Roderick O'Conor
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Roderick O'Connor: the last High King of Ireland, 1166-1198; his deposition of Diarmaid MacMurragh as King of Leinster was the direct cause of the Norman invasion of Ireland, and his ineffective attempt to repel the invasion ensured that it was the beginning of centuries of English domination.
- Roderic O'Conor: Irish impressionist painter, 1860-1940; lived in Paris from 1886 to 1920 (note the single n in his last name, as Joyce uses in the text)
