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"O" or Ó comes from Ua, designating "grandson" or "descendant" of a (major) clan member. The prefix is often anglicised to O', using an apostrophe instead of the Irish síneadh fada . Maigh Seóla was the earliest O'Flaherty domain, to the east of Lough Corrib in the kingdom of Connacht , the westernmost province of the Island of Ireland ...
Ned Flahert was the grandson of Edmond mac Morogha na Maor and Morogh na Mart Ó Flaithbertaigh, sons of Morogh na Maor Ó Flaithbertaigh, (died 1627, who was the last substantial chief of the O'Flaherty clan. Both brothers fought in the Irish Confederate Wars.
O'Flaherty was the last de jure Lord of Iar Connacht, and the last recognised Chief of the Name of Clan O'Flaherty. He lost the greater part of his ancestral estates to Cromwellian confiscations in the 1650s.
At 16, O’Malley wed Donal O’Flaherty, a man from another powerful seafaring family. She bore him three children (Britannica Kids) ( 29 ). O’Flaherty was killed by another clan – The Joyces.
Murchad son of Brian O Flaithbertaig, king of West Connacht, died this year. 1422. Donnell Finn O'Flaherty was slain by the sons of Donnell O'Flaherty. 1439. Owen O'Flaherty was treacherously slain in his own bed at night, by a farmer of his own people. Gilla Dubh Ó Flaithbheartaigh – 1442. O'Flaherty, i.e. Gilladuv, the son of Brian, Lord ...
Muireadhach mac Aedh, Lord of Clann Cosgraigh, died 1124.He was a distant cousin of the Muintir Murchada, of whom the O'Flahertys were chiefs. [1]The Annals of the Four Masters, sub anno 1124, state that Muireadhach (i.e., lord of Clann-Cosgraigh), the son of Aedh, son of Ruaidhri, died an ecclesiastic. [2]
He went on to star alongside John Candy and Catherine O’Hara in "SCTV,″ about a fictional TV station known as Second City Television that was stacked with buffoons in front of and behind the cameras. Flaherty’s characters included network boss Guy Caballero and the vampiric TV host Count Floyd.
Origin of the Surname O'Flaherty, Anthony Matthews, Dublin, 1968, p. 40. Irish Kings and High-Kings, Francis John Byrne (2001), Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9; Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork