PETER O'HAREPETER O'HARE
Real Name: Peter O'Hare
Identity/Class: Human;
active in the early 20th
Century (and perhaps the latter days of the 19th
Century);
presumably a criminal record in Northern Ireland
Occupation: Various forms of manual labor;
former boxer and bootlegger
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Mr. Lally, various members of the Irish Republican Army
Enemies: English
constables and rulers in Northern Ireland;
the horse
wasn't his enemy, but he used it to play a joke on the English
Protestants
Known Relatives: Unidentified presumed
parents, unidentified wife, twelve unidentified
children, six
unidentified grandchildren by his youngest daughter
(notably her youngest, a son)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
spent the latter part of his life in Scotland;
formerly Belfast, Ireland;
born and grew up in Dublin, Ireland
First Appearance: 411#1
(June, 2003) 
Powers/Abilities: Peter had experience at a wide
variety of forms of menial labor.
He was also a reasonably skilled
boxer in his youth and more of a brawler in his middle ages to early
senior years. Later in life, he put violence and hatred behind him.
His smoking likely limited his endurance somewhat, and also gave him a characteristic odor.
He was an experienced drinker.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 6'2")History:
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - Peter O'Hare started smoking at 5-years-old.
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - Peter left school at nine.
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - Peter worked full-time as a coal-miner by the age of eleven.
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - Peter was
traveling the high seas by ship by his 14th birthday.
(411#1 (fb)) - In his twenties, Peter was a moderately successful boxer...
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - ...and bootlegger.
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - For most of his
life, Peter earned enough to get by as a laborer in his native Dublin.
(411#1 (fb)) - As work was short in
Southern Ireland those days, Peter bade his family goodbye and..
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - ...moved
with his friends to the Protestant north, working every menial job and
unsociable hour that they could find.
(411#1 (fb)) - Although
not active in the Irish Republican Army, he was friends with Lally and
other Republicans.
(411#1 (fb)) - Walking home with his friends after a night at the pub, Peter stopped to urinate under a British flag, leading to their receiving a beating from the Belfast constabulary.
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - Similar incidents were repeated on a semi-regular basis, usually ending with Peter and his friends receiving black eyes and/or broken bones, and sometimes even spending some time in prison.
After a gang of Protestants had
desecrated the local Catholic church, Peter and his friends set fire to
the Orangeman's Hall.
(411#1 (fb)) - After his best friend and received a fierce lashing for shouting, "God Bless Ireland" in a public place, Peter threw rocks through every window in the town hall.
(411#1 (fb)) - One evening, while walking past the flagpole he had frequently, he was was badly beaten by vengeful constables. He was hospitalized, and it was discovered that he had lost his right eye.
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - Having lied there with "half of his face hanging off" gave Peter some time to think, and he appreciated that killing anyone would not bring his eye back.
(411#1 (fb)) - As he
recovered, he was visited by his friend, Nally, who promised to get
revenge for him on the Orange Walk -- a celebration of 1690's Battle of
the Boyne in which England's King William of Orange led a massacre of
the Catholics atop his white steed -- next week by executing the
grandmaster of the event on his doorstep the night before the event.
Peter refused to have anyone killed in his name.
Instead he informed Nally -- as long as he promised secrecy -- of his plan for the Orange Walk.
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - The night
before the Orange Walk, Peter and/or his associates painted the white horse
the grandmaster was to ride: orange on the front legs, head and neck,
and green on the back legs and hindquarters, leaving the mid-section
white to mimic the Irish flag.
(411#1 (fb)) - Not waiting to see the results, Peter departed by boat to make a new life in the west of Scotland.
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - There he
married a woman 34-years his junior and produced a family of twelve
children. The youngest, a daughter, had six kids, raised to believe in
the Catholic Church but also taught to understand the idiocy of the
divide between Catholics and Protestants.
(411#1) - As an adult man, the
youngest of Peter's youngest imagined that the Orangeman had a laugh
about that crazy, one-eyed Catholic and the sweet, little gag he played
on everyone.
Comments: Created by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely
While the story
is likely intended to be set in a world without superhuman powers,
there's nothing I saw that would exclude it from haveing taken place on
Earth-616.
Thanks to Ronald Byrd for suggesting I profile this character. The story and character were very enjoyable.
This profile was
completed 10/19/2025, but its publication was delayed as it was intended
for the Appendix 25th anniversary 's celebratory event.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Peter O'Hare should be distinguished from:
  (411#1 (fb) - BTS) - Leaving behind the hate back in
Ireland, Peter O'Hare relocated to the west of
Scotland.
(411#1 (fb) - BTS) - There
he
married a woman 34-years his junior and produced a family of
twelve
children. (411#1 (fb)) - The youngest, a daughter, had six kids, raised to believe in the Catholic Church but also taught to understand the idiocy of the divide between Catholics and Protestants. As an adult man, the youngest of Peter's youngest's imagined that the Orangeman had a laugh about that crazy, one-eyed Catholic and the sweet, little gag he played on everyone. --411#1 |
 Residents of Dublin,
Peter's parents bade him farewell when he moved to Northern
Ierland.After Peter had been hospitalized, his parents were distraught. --411#1 |
|
Instead he informed Nally -- as long as he promised secrecy -- of his plan for the Orange Walk. (411#1 (fb) - BTS) - The night before the Orange Walk, Peter and/or his associates painted the white horse the grandmaster was to ride: orange on the front legs, head and neck, and green on the back legs and hindquarters, leaving the mid-section white to mimic the Irish flag. --411#1 |
First posted: 09/26/2026
Last updated: 10/19/2025
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(411#1
(fb)) - As he
recovered, he was visited by his friend, Nally, who promised to
get
revenge for him on the Orange Walk -- a celebration of 1690's
Battle of
the Boyne in which England's King William of Orange led a massacre
of
the Catholics atop his white steed -- next week by executing the
grandmaster of the event on his doorstep the night before the
event.
Peter refused to have anyone killed in his name.