Paul O 'Dwyer

Mayo Men's Journal 1954

Bohola Catholic Church Co. Mayo by Bill Henderson 2006

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Bohola, Co. Mayo

Humanitarian, statesman, civil libertarian, politician, author, also councillor.

This interesting Mayo native forged a very successful career in the United States. He spent over twenty – five years in a political capacity in New York.

Ancestors

His grandfather Pat was proprietor of a shop named O ‘Dwyer’s. William was his oldest brother: along with three other siblings they emigrated to the U. S. A. (Clines Francis X. 25^th June 1998) [i]

The O ‘Dwyer’s were maternal uncles of lawyer & activist Frank Durkan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%27Dwyer

On the 1901 Census a Patrick O’ Dwyer is listed at Lismirrane. [ii]

Peter Paul O ‘Dwyer was born in Lismirrane in Bohola, Co. Mayo during 1907. [iii]

He was the youngest sibling of eleven: his brother Willian was seventeen years older. His mother was Bridget (nee McNicholas) his father Patrick (originally from Cork) was the first principle of Lismirrine National School while his mother had been an assistant teacher there. (Cronin Sean 25^th June 25^th 1998) [iv]

Peter Paul O ‘Dwyer was born on 29^th June 1907 in the village of Bohola Co. Mayo in the West of Ireland. Peter Paul O ‘Dwyer was the last child & number eleven of Patrick & Bridget O’Dwyer nee McNicholas. [v]

Peter Paul O ‘Dwyer was born in the village of Bohola, County Mayo on 29^th June 29 1907 in Western Ireland. Peter Paul O ‘Dwyer was the eleventh & last surviving child of Patrick & Bridget O’Dwyer McNicholas. (Clines) [vi]

Born during 1907 Paul O ‘Dwyer was the youngest of eleven children of the local school teacher Patrick O ‘Dwyer from Co. Cork & mother Bridget McNicholas from Co Mayo. [vii]