sentences:  Thereafter he was returned unopposed until the 1918 general election, when he was defeated by the Sinn Féin candidate Daniel Buckley, later the last Governor-General of the Irish Free State, by more than 2 to 1.He was a Prior of the Johnson Club and in 1911 read a paper on 'Dr Johnson and Ireland'.Among O'Connor's achievements as an Irish Nationalist MP was obtaining an annual grant for the teaching of Irish in schools.