Alphonsus M. ("Phons") O'Mara (13 October 1887[1] – 16 February 1958) was a businessman and Irish republican Mayor of Limerick 1918-20.
[2] O'Mara was a son of Stephen O'Mara, Snr, himself a former Mayor of Limerick and briefly an Irish Parliamentary Party MP.
In 1918 he stripped Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl of the freedom of the City because of Dunraven's support for conscription.
[4] In 1919 he helped negotiate the end of the Limerick Soviet.
[5] His business activity related to the family bacon business, and he became owner of Donnolly's bacon factory.