Rory O'Connor (Irish republican)
Rory O'Connor | |
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Portrait of O'Connor, early 1920s | |
| Born | 28 November 1883 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 8 December 1922 (aged 39) Mountjoy Gaol, Dublin, Ireland |
| Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
| Allegiance | Irish Republican Army (IRA) Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) Irish Volunteers |
| Branch | Anti-Treaty IRA |
| Rank | Commandant-general |
| Battles / wars | Easter Rising Irish War of Independence Irish Civil War |
Roderick O'Connor (Irish: Ruairí Ó Conchubhair; 28 November 1883 – 8 December 1922) was an Irish republican who was Director of Engineering for the IRA in the Irish War of Independence. O'Connor opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and was chairman of the republican military council that became the Anti-Treaty IRA in March 1922. He was the main spokesman for the republican side in the lead-up to the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in June of that year. On 30 June, O'Connor was taken prisoner at the conclusion of the attack by Free State forces on the Four Courts in Dublin. On 8 December 1922, he was executed along with three other senior members of the IRA Four Courts garrison. All four men were executed without trial or courts martial.