Patrick O'Connor (rugby union)

Patrick O'Connor
Full namePatrick John O'Connor
Date of birth(1863-04-18)18 April 1863
Date of death26 December 1919(1919-12-26) (aged 56)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Halfback
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1887 Ireland 1 (0)

Patrick John O'Connor (18 April 1863 — 26 December 1919) was an Irish international rugby union player.

Raised in Dublin, O'Connor attended Clondalkin College and Blackrock College.[1]

O'Connor played for Dublin club Lansdowne, forming a halfback partnership with the 15-times capped Robert Warren, with whom he also teamed with for his solitary Ireland cap in 1887, against Wales at Birkenhead.[1]

An auctioneer by profession, O'Connor took over his father's Queen street business during the 1880s and became well known around Dublin, specialising in the sale of cattle.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Death Of Mr P. J. O'Connor J.P". Dublin Evening Telegraph. 27 December 1919.
  2. ^ "Noted Dublin Auctioneer Passes Away on Christmas Day". Weekly Freeman's Journal. 3 January 1920.