Alfred O'Rahilly

Alfred O'Rahilly (1 October 1884 – 1 August 1969) was a noted academic, president of University College Cork and a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork City.

Born in Listowel, County Kerry and educated at St. Michael's College, Listowel, and at Blackrock College in Dublin, O'Rahilly went on to third level education at University College Cork, where he completed an MA and PhD.

After a course in scholastic philosophy at Stonyhurst, during which he secured his D.Phil, he was appointed assistant lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics in 1914, and made full Professor of Mathematical Physics in 1917. He became Registrar of the college in 1920, and held the post until 1943 when he became President of the University. He spent a year, in 1927, at Harvard studying social and political theory. Cork University conferred on him the degree D.Litt in 1939 and in the same year his work on Electromagnetics obtained for him the degree D.Sc.

O'Rahilly founded the Cork University Press in 1931.

After the 1916 Easter Rising, O'Rahilly publicly supported Sinn Féin and was elected to Cork City Council as a Sinn Féin and Transport Workers candidate. Arrested early in 1921 for political writings, O'Rahilly was interned in Spike Island prison.

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