Identity area
Reference code
IE OH OHS31/D/1
Title
Midland Tribune Easter Rising Souvenir
Date(s)
- 1966 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
16pp
Context area
Name of creator
(1894-1976)
Biographical history
Alo O'Brennan, Cormac St, Tullamore was a member of a strongly republican family. He served a month in jail for nationalist activity and the family home in Church St, Tullamore, was raided on a number of occasions. He was manager of the employment exchange in Tullamore from the late 1920s until 1974. Leading member of Irish National Forresters and a former Chief Ranger, he was a founder member of Tullamore Pipe Band in 1911. He died in 1976 aged 82.