Eoin O’Mahony Bursary in Irish History

O’Mahony, Eoin Seosamh (‘Pope’) (1904–70), barrister, genealogist, journalist, and broadcaster, was born in Monkstown in Cork on 22 March 1904. He studied at King’s Inns and Trinity College Dublin, where he had great success as a debater. He was called to the Bar in 1930 but preferred to concentrate on causes that engaged his own enthusiasm such as Great Southern Railway, refugee children and the release of IRA prisoners. He was devoted to family history and was one of the founders of the Irish Genealogical Research Society. He was able to indulge his passion for family history when, between 1962 and 1967, Radio Éireann retained him to compere a programme broadcast at Sunday lunchtime called Meet the clans. Amongst other roles and interests he spent two terms as a visiting professor at the University of South Illinois, was heavily involved in Commemoration of oft-overlooked historic figures and played an active part in the Irish Georgian Society. He passed away suddenly on 15 February 1970. Among many generous tributes was one in The Times stating that if he had had a Boswell he was the stuff of Johnson.