Life
Eighteenth century member of Irish House of Commons; friend and correspondent
of Edmund Burke. ?d. 1776.
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Notes
Charles O’Hara, of Nymphsfield, Co. Sligo, corresponding with the
Burkes throughout the 1760s. [See Stanley Ayling, Edmund Burke,
1988, p.19].
See Shell Guide (1966), in which the fine grounds of Annaghmore [House[], in the O’Hara country, is mentioned. Annaghmore is Eanach Mór, the big bog.
QRY, Burke to Chas. O’Hara, ‘One thing is fortunate for you, though without any merits of your own, that the Liberties (or what shadows of Liberty there are) of Ireland have been saved in America.’ (31 Dec. 1765, at successful resistance to Stamp Act. Ftn., O’Hara died in 1776, depriving us of a listening post for Burke on Ireland thereafter. Quoted with other correspondence in Conor Cruise O’Brien, The Great Melody (1992). FURTHER, On Burke’s correspondent Charles O’Hara in the Irish House of commons, see Thomas Bartlett, ‘The O’Hara’s of Annaghmore, c.1600-1.1800, Survival and Revival, in Irish Economic and Social History, vol. IX (Dublin 1982), pp.34-52. [O’Brien, op. cit., p.57] ALSO, Hoffman, ‘Edmund Burke, New York Agent, with his letters to the New York Assembly and intimate correspondence with Charles O’Hara 1761-1776 (Philadelphia 1956). [cited ibid.]
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