Elizabeth O’Toole was born in County Clare in 1924. Her father, Laurence Ryan, was a thoroughbred horse breeder; her mother, May Watson, was from Charleville, in County Cork….

DONNCHADH Ó CORRÁIN (1942-2017) was an Irish historian and Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Cork. In 1982, he founded the Medieval Academy of Ireland and…

Ernie O’Malley was a revolutionary republican and writer. One of the leading figures in the Irish Independence and civil wars, he survived wounds, imprisonment and hunger…

Berrie O’Neill was born in 1930 on a farm near Eyrecourt, Co. Galway. He enjoyed a long career with the Bank of Ireland in Dublin and…

Ulick O’Connor is a biographer, playwright and poet. His biography of Oliver St John Gogarty was described by Sir Charles Petrie as ‘the work of a modern…

TIMOTHY O’NEILL teaches and lectures on calligraphy in Ireland and abroad. He is author of The Irish Hand (1984) and Merchants and Mariners in Medieval Ireland…

T.F. O’SULLIVAN served as Irish ambassador in eleven foreign capitals, including Washington and Paris, and was awarded the Legion d’Honneur by the French government. His fascination…

SIOFRA O’DONOVAN was born in Dublin in 1971. She has lived and worked in Poland and northern India.

ARTHUR O’CONNOR was born in 1763, and was a prominent member of the United Irishmen. He later became a general in Napoleon’s army. He wrote the…

Seamus O’Siochain lectures in anthropology in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is the joint author of The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement’s Congo Report…

Rory O’Connor was born in 1928. A former journalist with the Irish Press and news editor of the Sunday Press, he was also head of RTÉ’s television…

Phillip Orr a former teacher and military historian, is author of the best-selling The Road to the Somme: Men of the Ulster Division Tell Their Story (Belfast…

Peggy O’Brien grew up in western Massachusetts, where she now lives with her husband. She teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After graduating from Mount Holyoke…

Padraic O’Farrell was born in Staplestown, Donadea, County Kildare. One of Ireland’s best-known journalists and most prolific authors, he was a regular contributor to the Irish Times,…

Eoin O’Brien, a professor of medicine at both the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Dublin, is author of several highly regarded volumes: among them,…

Niall Ó Ciosáin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His book, Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750-1850…

Mary O’Donoghue was born in 1975 and grew up in Co. Clare. Her short stories have been published in Agni, Salamander, The Dublin Review, Literary Imagination…

Seamus O’Donoghue was brought up around Coachford in the heart of the Lee valley. After qualifying as a National Teacher he spent most of his working…

Born in 1915 in Co. Galway, John O’Meara received an MA at University College, Dublin, and became Professor of Latin there in 1948. The most recently…

Jim O’Donnell has spent his career publishing books and writing them – the Administration Yearbook & Diary, which he originated, is an indispensable reference work for…

George O’Brien is Professor of English at Georgetown University, and the author of two subsequent memoirs, Dancehall Days and Out of Our Minds.

Donnchadh O Corrain is Professor of Irish History at University College Cork. He specialises in early medieval history, and has published numerous articles on the subject….

Diarmaid O Muirithe is a native of New Ross, County Wexford, and retired Senior Lecturer in Irish at University College Dublin. He is author of The…

Con O’Rourke, a graduate of University College Dublin, has been President of the Institute of Biology Ireland and Chairman of the Science Committee of the Royal…