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From: "conaught" <>
Subject: [MAYO] Easter Week Series #18
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:35:44 -0700



Rory O'Connor (1883-1922) was born in Dublin. He emigrated to Canada where
he worked as a railway engineer 1911-1915. The Irish Republican Brotherhood
requested that he return. He was wounded in the 1916 Easter Rising and
interned.
He disagreed with the IRB's policy of secrecy, which he thought was a
deterrent to the promotion of popular agitation. He was the Irish Republican
Army Director of Engineering, 1919-1921. He rejected the 1921 Treaty, led
the IRA Military Council, repudiated the authority of the Dáil in March
1922, and led the establishment of the garrison at the Four Courts in April,
1922. He surrendered June 1922, and was executed 8 December 1922.

© 2001
Ellen Naliboff

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Selected references:

Boylan, Henry, A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Third Edition, Gill &
Macmillan, Dublin, 1998.

Connolly, S.J., editor, The Oxford Companion to Irish History, Oxford
University Press, 1998.

Foster, R.F., Modern Ireland, 1600-1972, Penguin Books, 1988.

Fry, Peter and Fiona Somerset, A History of Ireland, Barnes & Noble, New
York, 1988

Llywelyn, Morgan, 1921, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York, 2001.











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