O'Mahony or O'Mahoney, or simply Mahony or Mahoney, without the prefix, is an Irish

Irish language

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 surname

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The O'Mahonys were Cenél nÁeda princes of the ancient Eóganacht Raithlind

Eóganacht Raithlind

Eóganacht Raithlind or Uí Echach Muman are a branch of the Eóganachta, the ruling dynasty of Munster during the 5th-10th centuries. They took their name from Raithlinn or Raithleann described around the area of Bandon, in the same area...

. They were also for a period kings of Munster

Munster

Munster is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the south of Ireland. In Ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial purposes...

 and Desmond

Desmond

Desmond may refer to:*Desmond , a common given name and surname* Kingdom of Desmond, medieval Irish kingdom* Earl of Desmond, Irish aristocratic title* Desmond Rebellions, Irish rebellions during the 16th century led by the Earl of Desmond...

, and take their name from Mathgamain, son of Cian, son of Máel Muad mac Brain

Máel Muad mac Brain

Máel Muad mac Brain , commonly anglicised Molloy, was King of Munster, first possibly from 959 or alternatively 963 to around 970, when he may have been deposed by Mathgamain mac Cennétig of the Dál gCais, and then again from 976, following his putting to death of the latter, until his own death...

, King of Munster from around 960 to 970, and then again from 976 to 978. From 970 to 976 he was king of Desmond. His son Cian became a close ally of Brian Bóruma and married his daughter Sadb. From this marriage descend the O'Mahonys.

• Bernard O'Mahoney
  Bernard O'Mahoney
  Patrick Bernard O'Mahoney is an English-born crime author of Irish descent. Along with his book writing activities he is known for forming relationships with prisioners with a significant media interest and selling information gained in the course of the relationship to the press.-Personal...
  
  , crime author
• Bertha Mahony
  Bertha Mahony
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  , children's literature specialist
• Charles Mahoney
  Charles Mahoney
  Charles Mahoney was an Irish Franciscan. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987.-Life:The documentary evidence is scanty...
  
  , Irish Franciscan martyr
• Cynthia L. Mahoney
  Cynthia L. Mahoney
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  , Episcopalian nun and former chaplain in New York City, present at "Ground Zero"
• Dan Mahoney
  Dan Mahoney
  Dan Mahoney was an Irish-American journalist who was investigated in the 1950s by Joseph McCarthy and James Eastland for possible Communist activities and party membership....
  
  , Irish-American journalist investigated by Joseph McCarthy
• Daniel O'Mahony
  Daniel O'Mahony
  Daniel O'Mahony is a half-British half-Irish author, born in Croydon. He is the oldest of five children, his siblings including Eoin O'Mahony of the band Hamfatter, and Madeleine O'Mahony, who has designed and made hats for Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.-Biography:O'Mahony's first professionally...
  
  , author
• Darragh O'Mahony
  Darragh O'Mahony
  Darragh O'Mahony is a rugby union player who played on the Wing for Moseley, Saracens and Ireland. O'Mahony joined Saracens from Bedford Blues in 1999 and was released by mutual consent in August 2004.-Notes:...
  
  , rugby player
• Dennis Mahony
  Dennis Mahony
  Dennis Augustin Mahony was one of the founders of the Dubuque Herald , a newspaper in Dubuque, Iowa, during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  , newspaper founder
• Dermot O'Mahony
  Dermot O'Mahony
  Dermot O'Mahony was an Irish politician and farmer. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála for the Wicklow constituency at the June 1927 general election. He was re-elected at the September 1927, 1932 and 1933 general elections. He was re-elected at the 1937...
  
  , Irish politician and farmer
• Duncan O'Mahony
  Duncan O'Mahony
  Duncan O'Mahony [oh-MAH-nee] is a Canadian football punter and placekicker who is currently a free agent.- Early years :...
  
  , Canadian footballer
• Eugene O'Mahoney
  Eugene O'Mahoney
  Eugene O'Mahoney was an Irish museum curator and entomologist who worked on Coleoptera, Mallophaga and Siphonaptera.O'Mahoney worked in the National Museum, Dublin...
  
  , Irish museum curator and entomologist
• Flor O'Mahony
  Flor O'Mahony
  Florence "Flor" O'Mahony is a former Labour Party politician in Ireland. He was a senator in the 1980s, and was briefly a Member of the European Parliament ....
  
  , Irish politician
• Francis Sylvester Mahony
  Francis Sylvester Mahony
  Francis Sylvester Mahony , also known by the pen name Father Prout, was an Irish humorist. He was born in Cork, Ireland, to Martin Mahony and Mary Reynolds. He was educated at the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College, Kildare, and later in Saint Acheul, a similar school in Amiens, France and then at Rue...
  
  , Irish humorist
• Frank P. Mahony
  Frank P. Mahony
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  , Australian artist
• George P. Mahoney
  George P. Mahoney
  George Perry Mahoney - was an Irish American Catholic politician from the state of Maryland, mostly famous as the Democratic Party nominee for Governor in 1966 by his campaign slogan, "Your Home Is Your Castle; Protect It".He was born in Baltimore as son of William D. Mahoney and Matilda "Cook"...
  
  , Catholic politician from Maryland
• J. Daniel Mahoney
  J. Daniel Mahoney
  John Daniel Mahoney was a New York-based judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit....
  
  , U.S. judge and founder of the Conservative Party
• Jeremiah Mahoney
  Jeremiah Mahoney
  Jeremiah Mahoney was a Sergeant in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his role in the American Civil War.Mahoney is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum Malden, Massachusetts...
  
  , Medal of Honor recipient from the American Civil War
• Joan Mahoney
  Joan Mahoney
  Joan Mahoney is distinguished legal scholar and former dean of two law schools. She served as Dean at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan, from 1998 to 2003, the first woman law school dean in Michigan and one of the very few women in the United States to have held the deanship...
  
  , American law professor
• Jock Mahoney
  Jock Mahoney
  Jock Mahoney was an American actor and stuntman of Irish, French, and Cherokee ancestry. Born Jacques O'Mahoney, he was credited variously as Jock Mahoney, Jack O'Mahoney or Jock O'Mahoney. He starred in two television series, both westerns...
  
  , American actor and stuntman
• John O'Mahony
  John O'Mahony
  John O'Mahony may refer to:*John O'Mahony , founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood *John O'Mahony , Irish Fine Gael politician representing Mayo and twice an All-Ireland winner managing the Galway Football Team*Sean Matgamna , also known as John O'Mahony, Trotskyist theorist*Seán O'Mahony ,...
  
  , scholar and founder of the Fenian Brotherhood
  Fenian Brotherhood
  The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish republican organization founded in the United States in 1858 by John O'Mahony and Michael Doheny. It was a precursor to Clan na Gael, a sister organization to the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Members were commonly known as "Fenians"...
  
  
• John O'Mahony (Mayo politician)
  John O'Mahony (Mayo politician)
  John O'Mahony is an Irish Fine Gael politician and former football manager. He is currently a Teachta Dála for the Mayo constituency. He was elected at the 2007 general election...
  
  
• John Keefer Mahony
  John Keefer Mahony
  John Keefer Mahony VC was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  , Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Joseph C. O'Mahoney
  Joseph C. O'Mahoney
  Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney was a Democratic United States Senator from Wyoming.O'Mahoney was born in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, November 5, 1884. He attended the parochial and public schools and Columbia University, New York City...
  
  , United States Senator from Wyoming
• Marion Mahony Griffin
  Marion Mahony Griffin
  Marion Griffin was an American architect and artist. She was one of the first licenced female architects in the world, and is considered an original member of the Prairie School.-Biography:...
  
  , American architect and artist
• Martin Mahoney
  Martin Mahoney
  Martin Vincent Mahoney was a Scott County, Minnesota justice of the peace who presided over the initial trial in the case of First National Bank of Montgomery vs Jerome Daly, Dec. 9, 1968 , also known as the Credit River case...
  
  , Minnesota justice of the peace
• Maureen Mahoney
  Maureen Mahoney
  Maureen E. Mahoney is a former deputy solicitor general and "top appellate lawyer" at the law firm of Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C. who has argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. Notably, she argued on behalf of the University of Michigan and its affirmative action...
  
  , appellate lawyer
• Patrick Mahoney
  Patrick Mahoney
  Patrick Mahoney VC was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  , Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Patrick Morgan Mahoney
  Patrick Morgan Mahoney
  Patrick Morgan Mahoney, PC is a retired judge and former politician, lawyer and businessman.Mahoney was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1968 election as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Calgary South...
  
  , PC
  Queen's Privy Council for Canada
  The Queen's Privy Council for Canada ), sometimes called Her Majesty's Privy Council for Canada or simply the Privy Council, is the full group of personal consultants to the monarch of Canada on state and constitutional affairs, though responsible government requires the sovereign or her viceroy,...
  
  , Canadian judge, politician, lawyer and businessman
• Paul Mahoney
  Paul Mahoney
  Paul G. Mahoney is an American law professor. He became Dean of the University of Virginia School of Law on July 1, 2008, succeeding John Calvin Jeffries....
  
  , American law professor
• Paul J. Mahoney
  Paul J. Mahoney
  Paul J. Mahoney is a British jurist and current and the first President of European Union Civil Service Tribunal.-Education:Mahoney studied law at Oxford University and received the Paul J. Mahoney (born 1946) is a British jurist and current (since 2005) and the first President of European Union...
  
  , British jurist, Judge and President of European Union Civil Service Tribunal
• Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony
  Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony
  Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony , known up to 1901 as Pierce Mahony, and from 1912 also as The O'Mahony of Kerry, was an Irish Protestant nationalist politician and philanthropist, who practised as a barrister from 1898 to 1900...
  
  , Irish Protestant Nationalist
  Protestant Nationalist
  Irish nationalism has been chiefly associated with Roman Catholics. However, historically this is not an entirely accurate picture. Protestant nationalists were also influential supporters of the political independence the island of Ireland from the island of Great Britain and leaders of national...
  
  , philanthropist, politician and MP
• Richard Mahoney
  Richard Mahoney
  Richard J. Mahoney is a Canadian lawyer, specializing in public policy and regulatory law. He is also a prominent member of the Liberal Party of Canada, known as a strategist and advisor to former Prime Minister Paul Martin. He ran as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Ottawa Centre during the...
  
  , Canadian lawyer
• Richard Mahoney (Arizona politician)
  Richard Mahoney (Arizona politician)
  Richard D. Mahoney was the Democratic Secretary of State of Arizona from 1991 until 1995.Mahoney, the son of William P. Mahoney, a Phoenix lawyer and United States Ambassador to Ghana, was born in 1952...
  
  
• Roger Mahony, American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Rosemary Mahoney
  Rosemary Mahoney
  Rosemary Mahoney is an American non-fiction writer.She grew up in Milton, Massachusetts. She graduated from St. Paul's School...
  
  , American writer of non-fiction narrative
• Seán O'Mahony
  Seán O'Mahony
  Seán O'Μahony was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and member of the First and Second Dáil.He was born in Thomastown, County Kilkenny. A successful businessman he was a tea merchant and a commercial traveller. His company, John O'Mahoney & Co., was located on Middle Abbey St., and was destroyed...
  
  , Irish politician
• Steve Mahoney
  Steve Mahoney
  Steven W. Mahoney, PC is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995, and a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004. In the latter capacity, he served as a cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien...
  
  , Canadian politician
• Thomas O'Mahony
  Thomas O'Mahony
  Thomas O'Mahony was an Irish Cumann na nGaedheal party politician who sat as a Teachta Dála in Dáil Éireann in the 1920s....
  
  , politician
• Walter J. Mahoney
  Walter J. Mahoney
  Walter J. Mahoney was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He graduated from Canisius College in 1930, and received a law degree from the University of Buffalo and was admitted to practice in 1934...
  
  , American lawyer and politician
• William Mahony (Australian politician)
  William Mahony (Australian politician)
  William George Mahony was an Australian politician.Born in Ireland, he migrated to Australia as a child and received a primary education before becoming a grocer's assistant. He became Secretary of the Grocers' Assistants' Union...
  
  
• William B. Mahoney
  William B. Mahoney
  William B. Mahoney was a prize-winning U.S. journalist and writer who had a successful late-in-life second career as a substance-abuse counselor....
  
  , U.S. journalist and substance-abuse counselor

Places

• Dunlough Castle
  Dunlough Castle
  Dunlough Castle, standing atop the cliffs at the northern tip of the Mizen Peninsula, looks at the Atlantic Ocean from the extreme southwest point of the Irish mainland...
  
  
• Mahoney Lake
  Mahoney Lake
  -External links:*...
  
  
• Mahoney's Corner, Nova Scotia
  Mahoney's Corner, Nova Scotia
  Mahoneys Corner is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Cumberland County .-References:*...
  
  
• Bishop James Mahoney High School
  Bishop James Mahoney High School
  Bishop James Mahoney High School is a high school serving grades 9 to 12, located in north Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It is also known as Bishop Mahoney High School or simply by its initials, BJM...
  
  

Flying machines and equations

• Beck-Mahoney Sorceress
  Beck-Mahoney Sorceress
  The Beck-Mahoney Sorceress was a racing staggerwing biplane originally designed by the father and son team of Lee and Seldon Mahoney with later improvements accomplished by pilot Don Beck....
  
  
• Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation
• Mahoney tables

See also

• Mahoney (surname)
• Eóganachta
  Eóganachta
  The Eóganachta or Eoghanachta were an Irish dynasty centred around Cashel which dominated southern Ireland from the 6/7th to the 10th centuries, and following that, in a restricted form, the Kingdom of Desmond, and its offshoot Carbery, well into the 16th century...
  
  
• Irish nobility
  Irish nobility
  This article concerns the Gaelic nobility of Ireland from ancient to modern times. It only partly overlaps with Chiefs of the Name because it excludes Scotland and other discussion...
  
  
• Dromore Castle
  Dromore Castle
  Dromore Castle is a house in Templenoe, County Kerry, Ireland, looking out over the Kenmare River. It was built in the 1830s for the Mahony family to a neo-gothic design by Sir Thomas Deane.-Building:...
  
  

Other Munster families

• O'Donoghue
  O'Donoghue
  Donoghue or O'Donoghue is an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of the Gaelic Ó Donnchadha or Ó Donnchú ‘descendant of Donnchadh’, a personal name composed of the elements donn = ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘lord’ + cath = ‘battle’....
  
  
• O'Brien, Prince of Thomond
  Baron Inchiquin
  Baron Inchiquin is one of the older titles in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1543 for Murrough O'Brien, Prince of Thomond, who was descended from the great high king Brian Boru)...
  
  
• O'Donovan
  O'Donovan
  O'Donovan or Donovan is an Irish surname, as well as a hereditary Gaelic title. It is also written Dhonnabháin in certain grammatical contexts, and Donndubháin, being originally composed of the elements donn, meaning lord or dark brown, dubh, meaning dark or black, and the diminutive suffix án...
  
  
• McGillycuddy of the Reeks
  McGillycuddy of the Reeks
  The McGillycuddy of the Reeks is one of the hereditary chiefs of the name of Ireland. The current family head is Donough McGillycuddy, who lives in Himeville, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.-Mythology:...
  
  
• O'Grady of Kilballyowen

External links

• The O'Mahony Society
• Famille O'Mahony at GeneaWiki (in French)