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MADDEN, SAMUEL 1686-1765 Samuel Madden was born in Dublin and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He moved to Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, as a clergyman. In 1729 his tragedy, Themistocles, was produced in London and was very successful. With Thomas Prior he founded the Dublin Society in 1731, and as well as contributing to this he began a scheme to give financial assistance to students at Trinity College, Dublin. For this he became known as 'Premium' Madden. In 1738 he published Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland, as to their Conduct for the Service of their Country. Among his friends were Swift and Dr Johnson. He died in County Fermanagh. Mael Brigte was Archbishop of Armagh from 885 until his death. The city of Armagh was burned three times by the Danes in his lifetime. He was said to have been a pious and learned man and settled disputes between northern chieftains.
Mael Isu Ua Brolchain was probably born in Derry. He is the author of religious poetry, some of which is preserved in the Liber Hymnorum and The Yellow Book of Lecan.
Mael Mura was born in County Donegal and joined the monastery in Fahan. He is spoken of in the Annals of the Four Masters as an exceptional poet and a superb historian. The Book of Leinster and the Book of Lecan contain some of his poems.
Mael Muire was Archbishop of Armagh from 1001 until his death. He is said to have followed the body of Brian Borumha from Swords to Armagh, and to have per-formed the funeral rites. He is called by the Four Masters `the head of the clergy of the west of Europe'. 'Big Magee' was born in Clogher, County Tyrone. He was a neighbour of William Carleton's in the early 1800s. He was an inventor of clocks and watches, and Carleton described him as 'a most ingenious man'. He was diminutive in size, and for a period of almost thirty years he went around the world exhibiting himself. He retired to Maynooth. James Magee was a printer and bookseller in Belfast. He was the most prolific supplier in Ulster of popular literature, mainly in the form of chapbooks, during the eighteenth century. In 1736 he was in partnership with J. Potts and S. Wilson, but by 1744 was printing on his own account in Bridge Street, Belfast, where he remained in business until he retired in 1790. John Magee was born in Belfast and came from a family of printers. He went to Dublin where he published Magee's Weekly Packet in 1777, and by 1779 he had acquired the Dublin Evening Post. He was imprisoned in Newgate for exposing the Earl of Clonmell and the 'Sham Squire', Francis Higgins.
Martha Magee was born in Lurgan, County Armagh. She was responsible for bequeathing £60,000 to various societies and institutions. One of the buildings which was erected as a result of her benefaction was Magee College, Derry, which became part of the New University of Ulster in 1970. William Magee was born in Enniskillen and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where in 1788 he was appointed a fellow. He was ordained in 1790 and ten years later became Professor of Mathematics. He was appointed Dean of Cork in 1813, Bishop of Raphoe in 1819, and Archbishop of Dublin in 1822. He regrded it one of his main duties to make converts from Roman Catholicism, and was a fervent promoter of the 'new reformation society', claiming that 'in Ireland the reformation may, strictly speaking, be truly said only now to have begun'. In 1827 he led a deputation which petitioned George IV against the Emancipation Bill. He published Discourses on the Scriptural Doctrine of Atonement and Sacrifice. He died in Dublin. [Memoir by Dr Kenny, 1842]
William Magee was born in Cork and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained and became curate of Bath in 1848. In 1861 he was Rector of Enniskillen. He became Dean of Cork in 1864, and four years later Bishop of Peterborough. In 1891 he was appointed Archbishop of York. He died in London. [Memoir by J. C. MacDonnell, 1896] Bernard Magennis was born at Ballybay, County Monaghan. He was a schoolteacher and wrote and published poems in newspapers. For a number of years he lived in New York and England and was an advocate of temperance, editing the Dublin newspaper The Social Mirror and Temperance Advocate. His books include The Catapult: a satire and Antihumbug, or Mansion House Banquets midst Ireland's Poverty. Edward Magennis was born in County Down and was educated at Queen's College, Belfast and King's College, London. He was Ophthalmic and Aural Surgeon at St Michael's Hospital, Dun Laoghaire. He was a Governor of the Apothecaries' Hall and examiner in Ophthalmology. From 1920 to 1923 he was President of the Irish Medical Association. Among his publications are Dictionary of Ophthalmic Terms and Eye Systems as Aids in Diagnosis. Peter Magennis was born in County Fermanagh and became a National School teacher. The Ribbon Informer, 1874, was among his most successful novels, and he also wrote poetry. He was known as the bard of Knockmore. Peter Magennis was born in Tandragee, County Armagh, and was educated at St Malachy's College, Belfast, and the Royal University of Ireland. He entered the Carmelite novitiate and was ordained in 1894. From 1908 to 1919 he was Assistant General and from 1919 to 1931 General of the Order of Calced Carmelites, the first Irishman to occupy this position. William Magennis was born in Belfast and was educated at Belvedere College, Dublin, and University College, Dublin. In 1893 he was called to the Bar, and from 1922 to 1927 he represented the National University of Ireland in the Dail. He he held the Chair of Metaphysics at University College, Dublin. Robert Magill was born in Broughshane, County Antrim, and was educated in Glasgow. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in Antrim. He wrote poems, among which is 'The Thinking Few', which attacks Arianism.
William Maginess was born in Lisburn, County Antrim, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1922 he was called to the Bar and from 1938 to 1964 he represented the Iveagh constituency as a Unionist in the Northern Ireland parliament, where he held various ministerial appointments. He was appointed county court judge for Down. Edward Maginn was born in Fintona, County Donegal, and was educated at the Irish College, Paris, where he was ordained in 1825. He supported the Repeal movement, but transferred his allegiance to the Young Irelanders. He was appointed coadjutor to the Bishop of Derry in 1845. He wrote frequently to local newspapers on political matters.
George Magrath was born in County Tyrone and joined the navy as a surgeon. He was medical officer to Lord Nelson. In 1822 he gained his Doctorate of Medicine and became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was supervisor of various naval hospitals over the course of eleven years and was knighted in 1831. He later received the distinction of Companion of the Bath. After he retired from the sea he practised medicine in Plymouth. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean Society and Fellow of the Geological Society. Miler Magrath was born in County Fermanagh. He was a Franciscan friar and spent time in Rome before he was appointed Bishop of Down and Connor in 1567. On entering the Church of Ireland in he was then appointed Anglican Bishop of Clogher in 1569 and Archbishop of Cashel and Bishop of Emly in 1571, at the same time continuing to be papal Bishop of Down until 1580, when he was decried for heresy. In 1581 he added to this the bishoprics of Lismore and Waterford, which he later exchanged for Achonry and Killala. It is said that in 1604 he held four bishoprics and seventy parishes and had two wives and many children. He reputedly gave refuge to Catholic priests. He attended parliament in Dublin in 1613. He is buried in Cashel Cathedral under a monument erected by himself. Anne Maguire was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and was educated at Mount Lourdes Grammar School, Enniskillen, and Queen's University, Belfast, where she studied Social Anthropology. She was active in the Students' Union, as women's rights and welfare representative. From 1986 to 1987 she was President of the Students' Union of Queen's University. In 1988 she began working freelance on the Belfast News Letter, and later joined the staff as a reporter. She became education correspondent. In 1991 she joined the Irish Times. She wrote on behalf of the sisters of Brian Keenan, For Brian's Sake, 1992. She had a reputation for ensuring that the rights of the people about whom she was writing, were respected. She died in a car crash.
Cathal Maguire was born in Ballymacinis, Lough Erne. He was Rector of Inniskeen, County Monaghan,Canon of Armagh and Archdeacon of Clogher. He was a collector of manuscripts and compiled a portion of the Annals of Ulster relating to the period from 60 A.D. to 413 A.D. until his death. Conor Maguire was born in County Fermanagh and was the 2nd baron of Enniskillen. He took part in the attempt to take Dublin Castle in 1641, was arrested and sent to the Tower of London. He was tried, convicted and hanged, drawn and quartered. [Memoir by F. J. Bigger] Cuconnacht Maguire succeeded his brother Hugh as Lord of Fermanagh in 1600. He is said to have procured the ship for the 'Flight of the Earls', whom he accompanied into exile. He died in Genoa and his lands were confiscated and settled. Frank Maguire was a publican in Lisnaskea, and was Member of Parliament for County Fermanagh-South Tyrone for seven years from 1974. During this period he thwarted the Conservative attempt to bring down the Labour government in 1976. However, by withholding his vote three years later he helped to bring down James Callaghan's government. He supported the H Block campaign and defended the interests of Irish Republican Army prisoners in Britain Hugh Maguire became Lord of Fermanagh after his father's death. He had various confrontations after he defied the English government, and he is said to have slain Sir Warham St Leger with his own hand a mile outside Cork, dying of wounds in the same conflict. An ode was written to him by his bard, O'Hussey, and translated into English by James Clarence Mangan.
William Maguire was an artist who painted 'View of Belfast' in 1838. He worked in belfast during the period 1830 to 1840. He was one of two associate members of the Association of Artists founded in Belfast in 1836.
William Maguire was educated at Queen's College, Belfast where he became a Doctor of Medicine. He was a visiting physician to the Mater Hospital, Belfast, and a clinical lecturer and examiner in Queen's University, Belfast. He was also an examiner for the National University of Ireland and Medical Commisssioner for the National Insurance Commission.
John Mahaffy was born in Switzerland of Irish parents. From the age of nine he was educated at home in Donegal or Monaghan. In 1855 he entered Trinity College, Dublin, and became Professor of Ancient History from 1869 to 1899. Flinders Petrie asked him to decipher Egyptian papyri, and he subsequently published The Empire of the Ptolemies (1895). His publications until then had been mainly on the civilisation of the Ancient Greeks, except for Principles of the Art of Conversation, which appeared in 1887. From 1911 to 1916 he served as President of the Royal Irish Academy, and in 1918 he was knighted. He was appointed Provost of Trinity College in 1914. Francis Makemie was born in Ramelton, County Donegal. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1682 and went to America as a missionary. In 1706 he formed the first Presbytery there. He published many sermons and is honoured as the 'Father of American Presbyterianism'.
Malachy was born in Armagh and was ordained to the priesthood in 1119. He was Vicar to the Archbishop and substituted the Roman for the Celtic liturgy. He rebuilt the church which had been destroyed by the Danes, and became head of the school in Bangor, County Down. In 1124 he was appointed Bishop of Down and Connor and in 1132 was consecrated Archbishop of Armagh. He resigned the sees of Armagh and Connor in 1136, retaining Down until his death. He founded a priory of Augustinian canons at Downpatrick and a monastery at Saul. He led the party intent on reforming the Irish church by proposing the diocesan system and the jurisdiction of bishops as opposed to the great monastic abbots. He met his biographer, St Bernard of Clairvaux, when he was appointed Apostolic Legate for Ireland. In 1142 he established the first Cistercian abbey in Ireland at Mellifont, County Louth, and introduced a branch of the monks of St Bernard. He made a second journey to Rome in 1148 and having been taken ill, died in St Bernard's arms at Clairvaux, where he is buried. He was canonised by Pope Clement III in 1190 (the first papal canonisation of an Irishman). His feast-day is the 3rd of November. [Biographies by Canon O'Hanlon and Monsignor O'Laverty] Nicholas Malby came to Ireland in 1567 and four years later obtained a grant of land in County Down on condition that, within the next eight years, he planted it with loyal subjects.
Andrew Malcom was born at Hillhall, County Down, and was educated in Glasgow. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in Dunmurry in 1807 and two years later moved to Newry. He was a hymn-writer and published A Collection of Four Hundred and Five Psalms and Hymns in Newry in 1811. He contributed to the Newry Magazine and was one of its founders. Andrew Malcolm was born in Newry, County Down and was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, in Dublin, Glasgow and Edinburgh. He was a doctor of medicine and worked in the Belfast General Hospital, which is now the Royal Victoria Hospital. He wrote a history of that establishment. He lived in York Street, Belfast, all his life, which was devoted to the care of the poor, and to the encouragement of education. He died in Dublin, but later was brought to Belfast for burial. [Life by H. G. Calwell, 1977] Peter Manby was probably born in Dublin and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1670 he became Canon of Kildare, and two years later Dean of Derry. It is said that he was disappointed at not being offered a bishopric, so he joined the Catholic Church. He wrote The Considerations which Obliged Peter Manby, Dean of Derry, to Embrace the Catholic Religion which evoked a retort by William King and a counter reply by Manby. He was appointed an Alderman of Derry and retired to France after the Battle of the Boyne. He died in London. Olivia Manning was born in Portsmouth, but spent much of her youth in Bangor, County Down. Her first novel The Wind Changes contains references to Bangor. Her best known work is the Balkan trilogy and the Levant trilogy. It was televised as `For-tunes of War'. David Manson was born in Cairncastle, County Antrim. As a child he was very ill and had no formal schooling, learning from his mother 'by amusement'. He became a teacher and started an evening school in Belfast in 1755 at his house in Clugston's Entry and was extremely innovative in the way in which he viewed education. The school moved to Donegall Street in 1768. He taught 'without the discipline of the rod' and was very successful in his methods. His income from the school was supplemented by brewing beer. He published several school books, including a spelling book, an English dictionary, a new primer and a pronouncing dictionary. Richard Mant was born in Southampton and was educated at Oxford. He was appointed Bishop of Killaloe in 1820 and Bishop of Down and Connor in 1823. He published many works including a History of the Church of Ireland (2 vols), in 1840. He opposed Catholic Emancipation. Padraig Marrinan was born in Belfast. He was educated privately after he had contracted infantile paralysis at the age of five. He was a self-taught artist. He painted landscapes in Antrim, Kerry, Connemara and Donegal, and was interested in Celtic mythology and in religious art. He painted the Stations of the Cross for St Colman's Church, Lambeg, County Antrim, and 'Our Lady of Belfast' is in Holy Cross Church, Ardoyne, Belfast. 'The Madonna and Child of Loretto' is in the Convent School, Omagh, County Tyrone. He was a member of the Royal Ulster Academy, and exhibited there. The National gallery of Dublin have one of his charcoal drawings. He died in Omagh. Narcissus Marsh was born in Wiltshire and was educated at Oxford, where he became Doctor of Divinity in 1638. He was appointed Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed Bishop of Ferns in 1683, and then became successively Archbishop of Cashel 1691, Dublin 1694 and Armagh 1703. He bestowed many gifts, the most magnanimous being a free public library next to St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the first of its kind in Ireland. Archbishop Marsh is buried in the churchyard of St Patrick's Cathedral, where a monument was erected to his memory. Ann Marshall was admitted as a patient to the hospital in West Street, Belfast in 1810. After her treatment she was employed as a domestic. By 1812 she had become an assistant nurse and had been promoted to nurse by 1819. In 1832 she was Head Nurse. She remained working in the hospital until her death. In 1849, when the hospital was facing a financial crisis, she donated her entire life savings. A plaque was erected in her honour and a copy is in the entrance hall of Bostock House, the Royal Hospital. W. F. Marshall was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, and was educated at his father's primary school in Sixmilecross, County Tyrone, the Royal School, Dungannon, County Tyrone, University College, Galway, and the Presbyterian College, Belfast. In 1916 he became Presbyterian minister in Sixmilecross, moving to Castlerock, County Londonderry, in 1928. He published a novel, Planted by a River; a book of sermons for children, His Charger White; a history of 18th-century Ulster emigration to America; a play, The Corduroy Bag, and four books of poetry and became known as the 'Bard of Tyrone'. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, lectured on elocution in Magee College, Derry, and wrote an Ulster dialect version of Shakespeares's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1936 his research on Ulster dialect was broadcast by the BBC. He is said to have compiled a dictionary of Ulster dialect which was destroyed in manuscript form by a puppy before it reached the publisher. George Martin was born in Kilrea, County Londonderry and went to Canada when he was ten years old. He was educated at the Black River Literary Institute in New York and when he was thirty, settled in Montreal where he was a photographer and later a merchant. He was a frequent contributor to the Canadian press and published a volume of poetry, Marguerita and other poems, three years before his death. James Martin was born in Crossgar, County Down. He was an engineer by the time he was twenty years old, and shortly afterwards, designed a three-wheeled enclosed car. He went to London in 1924 and invented various types of machines. In 1929 he moved to Middlesex, to what is now known as the Martin Aircraft Works. The company built a plane, the MB1. James Val Baker joined the company as a partner and they began to design fighter planes for the Royal Air Force, the MB2 and the MB3. Captain Baker was killed trying to land the MB3, and this may have been a reason why Martin focussed his energy on methods of saving pilots' lives. The MB4 and the MB5 aircraft were developed. Many of Martin's inventions, such as gun mountings and barrage-balloon cable cutters were produced. Many pilots were unable to escape from their cockpits during the Battle of Britain because the canopies would not open when damaged, and Martin devised a way of blowing the canopy off the aircraft. The Ministry of Aircraft Production invited Martin, in 1944, to develop an invention which would improve the survival rate of pilots, and he invented the ejector seat. It was so successful that by 1947, MB ejector seats were being fitted in all British military jet aircraft. He was awarded two honorary doctorates and an OBE and he was knighted. He won the Wakefield Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award, the Cumberbatch Air Safety Trophy (1959) and the Royal Aero Club Gold Medal in 1964. John Martin was born in Loughorne, near Newry, County Down, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied medicine. He traveled in Europe and America, and on his return to Ireland he became a Young Irelander. He was the schoolfellow and brother-in-law of John Mitchel. He produced the Irish Felon, a militantly nationalist journal, and was tried and sentenced to transportation for ten years. He was pardoned and returned to County Down in 1856, where he established the National League in 1864. He was elected member of parliament for Meath in 1871 and held the seat until his death. He was known as 'Honest John' Martin. He died in Newry. [Biography by P. A. Stillard] Noel Martin was born in Portrush, County Antrim and was a brigadier general. He was also an amateur international golfer and played for the Royal Portrush Club. In 1920 and 1923 he won the Irish Open Amateur title and in 1928, he won the British Army Championship. He won the North Indian Championship twice while serving in India. He played international golf for Ireland on seven occasions and captained the side in 1930. In 1928 he was a member of the Walker Cup team. He was awarded the Victoria Cross.
Robert Martin was born in County Tyrone and traveled from the age of seventeen. He published as many as twenty-six books, among which is History of the British Colonies. The Colonial Magazine was founded and edited by him. In 1844 he became Treasurer of Hong Kong. He died in Surrey. Samuel Martin was born in Culmore, County Londonderry, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a Doctor of Laws in 1857. He was called to the Bar in 1830 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1843. In 1847 he served as member of parliament for Pontefract. In 1850 he was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer and was knighted. He retired after twenty-five years on the bench and died in London. He was known affectionately as 'the good Sam Martin'.
William Fergusson Massey was born in Limavady, County Londonderry, and was educated in Derry. In 1870 he emigrated to New Zealand, where he hoped to become a farmer. By 1894 he had entered the New Zealand parliament, and seven years later had become leader of the opposition. By 1912 he had been elected Premier. He had the unique experience of retaining office before, during and after the First World War - the only Prime Minister in the world to do so. In 1914 he was appointed a Privy Councillor, and his was one of the signatures on the Versailles Treaty. Ten cities made him a freeman, including Derry and Belfast. He died in Wellington, New Zealand. [Biography by H. J. Constable] Arthur Maxwell was born in County Down and was educated in Dublin. He joined the civil service in 1893, but retired in 1905 to become secretary to the banking company Glynn Mills, and rose to be a managing partner. He served in the First World War and was severely wounded in 1916. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, and was knighted. Hugh Maxwell was born in Ulster and went to America as a child. He joined the revolutionary army and served at Bunker's Hill, Saratoga and Valley Forge. He was appointed brigadier-general and died at sea. John Maxwell was born in Ulster. He was a publisher and founder of the Temple Bar in 1860; St James's Magazine; Belgravia and other popular monthly magazines. He died in Lyndhurst. William Maxwell was born in Donagh, County Fermanagh, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1777 he became Doctor of Divinity and was appointed Rector of Mount Temple, Westmeath. He was a close friend of Dr Samuel Johnson. He erected a school in Glaslough, County Monaghan. He died in Bath.
William Maxwell was born in Newry, County Down, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in Carlow in 1813 and the same year became curate of Clonallon. He fought in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo. In 1820 he was appointed Rector of Balla, County Mayo. He made contributions to many periodicals, but he was primarily a novelist and his titles include Wild Sports of the West and Stories of Waterloo. He also published a History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Life of Wellington. He died in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh. Andrew May was born in Helensborough in Argyll and was Keeper of the Tropical House of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. He came to Coleraine in 1914 as Horticultural Instructor for County Londonderry and his job necessitated traveling in the countryside, which facilitated his love of archaeology. He recorded carefully all sites and artefacts that came to his notice. He was a keen angler and played competitive ten-nis and badminton. He was a member of the Route Naturalists' Field Club, Coleraine Angling Club, the Coleraine Art Society, and was a fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society. In 1969 he was the first Honorary Member of the Ulster Archaeological Society. He was responsible for horticulture and rural science being added to the syllabus in Ulster schools. He excavated Portbraddan cave in 1931; sites near Portstewart; Gortcorbies, and Cornaclaery, near Garvagh and worked on the Beaghmore stone cir-cles, County Tyrone. He contributed the County Londonderry section to the Preliminary Survey of the Ancient Monuments of Northern Ireland and was a member of the Northern Ireland Ancient Monuments Advisory Council from 1937. He published many articles in archaeological journals and collected five thousand artefacts.
George May was born in Belfast and was educated at Cambridge University. He was called to the Bar in 1844 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1865. In 1875 he became Attorney-General, having in the previous year unsuccessfully contested Carrickfergus in the general election. In 1877 he was appointed Lord Chief Justice. He was to have tried Parnell and others, but was accused of partiality and declined. He resigned in 1887. Blair Mayne was born in Newtownards, County Down. He played rugby for Queen's University, Belfast and Malone. He won six caps for Ireland between 1937 and 1939 and toured with the British and Irish Lions on their tour of South Africa in 1938. He was also an Irish Universities Boxing Champion. He served in North Africa in the Second World War, was given three bars on his Distinguished Service Order and was awarded the Legion d'Honneur. He was killed in a car accident.
Thomas Mayne was born in Belfast. He wrote short stories and poetry and published Blackthorn Blossoms; Belfast and The Heart of the Peat. Meta Mayne Reid was born and reared in Yorkshire, though she lived much of her life in Crawfordsburn, County Down. She wrote over twenty children's novels, a collection of poetry and two novels for adults. John Mears was born in Loughbrickland, County Down, and was educated at Glasgow University. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in Newtownards in 1720 and later moved to Clonmel. In 1732 he published A Catechism which was in use for almost a hundred years. He died in Dublin. John Mease was born in Strabane, County Tyrone and emigrated to America. He became a prosperous merchant in Philadelphia. He joined the revolutionary army and crossed the Delaware with Washington. It is said that he subscribed a large sum of money towards army supplies in 1780 and suffered much personal loss. He was made Admiralty-Surveyor of Philadelphia where he died. James Meenan was born in Fintona, County Tyrone and educated at the Catholic University Medical School, Dublin. He was Professor and Examiner in Medicine at University College, Dublin, Physician to St Vincent's College, Dublin, and consulting physician to the National Maternity Hospital and Maynooth.
Eric Megaw was born in Belfast and was educated at Campbell College, Belfast, and Queen's University. He had a natural talent with radios and in 1923 picked up a radio message from New Zealand. In 1924 he transmitted the first radio signal by an amateur from Ireland and in the next two years established the first radio contact between Ireland and Australia and the west coast of America. He worked for sixteen years with the General Electric Company in Wembley on the development of the cavity magnetron which proved critical to the success of the radar. In 1943 he was awarded the MBE. In 1951, he became Director of Physical Research with the Admiralty. John Michelburne was born in Sussex. Be-tween 1680 and 1683 he served in Tangiers and in 1689 took part in the attack on Carrickfergus. During the siege of Derry he commanded a regiment of foot. In 1689 he became Governor of Derry, and refused to accept a bribe from King James. He wrote a play based on his observations: Ireland Preserved, or the Siege of Londonderry. He commanded an army at the Boyne and at the siege of Sligo, of which he became Governor in 1691. He spent much time extracting the money which he felt to be rightfully his, from the English Treasury. He died in Derry.
Charles Middleton was born in Manchester. He studied at Manchester College of Art and became a cotton damask designer. He holidayed in Ulster and decided to stay, finding a job with William Moyes as a damask designer. He was a founder member of the Ulster Arts Club, and in 1902 was elected a member of the Belfast Art Society. He formed a damask designing partnership with Hugh Page. He visited Belgium in 1931 and painted Bruges. One of his paintings is in the Ulster Museum. He was the father of Colin Middleton. Colin Middleton was born in Belfast and attended Belfast Royal Academy. He was apprenticed in his father's firm as a damask designer and studied part-time in the Belfast School of Art. He was a member of the Royal Ulster Academy and exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy of which he became a member in 1970. In 1943 he had a one-man show at the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, and the following year, a one-man show in Dublin and he exhibited in Ireland, and abroad. He spent a year with his family at the Middleton Murry Community in England and returned in 1948 to Ardglass, County Down, moving to Bangor in 1954. From 1954 to 1955 he taught at the Belfast College of Art, and from 1955 to 1961 at Coleraine Technical School. From 1961 to 1970 he lived in Lisburn and was head of the art department of Friends' School. During his period of teaching, he exhibited widely and received many commissions. In 1970 he received an Arts Council award which enabled him to devote himself to his painting. His work was bought by the Ulster Museum, the Municipal Gallery, Dublin and is in many other collections. He received an honorary degree from Queen's University, Belfast. He was awarded an OBE. John Middleton was born in Ulster and studied at the Belfast College of Art from 1963 to 1966, and the Royal College of Art, London, from 1966 until 1969. From 1969 to 1971 he was a lecturer in print making in London, and he returned to Belfast to teach art in Kelvin Secondary School. He received three commissions from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and from 1974 worked as a graphic designer. He exhibited widely and had many one-man shows. The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Belfast Education and Library Board hold examples of his work. He was the son of Colin Middleton. Harry Midgley was born in North Belfast. He served in the First World War and published a collection of poems, Thoughts from Flanders. When he returned from the war, he joined the Belfast Labour Party. In 1921 he unsuccessfully contested the East Belfast parliamentary seat and in 1923 and 1924, he fought the West Belfast seat. He polled over twenty-one thousand votes and appealed to the working-class constituents on both the Falls and the Shankill. He was first secretary of the Northern Ireland Labour Party, and in 1925 was elected a city councillor for Dock ward. He gained a seat in the Northern Ireland parliament in 1933. He lost his seat in Dock ward in 1938, because of the unpopularity of his support for Republican Spain. During the Second World War he formed the commonwealth labour party and held the post of Minister of Public Security in the Stormont war-time government. He joined the Unionist party in 1947, was appointed Minister of Labour in 1949 and Minister of Education in 1950. He joined the Orange and Black Orders and became chairman of Linfield Football Club. Philip Miller was born in Derry and was educated at Queen's University, Belfast. He studied architecture and painting, and in 1879 began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, London. In 1890 he was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy. William Miller was born near Lurgan, County Armagh. He was a portrait painter and sometimes painted on glass. He painted likenesses of Lurgan people of his time. He invented a speaking clock which was modelled as the figure of an old man standing in a case, though when he could not find a buyer, he dismantled it. Alice Milligan was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, and was educated at Methodist College, Belfast, Magee College, Derry, and King's College, London. She went to Dublin to learn Irish, and as organising secretary of the 1798 centenary celebrations in Ulster, she invited John O'Leary to Belfast. She was a friend of James Connolly, a member of Inghinidhe na hEireann and of Sinn Fein, supporting Winifred Carney when she stood for parliamentary election in Belfast in 1918. For some years she was organiser for the Gaelic League and gave history lectures throughout Ireland. She published poetry in the United Irishman among other journals, and with Ethna Carbery founded and edited the Northern Patriot; she also edited the Shan Van Vocht from 1896 to 1899. In 1900 she wrote a play, The Last Feast of the Fianna, for the Irish Literary Theatre, and The Daughter of Donagh for the Abbey Theatre. She also published a Life of Wolfe Tone and a novel, A Royal Democrat as well as a book of poetry. She published two other books, one of them, Glimpses of Erinn, in collaboration with her father, and the other, Sons of the Sea Kings, with her brother. She was a founder member of the Ulster Anti-Partition Council. In 1941 she received an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland. She died in Omagh.
Seaton Milligan was born in Cloncur, County Tyrone, and was educated locally. Through his business travels he became familiar with Ulster and Connaught. He was interested in Irish antiquities and in 1884 became a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow in 1888. He contributed many papers to the journal of that society. With his daughter Alice, he published Glimpses of Erinn and also a guide to Tyrone and Fermanagh.
Jane Verner is thought to have been born in County Armagh and educated at Miss Bryden's School for Young Ladies in Newry. At the age of fourteen she married John Mitchel. Under the pseudonym Mary, which she shared with other contributors, she published controversial articles in The Nation. Following John's arrest in 1848, she organised his defence campaign. With her five children she emigrated to Australia, where her husband had been exiled, and later, on his escape, she joined him in New York. During the American Civil War, she supported the Confederates, and two of her sons were killed fighting. As a mark of public respect, a large sum of money was raised in America to support her at the time of her husband's death. Her house in New York became a focus for political and cultural activity. John Mitchel was born in Dungiven, County Londonderry, and was educated in Newry and Trinity College, Dublin. In 1840 he became a lawyer and settled in Banbridge, County Down, where he met Thomas Davis, whose place he took on the journal The Nation. In 1848 he founded the United Irishman. He felt that a complete break with England was necessary for the survival of Ireland. He was tried for treason and felony and sentenced to transportation for fourteen years, but he eventually escaped to America in 1853, where he published Jail Journal, or Five Years in British Prisons. He attempted to found newspapers which supported the cause of the South in the American Civil War. When he returned to Ireland in 1874 he was elected member of parliament for Tipperary, but he was declared ineligible as an undischarged felon, even when subsequently re-elected in 1875. He died in Newry, County Down. He edited the poems of Mangan and the poems of Davis as well as publishing a History of Ireland from the Treaty of Limerick and the Life of Hugh O'Neill, Prince of Ulster. [Biography by William Dillon] Alexander Mitchell was born in Dublin and became blind when he was twenty-two years old. He moved to Belfast, where he became a brick-maker, and he invented machines used in that trade. He is best known for his invention the 'screw pile', which allowed lighthouses to be erected on mud banks and shifting sands. It is used with great success internationally, from the Portland Breakwater to the bridges of Bombay. In 1837 he became an associate and in 1848 a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, who awarded him the Telford Medal for his invention. He died in Belfast. [Memoir by F. J. Bigger]. Crawford Mitchell was born on the Grosvenor Road, Belfast, and was educated at the Belfast Model School, Falls Road. He studied at the Belfast School of Art and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, London. He returned to Ulster in 1935 and taught at the Rainey Endowed School, Magherafelt, at Lurgan College and Portadown College, County Armagh. He was head of the art department of Grosvenor High School in 1950 and remained there for the next twenty years, after which he taught part-time at the Rupert Stanley College of Further Education, Belfast. He was a linocut and wood engraver, and his work is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. He won the Silver Medal of the Royal Ulster Academy in 1975. Billy Mitchell was born in Lurgan, County Armagh. He was an international soccer player and played for Cliftonville, Distill-ery, Chelsea and Bath City. Between 1932 and 1938 he was capped fifteen times for Northern Ireland. Mochaemog was born in Connemara, but studied under St Comgall at Bangor. He founded churches in Kilkenny and Tipperary and is said to have cured many people of blindness. Mochoi was born in County Antrim, and it is said that as a young man in Saul, near Downpatrick, he met St Patrick who baptised and ordained him. He founded and became bishop of churches on Nendrum, now known as Island Mahee. St Finian of Moville and St Colman of Dromore were educated at his schools. Mochua was born in Ulster and was educated by St Comgall at Bangor. He travelled to Westmeath, where he was the guest of St Feichin of Fore. It is thought that he had considerable skill as an engineer. He worked in Connemara, for thirty-one years. Modwenna was the daughter of the King of Iveagh. It is said that she was blessed by St Patrick. She founded churches at Louth, Wexford, Kileevy, Armagh, Swords and the Aran Islands. As well as travelling around Ireland, she crossed to England and Scotland and had churches built from Warwickshire to Dundee, where she died.
Molaisse founded a monastic settlement on Devenish Island, County Fermanagh. He made a pilgrimage to Rome. An ancient Gaelic life of Molaisse is preserved in the British Library and has been edited and published by S. H. O'Grady.
Allan Molines was born in Ballycoulter, County Down, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and became a doctor of medicine. In 1681 he dissected the body of an elephant accidentally burnt in Dublin, and published his account of it. He contributed much original research to comparative anatomy, was a Fellow of the Royal Society and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland in 1683. He went to the West Indies, where he died in Barbados. Frances Molloy was born in County Londonderry. Her short stories have appeared in various magazines. In 1985 her first novel, No Mate for the Magpie, was published by Virago Press. Joseph Molloy was appointed art master of the Belfast Academy in 1828 and master of the Belfast Academical Institution in 1830. He retired from this position in 1870. He was a member of the Association of Artists, founded in Belfast in 1836. He illustrated Belfast Scenery, which was published in 1832 by E. K. Proctor. The Ulster Museum have two of his sea-scapes and a portrait.
Molua became a disciple of Comgall at Bangor, County Down in about 559. He founded a monastery at Clonfert, and Killaloe (i.e. Church of Lua) may be named after him. His feast-day is the 4th of August.
Samuel Molyneux was Clerk of the Royal Works in Ireland. He was actively involved in the Tyrone war, and in 1601 he was paid for work and fortifications carried out at Carrickfergus, County Antrim.
Rinty Monaghan was born in Belfast and became a professional boxer. He began his boxing career in Ma Copley's boxing booth, Belfast. On the 23rd March l948 he knocked out Jackie Patterson in the King's Hall, Belfast, and won the world championship. He defended his title the following year and in 1949 drew with Terry Allen. Six months later he retired undefeated. He lost only eight, drew three and won forty-three out of fifty-four professional fights. As well as holding the World Championship, he held the British European and Commonwealth Championships. He died in Belfast. George Monck came to Ireland in 1641 as commander of an English regiment sent to crush the rebellion. After he returned to England he was taken prisoner by the parliamentary forces, but on changing sides, he was released and appointed general of the English parliamentary army in Ireland. He was Governor of Ulster and in 1648 was responsible for the capture of Robert Monro. In 1649, as Governor of Carrickfergus, he made peace with Owen Roe O'Neill and surrendered Dundalk. He then left Ireland. Robert Monro, when the rebellion of 1641 began in Ireland, came as a major-general in the Scottish army. That year he sacked Newry, County Down and three years later defended Ulster against the Confederates and royalists. Owen Roe O'Neill defeated him at the Battle of Benburb in 1646. He was sent to England and was detained there until 1654 when he returned to Ireland. Diana Monsell was probably born in Derry. She produced flower and foliage watercolour drawings. Her work is of the more common flowers of the fields and hedge-rows, and are meticulously accurate and realistic. An album of her work is in the National Gallery of Ireland. Henry Montgomery was born in Killead, County Antrim, and was educated at Crumlin Academy and the University of Glasgow. In 1800 he was ordained in Dunmurry, County Antrim, and in 1817 became English master of Belfast Academical Institution. Glasgow University conferred upon him a Doctorate of Laws. He was elected Moderator of the General Synod of Ulster. An opponent of Henry Cooke, he led the Arian section of the Synod, and on being defeated, formed the Remonstrant Synod of Ulster in 1829, which later led to the establishment of the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland. He published pamphlets and edited The Bible Christian, was in favour of Catholic Emancipation, but strongly opposed Repeal.
Henry Montgomery was born in Belfast and went to Alabama, where he started a newspaper. When he returned to Belfast he established the Belfast Illustrated Monthly Magazine and wrote the lives of Steele and Moore and published an anthology, Early Native Poetry of Ireland. He published Essay on Irish Literature in 1840 when he was President of the Rhetorical Society. Hugh Montgomery was born in County Down and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Benburb in 1646 and later banished to Holland. He was appointed Master of Ordnance and created an earl at the Restoration. Hervey, the celebrated doctor, described how Hugh Montgomery had a gap in his side through which the action of his heart was visible. He succeeded his father as the 3rd Viscount and died in Dromore, County Down. Hugh Montgomery was born in Blessingbourne, County Tyrone and was educated at Eton and The Royal Miltary Academy, Sandhurst. He served with the Royal Artillery in the Boer War and in the First World War. He held many honours, including the Order of St Anne (3rd class), conferred by the Tzar of Russia; the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre. He retired from the army in 1925, having attained the rank of major-general. He was a Unionist member of Tyrone County Council for several years and served as chairman for the Regional Education Committee for five years. although this office was removed from him when he antagonised other Unionist councillors by supporting the appointment of James Hackett, a Catholic Nationalist, as Deputy Vice-Chairman of the local Board of Gaurdians. He was a patron of the Marie Stopes Clinic in Belfast and in 1938 he was co-founder of the Irish Association, which sought to 'make reason and goodwill take the place of passion and prejudice in Ireland, north and south'. He was Companion of the Order of the Bath, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George and Deputy Lieutenant.
Jemima Montgomery was born in Seaview, County Donegal. When she married Baron von Tautphoeus in 1838 she went to Germany, where she spent the rest of her life. Her husband was Chamberlain to the King of Bavaria, and many of her novels, for example, The Initials; Cyrilla; Quits and At Odds, are set in that country.
John Wilson Montgomery was born in Virginia, County Cavan. He was master of the workhouse in Bailieborough for some years and became known as the 'Bard of Bailieborough'. He spent much of his life in Downpatrick, where he was clerk to the Poor Law Board of Guardians. He was an antiquarian and contributed articles on this subject to local newspapers. He published volumes of poetry, including Rhymes Ulidian and Fireside Lyrics, and a collection of prose sketches, Round Mourne.
Leslie Montgomery was born in Downpatrick, County Down, and educated in Dundalk. At the age of sixteen he joined the Northern Banking Company in Belfast and worked in Cushendall, County Antrim, and Keady, County Armagh. When he was thirty-three he was transferred to Skerries, County Dublin, where until 1934 he was Branch manager. He wrote more than twenty books under his pseudonym, 'Lynn C. Doyle'. The popular 'Ballygullion' stories ran into several volumes and later editions were illustrated by William Conor. His comedy, Love and Land was produced in London at the Little Theatre. Other plays among which are The Lilac Ribbon and The Turncoats were staged by the Ulster Literary Theatre. Among his novels is Mr Wildridge at the Bank, and he also wrote an autobiography, An Ulster Childhood. He broadcast regularly from the BBC in Belfast and for a short period served as a member of the Censorship of Publications Board. He was President of the Consultative Council of Irish PEN in 1954. He died in Dublin. Mary Montgomery was the wife of a local landowner in Fivemiletown, County Tyrone. She ran embroidery and sewing classes for girls in Fivemiletown, but in 1891 went to London to learn repousse metal-work. She returned home and started a metal-work class, and in 1893 their work was shown at the Home Arts and Industries Association Exhibition at the Albert Hall in London. The class produced furnishings in copper and brass, such as candle-sticks, tankards and mirror frames and won frequent awards at exhibitions: a silver cross and sixty-nine awards of merit at the Home Arts and Industries Association; five first, seven second, and four third prizes at the Royal Dublin Society and first prizes at Cheltenham and Bristol. Queen Victoria is said to have purchased Fivemiletown work. The classes received more orders than they were able to fullfil, and silver and pewter were added to the materials used. Mary Montgomery set up her own annual exhibition in Fivemiletown, but both this and the Art Metal-work Class ended in 1913 at the beginning of the First World War. Robert Montgomery was born in Moville, County Donegal, and was educated in Derry. In 1827 he joined the Bengal civil service and in 1849 was appointed Commisssioner at Lahore. In 1859 he was appointed Governor of the Punjab and was knighted. He died in London. William Montgomery was born in Aughaintain, County Tyrone, and was educated in County Down, Glasgow and Leyden. Having returned to Ireland in 1652 and repossessed the family estate of Rosemount House, Greyabbey, in 1661 he became a member of parliament for Newtownards. He was High Sheriff of County Down from 1670. He wrote A Description of the Ards, and his family history The Montgomery Manuscript, which was first published in the Belfast Newsletter from 1785 onwards, and then in book form in 1830. He is buried at Greyabbey.
William Monypenny was born in Ballyworkan, County Armagh, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford. He was assistant editor of The Times from 1894 to 1899, and when he returned from South Africa, having been editor of The Star, he became director of The Times. He published posthumously Two Irish Nations and was chosen as biographer of Disraeli.
Theodore William Moody was born in Belfast and was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Queen's University, Belfast. From 1940 until 1977 he was Professor of Modern History in Trinity College, Dublin, where he became an Emeritus Fellow in 1977. He was the joint editor, with R. Dudley Edwards, of Irish Historical Studies from 1938 until 1977, and he collaborated with Professor J. C. Beckett on Thomas Davis, 1814-1845 and Queen's, Belfast, 1845-1849: the History of a University in two volumes. He planned and established the major New History of Ireland, of which he was joint editor of Vols. III: 1534-1691 (1976); IV: 1691-1800 (1986); VIII: Chronology of Irish History to 1976 (1982); IX: Maps, Genealogies, Lists (1984). He edited and contributed to Nationality and the Pursuit of National Independence, which was published in Belfast in 1978, and in 1982 he published Davitt and Irish Revolution, 1846-1882. He died in Dublin.
Alfred S. Moore was the editor of Nomad's Weekly, a magazine which ran from 1899 until 1914. It satirised politicians, churchmen, trade union officials, councillors and businessmen. It pressed for social reform, for example shorter hours for shop assistants, and at the height of its popularity it claimed a readership of 40,000. Arthur Moore was born in Monaghan and went to England where he made a fortune trading. In 1695 he was member of parliament for Grimsby, and subsequently became director of the South Sea Company. In 1712 he was instrumental in bringing about the Commercial treaty with France and Spain. By the time of his death he owned large estates in Surrey.
Francis Moore was born in Limerick, but grew up in Belfast, where he attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. From 1876 to 1892 he worked as a reporter for the Belfast News-Letter before moving to England. His novel I Forbid the Banns, was very popular, and it was followed by The Jessamy Bride; Castle Omeragh; The Ulsterman and The Truth about Ulster. Some of his novels were serialised in magazines such as The Graphic and The Queen. He wrote many successful plays, including The Queen's Rooms and I Forbid the Banns, which was a hit in London in 1893. He published a book of poetry, Flying from Shadows, as well as journalistic pieces. Garrett Moore was visited by Hugh O'Neill at Mellifont before the Flight of the Earls in 1607. As a consequence, he was implicated in the charge of disloyalty, but was able to clear his name. He was granted a thousand acres in County Armagh as part of the plantation settlement. In 1615 was created a baron, and in 1621 a viscount. William Moore was born in Ballymoney, County Antrim, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the Bar in 1887. He was a Unionist member of parliament for eighteen years form 1899 to 1917, before being appointed a High Court judge. When a Court of Appeal was established in Northern Ireland he was appointed its judge until 1925 and eventually became Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.
Arthur Moore was born in Glenavy, County Antrim and was educated at Campbell College, Belfast and St John's College, Oxford. In 1904 he was elected President of the Oxford Union. He was secretary of the Balkan Committee from 1904 to 1908 and penetrated central Albania in 1908. He became correspondent for various newspapers, and reported on the constitutionalist rebellion in Persia. He was besieged for one hundred days at Tabriz, joined the anti-Shah forces, and in 1909 took part in the final sortie. He worked for a number of years for The Times in Teheran and St. Petersburg. From 1922 to 1923 he was editor of the New Age, and in 1924 became assistant editor of the Statesman in Calcutta, rising to the post of Managing Editor. Between 1927 and 1933 he was a member of the Indian Legislative Assembly in Delhi but was dismissed for persistent criticism of the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, and the British Government for their indifference to the role of India in the Second World War. He spent the remainder of the war as a public relations officer for the Supreme Allied Command in South East Asia. He founded the journal Thought and retired to England in the 1950s. He died in London.
Gillman Moorhead was born in Benburb, County Tyrone, but grew up in Bray, County Wicklow. He was educated at the Aravon School in Bray and Trinity College, Dublin, where he took a degree in medicine in 1901 before continuing his research in Vienna. In 1905 he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, in 1906 was elected a fellow, and by 1910 had become its President. His clinics at the Royal City of Dublin Hospital and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital were very popular. He served in Cairo with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. On his return to Dublin he was appointed consulting physician to a number of hospitals, Professor of Medicine in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College, Dublin, where he had been King's Professor of Materia Medica. In 1933 he was elected President of the British and Irish Medical Associations. Among his works are A Short History of Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital and Surface Anatomy. He fell from a train on a journey to England in 1926, and the blow to his head detached his retina and left him permanently blind. Though clinical work was of necessity curtailed, he continued to teach and write. He was director of the National Cancer Campaign.
George Morant was born in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan. In 1850 he joined the navy and served in Burma, the Baltic, Crimea and China. He was promoted to the rank of admiral. At Pembroke and Chatham he supervised the dockyards. Before his retirement he was the Inspector of Irish Lights. He was knighted and died in London. James Morgan was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, was educated in Glasgow and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in Carlow in 1820. He became a minister in Lisburn in 1824, and in Belfast in 1827. In 1846 he was appointed Moderator of the General Assembly. He published theological works and was active in founding the Presbyterian College. He was a noted philanthropist. [Recollections of Life and Times, edited by his son, 1874] Henry Morris was born near Lisdoonan, County Monaghan. He was educated at Lisdoonan School and taught there from 1888 to 1901. He founded the Gaelic League in Lisdoonan and promoted it throughout County Monaghan. From 1901 to 1907, he taught in Dundalk and was co-founder of the Louth Archaeological Society in 1903. In 1907 he moved to Strabane, County Tyrone, and was organiser of Irish in schools. In 1912 he moved to Derry and later became a school inspector in Skerries, and in 1923 became a divisional inspector in Sligo. By 1932 he was deputy chief inspector. He published widely in many journals and newspapers, and his books include Greann na Gaedhilge (1901); Seanfhocla Uladh (1907); Ceithearnach Ui Dhomhnaill (1912); Cead de Cheoltaibh Uladh (1915) and Amhrain na Midhe (1933). He was an educationalist, an Irish scholar, a folklorist, an archaeologist, a historian and a prolific writer. George Morrow was born in Belfast and studied art at the Government School of Design. Later he exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists. He began to contribute to Punch in 1906, joined the staff in 1924 and became art editor from 1932 until 1937. He illustrated many books and collaborated with E. V. Lucas in George Morrow: His Book (1920); More Morrow (1921) and Some More (1928). His work is in the Ulster Museum, the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, and the British Museum. His four brothers, Albert, Edwin, Jack and Norman were connected with painting and drawing.
Harry Morrow was a founder member of the Ulster Literary Theatre. He was an actor as well as a playwright. Among his plays is Thompson in Tir-na-n-Og, which was first performed in 1912 in the Grand Opera House in Belfast. Other plays which were never published are Suzanne and the Sovereigns; The Throwbacks; No Surrender and Who Fears to Speak. The Dublin Magazine published many of his sketches and short plays.
May Morton was born in County Limerick and when she was twenty-four came to live in Belfast. She was secretary of the Belfast PEN and became its chairperson. She was also a founder member of the Young Ulster Society and was vice-principal of a girls' model school until 1934. She published poetry in many magazines including Rann, Poetry Ireland and the Cornhill Magazine and broadcast on the BBC and Radio Eireann. Among her publications are Dawn and Afterglow; Masque in Maytime and Sung to the Spinning Wheel. Fynes Moryson was educated at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, and in 1589 obtained a licence to travel. He visited, among other places, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Italy, France, the Holy Land, and Constaninople. In 1600 he came to Ireland as Chief Secretary to Sir Charles Blount. He helped to suppress Tyrone's Rebellion, and published an account of his travels and a history of Tyrone's rebellion in 1617. Richard Moryson came to Ireland in 1599 as a soldier in the English army and was knighted. He was Governor of Dundalk and then of Lecale, County Down. He fought in the campaign against Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. In 1604 he was appointed Governor of Waterford and Wexford, and in 1609 Vice-President of Munster. He proposed the transportation to Virginia of Irish pirates. In 1613 he was elected member of parliament for Bandon, but returned to England when he was not appointed President of Munster. He be-came Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance in England from 1616 to 1628. In 1621 he was member of parliament for Leicester. James Moyes was born in Draperstown, County Londonderry and partly educated at Coleraine Model School. He was Private Secretary to Archbishop Bourne and contributed to theological journals. He was Monsignor in the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Westminster, London.
Muircheartach, an Ulsterman, is first mentioned in the Irish annals in 482. He was appointed king in 507, and he defeated the Leinstermen at the Hill of Allen in 526. It is said that a jealous concubine set fire to his house on the banks of the Boyne and that he was burnt to death. Muirchu is known as the author of the Life of St Patrick in the Book of Armagh. His feast-day is on the 8th of June.
Matt Mulcaghy was born in County Tyrone and spent most of his youth in America, but as a young man returned to Ireland. He became a dialect story-teller, and eventually had his own weekly radio programme, which was extremely popular. John Muldoon was born in Dromore, County Tyrone, and was educated at Queen's College, Galway. In 1894 he was called to the Bar and in 1913 was appointed King's Counsel. From 1921 to 1926 he was Registrar of Lunacy, and from then until 1938 Registrar to the Chief Justice. Andrew Mulholland was born in Belfast and went into the cotton trade. On the destruction of his mill by fire, he decided to establish a mechanised flax-spinning factory, which was in operation by 1830. In 1845 he was appointed Lord Mayor of Belfast. The Ulster Hall received his gift of an organ. Clara Mulholland was born in Belfast and was educated at home and in England and Belgium. She produced her first novel in the 1880s and was a prolific novelist throughout her life. She also wrote books for young people. Among her titles are Percy's Revenge (1888); In A Roundabout Way (1908) and Sweet Doreen (1915). She died at Littlehampton. John Mulholland was the son of Andrew Mulholland and entered the family flax-spinning company. He became a Justice of the Peace for County Antrim and County Down and served as Deputy Lieutenant for County Down, then High Sheriff for County Down in 1868 and for County Tyrone in 1873. He was member of parliament for Downpatrick from 1874 to 1885. In 1892 he was created Baron Dunleath.
Rosa Mulholland was born in Belfast and was educated privately. Charles Dickens encouraged her to write and printed her early stories in Household Words. Her first novel, Dunmara, was published in 1864, under her pseudonym. She produced many novels over a period of fifty years, among which are A Fair Emigrant (1889); Marcella Grace (1886) and The Wild Birds of Killeevy (1883). She died in Dublin. David Mullan was a clergyman who wrote several books on religious and ecclesiastical topics. These include The Nature of the Pentecostal Baptism. He propagated the unity ideal long before the Edinburgh world mission conference of 1910 which brought it to public notice. He wrote many lectures and pamphlets. Sylvester Mulligan was born in Tassan, Clontibret, County Monaghan, and was educated at the Capuchin College, Rochestown, County Cork, and at Louvain. In 1892 he entered the Capuchin Order and was ordained in 1901. He taught moral theology at Louvain and in 1925 was elected Minister Provincial of his order, a year later becoming Definitor General. In 1937 he was the last non-Indian to be appointed to Delhi-Simla as archbishop. For a period he was editor of the Father Mathew Record. He is buried in the Capuchin plot in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. James Mullin was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone. He left school at the age of eleven and worked on a farm, after which he spent nine years as a carpenter. He was one of the first recruits of the Fenian Brotherhood which he joined in 1865, and he and other members were denounced by their church. When he was twenty-two years old he went to Cookstown Academy and supported himself by working part-time. He took a Bachelor of Arts degree at Queen's College, Galway. He tutored students to fund himself for the degree of Doctor of Medicine and he subsequently practised in London and Cardiff. At one period of his life he served as a ship's surgeon, and at another as a journalist. He wrote a great deal, including his autobiography, The Story of a Toiler's Life. Although he was a Catholic, he went to a Protestant school, and of this he said: 'The intermingling of the sects was attended by the happiest results, inasmuch as it allowed the young people to understand one another and contract friendships which no subsequent surroundings or whispers of bigotry could ever wholly efface'.
John Mulvany was an architect and designed the Georgian Terrace in the Mall, Armagh, the Railway Station in Athlone and the renowned Broadstone Station, Dublin. Henry Munro was born in Lisburn, County Antrim, where he worked as a linen draper. He carried on a draper shop in Market Square, Lisburn, and attended the Linen Halls of Lurgan, Banbridge and Tandragee, where he bought webs for the bleachers. He was an adjutant in the Volunteers, whom he joined at the age of twenty, and in 1795 he joined the United Irishmen. He was a Freemason and was head of the Lodge in Lisburn. In 1798 he led the men of Down when they seized Ballynahinch, which was occupied by English forces. The signal for the garrison's retreat was mistaken as a signal for its advance and Munro's men scattered. He was arrested, tried by courtmartial and hanged in Lisburn opposite his own door. His body was decapitated and displayed. Mura was born in County Tyrone. He founded the abbey of Fahan on Lough Swilly and a church at Banagher in Derry. His feast-day is on the 12th March. He was regarded by the O'Neills as their patron saint.
Sheelagh Murnaghan was born in Dublin and was a barrister and politician. From 1961 to 1969, she served as a Liberal member of the Northern Ireland parliament for Queen's University, Belfast, the only Liberal to have been elected to that body. She spoke on a wide range of issues: electoral equity, proportional representation, fair employment, fair allocation of houses and the introduction of an ombudsman. From 1969 to 1972 she served on the first Northern Ireland Community Relations Commission and when Direct Rule was introduced, on Whitelaw's Advisory Commission. Later she chaired National Insurance and Industrial Relations Tribunals.
Edward Murphy was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied classics. In 1903 he was called to the Bar, and from 1929 to 1939 represented Londonderry city in the Northern Ireland parliament. From 1937 to 1939 he was Attorney-General, before becoming Lord Justice of Appeal in the Northern Ireland Supreme Court. Gerard Murphy was born in Clones, County Monaghan. He was educated at University College, Dublin. He was Assistant Librarian of the National Library before becoming Professor of the History of Celtic Literature at University College, Dublin, from 1938 to 1959. From 1939 to 1957 he edited Eigse and collected, edited and translated into English, an anthology of Gaelic verse, published as Early Irish Lyrics, 1946. Among his other publications are Tales from Ireland (1947); Ossianic Lore and Romantic Tales of Medieval Ireland, (1955); Saga and Myth in Ancient Ireland and Early Irish Metrics, both 1961. James Murphy was born in Comber, County Down, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He became a Presbyterian minister in Ballyshannon in 1836, and was Professor of Hebrew in Belfast in 1847. He translated the Book of Daniel and wrote Latin and Hebrew grammars, as well as publishing The Human Mind. Joseph Murphy was born in Belfast and was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He was a linen mill-owner. He was President of the Belfast Literary Society, President of the Natural History and Philosophical Society and President of the Linen Hall Library. Among his publications are Habit and Intelligence; The Scientific Basis of Faith; Sonnets and other poems and Natural Selection and Spiritual Freedom. Patrick Murphy was born in Killowen, County Down, and at the height of eight foot one and a half inches, claimed to be the tallest man alive. He exhibited himself on the continent and died in Marseilles. His embalmed body was brought back for burial in Killbrony, County Down. James Murray was born in Culnady, County Londonderry, and was educated in Dublin and Edinburgh, where he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He was a member of the College of Surgeons in Dublin. When he settled in Belfast he published a paper on the value of fluid magnesia, and eventually patented his process and started manufacturing it, utilising the waste product as fertiliser. He produced a booklet, Advice to Farmers, and devoted attention to development of fertilisers on a large scale. In 1843 he published Trials and Effects of Chemical Fertilisers with Various Experiments in Agriculture, and subsequently, Heat and Humidity and Medical Effects of Atmospheric Pressure. He was innovative in his exploration of electricity as a cause of illness and in 1849 published Electricity as a Cause of Cholera and Other Epidemics, and the Relation of Galvanism to the Action of Remedies, which was translated into Italian. He became Inspector of Anatomy in Dublin. He was Resident Physician to three Lords Lieutenant and was knighted in 1831. He died in Dublin. James Murray was born in Armagh and trained as an architect in Liverpool. He designed public buildings and churches in many cities, and he published Gothic Buildings and Modern Architecture. He died in Coventry. John Murray was born in Antrim and was educated in Edinburgh. He emigrated to America in 1763 and supported the revolution, involving himself in enlisting young men for the army. As well as other religious works, in 1780 he published Sermons on Justification and Original Sin. He died in Newburyport, Massachusetts. John Murray was born in Belfast and was educated there and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he qualified in medicine. He contributed to many journals, including Blackwood's Magazine, and wrote The Irish Oyster-Eater; The Viceroy, in three volumes, published in 1841; The Environs of London and The World of London. He joined the Young Ireland movement.
Laurence Murray was born in Carlingford. He was educated locally and at St Patrick's College, Armagh, before going to Maynooth in 1901. He won many prizes for academic achievement, and wrote articles for the Louth Archaeological Journal and Irisleabhar Maighe Nuadhat. In 1908 he was asked to leave the college. He went as a student to St Paul in the United States, was ordained a priest there in 1910, and became mathematics teacher in the College of St Thomas. After the foundation of the Omeath Irish College in 1912, he spent every summer teaching in the Omeath Gaeltacht, and began collecting songs, stories and prayers. In 1917 he lost his post at St Paul for refusing to take the oath of allegiance, and he returned to Ireland as stoker on a ship because the British Embassy refused him a visa. In 1918 he was appointed curate in the parish of Clonfeacle, where he taught Irish and Irish dancing. In 1921 he became Religious Inspector for schools, and he remained in that position for the next sixteen years. In 1924 he established the Gaelic monthly, An tUltach. In 1925 he built St Brigid's College, Ranafast, County Donegal, and in 1926 set up a Gaelic League Provisional Council for the nine counties of Ulster and County Louth. He was an active G.A.A. supporter and team coach. He wrote prolifically all his life, and his publications include a collectiojn of songs, Ceolta Omeith (1920) and Pota Cnuasaigh (1924).
Patrick Murray was born in Clones, County Monaghan, and educated locally and at Maynooth, where he was ordained. In 1838 he was appointed Professor of French and English to Maynooth and in 1841, transferred to Theology. He contributed frquently to the Dublin Review and other journals, and after 1850 produced an Annual Miscellany. Among his publications are De Ecclesia Christi; Essays, Chiefly Theological and De Gratia. James Musgrave was born in Lisburn, County Antrim and established a firm of patent stove-makers and iron mongers in Belfast. During his term of office as Chairman of the Harbour Commissioners, he greatly improved the harbour and the docks. He gave his name to a new channel, was created baronet in 1897, and founded the Musgrave Chair of Pathology in Queen's College, Belfast. William Mushett was born in County Londonderry, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Leyden and Cambridge, where he became a Doctor of Medicine in 1746. He was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and was physician to the armed forces. He declined a baronetcy and died in York.
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