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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO
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1899, and commanded from 1898 until disbanded in 1909. Member of Royal Commission on the Militia and Volunteers, 1903-4; Ammunition Column Committee, 1906; second Esher Committee (Territorial Forces), 1906: A.D.C. to King Edward VII., 1905. Pubns.: various on Military, Political, and Irish Land Questions. Recns.: shooting, fishing, cricket; only son of Col. John O'Callaghan, D.L., J.P., of Maryfort, Co. Clare, and Mary Johnson, eldest dau. of John Westropp, of Attyflin Park, Co. Limerick; in 1885 by Royal Licence assumed the name and arms of Westropp in addition to those of O'Callaghan, in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle, Capt. Ralph Westropp, of Coolreagh, Co. Clare, to whose estates he had succeeded in 1883; b. 1864; in 1895, Henrietta Cecilia Rose, dau. of Capt. G. A. Godbold, 27th Inniskilling Fusiliers, and has issue one son and three daus. Res.: Lismehane, O'Callaghan's Mills, Co. Clare. Clubs: Army and Navy, London; Kildare Street, Dublin; Clare, Ennis.

O'CARROLL, Joseph Francis, M.D., M.Ch. (R.U.I), F.R.C.P.I.; Hon. LL.D. (N.U.I.). Educ. at the Catholic University of Ireland; Dublin, and Vienna; Governor and Physician, House of Industry Hospitals, Dublin; late Consulting Physician National Hospital for Consumption; Senator of the N.U.I, 1909; Ex-President Royal College of Physicians of Ireland; son of Peter Francis O'Carroll: b. 1857; m. 1887, Frances, dau. of late Joseph Macloone, J.P., Co Donegal, and has issue living two sons and four daus. Res.: 43 Merrion Square, Dublin.

O'CEALLAIGH, Sean T.; b. Dublin, 1883; eldest son of Samuel O. Kelly, Berkeley Road, Dublin. Educ.: O'Connell Schools, Dublin; Chairman Dublin Coiste Ceanntair, Connradh na Gaedhilge. 1903-8; Coiste Gnotha, Gaelic League, 1909-15; Gen. Sec. Gaelic League, 1915-1920; Foundation member Sinn Fein; Elected Dublin Municipal Council, 1906; Member Board of Technical Instruction for Ireland: Member Dail Eireann for Dublin City, 1918 and 1922; first Speaker Dail Eireann. 1919-1921: Envoy of Irish Republic to Paris and Rome, 1919-1922; Sec. Rep. Party and Curaann na Poblacta. Res.: 91 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin.

O'CONNELL, Daniel Charles, J.P. for Cos. Kerry (High Sheriff, 1915), and Wicklow; b. 1842; eldest son of Chas. O'Connell, of Ballynabloun, Co. Kerry, and Kate, second dau. of Daniel O'Connell, M.P. ("The Liberator.") Educ. at Carlow College: eldest son of Charles O'Connell, of Ballynabloim, Co. Kerry, and Kate, dau. of Daniel O'Connell, M.P.; b. 1842; m., 1st, 1867, Millie, (d. 1870), dau. of Joseph Lindsay Curtis, of Cork: 2nd, 1877, Helen, dau. of Sir Joseph Neale McKenna, and has issue three sons and three daus. Res.: The Bungalow, Derriana, Mastergeehy, Co. Kerry.

O'CONNELL, Rev. Frederic Wm., Litt.D. (stip. cond.), T.C.D. M.A. (stip. cond.), E.D., Hon. Phil.D.; Member of Royal Asiatic Society; Fellow of Society Internationale de Philologie, Sciences et Beaux- Arts: Member of Incorporated Society of Authors. Lecturer in the Celtic Languages and Literature, Queen's University Belfast; Advising Examiner in Irish to Intermediate Board of Education, 1908-13; Extern Examiner to National University of Ireland, 1914-19; b. 22nd Oct., 1876; son of Rev. W. Morgan O'Connell, Rector of Clifden, Co. Galway; m. Helen Frances, third dau. of late Henry Young, Nenagh; three sons, one dau. Educ.: High School and Trinity College, Dublin. Entrance Prizes in Hebrew and German; Bedell Scholar; Kyle Prizeman; Board Prizeman five times; Fellowship Prizeman in Classics and Hebrew; Divinity Testimonium. Ordained, 1902; Curate of Clongish, 1902-3; Curate-in-Charge Drumshambo, 1903-4: Rector Castleconnor, 1904-7; Rector and Canon of Achonry Cathedral, 1907-10. Pubns.: Author of A Grammar of Old Irish; Conversational Grammar of Modern Irish; The Writings on the Wall; The Age of Whitewash; The Poetry of the Koran; editor of The Midnight Court: Selections from Keating's Three Shafts of Death; An Irish Corpus Astronomiae; Guaire; Brieriu; Doa Ciochote; Revised Irish Morning and Evening Prayer, Litany, and Office of Holy Communion. Contributions to Hermathena, Gaelic Journal, Banba, Louth and Galway Archæological Journals, etc. Recns.: walking, cycling. Res.: Erlu, Seacliffe Road, Bangor, Co. Down. Tel: Bangor. 157.

O'CONNELL, Major James Ross. Educ. at the Oratory School: Major Res. of Officers; late Capt. 1st Batt. Shropshire Light Inf.; served during the Dongola Expedition, 1896, and the Khartum Expedition, 1898; employed with the Egyptian Army, 1898-1906; was Governor of Kordofan: has 3rd class Osmanieh and 3rd class Medjidieh for services in Sudan; raised and commanded 13th Batt. Durham L.I., 1915; youngest son of late Sir Maurice O'Connell, 2nd Bart.: b. 1863. Recns.: shooting, fishing, golf. Res.: Lakeview, Killarney, Co. Kerry; United Service Club, London.

O'CONNELL, John Joseph; Brig.-Gen., U.S. Army; b. Co. Kerry, Ireland, Dec. 16th, 1840: son of John and Nan (Cahill) O'Connell; came to U.S. in youth. Educ. partly in Canada; m. Margaret Le Boutillier (of the Channel Islands), 1870: Professor of Mathematics and Languages, Seton College, New Jersey; at outbreak of American Civil War served in