Rory Oge O'More Ruairí Óg Ó Mórdha | |
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| Lord of Laois | |
Rory O'More depicted in The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne, c. 1581 | |
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| Tenure | 1557 – 1578 |
| Predecessor | Conall Óg O'More |
| Successor | James O'More |
| Born | c. 1544 Ireland |
| Died | 30 June 1578 (aged ~34) Ireland |
| Noble family | O'More clan |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret O'Byrne (m. 1573) |
| Issue | Owny MacRory O'More Fiach O'More Remainn O'More Doryne Tyrrell (née O'More) |
| Father | Rory Caoch O'More |
Rory Oge O'More (Irish: Ruairí Óg Ó Mórdha; c. 1544 – 30 June 1578) was an Irish noble and chief of the O'More clan. As the Lord of Laois, he rebelled against the Tudors' sixteenth-century conquest of Gaelic Ireland.
Irish nationalists Patrick Pearse and Philip O'Sullivan Beare characterised O'More as a patriot who fought against the tyranny of the English, who had established plantations on his family's land.[1][2] Unionist Peter Kerr-Smiley claimed that despite O'More's ostensible duty to protect Catholicism in Ireland, him and his followers were "nothing more or less than a band of lawless brigands whose chief aim was to attack small towns or villages, burn the Protestant houses, and murder and mutilate the inhabitants".[3]
O'More is considered the greatest obstacle to Elizabeth I's conquest of the Irish midlands.[4] He was killed by troops led by his loyalist cousin Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 2nd Baron Upper Ossory.
- ^ O'Sullivan Beare, Philip. "On the O'Mores and O'Connors of Offaly". Chapters towards a History of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth.
- ^ Pearse, Pádraic H. To the Boys of Ireland.
- ^ Kerr-Smiley, Peter (1911). The Peril of Home Rule.
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