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 a lady of birth and breeding, soon came to regret her marriage with him, and was with difficulty persuaded to live with him ‘for want of good and civil company,’ O'Dogherty had an only daughter. His two brothers, John and Rory, were both very young, and at the time of his rebellion were residing with their foster-father O'Rourke in Leitrim. Rory, it would appear, became a soldier, and died in service in Belgium. John married Eliza, daughter of Patrick O'Cahan of Derry, and died in 1638. Phelim Reagh MacDevitt, O'Dogherty's foster-father, was tried at Derry, convicted, and executed. O'Dogherty is traditionally said to have been the tallest man of his tribe. On the stone lintel of the door of the square tower of Buncrana, leading to the lowest part of the building, there are traces of a rude representation of a Spanish hat and upright plume, which are said to mark his stature. It is popularly believed that he was starved to death in this very dungeon, and that the skeleton seated on a bank depicted in the arms of the city of Londonderry refers to his fate. 

O'DOHERTY, WILLIAM JAMES (1835–1868), sculptor, was born in Dublin in 1835. He studied in the government school of design attached to the Royal Dublin Society, with the intention of becoming a painter, but afterwards, by the advice of Constantine Panormo, A.R.H.A., who was then one of the assistant masters in that institution, he turned his attention to modelling, and within a year gained the prize for his model of ‘The Boy and the Bird.’ On the death of Panormo in 1852 he entered the studio of Joseph R. Kirke, R.H.A., and worked there until 1854, when, at the suggestion of John Edward Jones [q. v.] the sculptor, he came to London. His first appearance at the Royal Academy was in 1857, when he exhibited, under the name of Dogherty, a model in plaster of ‘Gondoline,’ a subject taken from Kirke White's poems, and afterwards executed in marble for Mr. R.C.L. Bevan the banker. In 1860 he sent the model of the marble statue of ‘Erin,’ executed for the Marquis of Downshire. It was engraved by T. W. Knight for the ‘Art Journal’ of 1861. Both in 1860 and 1861, when he sent to the British Institution ‘One of the Surrey Volunteers,’ his works appeared under the name of Doherty; but in 1862 he appears to have adopted that of O'Doherty. His subsequent works included ‘Alethe,’ a marble statuette executed for Mr. Bevan, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1862, and some portrait busts exhibited in 1863 and 1864. About three years before his death he went to Rome to pursue his studies and to execute a commission, the subject of which was to be ‘The Martyr.’ His early death in February 1868, in the hospital of La Charité in Berlin, while on a visit to that city, ended a brief career of much promise. 

O'DOIRNIN, PETER (1682–1768), Irish poet, was born in the mountainous district to the north-west of Cashel, co. Tipperary. Political troubles caused him to leave home and to settle in Ulster at Drumcree, co. Armagh. Here he wrote a poem on the ancient divisions of Ireland, which led to his acquaintance with Arthur Brownlow of Lurgan Clun Brasil, then the possessor of the ‘Book of Armagh’ [see ], who took him into his house as a tutor for his children and an instructor to himself in Irish literature. A political difference after many years led to a rupture of this friendship, and O'Doirnin left the house. He then married Rose Toner, and settled as a schoolmaster near Forkhill, co. Armagh. Maurice O'Gorman had a school there, but O'Doirnin drew away all his scholars, and when O'Gorman closed his school and walked off to Dublin, wrote a satire upon him, which is still extant. He also wrote ‘Suirghe Pheadair Ui Dhoirnin’ (‘The courtship of Peter O'Doirnin’), of eight twelve-line stanzas, printed in O'Daly's ‘Poets of Munster’ (p. 106). He implores his love to fly with him ‘go talamh shíl mBrian’ (‘to the land of the race of Brian’)—i.e. to his native province, Munster. A manuscript in the Cambridge University Library contains two other poems by him. Some of his poems