O’MALLEY, Sir Samuel, 1 Baronet (son of Owen O’Malley of Borrishowle, co. Mayo). b. 26 Dec. 1779; created baronet 2 July 1804. d. Kilboyne house, Castlebar, Mayo 18 Aug. 1864. G.M. xvii 529 (1864).
O’MALLEY, Thadeus Joseph. b. Garryowen, near Limerick 1796; a Roman Catholic minister, Philadelphia, U.S. of America, but was suspended by bishop England 1825; assistant priest to the cathedral in Marlborough st. Dublin under archbishop Daniel Murray 1827; advocated a poor law for Ireland and a system of national education; rector of R.C. university of Malta, but dismissed by the government; started a newspaper in Dublin entitled The social economist and another entitled The Federalist, No. 1 Sept. 24, 1870, which ran to No. 31 April 22, 1871; tried to unite the Old Ireland and Young Ireland parties; advocated home rule from 1870; author of A sketch of the state of popular education in Holland, Prussia, Belgium and France, 2 ed. 1840; Home rule on the basis of federalism 1873. d. 1 Henrietta st. Dublin 2 Jany. 1877. bur. Glasnevin cemet. The works of the right rev. J. England, bishop of Charleston v 187–202 (1849).
O’MEARA, Kathleen (dau. of Dennis O’Meara of Tipperary). b. Dublin 1839; resided in Paris most of her life, where she was correspondent of The Tablet newspaper many years; author of the following works under pseudonym of Grace Ramsay, A woman’s trials, 3 vols. 1867; Iza’s story, 3 vols. 1869, 2 ed. 1877; The bells of the sanctuary, Agnes 1871; The bells of the sanctuary, A daughter of St. Dominick 1873; A salon in the last days of the Empire 1873; Thomas Grant, first bishop of Southwark 1874, 2 ed. 1886; The battle of Connemara 1878, 2 ed. 1878; Are you my wife, 3 vols. 1878; translated Henri Perreyve and his counsels to the sick 1881; author under own name of The Bells of the sanctuary, Mary Benedicta, etc. 1879; The blind apostle 1890; Frederic Ozanam, his life and works 1876, 2 ed. 1878; Madame Mohl, her salon and her friends 1885, 2 ed. 1886; Narka, 2 vols. 1888; The old house in Picardy 1887; One of God’s heroines, Mother Mary Teresa Kelly 1878; Queen by right divine and other tales 1885; The ven. Jean Baptiste Viauney 1891. d. at residence of Father Faber, Paris 10 Nov. 1888. Irish Monthly Oct. 1889 pp. 527–36; Tablet 17 Nov. 1888 p. 789.
OMMANNEY, Henry Manaton. b. 1775; entered navy June 1787; captain 22 Jany. 1806; retired R.A. 28 June 1838, placed on the active list 17 Aug. 1840; admiral on h.p. 4 July 1855. d. 11 West Emma place, Stonehouse 22 March 1857.
OMMANNEY, Sir John Acworth (eld. son of rear admiral Cornthwaite Ommanney, d. 1801). b. 1773; entered navy 1786; captain 16 Oct. 1800; flag captain to sir Erasmus Gower on the Newfoundland station 1804–6; commanded the Albion 1825–30; served at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827, for which created C.B. 1828, and knight of the orders of St. Louis, St. Vladimir and the Redeemer of Greece; R.A. 22 July 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 May 1835; commanded the Lisbon station 1837–40, and the Mediterranean station 1840–1; K.C.B. 20 July 1838; V.A. 23 Nov. 1841, admiral 4 May 1849; commander-in-chief at Devonport 17 April 1851 to 1 May 1854. d. Warblington house, Havant 8 July 1855.
O’NEILL, John Bruce Richard O’Neill, 3 Viscount (younger son of 1 viscount O’Neill 1740–98). b. Shane’s castle, co. Antrim 30 Dec. 1780; ensign Coldstream guards 10 Oct. 1799; lieut. col. Chasseurs Britanniques 21 April 1808 to 29 March 1810; lieut. col. 19 dragoons 29 March 1810 to 11 July 1816; captain Coldstream guards 11 July 1816 to 27 May 1825; M.G. 27 May 1825; general 20 June 1854; M.P. co. Antrim 1802–41; succeeded his brother as 3 viscount 25 March 1841; constable of Dublin castle May 1811 to death; vice-admiral of the coast of Ulster; a representative peer of Ireland Feb. 1842 to death. d. Shane’s Castle 12 Feb. 1855.
O’NEILL, William O’Neill, 1 Baron (eld. son of rev. Edward Chichester, R. of Kilmore, Armagh, d. June 1840). b. Culdaff house, co. Donegal 3 March 1813; educ. Foyle college, Londonderry, Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1836; C. of Kilmore 1837; prebendary of Ch. Ch. Dublin 1848–59; succeeded to the O’Neill estates 1855, when he took name of O’Neill in lieu of that of Chichester; acted frequently as organist in the Dublin cathedrals; composer of church music, glees, and songs; composed the poetry and music of an ode when prince Arthur visited Shane’s Castle 1869; created baron O’Neill of Shane’s Castle in the county of Antrim 18 April 1868; a great supporter of the disestablished church; a member of the Victoria institute 1875; author of Friendly suggestions on Christian consistency, Exeter 1847; The christian sabbath 1859; Unchanging love, or the final perseverance of all believers in Christ Jesus 1860; Absolution and the prayer book 1871; Essays and addresses on the truths of the christian religion 1886; composer of Let others quaff the racy wine, a glee 1881. d. Shane’s Castle 17 April 1883. The O’Neill scholarship founded in the divinity school, Trin. coll. Dublin in his memory. Sermon by the rev. lord O’Neill (1885), memoir pp. ix–xlviii portrait.
O’NEILL, Henry. b. Dundalk 1800; Irish archæologist; author of A guide to pictorial art 1846; The most interesting of the ancient crosses of ancient Ireland, drawn to scale and lithographed by H. O’Neill 1857; The fine arts and civilization of ancient Ireland, illustrated with chromo and other lithographs 1863; Ireland for the Irish 1868. d. 109 Lower Gardiner st. Dublin 21 Dec. 1880.
O’NEILL, Henry Arthur. Ensign 41 foot 22 Nov. 1821; captain 12 foot 8 March 1827, major 28 Aug. 1835 to 25 Oct. 1842, when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Nov. 1870. d. St. Ann’s Donnybrook, co. Dublin 23 Nov. 1874.
O’NEIL, Henry Nelson. b. St. Petersburg 7 Jany. 1817; came to England 1823; studied at the R.A. from 1836; historical painter; exhibited 94 pictures at R.A., 34 at B.I., and 14 at Suffolk st. 1838–79; A.R.A. 1860; with other persons supplied illustrations to L’Allegro and Il penseroso 1848; author of Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy 1866; Two thousand years hence 1868; Modern art in England and France 1869; Satirical dialogues 1870; The age of stucco, a satire in three cantos 1871. d. 7 Victoria road, Kensington, London 13 March 1880. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Sandby’s History of royal academy ii 343 (1862); Walford’s Representative men (1868) portrait; I.L.N. xxxvi 180, 181 (1860) portrait, lxxv 308 (1880) portrait.