The Great Ferriter Family

Diarmaid Ferriter

Diarmaid Ferriter was born in Dublin in 1972 and is one of Ireland’s leading historians. He is Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD and has published extensively on twentieth century Irish history. His books include the bestsellers The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004) and Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the life and legacy of Eamon de Valera (2007), winner of three Irish book awards in 2008. His latest book is Occasions of Sin: Sex... Read More

Micheál de Mórdha

Micheál de Mórdha of Dun Chaoin, Ireland, is the current Manager of the Great Blasket Center. He assumed that position in 1993 following a 17 year career as producer and presenter with RTE Raidió na Gaeltachta, a radio station broadcasting solely in the Irish Language. Prior to that, he was a journalist with Inniu, the Irish language newspaper and he also spent a year as administrator with Gael Linn (an Irish record label specializing in... Read More

Paul MacCotter

Paul MacCotter MA, PhD, worked for many years as an independent scholar of the late medieval period, and has three books and many journal articles to his name. More recently he has worked as the team historian with the Making Christian Landscapes project on the Early Irish Church, at the School of Archaeology, UCC. He is currently an IRCHSS fellow with the School of History, UCC, where he is working on a study of the... Read More

George Edmond Ferriter

From a branch of the Ferriter family that made its way to Illinois and Iowa during the middle part of the 19th century, George is a resident of Doylestown in the state of Wisonsin, USA. His was a family group that, while scattered, developed a tradition of keeping the family history alive in a sort of oral tradition. George has had a lifelong interest in Ferriter family history, both the history of the family in... Read More

Deirdre Nic Mhathúna, BA, PhD

Deirdre Nic Mhathúna received her BA in Irish and Ghearmáinis at Trinity College, Dublin. She graduated with a doctorate from Cork University College. The specific areas of her research are seventeenth century poetry, reading manuscripts and edited texts from Irish antiquity. She has specialized in the poetry of Pierce Feiritéar, and has prepared editions of his work in print. She has great interest in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in oral and written traditions of the... Read More

Michele Farritor McMurray

Michele Farritor McMurray is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a degree in Education; and an Historic and Naturalist Interpreter. She has served on the Board of Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and was Editor of their Quarterly Newsletter. As a City of Colorado Springs Parks and Recreation Department Employee, she served as a Park Interpreter for the Garden of The Gods City Park. Michele is a member of the... Read More

Margaret Ferriter Campbell

Margaret Ferriter Campbell MD, is an American medical doctor working as a Hospitalist at various North Carolina and South Carolina Hospitals. She likes to take some time off from work to travel and also to explore family history. Her favorite place to journey is to Dingle Peninsula and her favorite genealogical interest is that of her father's Ferriter family from that area. She first became interested in family history when she found a trunk of... Read More

Graham Marsden

Graham is the son of Margaret Ferriter Cambell and the Grandson of John R. Ferriter of Richmond, VA. Graham graduated in 2001 from Wheaton College with a BA in Political Science, with a focus on Latin American politics. He is nearly fluent in Spanish, and studied French as well. In addition to working for a Virginia-based nonprofit, he works as a freelance web designer, communications strategist, and photographer. He is the webmaster behind the ferriterfamily.com... Read More

Karina Feirtéar

Karina Feirtéar hails from Baile an Fheirtéaraigh (Bally Ferriter). She has a BA in Fine Art, with an emphasis on Painting. She also has a H.Dip in Primary school Teaching. Karina has over 13 years experience of working in TG4 (Ireland’s fourth National Broadcaster and only Irish language channel), where she began in the graphics department and gained extensive experience in on-screen branding, animation, set-design, web, print and merchandising. She is currently a Director/researcher in... Read More

Perry Marshall

Perry Marshall is a Chicago based entrepreneur, online marketing strategist and author of several books, most notably the bestsellers 80/20 Sales and Marketing, Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords, and Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising. His interests include business, acoustics, biological evolution, mathematics and theology. Read More

Piaras Ferriter

Piaras is the eldest of six in the family of Morgan and Teresa Ferriter. Morgan was a native of TÏr a' Bh‡in, Baile an FheiritËirigh. He in turn was a son of Muiris and Nell Ferriter. Piaras's mother, Teresa Drew, came from Baltray, Co. Louth. Morgan and Teresa settled in Co. Donegal following Morgan's transfer there as a policeman. Pierce is married to Angela Cleary, who is a native of Convoy, Co. Donegal. They have... Read More

Isabel Bennett

Archaeologist Isabel Bennett has been living and working on the Dingle Peninsula for over 30 years. Though not originally from the area, she married a local man whose extended family includes many Ferriters. Isabel came to the area originally to work on an archaeological survey of the peninsula, and still gets great pleasure from visiting the many wonderful sites in the area, and particularly when in the company of visitors seeing the places for the... Read More