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1518 Galway Corporation Bk. in R. O'Flaherty Chorogr. Descr. W. Connaught (1846) 35 (note) That neither O ne Mac shall strutte ne swaggere thro' the streets of Gallway.

a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 109 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The O's and the Mac's, which the heads of septs have taken to their names.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. ii. ii. 138 I cannot dissemble how confident I am, to beate these Spanish Dons, as well as euer I did our Irish Macks and Oes.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Bucks. 134 This encouraged the Irish Grandees (their O's and Mac's) to Rant and Tyrant it in their respective seignieuries.

1689 Irish Hudibras 108 The Champions of the Irish Cause, A numerous Train of Mac's and O's.

1718 J. Breval Play is Plot ii. i. 24 Then she is an Irish Peer sure enough, for the Kools and the Kills are my Countrymen all, as well as the O's, and the Mac's.

1737 H. Fielding Tom Thumb (ed. 3) i. iii. 11 Ireland her O's, her Mac's let Scotland boast.

1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State Cork I. i. 14 The name of their principal ancestor, with O or Mac annexed.

1848 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vi. 130 The Fitzes sometimes permitted themselves to speak with scorn of the O's and Macs.

1887 P. Gillmore Hunter's Arcadia An Irishman who claims his direct descent from Finn M^cCoul, or some king whose name begins with an ‘O’ or ‘Mc’.

1890 F. W. O. Ward 'Twixt Kiss & Lip 498 Be gallant and merciless, quit you like men, With your mightiest Macs and your great O's.

1995 J. Montague Hist. Walks in Coll. Poems III. 340 The roll call in the side chapel of the Royal Irish Fusiliers might have taught us something; O's and Macs mingled in death with good Proddy names, Hamilton, Hewitt, Taylor, Acheson.