Eugene O'Mahoney was an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 museum curator and entomologist who worked on Coleoptera, Mallophaga and Siphonaptera.

O'Mahoney worked in the National Museum, Dublin

National Museum of Ireland

The National Museum of Ireland is the national museum in Ireland. It has three branches in Dublin and one in County Mayo, with a strong emphasis on Irish art, culture and natural history.-Archaeology:...

. He was a Technical Assistant working with Albert Russell Nichols

Albert Russell Nichols

Albert Russell Nichols was an English museum curator and zoologist who worked mainly in Ireland.Nichols was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in mathematics as 16th wrangler in 1882. Nichols came from England to Dublin in 1883 as Assistant in the Museum of Science and Art...

, James Nathaniel Halbert

James Nathaniel Halbert

James Nathaniel Halbert was an Irish entomologist. He was born 30 August 1871 and died 7 May 1948 in Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland.In 1892, Halbert began work at the Science and Art Museum, in Dublin . He was appointed Technical Assistant in 1904 and then Assistant Naturalist, in place of George H...

 and Arthur Wilson Stelfox

Arthur Wilson Stelfox

Arthur Wilson Stelfox was an Irish architect and naturalist. He wrote many papers on Botany, Malacology and entomology.Arthur Wilson Stelfox was born in Belfast. He is best known for his work on Hymenoptera, on vertebrate bones from caves and on non-marine Mollusca especially the genus Pisidium....

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O’Mahoney wrote over fifty articles on Irish Coleoptera between 1924 and 1951 (listed in Ryan et al. (1984) pp. 80-83.) Most appeared in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine

Entomologist's Monthly Magazine

The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine is a British entomological journal, first published in 1864. The journal publishes original papers and notes on all orders of insects and terrestrial arthropods from any part of the world, specialising in groups other than Lepidoptera.Although its name would...

 and many introduced new national and county records.

Works

Coleoptera in Praeger R.L. (ed.) Report on recent additions to the Irish fauna and folra (terrestrial and freshwater) Proc. R. Irish Academy, 93(B), pp. 22-36(1929).

Collections

12,209 species in the Hope Department of Entomology , University Museum, The collection is accompanied by manuscript material including a notebook titled 'Records of beetles in Co.Dublin (North East)' and there is some correspondence.

Sources

Obituary in INJ, 10, 1952, pp. 229-230.