Cyril O'Callaghan

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| name = Cyril O'Callaghan

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| full_name = Cyril Tait O'Callaghan

| birth_date = {{birth date|1889|09|09|df=y}}

| birth_place = Carlow, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1984|04|06|1889|09|09|df=y}}

| death_place = Bury St Edmunds, England

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| position = Wing

| repyears1 = 1910–12

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| repcaps1 = 7

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Cyril Tait O'Callaghan (9 September 1889 — 6 April 1984) was an Irish international rugby union player.

Born in Carlow, O'Callaghan was a wing three-quarter and played for Old Merchant Taylors, an English club. He gained seven Ireland caps, debuting in 1910, and scored two tries, both during the 1911 Five Nations.{{cite news |title=Ireland's Team Against Wales |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/789709500 |work=Daily Mirror |date=28 February 1910}}

O'Callaghan served as an officer with the 1st The Royal Dragoons, into which he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in November 1915,{{London Gazette|issue=29376|page=11581|date=19 November 1915|supp=y}} and was awarded the Military Cross in January 1919.{{cite news |title=Sportsmen In Honours List |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001715/19161024/092/0004 |work=Irish Independent |date=24 October 1916}}{{cite news |title=Col C. T. O'Callaghan |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003223/19840419/321/0040 |work=Newmarket Journal |date=19 April 1984}}{{London Gazette|issue=13375|page=28|date=2 January 1919|city=e}}

During the 1920s, O'Callaghan was an aide-de-camp to the High Commissioner of Egypt George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd.{{cite news |title=A Proposal By The Transatlantic Telephone |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/373504586 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=24 December 1933}} He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Reserve of Officers of the Territorial Army's North Somerset Yeomanry.{{London Gazette|issue=33560|page=8097|date=13 December 1929|supp=y}}

O'Callaghan married an American from Boston after retiring from active service.