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Patricia O'Mara

Patricia O'Mara,
Pat, born 23 July 1898.
She was educ Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham.
After the 1916 Rising, she joined Cumann na mBan. She remembers in [Lavelle, 1961] how nervous she was going to tell her father.
She was educ TCD. She did not get degree.
She was educ National University (Science), think at Galway, did not get degree.

She met Dick Lavelle when both at UCG, her studying Science, him studying Medicine.
They possibly first met at Barfield c.1918.
On her passport dated 5 March 1920 it gives occupation: "University student".
After her father had gone to US with de Valera, she sailed to US (with her mother) to see her father in Apr 1920, age 21. On board ship she wrote: "We have a dance every night; all kind of nationalities here .. I have danced with a Swede, a Norwegian, a Greek, a Bulgarian, an American - isn't that funny?" She spent some time in summer 1920 in New York.
She and Dick got engaged think late 1920. They didn't get married until he got his first job.
In winter of 1920-1921, with their parents still in the US, Pat and Steen put up IRA men on the run from the British in Fitzwilliam Place, and allowed Sinn Fein committees to hold their (illegal) meetings there. Their father didn't hear of all this for months afterwards, and was not happy when he did.

She mar 2 Jan 1924 to Dick Lavelle and had issue.
They mar at St.Andrew's church, Westland Row, Dublin.
Pat researched family tree.
She was author of biography of her father.

Pat, age 14, 1912. From this picture.

Pat in 1914.
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Pat, from picture here.

Pat (age 21) on her passport dated 5 March 1920.
She went with her mother to America in Apr 1920 to see her father who was fund-raising there.
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Patricia O'Mara in 1920.
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Patricia O'Mara.
Similar shot. Signed 1922 but photo must be 1920.
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Pat, 1920.
Think at Cashel House.
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Patricia O'Mara (later Lavelle).
Portrait 1922 (age 24).
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Pat Lavelle in later life.
From mass cards.