownards |
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Tom Crean was born in 1877, on a farm near the village Annascaul, Co Kerry. He shared the same birthday with the great adventurer Edmund Hilary. At the age of 15, he signed up for Boy Second Class in the British Navy. Later, Tom Crean ended up being on three of the four major British Antarctic expeditions: Picture and information taken from 70South | |
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IRLA SIENTIFIC HERITAGE When most people think of Ireland’s cultural heritage they think of things like ‘The Island of Saints and Scholars’, The Book of Kells, our great writers, Irish music, and so on. Ireland has little by way of a scientific heritage – right? Wrong. We have quite a decent scientific heritage that we should take pride in and teach to our children. As a people we have a proven aptitude for science and the current Government support for Irish Science will surely reinvigorate that capacity to do great things. In this article I will outline brief details of some major figures in the history of Irish science.
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