The
«Oxford
Dictionary
of National Biography»
published by Oxford
University Press appeared
2004 online (subscription) and in a 60-volume
print edition
(Link).
Volume 41 contains
articles on the following O'Haras:
- Charles
O'Hara,
first Baron Tyrawley (died 1724), pp. 626-627
- Charles
O'Hara (c.
1740-1802), army officer and colonial governor, pp. 627-628; (an
illegitimate son
of James O'Hara, second Baron Tyrawley)
- James
O'Hara,
second Baron
Tyrawley and
Baron Kilmaine (1681/2-1773), pp. 628-629
- Kane
O'Hara,
playwright (1711/12-1782), pp. 629-630
Volume
3 has an
article on the pseudo Abel &
Barnes
O'Hara, pp. 668-670
John Banim [pseud. Abel O'Hara] (1798-1842), novelist and playwright,
was born in Kilkenny on 3 April 1798 ... his brother Michael Banim
[pseud. Barnes
O'Hara] (1796-1874) was also born at Kilkenny on 5 August 1796 ... The
Banims wrote «The O'Hara Tales/
Tales from the O'Hara
family»
... The Banims gained a lasting posthumous
reputation as nationalist novelists and several of the novels were
reprinted in the twentieth century.