Author: O'CONOR, Daniel Roderick
Biography:
O’CONOR, Daniel Roderick (c. 1757-1842: Cork Examiner)
No information other than a death notice has come to light but his Works—mainly prose with some verse—indicates that he was a Roman Catholic who spent time in Dublin but otherwise lived in Cork. At the time of his death his residence was in Broad Street, Hammond’s Marsh, in the centre of Cork. A note to one of his poems, “The Author’s Farewell to Dublin,” states that his ancestors were “stripped of their property through the effect of the Penal Laws.” Those laws applied mainly to Irish Catholics. The subscribers’ list at the end of the second volume of his Works is astonishingly extensive. He died “a patriotic Irishman” at the age of eighty-five on 5 Sept. 1842. (Cork Examiner 7 Sept. 1842)
Other Names:
- D. R. O'Conor