James Hoban

James Hoban

male, deceased (1831)
white house, architect, Irish, the white house, callan, from County Kilkenny…RoyalDublinSociety
James Hoban (c. 1762 - December 8, 1831) was an Irish architect, best known for designing the White House in Washington, D.C..
Ryan Tubridy

Ryan Tubridy

male, 36 years old
Poporama, RoyalDublinSociety, The Full Irish, lounge music, chat show, The Sunday Show…from County Dublin
Ryan Tubridy is a television and radio presenter on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland. Tubridy started in broadcasting at the age of 12, reviewing bo...
Howard Grubb

Howard Grubb

male, deceased (1931)
civil engineer, Astronomer, Fellow of the Royal Society, inventor, Optician, Irish…Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society, RoyalDublinSociety
Sir Howard Grubb, FRS, (1844-1931) was a designer and maker of telescopes from Dublin. One of eight children, his father Thomas, was founder of the...
William Dargan

William Dargan

male, deceased (1867)
civil engineer, buried at Glasnevin Cemetery, Irish art world figure, Irish, cable-stayed bridge, kingstown…RoyalDublinSociety, Dundrum, Dublin
William Dargan, an engineer, often seen as the father of Irish railways came from County Carlow, Ireland. Born in 1799, he constructed Ireland's...
John Henry Foley

John Henry Foley

male, deceased (1874)
buried at St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Hall, statue, bacchus, Royal Academy, miranda…from County Dublin, RoyalDublinSociety
John Henry Foley (May 24, 1818 - August 27, 1874) was an Irish sculptor. He was born in Dublin. At thirteen he began to study drawing and modelling...

Susanna Drury

female, deceased (1770)
painter, Landscape artist, belfast, landscape painting, ulster, Irish…from Dublin, RoyalDublinSociety, Dublin Society
Susanna Drury, later Susanna Warter (c. 1698 – c. 1770) was an Irish painter. Though little is known of her life or work, she was very in...

Edmund Davy

male, deceased (1857)
scientist, English, From Penzance, Royal Cork Institution, RoyalDublinSociety, 5 Nov
Edmund Davy (1785 - 5 Nov1857) was a professor of Chemistry at the Royal Cork Institution from 1813 and professor of chemistry at the Royal Dublin...

Richard John Griffith

male, deceased (1878)
civil engineering, Geologist, mining, Irish, mineralogy, cork…Royal Society of Edinburgh, from County Dublin, Geological Society of London, RoyalDublinSociety, Royal Irish Artillery
Sir Richard John Griffith (September 20, 1784 - September 22, 1878), Irish geologist was born in Dublin. He obtained in 1799 a commission in the...
William Forsell Kirby

William Forsell Kirby

male, deceased (1912)
Employee of the Natural History Museum, From Leicester, Finnish language, natural history museum, lepidoptera, leicester…RoyalDublinSociety
William Forsell Kirby (January 14, 1844 - 1912) was an English entomologist and folklorist. Born in Leicester, he was educated privately, and...
Joseph Beete Jukes

Joseph Beete Jukes

male, deceased (1869)
new guinea, Museum of Irish Industry, Quarterly Journ. Geol. Soc, Geology of the South Staffordshire Coal-field, Torres Strait, RoyalDublinSociety…Royal College of Science
Joseph Beete Jukes (October 10, 1811 - July 29, 1869), English geologist, was born at Summer Hill, near Birmingham. He took his degree at Cambridge...