O'Flanagan
O'Flanagan is an Irish surname.
According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Flanagans were one of the chiefly families of the Éile tribe who in turn came from the Dumnonii or Laigin who were the third wave of Celts to settle in Ireland during the first century BC.[1]
Notable people with the name include:
- Kevin O'Flanagan (1919–2006), Irish former sportsman, physician and sports administrator
- Michael O'Flanagan (1876–1942), Irish Republican and Roman Catholic priest
- Mick O'Flanagan (1922–2015), Irish former soccer and rugby union international
- Patrick O'Flanagan (born 1947), Irish geographer and academic
- Robert Dermot O'Flanagan (1901–1972), U.S. Catholic bishop
- Sheila O'Flanagan (born 1958), Irish fiction writer and journalist who currently writes for the Irish Times
See also
- With v O'Flanagan, an English contract law case concerning misrepresentation
- Pre-Norman invasion Irish Celtic kinship groups, from whom many of the modern Irish surnames came from
References
- ^ Cairney, C. Thomas (1989). Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States, and London: McFarland & Company. pp. 78–82. ISBN 0899503624.
Surname list
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