One ancestor was a leading activist in the Irish National Land League of Mayo and the Irish Republican Brotherhood ; an uncle, Sir Paget John Bourke, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II after a career as a judge in the Colonial Service ; while another relative was a Roman Catholic nun.

A comprehensive study of scatology was documented by John Gregory Bourke under the title Rites of All Nations ( 1891 ).

* December 20 – Sir John Bourke ( b. 1550 )

Tibbot was later knighted as Sir Theobald Bourke, and was created first Viscount Mayo in 1626 by Charles I. Bourke had at least four other children, Edmund, Walter, John, and Catherine.

The original House was built by Colonel John Browne, a Jacobite, who was at the Siege of Limerick, and his wife Maude Bourke.

* 1969: Christian the lion was bought by John Rendall and Anthony ' Ace ' Bourke.

* Bourke, John G .. On the Border with Crook.

* John Bourke.

Downey has also written, with co-author John Bourke, a memoir of care giving for their respective mothers-in-law.

It was created in 1785 for John Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo ( of the second creation ).

This branch of the Bourke family descends from John Bourke, fourth son of Sir Thomas Bourke ( died 1397 ), whose second son Edmund was the ancestor of the Viscounts Mayo ( of the first creation ).

, the titles are held by his eldest son, the eleventh Earl, Charles Diarmuid John Bourke, who succeeded in 2006.

John Jocelyn Bourke ( 1823 – 1904 ), second son of the fifth Earl, was a lieutenant-general in the Army.

* John Bourke, 1st Earl of Mayo ( c. 1705 – 1790 )

* John Bourke, 2nd Earl of Mayo ( c. 1735 – 1792 )

* John Bourke, 4th Earl of Mayo ( 1766 – 1849 )

The artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown were among O ' Shaughnessy's circle of friends, and in 1873 he married Eleanor Marston, the daughter of author John Westland Marston and sister of the poet Philip Bourke Marston.

It was created in 1580 for John Bourke.

* John Bourke, 1st Baron Ardenerie ( d. 1580 )

The original House was built by Colonel John Browne, a Jacobite, who was at the Siege of Limerick, and his wife Maude Bourke.

John Bourke, fourth son of the third Earl of Clanricarde.

The Chronology of the Jordan Valley during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages: Pella, Tell Abu al-Kharaz and Tell Deir cAlla, edited by P. M. Fischer, contributions by S. Bourke, P. M. Fischer and G. van der Kooij.

William Allingham-Matthew Arnold-Thomas Ashe-Henry Bellyse Baildon-William Barnes-Aubrey Beardsley-Thomas Lovell Beddoes-Hilaire Belloc-J. Stanyan Bigg-Robert Bridges-Charlotte Brontë-Emily Jane Brontë-Shirley Brooks-T. E. Brown-Elizabeth Barrett Browning-Robert Browning-C. S. Calverley-William Canton-Lewis Carroll-John Clare-Arthur Hugh Clough-Mary E. Coleridge-Mortimer Collins-William Cory-John Davidson-Lord de Tabley-Charles Dickens-Richard Watson Dixon-Sydney Dobell-Digby Mackworth Dolben-Edward Dowden-Ernest Dowson-R. E. Egerton Warburton-George Eliot-Ebenezer Elliott-Sebastian Evans-Michael Field-Edward FitzGerald-John Gray-Dora Greenwell-Louisa S. Guggenberger-Thomas Hardy-Robert Stephen Hawker-William Ernest Henley-Henry James-Thomas Hood-Gerard M. Hopkins-A. E. Housman-Leigh Hunt-Jean Ingelow-Lionel Johnson-Ebenezer Jones-Ernest Jones-E. Keary-Charles Kingsley-Rudyard Kipling-Walter Savage Landor-Andrew Lang-Edward Lear-Eugene Lee-Hamilton-Amy Levy-Frederick Locker-Lampson-Thomas Babington Macaulay-George MacDonald-William Hurrell Mallock-James Clarence Mangan-Philip Bourke Marston-Gerald Massey-George Meredith-Alice Meynell-William Miller-Cosmo Monkhouse-William Morris-Arthur Munby-E. Nesbit-John Henry Newman-Coventry Patmore-T. L. Peacock-Victor Plarr-Winthrop Mackworth Praed-Adelaide Anne Procter-Dollie Radford-William Renton-James Logie Robertson-A. Mary F. Robinson-Christina G. Rossetti-Dante Gabriel Rossetti-John Ruskin-William Bell Scott-Dora Sigerson Shorter-Elizabeth Siddal-George Augustus Simcox-G. R. Sims-Joseph Skipsey-J. K. Stephen-Robert Louis Stevenson-William Frederick Stevenson-Algernon Charles Swinburne-John Addington Symonds-Arthur Symons-Alfred Tennyson-Frederick Tennyson-William Makepeace Thackeray-Francis Thompson-James Thomson-Charles Tennyson Turner-Katharine Tynan-William Watson-Oscar Wilde-William Wordsworth-W. B. Yeats

* Bourke, John G .; & Condie, Carole J.

Presenters on Cork's Red FM include Seamus Barry, Gemma Murphy, Jason, Ailish and Mick Mulcahy ( The Red Rooster ), Caroline Murphy ( The Weekend Rooster ), Dave Mac Ardle ( Red Drive ), Philip Bourke ( The Red Zone, Dance On Red ), Stevie G ( The Hit List, Black On Red ), Ruairi O ' Hagan and Joe Harrington ( The Big Red Bench ), Victor Barry ( Cork Talks Back ), Jonathan Gold ( Senior Daytime Producer ) ex UK's Pennine FM / Juice FM, Claire O ' Dwyer ( The Saturday Show and Most Wanted ), Greg Dowling and Shane Johnson ( Go Deep )

The outback can be also referred to as " back of beyond ", " back o ' Bourke " although these terms are more frequently used when referring to something a long way from anywhere, or a long way away.

In 1861, Felix William Spiers and Christopher Pond, the proprietors of the Cafe de Paris in Bourke Street and caterers to the MCC, sent their agent, W. B.

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson ( née Bourke ) (; born 21 May 1944 ) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002.

Born Mary Therese Winifred Bourke in Ballina, County Mayo, in 1944, she is the daughter of two medical doctors.

Her father was Dr. Aubrey Bourke of Ballina, County Mayo, while her mother was from Donegal, Dr. Tessa Bourke ( née O ' Donnell ) of Carndonagh, Inishowen.

More distant relatives included William Liath de Burgh, Tiobóid mac Walter Ciotach Bourke, and Charles Bourke.

Mary Bourke attended Mount Anville Secondary School in Dublin and studied law at Trinity College, Dublin and Harvard Law School.

In 1970, Bourke married Nicholas Robinson.

300 cattlemen rode horses down Bourke street in protest.

** Ciaran Bourke, Irish musician ( b. 1935 )

* February 18 – Ciaran Bourke, Irish Dubliner Band Singer ( d. 1988 )

* August 13 – Philip Bourke Marston, English poet ( d. 1887 )

* May 4 – Richard Bourke, Australian governor ( d. 1855 )

The Chinatown of Melbourne in Australia lies within the Melbourne Central Business District and centers around the eastern end of Little Bourke St.

Rockfleet CastleBy 1566 Ní Mháille had married a second time, this time to Risdeárd an Iarainn Bourke, called " Iron Richard ", an appropriate corruption of his Irish name as he is reputed to have always worn a coat of mail inherited from his Anglo-Norman ancestors.

Traditionally it is said that the Bourke marriage was motivated by Ní Mháille's desire to enlarge her holdings and her prestige.