{"id":2594,"date":"2016-01-23T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T12:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:32:24","slug":"death-of-judge-art-oconnor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/death-of-judge-art-oconnor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DEATH OF JUDGE ART O\u2019CONNOR, 1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Irish Press 11 May 1950<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DEATH OF JUDGE ART O\u2019CONNOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Art O\u2019Connor, Circuit judge, died at his home, Elm Hall, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, yesterday, aged 62.\u00a0\u00a0A Gaelic scholar, he was one of the first Gaelic Leaguers in Co. Kildare, and a pioneer of Sinn Fein movement.\u00a0 He was a member of the Coiste Gnotha for many years.<\/p>\n<p>In the General Election of 1918 he was elected T.D. for Kildare and was appointed Director of Agriculture in the First Dail Eireann.\u00a0A then active member of the I.R.A., he was arrested in the \u201cGerman Plot\u201d scare in 1917 and was interned in Durham.\u00a0 He continued with his national activities throughout the War of Independence.\u00a0On the outbreak of Civil War in 1922, he was with the Republican forces and was captured and interned in Mountjoy and Kilmainham jails.<\/p>\n<p>He took his B.A., B.A.I. and LL.D, degrees in Trinity College and was called to the Bar in 1927.\u00a0He became Senior Counsel in 1944; was Standing Counsel to Revenue Commissioners 1944-\u201947 and was appointed Circuit Court Judge for Cork County and City in 1947.\u00a0He relinquished his Judgeship to become Chairman of the Military Service Pensions Tribunal, where he was working until his death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Press 11 May 1950 DEATH OF JUDGE ART O\u2019CONNOR Mr. Art O\u2019Connor, Circuit judge, died at his home, Elm Hall, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, yesterday, aged 62.\u00a0\u00a0A Gaelic scholar, he was one of the first Gaelic Leaguers in Co. Kildare, and a pioneer of Sinn Fein movement.\u00a0 He was a member of the Coiste Gnotha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7966,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/7966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}