Irish Naturalist. Returning from emigration to America, he was a founding-member of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, serving as Director of Arms. This group became the IRA. Originally in favor of cancelling the Easter Rising of 1916, he took part in the fighting in Dublin and was killed in a charge of the Volunteers from the Post Office. Irish poet, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem "The O'Rahilly" in which Rahilly says "Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike." Born the son of a merchant, he had a comfortable upper middle income, which was unlike the rest of the Irish. He was educated at Clongowes Wood, the elite Catholic boarding school in County Kildare and subsequently studied medicine in New York. He married an American lady and had three sons, who had an Irish-speaking nanny. He added an "O" to his surname bringing it somewhat closer to the original Irish O Rathalaigh. He was the manager of the Gaelic League newspaper "An Claidheamh Solais" and wrote articles for "Irish Freedom." His grandson, Aodogán Ronan O'Rahilly," owned media corporations.
Irish Naturalist. Returning from emigration to America, he was a founding-member of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, serving as Director of Arms. This group became the IRA. Originally in favor of cancelling the Easter Rising of 1916, he took part in the fighting in Dublin and was killed in a charge of the Volunteers from the Post Office. Irish poet, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem "The O'Rahilly" in which Rahilly says "Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike." Born the son of a merchant, he had a comfortable upper middle income, which was unlike the rest of the Irish. He was educated at Clongowes Wood, the elite Catholic boarding school in County Kildare and subsequently studied medicine in New York. He married an American lady and had three sons, who had an Irish-speaking nanny. He added an "O" to his surname bringing it somewhat closer to the original Irish O Rathalaigh. He was the manager of the Gaelic League newspaper "An Claidheamh Solais" and wrote articles for "Irish Freedom." His grandson, Aodogán Ronan O'Rahilly," owned media corporations.
Bio by: Linda Davis
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Records on Ancestry
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Geneanet Community Trees Index
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Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911
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England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995
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Web: Ireland, Military Service Pension Index, 1916-1923
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New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937
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