D. P. Moran

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D. P. Moran
Born	David Patrick Moran (1869-03-22)22 March 1869 Waterford, Ireland
Died	31 January 1936(1936-01-31) (aged 66) Skerries, County Dublin, Irish Free State
Pen name	Tom O'Kelly
Occupation	Journalist, activist, theorist
Nationality	Irish
Education	Castleknock College University of London
Genre	Nationalism
Literary movement	Celtic Revival
Notable works	The Philosophy of Irish Ireland
Spouse	Catherine O'Toole

David Patrick Moran (Irish: Dáithí Pádraig Ó Móráin; 22 March 1869 – 31 January 1936), better known as simply D. P. Moran, was an Irish journalist, activist and cultural-political theorist, known as the principal advocate of a specifically Gaelic Catholic Irish nationalism during the early 20th century. Associated with the wider Celtic Revival, he promoted his ideas primarily through his journal, The Leader, and compilations of his articles such as the book The Philosophy of Irish Ireland.

He was born in Manor, a townland in Waterford, the youngest of twenty children born to James Moran, a builder, and Elizabeth (née Casey) Moran.^{[1] [2]} One of his brothers would serve on the defense team of Patrick O'Donnell.^[3]

He was educated at Castleknock College, near Dublin before working as a journalist in London, where he was a member of the Irish Literary Society. His brand of nationalism and concept of the decolonisation of Ireland was of a homogeneous Irish-speaking and Roman Catholic nation, promoting the revival of the Irish language and of Gaelic games in Irish cultural life. He often employed disparaging terms ("West Brits", "shoneens", "sourfaces") in reference to Unionists and/or non-Catholics.^[4]