Cornelius O'Leary

Cornelius O'Leary was born in County Limerick in 1927, a fact that anchors his life before he became known for Belfast politics and Oxford scholarship. The town gave him no warning about the contradictions he would later expose, nor about the drinking that would erode his edges. He carried that Limerick origin into every room where power spoke plainly, forcing others to remember that clarity often arrives wrapped in trouble.