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After that, our Journal lost capturing said anniversaries, the reason for which may
be lost to history. All I know is that I may never let the 15th of February escape my
recognition as a day of significance ever again.
Charles Lysaght wrote that Eoin was a lovable eccentric. Does that change
who he was or what he accomplished? What we do know is that Eoin’s dedication
to welcome all “related by blood or affection” to our Gatherings (and now Get-
Togethers in the diaspora) has not changed. He truly was our Lasair, and I can only
hope that he is proud of the legacy he started. Did he ever envisage a world-wide
society? I can think it was something he held in his dreams, and I trust (per the Clans
of Ireland) that he’d be proud that our long history of successive annual Gatherings is
unmatched by any other sister Clan.
Lasair romhainn go buadh! (The flame before us in victory!)

The photos shared herein have been recovered with the best that current
technology allows. The quality of photos in the Journal has improved significantly
over the years, for which we can be grateful.
This is a list of related Journal articles, with my scant research notes, you may
want to read in their entirety. All are available on The O Mahony Society website
(omahonysociety.com/publications).
(OMSJ = O Mahony Society Journal; EOM = Eoin O’Mahony; RIA = Royal Irish
Academy; PTOM = P. T. O’Mahony)

OMSJ #2 June 1972 p 1 Forward by PTOM; gen. background re EOM
p 2 PTOM tribute to Eoin’s detective work
p 5 Fr. Jack Walsh comments to the 18th Clan Rally

p 14 A truly ecumenical Irishman
OMSJ #3 1973 p 2 PTOM on the start of the bursary appeal
p 13 Bordeaux awaits Research – EOM travels and research
OMSJ # 7/8 1978 p 16 Etching of EOM

p 18 EOM Anniversary Mass
OMSJ #9 1979 p 4 RIA award of EOM Bursary
p 6 Broadcaster’s Tribute at Anniversary Mass
OMSJ #10 1980 pp 28-35 PTOM on EOM
p 32 Photo: EOM as K.M.

OMSJ #11 1981 p 4 EOM Bursary award
OMSJ #24 2001 p 44 Photo: EOM with Julia Cotter (Leamcom 1965)
OMSJ #27 2004 pp 44-47 Diarmuid O Mathuna: Rallies of half Century (good retrospective on EOM)
OMSJ #28 2005 p 55 Charles Lysaght on EOM

1 The O Mahony Journal, Vol. 2, June 1972, P. T. O’Mahony, p 2 7 The O Mahony Society Journal, Vol. 10, Summer 1980, P. T. O’Mahony, p 29
2 Ibid, p5 8 Ibid, p 31
3 Ibid, p 5 9 Ibid, p 31
4 The O Mahony Journal, Vols. 7 and 8, Summer 1978, uncredited, p 16 10 Ibid, p 32
5 In The O Mahony Society Journal, No 28, 2005, p 55, Charles Lysaght’s excerpted article on 11 The O Mahony Society Journal, Vol. 28, 2005, Charles Lysaght, p56
Eoin O Mahony puts his year of birth as 1905. 12 The O Mahony Society Journal, Vol. 41, 2018, Uncredited, p 2
6 In The O Mahony Society Journal, Vol. 10, Summer 1980, p 28, P. T. O’Mahony corroborated 13 The O Mahony Society Journal, Vol. 3, 1973, pp 13-14
the 1904 DOB by stating, “He died on February 15, 1970, 44 days short of his 66th birthday.” 14 The O Mahony Society Journal, Vol. 2, 1972, p 14 9