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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO
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and Technology, 1882-1894; Inspector of Science and Art Schools, Department of Science and Art and Board of Education (1894-1901); Lecturer in Agriculture, etc., for Derbyshire County Council (1891-1894); Lecturer for National Association of Colliery Managers; Lecturer, Oxford University Extension (1899). Senior Inspector of Technical Instruction, Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (1901-1904); Assistant Secretary in respect of Technical Instruction from 1904. Member of Committee on Intermediate Education in Ireland of the Drafting Committee for Irish Education Bill (1919); of Irish Peat Inquiry Committee (Fuel Research Board) 1917-18; of Water Power Resources of Ireland Sub-Committee; of Board of Trade (1918-1920); Assessor, Advisory Council of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Member of Ford Investigation Board; b. June 8th, 1862; m. Jan. 20th, 1886; six children, 5 sons, 1 dau. (4 living). Pubns.: Technical Education in Ireland; Journal of Royal Society of Arts (1912); Education in Ireland; The Teachers' Encyclopaedia (1912); Reconstruction and Development—Some Irish Problems (D.A.T.I., 1918), and numerous articles in Journal of Department and elsewhere; The Provinces of Ireland (5 volumes), Editor and Contributor (1921-22). Recns.: travelling, sketching. Res.: Mona, Shankill, Co. Dublin. Clubs: Automobile, London; United Services: United Arts, Dublin.

FLINN, D. Edgar, V.D. (1904), F.R.C.S., D.P.H., M.R.C.P., Fellow Royal Sanitary Institute, London; b. 1850; son of David E. Flinn. Buenos Aires, Argentine. Col. R.A.M.C. (Terr.), and Army Med. Reserve (ret.); Medical Commissioner General Prisons Board, Ireland, 1910-17; Chief Inspector Reformatory and Industrial Schools, 1910-17 Medical Inspector Local Government Board, 1896-1910; Appointed Local Government Inspector for special Relief of Distress duty in West of Ireland, 1895: Member of Vice-Regal Commission to inquire into the Public Health of Belfast, 1907; Member Dublin Typhoid Inquiry Committee, 1893; President State Medicine Sect., Royal Academy of Medicine, Ireland, 1894 and 1895; Member of Council Royal College of Surgeons. Ireland, 1906-1919: Examiner in Public Health for ten years. Editor, Health Record, 1890-5. Formerly Medical Officer of Health, East Staffordshire. Educ.: Clongowes; Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland; University, Dublin. Pubns.: Irish Health Resorts and Watering Places; Public Health Acts in Ireland; Rural Water Supplies: Refuse Disposal and Public Cleansing; Our Dress and our Food, etc. Club: Royal St. George Yacht Club, Kingstown.

FLOOD, Chevalier Wm. Henry GRATTAN FLOOD, Hon. Mus. D. (N.U.I.); K.S.G.; Cross pro Ecclesia et Pontifice. Educ.: Mount Melleray, Catholic University, All Hallows College (Dublin), and Carlow College. Successively Organist of Belfast Pro-Cathedral; Professor at Tullabeg and Clongowes Wood Colleges; Organist of Thurles Cathedral; Organist of Monaghan Cathedral; Professor at St. Wilfrid's College, Patton Hall (Staffordshire), and St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny; Organist of Enniscorthy Cathedral since 1895; b. 1st Nov., 1859; eldest son of William Flood, Lismore, Co. Waterford; m., 1898, Margaret, eldest dau. of Patrick Delaney, Enniscorthy; two sons, four daughters. Pubns.: History of Enniscorthy, 1898; History of Irish Music, 3rd ed. 1913; Story of the Harp; Story of the Bagpipe; Memoir of W. Vincent Wallace; History of the Diocese of Ferns, 1916; Introductory Sketch of Irish Musical History, 1920; Memoir of John Field, Inventor of the Nocturne, 1920; two Masses, numerous Motets and Services, songs, part music, hymns, etc. Editor of Moore's Irish Melodies; the Spirit of the Nation; and Selected Airs of O'Carolan; musical editor of the standard Catholic Hymnal for Ireland; decorated by Pope Leo XIII. and by Pope Pius X.; received an autograph letter from Pope Benedict XV., 1915; received the Cross pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, 1917; contributor to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Dictionary of National Biography, and Grove's Dict. of Music and Musicians; Vice-President of the Irish Folk Song Society; Council Member of the Catholic Record Society of Ireland. Recns.: history, archaeology, music and Irish. Res.: Rosemount, Enniscorthy.

FLYNN, James Christopher. Educ: Christian Brothers' College; Keogh's Classical Schools, Cork; Secretary Evicted Tenants' Association, 1882, 1886-91; imprisoned under Coercion Act, 1888; was M.P. for N. Cork. 1885-1910; b. 1852; second son of late Daniel Flynn, of Whitechurch, Co. Cork; m. 1st, Maggie, dau. of P. Malone, of Rathmines, Dublin: 2nd, 1897, Rebecca, widow of J. F. Rice. Recns.: cricket, rowing, cycling. Res.: 4 York Terrace, Cork.

FOGARTY, Patrick J.; editor of "The Irish Catholic" since 1918. Educ.: Christian Brothers' Schools, N. Richmond Street, and Belvedere College, Dublin, Address: 55 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin.

FOLEY, Very Rev. John, D.D.; b. at Leighlinbridge; son of Patrick Foley, of Old Leighlin House, and Mensal Lodge, Co. Carlow. Educ.: Tullow, Carlow Diocesan College, and Maynooth. Ordained priest 1880; President of St. Patrick's College, Carlow, one of the constituent colleges of the old Catholic University of Ireland from 1896. Res.: St. Patrick's College, Carlow.

FOLEY, John Matthew Galwey-, J.P. for Cos. Clare and Tipperary. Educ.: St. John's Collegiate School, Kilkenny; b. 1850; son of late Edmund Foley, Sub-