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Charles O'Conor (historian)

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Charles O'Conor, O'Conor Don (Cathal Ó Conchubhair Donn; 1 January 1710 – 1 July 1791), also known as Charles O'Conor of Belanagare, was an Irish writer and antiquarian who was enormously influential as a protagonist for the preservation of Irish culture and history in the eighteenth century. [1]

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Attacotti

The Attacotti (Atticoti, Attacoti, Atecotti, Atticotti, Atecutti, etc. variously spelled) were a people who despoiled Roman Britain between 364 and 368, along with Scotti, Picts, Saxons, Roman military deserters, and the indigenous Britons themselves.

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Bellanagare

Bellanagare is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland.

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Catholic Convention

The Catholic Committee or Catholic Convention was an organisation in 18th-century Ireland that campaigned for the rights of Catholics and for the repeal of the Penal Laws.

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Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh

Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (fl. 1624–1664) was an Irish historian and genealogist, known in English as Peregrine O'Clery.

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Celtic Revival

The Celtic Revival (also referred to as the Celtic Twilight or Celtomania) was a variety of movements and trends in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw a renewed interest in aspects of Celtic culture.

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Charles O'Conor

Charles O'Conor may refer to.

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Charles O'Conor (American politician)

Charles O'Conor (January 22, 1804 – May 12, 1884) was an American lawyer who was notable for his career as a trial advocate, and for his candidacy in the 1872 U.S. presidential election.

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Charles O'Conor (priest)

Charles O'Conor (Cathal Ó Conchubhair Donn; 1764–1828) was an Irish priest and historical author.

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Chevalier O'Gorman

Tomás, Chevalier O'Gorman or Thomas O'Gorman (1732–1809) was an Irish soldier and genealogist.

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Chief of the Name

The Chief of the Name, or in older English usage Captain of his Nation, is the recognised head of a family or clan (clann in Irish and Scottish Gaelic).

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Connacht

ConnachtPage five of An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Contaetha agus Cúigí) 2003 clearly lists the official spellings of the names of the four provinces of the country with Connacht listed for both languages; when used without the term 'The province of' / 'Cúige'.

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County Clare

County Clare (Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Mid-West Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the West by the Atlantic Ocean.

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County Roscommon

County Roscommon (Contae Ros Comáin) is a county in Ireland.

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Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh

Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, also known as Dubhaltach Óg mac Giolla Íosa Mór mac Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, Duald Mac Firbis, Dudly Ferbisie, and Dualdus Firbissius (fl. 1643 – January 1671) was an Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist.

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Eugene O'Curry

Eugene O'Curry (Eoghan Ó Comhraí or Eoghan Ó Comhraidhe, 20 November 1794 – 30 July 1862) was an Irish philologist and antiquary.

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Fearghal Ó Gadhra

Fearghal Ó Gadhra (c. 1597 – after 1660) was lord of Coolavin, and patron of the Annals of the Four Masters.

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Francis Stoughton Sullivan

Francis Stoughton Sullivan (1715–1766) was an Irish lawyer, and Professor of Oratory and law professor at the University of Dublin.

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Gaels

The Gaels (Na Gaeil, Na Gàidheil, Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to northwestern Europe.

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Irish genealogy

Irish genealogy is the study of individuals and/or families who originated on the island of Ireland.

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James Henthorn Todd

James Henthorn Todd (23 April 1805 – 28 June 1869) was a biblical scholar, educator, and Irish historian.

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James MacLagan

James MacLagan or McLagan (Seumas MacLathagain; 1728–1805) was a Church of Scotland minister and collector of Scottish Gaelic poetry and song.

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James Macpherson

James Macpherson (Gaelic: Seumas MacMhuirich or Seumas Mac a' Phearsain; 27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of epic poems.

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James Ware (historian)

Sir James Ware II (26 November 1594 – 1 December 1666) was an Anglo-Irish historian.

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John Carpenter (archbishop of Dublin)

John Carpenter (b. 1729 - 29 October 1786), (in Irish Gaelic Seán Mac an tSaor or Seán Maca tSaoir) served as the Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin from 1770 until death in 1786.

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John Curry (historian)

John Curry (b. in Dublin, Ireland, in the first quarter of the eighteenth century; d. there, 1780) was an Irish doctor of medicine, historian, and Roman Catholic activist.

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John Fergus

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Kingdom of Munster

The Kingdom of Munster (Ríocht Mhumhain) was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland which existed in the south-west of the island from at least the 1st century BC until 1118.

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List of Irish historians

A list of Irish historians is presented in this article, from the earliest times up to the present day, by historical periods and in alphabetically order for easier reference.

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Mary Bonaventure Browne

Mother Mary Bonaventure Browne (born after 1610, died after 1670) was a Poor Clare nun, abbess, and Irish historian.

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Matthew O'Conor

Matthew O'Conor Don (Mathghamhain Ó Conchubhair Donn; 1773–1844) of Ballinagare, County Roscommon, Ireland was an Irish historian, the O'Conor Don and de jure King of Connacht.

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Mícheál Ó Cléirigh

Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (c. 1590 – 1643), sometimes known as Michael O'Clery, was an Irish chronicler, scribe and antiquary and chief author of the Annals of the Four Masters, assisted by Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire, and Peregrinus Ó Duibhgeannain.

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Muiris Ó Gormáin

Muiris Ó Gormáin (c. 1720–1794) was an Irish bookseller, poet and scribe.

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O'Conor

O'Conor (Middle Irish: Ó Conchubhair; Modern Ó Conchúir, also anglicised as O'Connor), is an Irish princely and noble family of Gaelic origin who are the historic Kings of Connacht and the last High Kings of Ireland before the Norman invasion.

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Ossian

Ossian (Irish Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: Oisean) is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson from 1760.

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Penal Laws (Ireland)

In the island of Ireland, Penal Laws (Na Péindlíthe) were a series of laws imposed in an attempt to force Irish Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters (such as local Presbyterians) to accept the reformed denomination as defined by the English state established Anglican Church and practised by members of the Irish state established Church of Ireland.

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Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannáin

Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1627–1636), also styled Peregrine O'Duignan, was an Irish historian and chronicler.

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Richard Tipper

Richard Tipper or Tupper (fl. 1709 – after 1742) was an Irish scribe.

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Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh

Roderic O'Flaherty (Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh; 1629–1718 or 1716) was an Irish historian.

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Stowe House

Stowe House is a grade I listed country house in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Stowe manuscripts

The Stowe manuscripts are a collection of about 2,000 Irish, Anglo-Saxon and later medieval manuscripts, nearly all now in the British Library.

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Sylvester O'Halloran

Sylvester O'Halloran (31 December 1728 – 11 August 1807) was an Irish surgeon with an abiding interest in Gaelic poetry and history.

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Tadhg Ó Neachtain

Tadhg Ó Neachtain (c.1670 – c.1752) was an Irish writer, scribe and lexicographer.

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Thomas O'Connor (writer)

Thomas O'Connor (or O'Conor) (1 September 1770 in Dublin, Ireland – 9 February 1855 in Sands Point, New York) was an Irishman who in 1801 emigrated from County Roscommon, Ireland, to New York where he devoted himself chiefly to journalism.

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Uilliam Ó Duinnín

Uilliam Ó Duinnín (fl. 1670–1682) was an Irish scribe.

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1753 in Ireland

Events from the year 1753 in Ireland.

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1757 in Ireland

Events from the year 1757 in Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O'Conor_(historian)

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