Thomas Power O'Connor was born in Athlone in 1848, known as T. P. O'Connor and occasionally as Tay Pay (mimicking his own pronunciation of the initials T. P.). He was a journalist or the ‘Saunders' Newsletter’ in Dublin an Irish nationalist political figure, and a member of parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for nearly fifty years.

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