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Irish novelist and poet regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. His best-known works include Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Irish playwright, some of whose best-known plays include Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the Stars (1926).
Irish poet, novelist, playwright and biographer and one of the leading figures of the early 20th-century Irish Literary Revival.
Francis Thomas Aiken, also known as Frank Aiken, was an Irish revolutionary, chief of staff of the Anti-Treaty IRA after the Civil War and TD for Louth from 1923 to 1973. A full biography of Frank Aiken can be found in the Dictionary of Irish Biography (https://www.dib.ie/biography/aiken-francis-thomas-frank-a0070).
For a full biography, please refer to the Dictionary of Irish Biography https://www.dib.ie/biography/quin-windham-thomas-wyndham-a7552.
For a full biography of Edward ('Ned') Daly, please refer to the Dictionary of Irish Biography, https://www.dib.ie/biography/daly-edward-a2376.
Éamonn Proinsias de hÓir was born Edward Francis Dore as one of three children and the only son of Edward Thomas Dore and Nora Daly. A devoted nationalist, he later adopted the Irish spelling of his name. Born in 1921, he studied at University College, Dublin and gained an MA degree in Modern Irish in 1941. While at UCD, he was active in An Cumann Gaelach and in the Language Movement. After some further postgraduate work he joined the translation department of the Dáil.
In 1957, de hÓir was appointed director of the office of the Ordnance Survey. During his tenure, he upgraded and expanded the work of the Placenames Commission and became the country’s leading authority on place names. In 1964, he founded the Placenames Association (An Cumann Logaimneacha) to inform the public of the Commisson’s work and established the Association’s journal, Dinnseanchas, which he continued to edit until his death. De hÓir gave several lectures annually, wrote a number of articles on Irish language subjects and in 1963 published a book in Irish on the lives and work of Eugene O’Curry and John O’Donovan, his nineteenth-century predecessors in the Placenames Office. De hÓir also had a deep interest in archaeology and was a long-standing member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries. He died suddenly on 20 December 1975 at Meath Hospital, Dublin, aged 54.
For a full biography of Éamon de Valera, please refer to the Dictionary of Irish Biography, https://www.dib.ie/biography/de-valera-eamon-dev-a2472.
Edward Thomas Dore was a native of Glin, county Limerick. He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood while a student at Rockwell College and fought in the 1916 Easter Rising. He was arrested and interned at Frongoch until the end of 1916 with many of the noted Irish freedom fighters of the time. In 1918, he married Commandant Edward ('Ned') Daly’s sister Nora (1889-1977) and later took over her family’s bakery business at William Street, Limerick. In 1931, he co-founded the Limerick Memorial Committee to fundraise for a monument on Sarsfield Bridge in Limerick city to honour those who died in the Easter Rising. The outbreak of the Second World War, the death of the sculptor and a shortage of funds stalled the project, and it was not until 27 May 1956 that the memorial was unveiled. Edward Dore died at his home in Limerick on 17 June 1972.
