John Edward Healy

He taught in Rathmines and at Alexandra College. A journalist he wrote for the Dublin Evening Mail, and was editor of it for two years, before joining the Irish Times, during his time at the Irish Times he also served as special representative for the London Times in Ireland.^[4] A member of the Church of Ireland, he served as editor of The Church of Ireland Gazette.

Healy was a staunch Unionist,^[5] had shots were fired at his home during the War of Independence, he defended the Unionist cause in his writings in the Irish Times as his obituary in The Times of London it was noted that, he was the protagonist of a losing cause.

Healy married Adeline Alton in 1898 and had two sons. Ernest Alton Healy was a flight lieutenant with the RAF, and Lewis Edward Healy was a journalist.^[1] He died in 1934 at the age of 62.^[1]