The Life and Times of John O'Connor Power
An excellent article in the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society Journal, volume 14, pps 166-167.
‘John O’Connor Power from Clashaganny’ by Patsy Flanagan.
That Irishman was born in the small townland of Clashaganny, close to Tulsk, County Roscommon. In 2011 I left a copy of That Irishman in Devine’s pub.
See That Irishman, Afterword, p. 235. Moriarty Unmasked, pps 24, 25.
John O’Connor Power’s mother was from Roscommon, most probably from Clashaganny, Tulsk, where John was born.
In Finnegans Wake, James Joyce describes ‘O’Colonel Power’ as ‘latterly distented from the O’Conner Dan’. Was John, through his mother, Mary O’Connor, laterally descended from an O’Conor Don, High King of Ireland? Or does Joyce imply he was the spiritual heir to Charles O’Conor Of Belangare?