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Aymer of Valence, earl of Pembroke

(Encyclopedia)Aymer of Valence, earl of Pembroke: see Pembroke, Aymer de Valence, earl of. ...

Croker, Richard

(Encyclopedia)Croker, Richard, 1841–1922, American politician, head of Tammany Hall from 1886 to 1902, b. Co. Cork, Ireland. He became prominent as Democratic leader of New York City's East Side and as an aide of...

Carey, Mathew

(Encyclopedia)Carey, Mathew, 1760–1839, American publisher, bookseller, and economist, b. Dublin. In his Dublin journal he violently attacked English rule of Ireland, was imprisoned for a month, fled to France, w...

O'Brien, Edna

(Encyclopedia)O'Brien, Edna, 1932–, Irish writer. Although she moved to London in 1954, her constant theme and recurring setting is Ireland. In richly sensual prose, O'Brien explores the dreams, failed marriages,...

Mathew, Theobald

(Encyclopedia)Mathew, Theobald, 1790–1856, Irish social worker and temperance leader, a Capuchin priest. Father Mathew spent many years working for the welfare and education of the poor. In 1838 he took a pledge ...

Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem

(Encyclopedia)Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem: see Knights Hospitalers. ...

Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights of

(Encyclopedia)Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights of: see Knights Hospitalers. ...

Dowden, Edward

(Encyclopedia)Dowden, Edward douˈdən [key], 1843–1913, English critic, b. Ireland. He is best known as a Shakespearean scholar and as a biographer of Shelley (1886). ...

Taylor, George

(Encyclopedia)Taylor, George, 1716–81, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Ireland. He settled in Pennsylvania (1736), where he became a manufacturer of iron...

Marianus Scotus, d. 1088, Irish churchman

(Encyclopedia)Marianus Scotus, d. 1088, Irish churchman, whose Gaelic name was Muiredach. He left Ireland in 1067 on a pilgrimage to Rome but settled permanently at Regensburg (Ratisbon), Germany, where he became a...