Charles Conor O'Malley

Charles Conor O'Malley, B.Sc., M.D., K.M., Irish surgeon, writer, and Chief of the Name, 1889-1982.

O'Malley was born in Joyce County in north-east Connemara, a member of the Kilmilkin family. He graduated with an M.B. from University College Galway, U.C.G., in 1917, his first appointment being Surgeon Lt. on H.M.S. Furious, and later with the Royal Air Force. In the 1920s he began his civilian practise in Gort, and for a time moved to India where he studied cataracts under Doctor Mathra Das Pawha.

In 1931 he was appointed Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology in U.C.G., where his elder brother, Michael, was Professor of Surgery from 1924 to 1956.

Most of O'Malley's professional publications were written while he was at U.C.G.

His two sons, Padraig and Cathal, set up medical practises in the U.S.A..

In his retirement, O'Malley became absorbed in the history of the Ó Máille clan, and such of its figures as Gráinne Ní Mháille (c. 1530 – c. 1603). He was elected Chief of the O'Malley's, and became a Guardian Chief, a lifetime honor.

See also

• Shelia Mulloy

Select bibliography

• With a Fishing Rod in Ireland, New York, 1975

References

• Bearna agus Na Forbacha:A Local History, ed. Tom Kenny, Shantalla, Galway, 1983
• O'Malley:People and Places, Ballinakella Press, 1986.

External links

• http://www.omalleyclanireland.com/

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