Writers

Daniel Corkery was born on 14 February 1878 and was an Irish politician, writer and teacher.

When Gerald was seven years old his parents moved from Limerick to Fairy Lawn.

Edith Anna Œnone Somerville was born in Corfu on 2 May 1858.

Patrick Augustine Sheehan was born in O'Brien Street, Mallow, Co. Cork on 17 March 1852.

Charles Kickham, an Irish revolutionary, novelist, poet and journalist

Francis Sylvester Mahony was an Irish humorist who was born in Cork City on 31 December

Aloys Fleischmann was an Irish composer, conductor, professor of music at University College Cork

Teresa Deevy was born on 21 January 1894 in Passage Road, Waterford City