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O'Reilly was born in Dublin and was the only child of a civil servant, John O'Reilly (1906–1976), and Aileen O'Connor (1914–1989). O'Reilly's Drogheda-born father, eventually an inspector-general of customs, was born "Reilly" and added the O' when he applied to join the Irish Civil Service. Previously married with four older children, but ...
Tom Reilly (born 1960) is an Irish author and former regional newspaper columnist (Life of Reilly, Drogheda Independent), who has written books on Oliver Cromwell and religion, (Hollow Be Thy Name) as well as a book based on his own newspaper columns.
Thomas Byrne (born 1 June 1977) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and solicitor who has served as a Minister of State since July 2020. He has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Meath East from 2007 to 2011, and subsequently since 2016. From 2011 to 2016, he was a senator on the Cultural and Educational Panel. [1]
Castlemartin is the name of a historic house and estate, and the townland in which they sit, on the banks of the River Liffey in Kilcullen, County Kildare, Ireland.Formerly a key estate of the Eustace family, it was for many years the home of media magnate Tony O'Reilly, [2] and his wife, Chryss Goulandris, but was bought in 2015 by John Malone, an Irish American.
Thomas Grendon and Company was an engineering company established in 1835 based in Grendons Foundry and Engineering Works, South Quay, Drogheda, Ireland. [ 1 ] Employing up to over 600 people, it was first forced to close in the late 1880s with contents sold in an auction in October 1890.
There were originally two boroughs named Drogheda, lying on opposite sides of the River Boyne that forms the boundary between County Meath to the south and County Louth (or Uriel) to the north. [2] Sometimes a writ of election was made to the two boroughs separately (Drogheda versus Uriel and Drogheda versus Midiam ) [ 3 ] and sometimes to the ...
O'Reilly is ranked tenth in the top twenty list of most common Irish surnames. [ citation needed ] It is also the patronymic form of the Irish name Reilly ( Irish : Raghallach ). [ 2 ] The name is commonly found throughout Ireland, with the greatest concentration of the surname found in County Cavan followed by Longford, Meath, Westmeath ...
Killeshandra or Killashandra (Irish: Cill na Seanrátha, meaning 'the church of the old rath or ring-fort'), [2] is a small town or village and civil parish in County Cavan, Ireland.