Tomás, Chevalier O'Gorman or Tomás Ó Gormáin (or Mac Gormáin) (1732–1809) was an Irish soldier and

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. Born in Castletown,

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, the son of Patrick O'Gorman. His first language was Irish. Thomas O'Gorman is from the

MacGorman MacGorman (Irish language, Irish: ''Mac Gormáin''), also known as McGorman, Gorman, or O'Gorman (Irish language, Irish: ''Ó Gormáin''), is an Irish people, Irish Gaels, Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Clare. The pat ...

clan. He was educated as a

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at the Irish College, Paris. He served with the Irish Brigade in the French army, and was created

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. O'Gorman married a daughter of Count d'Éon, and from him inherited vast vineyards, lost in the French Revolution. After this, he retired to Ireland, where he pursued his antiquarian studies; from about 1764 he corresponded with Charles O'Conor, and had made an impressive collection of

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. He also compiled pedigrees of Irish expatriates, and personally arranged for the

Book of Ballymote The ''Book of Ballymote'' (, RIA MS 23 P 12, 275 foll.), was written in 1390 or 1391 in or near the town of Ballymote, now in County Sligo, but then in the tuath of Corann. According to David Sellar who was the Lord Lyon King of Arms in ...

to be given by the Irish College to the

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. According to a somewhat dubious legend, O'Gorman received the

Brian Boru Brian Boru (; modern ; 23 April 1014) was the High King of Ireland from 1002 to 1014. He ended the domination of the High King of Ireland, High Kingship of Ireland by the Uí Néill, and is likely responsible for ending Vikings, Viking invasio ...

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and gave it to Colonel Burton Conyngham, who transferred it in

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, where it remains.The Brian Boru Harp, article in ''History Ireland'' magazine, Volume 22, Issue 2, March April 201

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