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Patricia Lynch (4 June 1894– 1 September 1972) [1] was an Irish children's writer and a journalist. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was the author of some 48 novels and 200 short stories. She is best known for blending Irish rural life and fantasy fiction as in The Turf-Cutter's Donkey which was illustrated by Jack B. Yeats .
Michael Collins (Irish: Mícheál Ó Coileáin; [1] 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for Irish independence. [2] During the War of Independence he was Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a government ...
Patricia Lovett. Ann Rose Lovett (6 April 1968 – 31 January 1984) [3] was a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Granard, County Longford, [4] Ireland, who died giving birth beside a grotto on 31 January 1984. [5] Her baby son died at the same time and the story of her death played a huge part in a seminal national debate on women giving birth outside ...
Sport, play and fighting. " Bold Thady Quill " – a Cork song written about 1895 by Johnny Tom Gleeson (1853–1924) [ 101 ] "The Bold Christy Ring" – song about Cork hurler Christy Ring to the tune of Bold Thady Quill. "The Contender" – song by Jimmy Macarthy about 1930s Irish boxer Jack Doyle, recorded by Christy Moore.
1 September – Patricia Lynch, children's writer (born c.1894). 29 September – Kathleen Clarke, widow of Republican leader Tom Clarke, Sinn Féin party member and later a Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member, first female Lord Mayor of Dublin (born 1878). 11 October – Wattie Dunphy, Kilkenny hurler (b. c1895).
Luke Kelly. Luke Kelly (17 November 1940 – 30 January 1984) was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor from Dublin, Ireland. Born into a working-class household in Dublin city, Kelly moved to England in his late teens and by his early 20s had become involved in a folk music revival. Returning to Dublin in the 1960s, he is noted as a ...
Jack Lynch. John Mary Lynch (15 August 1917 – 20 October 1999) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1966 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979, Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1966 to 1979, Leader of the Opposition from 1973 to 1977, Minister for Finance from 1965 to 1966, Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1959 to 1965 ...
Angela Bourke (born 1952), writer, historian, interested in folklore. Eva Bourke, German-born Irish poet since c.1985. Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), novelist, short story writer, author of Eva Trout. Sarah Bowie, Irish illustrator and writer. Clare Boylan (1948–2006), journalist, critic, novelist, short story writer.