[1][2] Born in Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, Ireland, Power was the son of Tyrone Power, reported to be “a minstrel of sorts”, by his marriage to Maria Maxwell, whose father had been killed while serving in the British Army during the American Revolutionary War.

[3] His father was related to the Powers who were of the Anglo-Irish landed gentry[4] and to George de la Poer Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford.

His major break came when fellow Irishman Charles Connor died of apoplexy in 1826, and he took over many of his stage Irish parts.

He was wellk nown for acting in such Irish-themed plays as Catherine Gore's King O'Neil (1835), his own St. Patrick's Eve (1837), Samuel Lover's Rory O'More (1837) and The White Horse of the Peppers (1838), Anna Maria Hall's The Groves of Blarney (1838), Eugene Macarthy's Charles O'Malley (1838) (see Charles Lever), and Bayle Bernard's His Last Legs (1839) and The Irish Attorney (1840).

Tyrone Power was lost at sea in March 1841, when the SS President disappeared without trace in the North Atlantic.