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Date Posted: 05:28:19 03/02/03 Sun Roger O’Connor Life 1762-1834; b. Connorville, Co. Cork; f. of Feargus O’Connor; ed. TCD; English bar, 1783; hunted Whiteboys in yeomanry; joined United Irishman; arrested at instance of br. Robert, acquitted; imprisoned in Fort George, 1799-1803; adopted acronym ROCK (for ‘Roger O’Connor, King’); relating to destruction of Dangan Castle, Trim, Co. Meath, by fire, for insurance premium of £5,000; eloped with married woman; arrested for robbing the Galway coach in order to capture love-letters incriminating his friend Sir Francis Burdett, 1817; tried and acquitted; father of Feargus O’Connor; issued Chronicles of Eri (2 vols., 1822), alleged trans. from Phoenician; d. 27 Jan., Kilcrea, Co. Cork. DNB DIB DIH Works Roger O’Connor, Chronicles of Eri. History of the Gaal Sciot Iber or the Irish People, translated from the original manuscripts [in the Phoenician dialect of the Scythian Language], 2 vols. in 1 (1822). Frontis. shows ‘O’Connor, Cier-Rige Head of his Race, and O’Connor, chief of the prostrated people of his Nation, soumis pas vaincus [engrav. port, London: printed for Sir Richard Phillips & co.]; title page shows device with 13 radiated points, ‘The Ring of Baal’, marked anti-clockwise 1-13 Tionnscnad, Blat, Bal tetgne, Sgit, Tarsgit, Meas, Cruinnige, Tirim, Fluicim, Geimia, Sneachda, Siocan, Deirionnae; also a fold-out map of ‘Western Asia, marked in Latin [Mare Internum, etc.]; a map of Spain; and a map of Britain, with details for S. Wales, Cornwall, and N. England [viz. Northumbria]. Criticism T. Finnerty, The Irish Patriot - The Trial of Roger O’Connor, Irish Patriot and Friend of Sir F. Burdett, on a charge of Robbing the Galway Mail Coach, Dec. 1812 (London: Fairburn c.1820), 48; see also chapter-essay in Robert Tracy, The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities (UCD Press 1998). References Dictionary of National Biography; English bar 1784 [sic]; imprisoned with his brother Arthur; involved in insurance crimes; other details as above; Chronicles of Eri, mainly imaginative. Hyland Catalogue No. 219 (Oct. 1995) lists An Address to the People of Ireland Shewing them Why they ought to Submit to an Union (Dublin 1799), 16pp. Belfast Public Library holds to the People of Great Britain and Ireland (1799); View of the System of Anglo-Irish Jurisprudence and the effects of trial by Jury [in cases of faction] (1811); Chronicles of Eri. History of the Gaal Sciot Iber or the Irish People, translated from the original manuscripts, 2 vols. in 1 (1822). defendant, Margaret Dawes widow plaintiff, Richard O’Connor, attorney defendant; trial for the seduction of Margaret Dawes (1828). National Library of Scotland holds Chronicles of Eri; being the history of the Gael Sciot Iber: or, the Irish people; translated from the original manuscripts in the Phoenicians dialectic of the Scythian language. Vol. I (London: Sir Richard Phillips & Co. 1822). Notes Dangan Castle, Co. Meath, was the birthplace of Richard Colley Wellesley, 2nd Earl of Mornington and Marquess (1760-1842), Lord Lieutenant in 1821-28, and 1833-34 (See Doherty and Hickey, A Chronology of Irish History since 1500, Gill & Macmillan 1989). See also Hubert Butler, ‘Dangan Revisited’, in Grandmother and Wolfe Tone, 1990): ‘[…] the house passed to a Mr Roger O’Connor, who cut down all the trees he could sell and skinned the rooms of every saleable fitting. Finally, after it had been well insured, the house burst into flames. No great effort was made to quench them.’ Further, Dangan was visited by Mrs Delany. The house belong to a Mr Wesley, who acquired a peerage, and a boy, who was to be Mrs Delany’s godson and the father in turn of the Duke of Wellington. ‘It is possible that he [Wellesley] disliked the middle-class associations which cam to the family name through his kinsman John Wesley.’ (p.105.) O’Connor derived Palatinus from Gaelic for ‘the high place of the fire of the multitude’ and Italia from Iataille, ‘the most beautiful country’, both supposed words in Gaelic. See Celtica, 1967; catalogue of Celtic works in National Library of Scotland. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |