Bernard Brian O'Rourke (3 November 1874–c.1 July 1956) was an Irish politician and businessman from Inniskeen, County Monaghan. O'Rourke inherited a farm and corn mill outside Inniskeen and acquired a larger mill in Dundalk. He bought Belleek Pottery in 1918 and co-founded Arklow Pottery in 1934. Initially a supporter of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), he was elected to Carrickmacross urban district council in 1899 and Monaghan County Council in 1905, and made a justice of the peace (JP) in 1906. He broke with the IPP when the Irish Volunteers split on the outbreak of the First World War and IPP leader John Redmond advocated supporting the British war effort. For endorsing the 1916 Rising, O'Rourke was interned and dismissed as a JP. During the Irish War of Independence he was a magis