Stephen O'Mara (senator)

Stephen O'Mara (26 December 1844 – 26 July 1926)[1][2] was an Irish nationalist politician and businessman from Limerick.

[1] Sons James and Stephen, Jnr became prominent Irish republicans and radicalised their father's later political views.

[1][5] He served again the following year,[5] and headed a campaign to raise funds for an organ for the Limerick Athenaeum.

[6] In a by-election in February 1886, he was returned unopposed as Irish Parliamentary Party MP for Queen's County Ossory.

[1] In the 1918 general election, O'Mara supported Sinn Féin as it eclipsed the less radical Irish Parliamentary Party.