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	\| fields = [[Physics]], [[Electromagnetism]], [[Relativity]], Mathematical physics		\| fields = [[Physics]], [[Electromagnetism]], [[Relativity]], Mathematical physics
	\| residence = Cork, Ireland		\| residence = Cork, Ireland

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	* 1938 - "[[Electromagnetics: A Discussion of the Fundamentals]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Electromagnetics-Alfred-ORahilly-Foreword-Conway/dp/B0013FYCIC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219182626&sr=1-2 Read in full])		* 1938 - "[[Electromagnetics: A Discussion of the Fundamentals]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Electromagnetics-Alfred-ORahilly-Foreword-Conway/dp/B0013FYCIC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219182626&sr=1-2 Read in full])

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	\| fields = [[Professor of Mathematical Physics]], [[President of University Cork College]]		\| fields = [[Professor of Mathematical Physics]], [[President of University Cork College]]
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Alfred O\'Rahilly
| image = Alfred O\'Rahilly 450.jpg
| alt = Alfred O\'Rahilly
| birth_date = {{birth date|1884|01|10|mf=y}}
| death_date = {{birth date|1969|01|08|mf=y}}
| fields = [[Professor of Mathematical Physics]], [[President of University Cork College]]
| residence = Cork, Ireland
| nationality = Irish
}}

Born in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, Alfred O'Rahilly was educated at Blackrock College in Dublin, and earned his MA and Ph.D.in Mathematical Physics at University College, Cork. He was appointed assistant lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics in 1914, and made full Professor of Mathematical Physics in 1917. He became Registrar of the college in 1920, founded the Cork University Pressin 1931, and became President of the University in 1943.

For political writings on behalf of the Irish, O'Rahilly was arrested early in 1921 and held until October. O'Rahilly supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and in 1922 composed a draft constitution for the Irish Free State with Edmund Darrel Figgis. A deeply religious Catholic from early life, O'Rahilly was a member of the Society of Jesus. He maintained his (sometimes controversial) religious views throughout his life, and became a priest, and then Monsignor, in later years following the death of his wife.

O'Rahilly's major contribution to science, Electromagnetics: a Discussion of Fundamentals (1938, 884pp.), was reprinted by Dover as a two-volume set entitled Electromagnetic Theory (1965, 450pp. each). Grounded in the fundamentals of mathematical physics, O'Rahilly's work was critical of Einsteinian relativity, and remains an essential part of the dissident's library.

* J. Anthony Gaughan, Alfred O'Rahilly Biography (Kingdom Books, 1986) ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/095060156X ISBN 0-9506015-6-X])
* University College Dublin (UCD) Archives, Papers of Alfred O'Rahilly: [http://www.ucd.ie/archives/html/collections/orahilly-alfred.htm http://www.ucd.ie/archives/html/collections/orahilly-alfred.htm]

==Books==

* 1965 - "[[Electromagnetic Theory]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Electromagnetic-Theory-Alfred-Orahilly/dp/0486601269/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219183000&sr=1-3 Read in full])
* 1938 - "[[Electromagnetics: A Discussion of the Fundamentals]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Electromagnetics-Alfred-ORahilly-Foreword-Conway/dp/B0013FYCIC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219182626&sr=1-2 Read in full])

[[Category:Scientist]]