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O'Mahony (Old Irish: Ó Mathghamhna; Modern Irish: Ó Mathúna) is the original name of the clan, with breakaway clans also spelled O'Mahoney, or simply Mahony, Mahaney and Mahoney, without the prefix. Brodceann O'Mahony was the eldest of the four sons of Mathghamain, known as "The Four Descendants".
John O'Mahony was the primary founder and initial leader of the Fenian Brotherhood. After the collapse of the '48 rebellion James Stephens and John O'Mahony went to the Continent to avoid arrest. In Paris, they supported themselves by teaching and translation work and planned the next stage of "the fight to overthrow British rule in Ireland".
The O’Mahony clan, led by their chieftain Donagh “the Migrator,” settled at the furthest point, the tip of the Mizen peninsula. [6] The castle was not attacked, and the O'Mahony family remained there for 400 years until the castle was confiscated by the British crown in 1627 [ citation needed ]
Considine also carried a private letter from O’Mahony to Stephens which was a warning as to the condition of the organisation in New York, which was overseen by Luby and Stephens at the time. Both had believed that there was a strong organisation behind the letter, only later to find it was a number of loosely linked groups.
Peter O'Mahony is on the bench for the All Blacks game on Friday [Getty Images] Autumn Nations Series: Ireland v New Zealand Venue: Aviva Stadium, Dublin Date: Friday, 8 November Kick-off: 20:10 GMT
John Francis O'Mahony (1815 – 7 February 1877) was an Irish scholar and the founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood in the United States, sister organisation to the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Despite coming from a reasonably wealthy family and being well educated, the primary pursuit of O'Mahoney's life was that of Irish Independence ...
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[3] The house at Grange Con Demesne later became the seat of the O'Mahony clan and remained so until about 1930 when Pierce O'Mahony, the last "the O'Mahony" died. See [4] for more detailed information about the O'Mahony connection with Grange Con. Some ruins of an older castle still exist in the grounds but these are quite minimal.