O’DOHERTY, KEVIN IZOD (1823-1895).—­Son of a Dublin solicitor.  After his release from transportation he settled in Australia and became prominent in its politics and medical science.  In 1885 he returned temporarily to Ireland, and sat for a brief period in the British Parliament as Parnellite member for Meath.

O’DONNELL, JOHN.—­A Limerick solicitor and an ardent Young Irelander.  When Richard O’Gorman came to Limerick to urge the people to arms, O’Donnell travelled through the county with him as his aide-de-camp.  On the news of the outbreak in Tipperary, O’Donnell, Doyle and Daniel Harnett raised the country around Abbeyfeale, cut off the mails and pitched an insurgent camp outside the town where the Abbeyfeale men waited for O’Gorman, who was elsewhere in the county, to take command.  Before his arrival the news of the collapse at Ballingarry arrived and the Abbeyfeale Camp broke up.  O’Donnell escaped from the country with O’Gorman.

O’DOWD, JAMES.—­A Conciliation Hall lawyer.  Afterwards appointed to a legal position in connection with the London Custom house.

O’DWYER, CAREW.—­Repeal M.P. for Louth, 1832-5.  He deserted Repeal and received a minor position in the Exchequer Court.

O’FLAHERTY, MARTIN.—­A Galway solicitor and a member of the Irish Confederation.

O’GORMAN, RICHARD, JUN. (1826-1895).—­Son of Richard O’Gorman of the Woollen Hall, one of the foremost Dublin merchants and Catholic leaders in the Emancipation struggle.  O’Gorman settled in New York after his escape and became a judge of the Superior Court.

O’HEA, JAMES.—­A lawyer described by Davis as of “vast abilities.”

O’LOGHLEN, SIR COLMAN (1819-1877).—­Second baronet, son of the Master of the Rolls.  Afterwards M.P. for Clare, a Privy Councillor and Judge-Advocate-General.

O’MAHONY, JOHN (1816-1877).—­A gentleman-farmer of ancient lineage and high scholarship.  After the second attempt to kindle insurrection he fled to the Continent and later proceeded to the United States, where with Doheny and Stephens he founded Fenianism.

PEEL, SIR ROBERT (1788-1850).—­Chief Secretary for Ireland and organiser of the “new police”—­hence “peelers.”  In politics an opportunist, opposing and supporting Catholic Emancipation and Free Trade.  Premier of England, 1834-5, 1841-6.

PENNEFATHER, BARON (1773-1859).—­Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, 1821, and for thirty-eight years a judge.

PIGOT, CHIEF BARON (1797-1872).—­Son of Dr. Pigot of Mallow and one of the founders of the attempted National Whig Party in the period 1820-30.  He was a cultured man and an upright judge.

PIGOT, JOHN E. (1822-1871).—­Eldest son of Chief Baron Pigot and the intimate comrade of Thomas Davis.  Author of many ballads and articles in the Nation and other National journals, and an ardent collector of Irish music.

PLUNKET, LORD (1764-1854).—­William Conyngham Plunket, member for Charlemont in the Irish Parliament and a bitter opponent of the Union.  Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1830 to 1841.