McGRATH, Joseph (M.P. for Dublin City, St. James's Div., from Dec. 1918); a Member of the Dublin City Corporation; Minister for Labour in Dail Eireann from Jan., 1922; Member of the Provisional Government, Irish Free State, from 1922. Res.: 13 Rutledge Terrace, Sth. Circular Road, Dublin.
McGUFFIN, Samuel (M P. for Belfast, Shankill Div., from Dec, 1918; M.P. for North Belfast, Northern Parliament, Ireland, 1921): is a draper Pres. of the Belfast (No. 12) Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. Res.: 107 Shankill Road, Belfast.
McGUINNESS, Francis (T.D. for Cos. Longford and Westmeath from 1922); Chairman Longford County Council, 1921; Chairman Urban District Council 1909-1922; Chairman Co. Home, 1921-1922; Vice-chairman Mental Hospital, Mullingar, 1921-1922; arrested for Sinn Fein activities, 1916; deported to Wakefield, April to June; arrested 1918; three months in Sligo and Belfast jails; on release deported to Reading in connection with bogus German Plot, released after 12 months' detention; Oct. 1920, visited by Auxiliaries and Black and Tans, beaten, paraded with placards on public street; tried by drumhead court-martial, and sentenced to be shot on a certain date.
MacILWAINE, John Bedell Stanford, Royal Hibernian Academician, 1911; b. 1857. Educ.: High School, Dublin. Studied Architecture under Sir Thomas Drew, P.R.H.A.; afterwards attended School of R.H.A. to study painting under Augustus Burke, R.H.A.; rarely paints anything but Irish landscapes: interested in submarine devices; acted as Engineer for the Conan Submarine Fuse from the initial to final stage; made the first accurate and reliable fuse for exploding depth charges, principle established at Woolwich Arsenal in March, 1913, tested officially at Lydd following September, each shot marked "correct"; invented the automatic aeroplane range finder, universal hopper (adjustable) Pubns.: matters relating to gardening and numismatics: "Practical Poultry Keeping for Women." Recns.: numismatics, gardening, angling, poultry-keeping. Res.: Annaghure House, Caledon, Co. Tyrone.
MACINERNEY, Michael Chartres, K.C., J.P.: J.P., Co. Dublin; Barrister, U.S.A., 1873; King's Inns, 1879; Q.C., 1894; joined Parliamentary Bar, 1896; called to English Bar, 1899. Educ: Castleknock College; one of the founders and Vice-President of the Castleknock College Union. Contested Widnes (L.), 1890; Revising Barrister for the City of Dublin, 1907-10; Dublin Metropolitan Police Magistrate, 1910-17. Pubns.: volume of poems printed in New York, 1872; treatise on the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881. Recns.: tennis, shooting, golf, etc.; second son of John Macinerney and Mary, dau. of Emon O'Conor, of Co. Clare; b. 1850; m. Mary, dau of Francis Lynham, of Mount Saskin and Herbert Place, Dublin. Res.: Bella Vista, Summerhill Road, Kingstown. Club: Authors'.
M'KEAN, John, Barrister King's Inns, 1900. Educ.: St, Macarten's Seminary, Monaghan; Intermediate Exhibitioner and Medallist; Medallist in Oratory of the Law Students' Debating Society, King's Inns, Dublin, 1899; M.P., South Monaghan, 1902-18. Res.: * * *
McKENNA, Rev. James, M.R.I.A. Educ. at St. Macarten's Seminary and Maynooth; Priest, 1893: Curate, Enniskillen, 1893-1909; Adm. of Dromore from 1909; for many years Chairman of the Fermanagh Technical Committee. Author of Devenish; Lough Erne and its Shrines; Lough Derg; Sermons in Stone; Dust to Dust; Fermanagh and its Princes; SS. Macarten and Dympna, and other publications: articles in N. J. Archæology and Catholic periodicals. Res.: Dromore, Co. Tyrone.
McKEOWN, Robert John (M.P. for North Belfast, Northern Parliament, Ireland, from 1921); Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Education, and Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland, 1921; Managing Director Milfort Weaving and Finishing Co., Ltd; Chairman Rosebank Weaving Co., Ltd., and Newforth Weaving Co., Ltd.; Director Belfast Ropework Co., Ltd., and of Dromona and Maine, Ltd. Res.: Cliff Lodge, Whitehead, Co. Antrim.
McLACHLAN, Norman French, M.B.A.S., Dublin, Artist, Portrait Painter; first studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, and later at the Glasgow School under Maurice Greiftenhagen, A.R.A.; Member of the Belfast Art Society and Glasgow Society of Painters and Sculptors; best known for his characteristic pictures of peasant types, and landscape of Ireland, and as a distinguished portrait painter of Irish personalities, including Cardinal Logue, etc., etc.; identified with the more modern tendencies of Art in Ireland, and author of numerous independent exhibitions of his paintings of Irish subjects in Dublin, and in Glasgow and Edinburgh; Exhibitor at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, West of England Academy, and represented in the Belfast permanent collection.
McLAUGHLIN, Sir Henry, K.B.E. (1919); Director of McLaughlin and Harvey, Ltd., of Belfast, Dublin, and London: eldest son of W. H. McLaughlin, D.L., Macedon, Co. Antrim; m. 1899, Ethel, dau. of W. S. Mollan, of Belfast. Res.: Riversdale, Monkstown, Co. Dublin.
