Roderick O'Connor 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 republic
Portrait of O'Connor, early 1920s
Back row l-r: Éamon de Valera, Kevin O'Higgins and his best man, Rory O'Connor, at O'Higgins' wedding, October 1921. A year later O'Higgins would sign O'Connor's death warrant
Rory O'Connor addressing members of the IRA's Dublin City Brigade at Smithfield, April 1922
Kevin O'Higgins
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Kevin Christopher O'Higgins was an Irish politician who served as Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice from 1922 to 1927, Minister for External Affairs from June 1927 to Ju
Rory O'Connor (Irish republican)
…Co Kildare, a boarding school run by the Jesuit order. It was also attended by the man who would later condemn O'Connor to death, his close friend Kevin O'Higgins. O'Connor studied experimental physics, logic, and metaphysics; he also attended the College of Science, Merrion St. He took a Bachelor of Arts degrees…
The body of Kevin O'Higgins lying in state in the Mansion House, July 1927
2012 memorial plaque to O'Higgins, located briefly near the site where he was shot
O'Higgins in 1922