Historical Figures

1 Dec 1874: Michael Thomas Christopher Mallin was born In a tenement in Dublin’s Liberties neighbourhood to John Mallin, a carpenter, and his wife Sarah (née Dowling).

10 Nov 1879: Pádraig Pearse (Patrick Henry Pearse) was born at 27 Great Brunswick Street (now "Pearse Street" in honor of himself and brother Willie).

25 Mar 1738: Turlough O'Carolan, famed harper, composer & singer passed on from this world, leaving an enduring musical legacy.

19 Mar 1873: Peig Sayers, was born in Vicarstown, Dunquin, County Kerry. In her younger days, Peig had hoped to emigrate to America. But the course of her life changed when her fare failed to materialise. Peig arrived on Great Blasket Island, 3 miles off the tip of the Dingle peninsula, after wedding Pádraig Ó Guithín, a local...

lThe legendary Finn McCool (Fionn Mac Cumhaill) is most closely associated with The Giant's Causeway (Clochán an Aifir) a promontory of basalt columns on the Antrim Plateau. Legend has it that McCool constructed the causeway in order to cross the Northern Channel and fight "The Red Man", a Scottish giant called Benandonner. But the island holds...

As a gossoon, he attended the local National School at Corradoona and later enrolled in night school at Tullynamoyle, County Cavan. It was here that he learned to read and write in Irish - eventually adopting the traditional Irish spelling of his name.

21 Nov 1887: Joseph Mary Plunkett born on this date at 27 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin to William Noble Plunkett and Josephine Mary Plunkett née Cranny. Interestingly, the Plunkett family tree included St. Oliver Plunkett executed in connection to the concocted "Popish Plot" in 1681.

It was only then that Stoker really put pen to paper, eventually publishing his masterpiece "Dracula" in 1897. Stoker left his mark on Dublin, just as he did the rest of the world.

31 Oct 1280: Dame Alice Kyteler was born at Kytelers Hall in the county town of Kilkenny. Upon inheriting her childhood home, Alice reinvented the property as Kyteler's Inn - a profitable enterprise which further buoyed her standing within Kilkenny society.

6 Oct 1891: Charles Stewart Parnell died of pneumonia at the age of 45 at Hove, East Sussex, England.