Introduction

Biography

John was the hus­band of Fran­ces, daugh­ter of the first Lord O’Ha­gan (mar­ried 1861)

He was edu­cat­ed at the day school of the Je­su­it Fa­thers, Dub­lin, and at Tri­ni­ty Col­lege, gra­du­at­ing in 1842.

In 1842 he was called to the bar and joined the Mun­ster Cir­cuit. In 1861 he was ap­point­ed a Com­mis­sion­er of Na­tion­al Edu­ca­tion, and in 1865 he be­came Q. C.

After Glad­stone had passed his Ir­ish Land Act, he chose O’Ha­gan as the first ju­di­cial head of the Ir­ish Land Com­mis­sion, mak­ing him for this pur­pose a judge of Her Ma­jes­ty’s High Court of Jus­tice.

Works

• The Child­ren’s Ball­ad Ro­sa­ry
• An Eng­lish trans­la­tion of La Chan­son de Ro­land