John O'Connor Power - in Literature

In Literature

'And three's here for repeat of the unium! Place the scaurs on your groot big bailey bill, he apullajibed, the O'Colonel Power, latterly distented from the O'Conner Dan, so promonitory himself that he was obliffious of the headth of the hosth that rose before him ...' James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, 1939


' Mr. O'Connor Power said that public opinion must be organised, and that there's nothing tyrants dread so much as exposure. He said evictions must be stopped and no more emigration must be allowed unless the people want to go. You should have heard them cheer at that - I wonder did they really believe anything would come of it, but at least the thought did something for them.' EilĂ­s Dillon, Across the Bitter Sea, 1973.

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