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The O'Conor dynasty (Middle Irish: Ó Conchobhair; Modern Irish: Ó Conchúir) are an Irish noble dynasty and formerly one of the most influential and distinguished royal dynasties in Ireland. The O'Conor family held the throne of the Kingdom of Connacht up until 1475. Having ruled it on and off since 967, they ruled continuously from 1102 to 1475.
Denis Armar O'Conor, O'Conor Don (Irish: Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair Donn; 1912–10 July 2000) was hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor, and is a direct descendant of Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair, the last High King of Ireland with a surviving male-line lineage and was seen by some as a nominal claimant [citation needed] to that defunct position.
Charles O'Conor was born in 1710, in near Kilmactrany in the County Sligo, to Denis O'Conor of Bellanagare a scion of a cadet branch of the land-owning family of O'Conor Don, and Mary O'Rourke daughter of Colonel Count Tiernan O'Rourke, The O'Rourke (d. in 1702 at the Battle of Luzzara fighting for the armies of the Holy Roman Emperor) and Isabella MacDonagh daughter of Captain Brian MacDonagh ...
Cathal O'Connor Faly (Irish: Cathal Ó Conchobhair Failghe; c. 1540 - October 1596) was an Irish rebel of noble ancestry. As a young man, O'Connor Faly was a political spy for Catholics in Great Britain. He became a rebel and killed several high-ranking English soldiers before escaping to Spain in the 1580s, where he joined the Spanish Armada.
Born in Ireland around 1490, he was the eldest son of Cathaoir (1474–1511), Lord of Offaly. [2] [1] He had four brothers, [2] one named Cahir. [1]He was born into the O'Connor Faly family of the Kingdom of Uí Failghe, [3] which, by the start of the sixteenth century, had extended their territory westward as far as the River Shannon.
Ó Conchobhair Sligigh (anglicised as O'Conor Sligo) is a Gaelic-Irish family and Chief of the Name. The Ó Conchobhair Sligigh were a junior branch of the Ó Conchobhair Kings of Connacht. They were descended from Brian Luighnech Ua Conchobhair (k.1181), a son of Irish High King Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair and were Lords of Sligo into the 17th ...
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