Brian O'Rourke

Bernard Brian O'Rourke (3 November 1874 – 1 July 1956 ) was an Irish politician and businessman from Inniskeen, County Monaghan.

After the 1922 creation of the Irish Free State, O'Rourke was the fourth of 30 members of Seanad Éireann elected by members of the 3rd Dáil, serving a nine-year term and being re-elected in 1931 for another nine years, cut short by the Seanad's 1936 abolition. He was a member of Cumann na nGaedheal and its successor Fine Gael, He returned to the reconstituted Seanad at the April 1938 election on the Industrial and Commercial Panel. Except for a gap from 1925 to 1929, he remained a county councillor until 1945.

O'Rourke married Clare Clinton in 1907; they had four daughters and three sons. His papers from the Irish revolutionary period were deposited at University College Dublin in 1993.