Mac O'Rahilly
- Sources yet to be consulted:
(Left to Right):
Emmet,
Mac, Aodogán, 1920s.
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Mac O'Rahilly,
Richard McEllistrim O'Rahilly,
born Fri 3rd July 1903,
educ Pearse's school, St.Enda's (where Dick Humphreys went),
educ Mount St Benedict, Gorey, Co.Wexford,
educ Belvedere (where Kevin Barry went),
educ UCD (BL), think he was member of
L&H, NOT his father,
qualified as accountant, barrister, called to Irish Bar 1932,
he used the style "The O'Rahilly" after his father,
mar Aug 1935 to
Elgin Barry [born 13th Nov 1903],
in 1936 Elgin became Honorary Secretary to the new
Commission of Inquiry into the Treatment of Political Prisoners,
(todo) see Irish Independent,
4 July 1936,
Mac was
founder member of the radical Republican party
Clann na Poblachta 1946,
became party treasurer,
Sean MacBride was leader,
stood as Clann na Poblachta candidate in Dublin,
general election Feb 1948,
failed to be elected,
though his party did get into government in coalition 1948-51,
notably with
Sean MacBride as Minister for External Affairs
and Noel Browne
as Minister for Health,
the coalition lasted to 1951,
when Sean MacBride's mother
Maud Gonne
died 1953, bur Glasnevin,
"The O'Rahilly" delivered the graveside oration
[Irish Times,
April 30, 1953],
"The O'Rahilly, BL" was at
George Duggan's
funeral 1955,
apparently it was Mac who prepared the
[O'Rahilly family tree]
1961
with the help of his daughter Ann,
he died 11th Oct 1984, age 81 yrs,
obituary Irish Times 16th Oct,
Elgin died Fri 10th Oct 1997, Riversdale Nursing Home, age 93 yrs,
funeral Mon 13th Oct, bur Esker cemetery, Lucan,
see notice,
Irish Times, 13 Oct,
had issue:
- Michael O'Rahilly, mar Bernie O'Neill and had issue:
- John O'Rahilly.
- Morgan James O'Rahilly.
- Hugh Richard O'Rahilly.
- Mary Gertrude O'Rahilly.
- Ann O'Rahilly.
- Ruth O'Rahilly, mar Roger Louis Sweetman and had issue:
- Catherine Ann Sweetman.
- Edmund Richard Sweetman.
- Malachi Kevin Sweetman.
- Deirdre Una Sweetman.
- Celie O'Rahilly, had issue:
- Adam O'Rahilly.
(Left to Right):
Mac,
Aodogán,
Emmet.
In their Fianna
uniforms,
c.1915
(before the Rising).
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