Phons O'Mara

Alphonsus M. ("Phons") O'Mara (13 October 1887[1] – 16 February 1958) was a businessman and Irish republican Mayor of Limerick 1918-20.[2] O'Mara was a son of Stephen O'Mara, Snr, himself a former Mayor of Limerick and briefly an Irish Parliamentary Party MP.[3] Phons O'Mara was the brother of another Mayor, Stephen M. O'Mara. In 1918 he stripped Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl of the freedom of the City because of Dunraven's support for conscription.[4] In 1919 he helped negotiate the end of the Limerick Soviet.[5] His business activity related to the family bacon business, and he became owner of Donnolly's bacon factory.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://humphrysfamilytree.com/OMara/phons.html
  2. ↑ http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/mayoralty%2001.pdf
  3. ↑ http://humphrysfamilytree.com/OMara/stephen.html
  4. ↑ http://humphrysfamilytree.com/OMara/phons.html
  5. ↑ http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/Media,3944,en.pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.strandhotellimerick.ie/upload/docs/the-strand-history-proof.pdf


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