Brian O'Rourke (politician)
Bernard Brian O'Rourke[a] (3 November 1874[1] – c.1 July 1956[2]) was an Irish politician and businessman from Inniskeen, County Monaghan.[3] After the 1922 creation of the Irish Free State, O'Rourke was the fourth of 30 members of Seanad Éireann elected by members of the 3rd Dáil,[4] serving a nine-year term and being re-elected in 1931 for another nine years,[5] cut short by the Seanad's 1936 abolition.[6] He was a member of Cumann na nGaedheal and its successor Fine Gael,[6] for which he stood unsuccessfully in the Monaghan constituency in the 1937 general election.[7] He returned to the reconstituted Seanad at the April 1938 election on the Industrial and Commercial Panel.[1] His papers from the Irish revolutionary period were deposited at University College Dublin in 1993.