O'Mahony, The (Commemorative) Tartan
- Name of Tartan:
- O'Mahony, The (Commemorative)
- Alternative Name:
- Mahoni
- ITI Number:
- 6491
- Category:
- Irish Commemorative
- Designer / Source:
- Wilton, Brian
- Date:
- 2004 Nov.
- Slog:
- WGR:WOB
- Colour Sequence:
- WGRGNBOBOW
- Thread Count:
- W2 LG4 R4 LG36 N12 DB80 GO2 DB2 GO8 W4
- Notes:
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Based on a popular tartan woven in Dublin (Brabazon Row, The Liberties) by Robert Mitchell in the late 1800s this design incorporates the colours of the Irish and Bulgarian flags (white, green and red) and the colours of County Kerry (gold, green, blue and red). The grey counterpoint is a lighthearted reference to the Irish wolfhounds that Pierce O’Mahony bred.
Pierce Charles Lacy O’Mahony (1850-1930) known up to 1901 as Pierce Mahony, and from 1912 also as The O’Mahony of Kerry, was an Irish Protestant nationalist, philanthropist, politician and Westminster MP. He practised as a barrister from 1898 to 1900. He was remarkable in having had successively three names, two wives and three faiths. He was honoured by the Kings of two opposing countries in the Great War. In 1903 O?Mahony travelled to Bulgaria to undertake relief work among orphans who had fled from Turkish massacres, and in 1904 opened St Patrick?s Orphanage in Sofia. On the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he unsuccessfully tried to prevent Bulgaria entering alliance with Germany, and after the war argued for Bulgaria to be exempted from war reparations. On Jan 20, 1915, he was awarded the Order of Civil Merit by Ferdinand I of Bulgaria.
