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James Gaffney was born in Limerick on 12 October 1866 to Thomas Gaffney and Agnes Mary née Clune. He was educated at Crescent College, Limerick and gained a BA from University College Dublin in 1887. Later that year he became apprenticed to Patrick Shelton Connolly, a solicitor in Limerick. He qualified as a solicitor in November 1890. In 1907, he was appointed Crown Solicitor for county Limerick and served in that capacity until 1920. James Gaffney married Mary ('Cis') Spain in 1901 and by her had two sons and five daughters. He died in Limerick city on 21 October 1933.

Joseph Gaffney was born in June 1868 in Limerick to Thomas Gaffney and Agnes Mary née Clune. He was elected a city councillor in the Limerick municipal elections in 1895 and served as High Sheriff of Limerick city during the year 896. He died suddenly on 20 October 1897, having taken ill on board the steamer Arranmore while returning to Limerick from Glasgow.

Thomas St. John Gaffney was born in Limerick on 71 May 1864 to Thomas Gaffney and Agnes Mary née Clune. He emigrated to America at the age of 18 and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1889. He became a naturalized American citizen and in 1897 was elected president of the Patriotic League of America. He was appointed Consul General for Dresden in 1905 and that of Munich in 1913, but was forced to resign in 1915 following his open support for Germany during the First World War. In 1916 he was appointed European representative of the American organisation Friends of Irish Freedom. During his time in Germany, Gaffney befriended Roger Casement and provided scathing criticism of Casement's treatment in his memoir Breaking the Silence: England, Ireland, Wilson and the War. Gaffney married Frances Humphreys née Smith, widow of Jay Humphreys in 1894. He died in Summit, New Jersey on 13 January 1945.

Ann Gallagher, the daughter of Frank and Cecilia Gallagher, was born in Dublin. She attended the Abbey School of Ballet under Muriel Kelly’s direction as a child, and it was at the Abbey School that her lifelong interest in ballet started. She was interested in and exposed to all aspects of Dublin’s cultural life from an early age, and began visiting ballets and collecting programmes, which form the core of this collection.

Former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and one of the kidnappers of the industrialist Tiede Herrema in Limerick in 1975.

Gerard P. Gallivan was born in Limerick in 1920 and grew up on Henry Street. A contemporary of Frank McCourt, Gallivan’s recollections of his home city differed considerably from those described in Angela’s Ashes, although the two men lived in very similar spheres. Gallivan was educated at Crescent College and graduated in 1939. He began his working career in England, where he emigrated in 1940. Here he also met his wife, whom he married in 1945. A year later, they returned to Ireland and settled in Limerick, where Gallivan established a career in the airline industry. In 1952, he was transferred to Dublin, where he was to live for the rest of his life.

Gallivan’s writing career commenced at the age of 18, when he wrote his first novel, The Hawk, but failed to get it published. He later found his feet as a playwright and over his long career wrote more than 40 plays, many of which were produced at the Gate Theatre, Abbey Theatre, Elbana Theatre and Olympia Theatre in Dublin, and the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. He also did a lot of journeyman work, contributing several episodes to the popular radio series Harbour Hotel and The Kennedys of Castleross, and for the television drama Kilmore House. Many of his stage scripts, such as Parnell, The Final Mission and The Lamb and the Fox, were also produced as radio plays.

Gerard Gallivan's works focus predominantly on Irish political history (particularly the foundation of the Irish State) and major Irish and English political and social figures such as Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Maude Gonne, W. B. Yeats, Noel Chamberlain, Eamonn De Valera, Michael Collins and Cardinal Newman. His published plays include Decision at Easter (1960); And a Yellow Singing Bird (1963); Mourn the Ivy Leaf (1965); Dev (1978); Watershed (1981), Lovesong (1984), and three volumes of Selected Plays (1999-2008). Among his best-known stage plays is The Stepping Stone, which was originally performed in 1963 and enjoyed a popular revival in Cork in 1997. Gallivan continued to write until the last months of his life. His later works included The Indomitable Lamb (1997), The Prudent Paramour (1997) and The Rusted Dagger (1998), all of which were broadcast as radio plays. His other late works included a family history The Gallivans of Limerick (1995), and a commissioned account of his working life, My Times in Irish Travel, published posthumously in 2004 as Ireland Enters the Air Age. He died on Christmas Day 2003.

Captain Robert Gee enlisted in the army in 1893. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious military decoration of the British Armed Forces for his actions on 30 November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai in France.

For a full biography of Godwin, please refer to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online. For Godwin's works in Ireland, please refer to the Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940 at https://www.dia.ie/.