O’Connor Power was described as a ‘man of mystery’, enigmatic, elusive. Behind the scenes he worked with ‘a dogged tenacity of purpose’ to forward the goal of an independent Ireland. He anticipated Niall FitzGerald’s approach:
In this era of the adoration of celebrity, we should remember that there is no limit to what a man can achieve so long as he doesn’t care who gets the credit.
As quoted in UCD Connections Alumni Magazine, 2012
To go unnamed: ‘It was the method of Livingstone as against the method of Stanley. The former takes the braver and the better man.’ Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door.
‘boasting , as the apostle says, is excluded.’ The Forty Years of the Johnson Club 1884-1924.