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Anne (Annie) McGowan née Browne (1879-1965) was the daughter of Patrick Browne, a baker, and his wife Susan, of Clare Street, Limerick. In 1900, she married Michael McGowan (1878-1942) whose father Daniel McGuane (1843-1920) was originally from Poulwillian, Miltown Malbay, County Clare. Daniel, a tailor, had come to Limerick in the 1860s with his wife Mary Anne Foley, a seamstress from Kilkee, to run a business premises on the corner of Catherine Street and Roches Street. When in Limerick, Daniel changed the spelling of his surname from McGuane McGowan.

Michael McGowan worked first on the railway in Limerick and later in Inchicore Works in Dublin. In 1915, he joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers seeking adventure and an escape from the large family he now had to take care of. Michael was sent to the Western Front where he was poisoned by gas and evacuated to a hospital in Birmingham. He was discharged from the Army in 1919. His wife returned to Limerick during the war and lived with her children in Doyle’s Cottages off John’s Street, which was not far from Limerick Jail. In order to support her mother, Anne’s eldest child Sarah (Sally) got a job as a printer’s assistant in McKern’s Printing Works in Limerick city and, on her mother’s insistence, joined the Transport Union. When Sarah and 11 other girls were offered a pay increase of two shillings and six pence on condition that they leave the Union, Sarah was the only girl to refuse the offer as a result of which she was sacked. She later worked as a waitress in a Catherine Street restaurant.

During and after the Civil War, Annie and Sarah McGowan and Annie’s son Timothy (Tadgh) McGowan delivered food and parcels of books, magazines and cigarettes to Republican prisoners in Limerick Jail and continued to send these to prisoners transferred to the Curragh internment camp in County Kildare. Given the family connections with West Clare, most of the prisoners they assisted were from that area. One of the correspondents, Thomas Keane, was from Carrigaholt, where a Keane’s pub exists to this day.

Henry William Massy was born on 12 January 1816 as the youngest son of the Reverend William Massy from his second marriage to Elizabeth Evans. He served as Magistrate and Justice of the Peace for counties Tipperary and Limerick and gained the rank of Major in the Tipperary Artillery Militia. He had a long-term clandestine love affair with Maria Cahill, who was socially his inferior and thus unacceptable to his parents. They eventually married in 1862 and divided their time between England and France with their eight children, seven of whom were born out of wedlock. He died at Grantstown Grove, county Tipperary on 20 November 1895.

Dancer and choreographer Mairéad Vaughan (b. 1971) graduated from Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds with a degree in Performing Arts (Dance) and from the University of Limerick with an MA in Contemporary Dance Performance. She was a co-founder with composer Dara O’Brien of Shakram Dance Company. Mairéad Vaughan is the recipient of a number of Arts Council awards and bursaries, including Dance Ireland’s Choreographic Development Initiative in 2008, and an Arts Council bursary through four consecutive years to fund her doctorate in Arts Practice (2016).

John Maurice ‘Jack’ MacCarthy was born in Kilfinane, County Limerick, and was educated to primary school level locally. He completed his secondary education in Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare. From an early age MacCarthy was highly interested in nationalist politics. He joined the Irish Volunteers at their inception in 1914 and was involved in the reorganisation of the Volunteers in 1917 following the release of IRA prisoners. In the War of Independence he was successively Commandant of the Galtee Battalion, Commandant of the East Limerick Brigade and Vice Officer Commanding and Adjutant of the 4th Southern Division of the Irish Republican Army. He was heavily involved in all the major operations conducted by the East Limerick Brigade during the conflict, most famously in the events surrounding the downing of an RAF airplane by the IRA. At the end of the War of Independence, MacCarthy joined the pro-Treaty side for purely pragmatic reasons, realising that the IRA would be unable to recommence hostilities against the vastly superior British forces. In later years, MacCarthy worked as military correspondent to the Irish Independent during the Second World War and was the author of Limerick’s Fighting Story (1948).

In 1945 Michael Allott of Dublin married Helen Lucia Lloyd of Odellville, county Limerick. On the death of her father, Edward Locke Lloyd, in 1963, the Odellville property passed to the Allotts, who operated a dairy farm on the estate and were founders of the Munster Herd of British Friesians in 1945. They were also active members of the National Farmers’ Association (later the Irish Farmers Association), their local co-operative creamery committee at Glenwilliam and later the Golden Vale Cooperative Creamery Ltd.

The Allott family seat, Odellville, was built in the 1770s by John Fitzcharles Odell and passed to the Morony family through the marriage of Helen Mary Odell to Edmund Morony in 1860. Their elder daughter, Eliza Helena, married in 1884 her cousin, Henry Vereker Lloyd Morony, on whose death the property passed to his only child, Helen Mary Matilda Morony. The property passed to the Lloyd family through her marriage to Edward Locke Lloyd of Heathfield, county Limerick, in 1917.

The Odellville estate passed from the Odell to the Morony family through the marriage of Helen Mary Odell to Edmund Morony in 1860. Their elder daughter, Eliza Helena, married in 1884 her cousin, Henry Vereker Lloyd Morony. On his death the property passed to the couple's only child, Helen Mary Matilda Morony, who married Edward Locke Lloyd of Heathfield, county Limerick, in 1917.

Joan Denise Moriarty was a seminal character in the development of ballet in Ireland, both at amateur and professional levels. Little is known of her early life, including her date and place of birth. She was brought up in England and studied ballet in her youth with Marie Rambert. In 1933 her family returned to their native Mallow, where a year later Moriarty set up her first school of dance. In 1940, she established the Moriarty School of Dancing in Cork. She was also the founder of Cork Ballet Company (1947-1993) and Irish Theatre Ballet (1959-1964), which in 1963 merged with Patricia Ryan's National Ballet Company to form the short-lived National Ballet (1963-1964). The third ballet company associated with Moriarty was the Irish Ballet Company, later renamed Irish National Ballet, founded by the government in 1973 and financed by the Arts Council until 1989, when the funding was withdrawn and the company was forced to disband.

Moriarty was also a noted choreographer and drew inspiration from traditional Irish dance, a dance form in which she also excelled. Some of her best known ballets include Puck Fair (1948), The Children of Lír (1950), Papillons (1952), West Cork Ballad (1961), Devil to Pay (1962), Lugh of the Golden Arm (1977) and, perhaps most famously, The Playboy of the Western World (1978).

Joan Denise Moriarty continued her work with the Cork Ballet Company until the end of her life. She died in Dublin on 24 January 1992.

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).

Spanish military officer on the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War.