In honor of Father's Day, Tribune guest columnist Michael O'Brien explores his Irish roots.
Their surname brings a rich Irish tradition of royal ties and humanitarian compassion.| June 15, 2024, 12:00 p.m.
This has not been easy. I grew up in the arid deserts and mountains of Latter-day Saint northern Utah, far from my surname’s ancient home in Ireland. Ireland also is the only place in the world where we could stay in our ancestral family castle and view spectacular sea cliffs from a stone tower that bears our paternal surname. So we did., the high king of Ireland from 1002 to 1014. Today, any O’Brien clan nobility claims reside in an Irish peerage known as the Barony ofCastle, originally built in the 16th century but with the current structure dating to 1835.
A landowner, Cornelius O’Brien was a member of the British Parliament. Our trip tour guide suggested he built the tower to seduce women. My own research, however, indicates that O’Brien had redeeming qualities, too. The locals admired O’Brien enough to erect a monument to him after he died. The tall limestone column honors O’Brien’s humanitarian work as well as his vision of the cliffs as a boon to the economy.
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