Eugene O'Mahony

Eugene O'Mahony ( 1899 Dublin - 21 June 1951 Dublin ) was an Irish museum curator and entomologist who worked on Coleoptera, Mallophaga and Siphonaptera.

O'Mahony worked in the National Museum, Dublin. He was a Technical Assistant working with  Albert Russell Nichols, James Nathaniel Halbert and Arthur Wilson Stelfox.

O'Mahony 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 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.