According to Conor Cruise O ' Brien, the Butchers brought a new, frightening level of paramilitary violence to a country already hardened by death and destruction.

Notable representatives have included Edward Gibson, W. E. H. Lecky, Edward Carson, Noel Browne, Conor Cruise O ' Brien and Mary Robinson.

While popular with Irish language enthusiasts and artists and respected by many Republicans, he had a strained relationship with the Coalition Government, particularly with Conor Cruise O ' Brien and with Liam Cosgrave.

At a press-conference on the affair, Haughey was paraphrased as having described the affair as " grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented ", from which journalist and former politician Conor Cruise O ' Brien coined the term GUBU.

The cabinet was described as being the " Government of all talents ", including such luminaries as future Taoiseach and writer Garret FitzGerald, former United Nations diplomat Conor Cruise O ' Brien, television presenter and veterinary professor Justin Keating and others.

Both the Irish Times and the Irish Press, which was then edited by Tim Pat Coogan, were extremely critical of the government's curtailment of freedom of speech and in particular of the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Conor Cruise O ' Brien which was used against the IRA.

Although a senior figure on the " pro-treaty " side of Ireland's political divide, Desmond FitzGerald had remained friendly with anti-Treaty republicans such as Belfast man Seán MacEntee, a minister in Éamon de Valera's government, and father-in-law of Conor Cruise O ' Brien.

Conor Cruise O ' Brien wrote that Albert Camus was the writer most representative of the Western consciousness and conscience in its relation to the non-Western world.

She was married to the politician Conor Cruise O ' Brien until his death.

** English-Donald Harman Akenson, Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O ' Brien ; Volume 1 Narrative

The party secured a particular coup in 1996 when it was joined by Conor Cruise O ' Brien, a former government minister in the Republic of Ireland.

* 1994 – Conor Cruise O ' Brien, On the Eve of the Millennium

Both The Irish Times and The Irish Press, which was then edited by Tim Pat Coogan, were extremely critical of the government's curtailment of freedom of speech and in particular of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Conor Cruise O ' Brien which was used against the PIRA.

The party had fielded a number of new, high-profile candidates, including Justin Keating, Conor Cruise O ' Brien, David Thornley, and Noël Browne.

* Trillium Book Award English: Donald Haram Akenson, Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O ' Brien ; Volume 1 Narrative,

The other party representatives to the Forum were Dr Conor Cruise O ' Brien and Cedric Wilson, a former low-level DUP member in the 1980s.

Honorary degrees have been received by many famed individuals including former President of the United States Bill Clinton, former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, poet Seamus Heaney, writers Seamus Deane, Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness and Colm Tóibín, activists May Blood and Aung San Suu Kyi, actors Amanda Burton and Ewan McGregor, racehorse trainer Vincent O ' Brien, bishops Seán Brady, Robin Eames, James Mehaffey, Edward Daly and Desmond Tutu, singers Enya, Van Morrison and Tommy Makem, politician John Hume, biotechnologist Charles Hamner, politicians and writers Garrett Fitzgerald and Conor Cruise O ' Brien, US lawyer John Connorton, US diplomat Jim Lyons, Gaelic football player Peter Canavan, rugby player David Humphreys, golfers Darren Clarke and Graeme McDowell, last governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten and triple jumper Jonathan Edwards.

Conor Cruise O ' Brien ( 3 November 1917 – 18 December 2008 ) often nicknamed " The Cruiser ", was an Irish politician, writer, historian and academic.

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* To Laugh or to Weep: A Biography of Conor Cruise O ' Brien.

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* 1980 – Conor O ' Brian, American wrestler

* Roderic O ' Conor, and Walter Osborne in Ireland

* 1960 – Herbert O ' Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland ( b. 1896 )

In 1766 the Irish antiquarian and Gaelic scholar Charles O ' Conor dismissed Ossian's authenticity in a new chapter Remarks on Mr. Mac Pherson's translation of Fingal and Temora that he added to the second edition of his seminal history.

* May 11 – Battle of Dysert O ' Dea: The Irish armies of Conor O ' Dea defeat the Normans under Richard de Clare.

Others in the cast include Anthony Quayle, John Colicos, Michael Hordern, Katharine Blake, Peter Jeffrey, Joseph O ' Conor, William Squire, Vernon Dobtcheff, Denis Quilley, Esmond Knight and T. P. McKenna.

* Joseph O ' Conor as Bishop Fisher

John Fisher was portrayed by veteran actor Joseph O ' Conor in the film Anne of the Thousand Days ( 1969 ), by Bosco Hogan in the miniseries The Tudors, and by Geoffrey Lewis in the 1971 miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

The two pages in question consisted of the short sketch " Roderick O ' Conor ", concerning the historic last king of Ireland cleaning up after guests by drinking the dregs of their dirty glasses.

Interestingly, Clíodhna appears in the name of one O ' Leary in a medieval pedigree, as Conor Clíodhna or " Conor of Clíodhna ", and it is notable that the family were originally based in the area of Rosscarbery, very near to Glandore, before moving north to Muskerry.

Historians have found the tribes on the west of Ireland hardest to identify with known peoples, however Camden and O ' Conor speculated a possible connection between the Gangani and the Concani, one of the eleven tribes in the confederacy of the Cantabri in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula.

In 1260 Brian O ' Neill ( Brian Ua Néill ), King of Tír Eoghain ( Tyrone ) and who had been acknowledged as High King of Ireland by Hugh O ' Conor of Connacht and Tadhg O ' Brien of Thomond marched to Downpatrick, a centre of English settlement, and, allied with a Connacht force under Hugh O ' Conor, fought the foreigners in the Battle of Down.

Figgis then chartered the tug Gladiator, from which the arms were transferred at sea to the Childers ' yacht Asgard and Conor O ' Brien's Kelpie.

He was a friend and schoolmate of James Joyce, Oliver St John Gogarty, Tom Kettle, and Conor Cruise O ' Brien's father, Frank O ' Brien.

The museum contains a notable collection of local photographs by Conor Daniells ; paintings, watercolors, drawings, and graphics by Andy Warhol ; and figures in soapstone, ivory, and wood, with many items collected by archaeologists.

The authenticity of these so-called translations from the works of a 3rd century bard was immediately challenged by Irish historians, especially Charles O ' Conor, who noted technical errors in chronology and in the forming of Gaelic names, and commented on the implausibility of many of MacPherson's claims, none of which MacPherson was able to refute.

In 1905, Irishman Conor Neeson ( 1877 – 1944 ) of Detroit, Michigan, and his employer, American chemist, electrical engineer, inventor and entrepreneur William Hoskins ( 1862 – 1934 ) of Chicago, Illinois, invented ( and in 1906 patented ) chromel, an alloy from which could be made the first high-resistance wire of the sort used in all early electric heating appliances ( and many modern ones ).

The late politician and writer Conor Cruise O ' Brien and his wife, the Irish poet Máire Mhac an tSaoi lived here for many years.

Conor, son of Hugh, the son of Roderic, made his escape from the English, and the sons of the chiefs of Connaught assembled around him, and they made an incursion into the Tuathas ; but Conor, with Gilla Ceallaigh Ó hEidhin, and Gilchreest, the son of Donough Mac Dermot, and many others along with them, were slain by the people of the Tuathas.

A numerous army was led by William Burke into Sil-Murray ; and O ' Conor and the Sil-Murray, with many of the tribes and chiefs of Connaught, made peace with him.

These castles and ruins were researched and located over many years by the Clan O ' Dowd historian, Conor Mac Hale.

In this vessel with O ' Conor ( Cathal Crovderg ) were Areaghtagh O ' Rodiv and Conor, son of Cathal, who were both drowned, as were also Conor and Auliffe, the two sons of Hugh Mageraghty ; O ' Mulrenin, and the son of O ' Monahan, and many others.