O’Brien [family name]


Tighearhach
O’Brien [O’Braien] (d.1088), annalist and abbot of Clonmacnoise; Barnabas O’Brien (d.1657), 6th Earl of Thomond; Brian Ruadh O’Brien (d.1276), king of Thomond; Charles O’Brien (d.1706), fifth Viscount Clare; Charles O’Brien (1699-1761), sixth Viscount Clare; Conchobar O’Brien (d.1267), kind of Thomond; Conor O’Brien (d.1539), prince of Thomond, succeeded 1528; Conor O’Brien (1534-1581), third Earl of Thomond; Daniel O’Brien (1577-1663), first Viscount Clare; Daniel O’Brien (d.1690), third Viscount Clare; Domhnall O’Brien (d.1194), king of Munster; Donat Hency O’Brien (1785-1857), rear-admiral; Donogh Cairbrech O’Brien (d.1242), king of Thomond; Donough O’Brien (d.1064), king of Munster, deposed and died in Rome; Donough O’Brien (d.1624), Baron of Ibrickan and fourth Earl of Thomond; Edward O’Brien (1808-1840), br. William Smith O’Brien [see infra]; Henry O’Brien (1808-1835), author of The Round Towers of Ireland (1834) [see infra]; James O’Brien (1769-1855), third Marquis of Thomond and seventh Earl of Inchiquin; James Bronterre O’Brien (1805-1864), Chartist; James Thomas O’Brien (1792-1874), Protestant bishop of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin; John O’Brien (d.1767), Catholic vicar-gen. of Cork, Cloyne and Ross; Sir Lucius Henry O’Brien (d.1795), free-trade MP in Irish Parliament; Matthew O’Brien (1814-1855), mathematical lecturer at King’s College, London; Murrough O’Brien (1614-1674), first Earl of Inchiquin and sixth Baron Inchiquin, ‘of the conflagrations’, accompanied Strafford into Leinster, 1641; Murtogh O’Brien (d.1?19), king of Munster; Patrick O’Brien [under Cotter]; Paul O’Brien (?1750-1820), prof. of Irish, Maynooth; Terence [or Toirdhelbhach] O’Brien (d.1460), bishop of Killaloe; Terence Albert O’Brien (1600-1651), bishop of Emly, party of Rinuccini, nursed sufferers in Limerick, hanged by Ireton; Turlough O’Brien (1009-1086), king of Munster; William O’Brien (1638-1692), second Earl of Inchiquin, headed Munster Protestants against Catholics, 1689; governor of Jamaica; William O’Brien (d.1815), actor and dramatist; William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864), Young Ireland rising leader, 1848.

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