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Martin Quigley was born in Chicago in 1917. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1939 and worked as a journalist in the film industry. In the 1940s, Martin worked as an undercover agent for the U.S. Office of Secret Services gathering intelligence in Ireland on the issue of neutrality during World War II. He went on to receive a Ph.D. at Columbia University and led a career in writing, politics and education. Martin is the author of several books, including A US Spy in Ireland and Great Gaels: Ireland and Peace in a World at War.

Michael Quilin was born in 1952 in Bellevue, Pennsylvania. In 1961 his family moved to Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania. He graduated from La Salle College High School in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania and continued on to La Salle University in Philadelphia as an English major, graduating in 1974. After graduating he spent a year in Ireland at the School of Irish Studies in Dublin.

Tom Quinlan (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1925), the grandson of immigrants from Counties Cork and Fermanagh, taught English for many years.

Florence Quinn (b. Bristol, Connecticut, 1955) is the President and founder of Quinn & Co., a public relations firm in Manhattan.

Marion Quinn (b. Chicago, Illinois, 1964) is the youngest child and only daughter in a family of five children. Her parents, Michael and Teresa Quinn met through family connections. Both were born and raised in County Offaly Ireland. They married in 1956. Her parents migrated from Ireland to Canada, then to London, England before settling in Chicago where her father, an English literature professor, taught at Loyola University.

Peter Quinn (b. 1947) is a writer and self-proclaimed BIC – Bronx Irish Catholic – whose roots date back to the famine generation. Peter began his career as a speech writer for New York State Governors Mario Cuomo and Hugh Carey, both Democrats, before moving on to become editorial director for Time, Inc. His first novel, The Banished Children of Eve, is set during the Draft Riots of 1863. Retired from the corporate world, Peter's latest novel is The Man Who Never Returned about the infamous disappearance of New York State Supreme Court Judge Force Crater in the 1930s.

Sean Quinn was born in New York in 1947, the son of Irish immigrants from Monaghan and Armagh. Sean inherited a talent for music from his father, Irish fiddler Louis Quinn, and as a child in the 1950s Sean learned to play with Irish musicians who gathered in his family's home in Queens. One of seven children, Sean and his siblings formed the musical group the Quinn Family, which recorded and toured Ireland. He is a musician and music teacher in New York.

Terry Quinn (b. Brooklyn, New York) a veteran of the New York Fire Department and the father of three children, has roots in County Roscommon. He has spent many years in the bar business in New York City and was a technical adviser to the television show Rescue Me.