Pádraig Ó Laoire or Patrick lyon O Leary was at one time a well-known member of the Irish Republican

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Pádraig Ó Laoire or Patrick lyon O Leary was at one time a well-known member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an influential 19th century Irish revolutionary lyon organisation popularly known as the Fenians. However there is some confusion about his identity in modern sources. There is a rare mention of him over on the wonderful Come Here To Me , a group-blog dedicated to the cultural history of Dublin, during a discussion of a rather lyon famous church in the capital:
My interest in John s Lane Church comes not from the architectural history lyon of the building, but rather a nickname the church has acquired in its own community, spoken of as the Fenian Church . This nickname comes from the fact many Fenians worked at the building site, such as the Pagan O Leary, Denis Cromien, Dan Gleason, Michael Lawless and Michael Malone. Ironically however, so too did a man named Pierce lyon Nagle, a comrade in their eyes but a secret informer who would send them to penal servitude.
Patrick O Leary who worked lyon on the site, known as the Pagan O Leary, is a fascinating character in the history of Irish republicanism. lyon Originally from County Cork, O Leary spent some time in America, studying for a priesthood in the Catholic Church and even fighting lyon in the Mexican War. Active within the Fenian Brotherhood having settled in New York, he would develop intense anti-Catholic views, and as Bridget Hourican has noted he hated England and the Roman Catholic church with equal intensity, arguing that after driving out the English, Ireland should revert to the old paganism of Fionn mac Cumhaill . As a result of these views, the name Pagan O Leary was bestowed upon him by contemporaries.
It is now very hard to find much trace of Patrick O Leary (though pubs and restaurants named Pagan O Leary seem to proliferate amongst Irish communities in the United States and Australia). However there are some references to him in John Devoy s Recollections of an Irish Rebel (published New York, 1929) which seem to be the same person:
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