Life
1880-1952; member of Ulster Volunteers and well-known yachtsman whose
boat, The Kelpie, was used by the Irish Volunteers to transfer
guns from Darrell Figgis’s tug to Dublin; the arms were shifted again
to the Chotah before landing at Kilcoole, Co. Wexford; god-father
of Conor Cruise O’Brien (1917- ); issued a work of observations on
circumnavigation by maps [..]
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Works
Across Three Oceans (London: E. Arnold, 1926; (London: Hart-Davis
1949), with intro. by Claud Worth [3rd edn.: The Mariner’s Library];
London: Granada 1984)., 272pp., ill., 1 plan [maps].
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Criticism
See F. X. Martin, The Howth Gun-Running and the Kilcoole Gun-Running 1914
(Dublin: Browne & Nolan 1964).
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Notes
George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (?1932;
and rev. ed. 1972), ‘Bachelor’s Walk’ [Chap.], gives an account
of Conor O’Brien’s involvement with Darrell Figgis in the purchase
and shipment to Ireland of 1,500 guns for the Irish Volunteers, O’Brien
landing his portion of 500 at Kilcoole in Co. Wicklow.
Bernard Share, ed., Far Green Fields, 1500 Years of Irish Travel Writing,
ed. (Blackstaff 1992), extract from Across Three Oceans (1926).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)