Alphonsus M. ("Phons") O'Mara (13 October 1887 – 16 February 1958) was a businessman and
Irish republican
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The develop ...
Mayor of Limerick
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1918-20. O'Mara was a son of
Stephen O'Mara, Snr, himself a former Mayor of Limerick and briefly an
Irish Parliamentary Party
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MP. Phons O'Mara was the brother of another Mayor,
Stephen M. O'Mara. In 1918 he stripped
Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
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of the freedom of the City because of Dunraven's support for conscription. In 1919 he helped negotiate the end of the
Limerick Soviet
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. His business activity related to the family bacon business, and he became owner of Donnolly's bacon factory.
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1887 births
1958 deaths
20th-century Irish businesspeople
Mayors of Limerick (city)
Businesspeople from Limerick (city)
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