Matthew OConor
Life
1773-1844 [occas. OConnor]; b. Co. Sligo, br. Rev. Charles OConor
[the Younger]; prepared for priesthood at Rome, but changed to law and
qualified as a barrister; wrote History of Irish Catholics from the
Settlement in 1691 (1813), based on letters of his grandfather Charles
OConor to Dr. John Curry, which he held at his estate at Mt. Druid,
and are now in the Clonalis collection, amounting to some 285 letters;
also issued Military History of the Irish Nation comprising a Memoir
of the Irish Brigade in the Service of France with ... Official Papers,
AD 1550-1738 (1845). ODNB DIH
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Works History of Irish Catholics from the Settlement in 1691 (Dublin:
J. Stockdale 1813); Military History of the Irish Nation (Dublin
1845).
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Commentary
Maureen Wall, Catholic Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Collected
Essays, ed. Gerard OBrien, Dublin: Geog. Publ. 1989) for quotation from History
of the Irish Catholics (1813), The constant degradation lowered
them in their own estimation, and rendered them crouching and pusillanimous.
Sorrow and dejection were stamped in their foreheads; their timid gait
and cautious reserve marked their abject condition. They did not dare
to look a protestant in the face, they avoided the side of the street
he walked, just as the slave evades the countenance of the master
(pp.329-30); Bibl. note, MS continuation of The history of the Irish
Catholics (in the possession of the Rev. Charles OConor Don,
SJ.).
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Quotations
History of the Irish Catholics [ ...; &c.] (1813): By Dr. [John] Currys great exertions, a committee for the management
of Catholic affairs was formed in the city; but owing to the divisions
and parties among the Catholics at that time it was confined to the citizens
merely. (p.249)
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