The information here about O Beirnes in Britain and Continental Europe is mainly from the published literature. Unlike the situation in North America or Australia no local O Beirne historians or other direct sources of additional information were located.

There was all exception: a family of the O'Beirnes of Clooneen. Denis Roderick (1895-198l) was translator for Royal Dutch Shell in Holland for 21 years and co-author of the 670 page history of its technical development. He also translated into English books on esoteric subjects such as the use of the chisel on Greek sculpture. His older brother John J. Regis (b 1887), a civil servant in Ireland fluent in many languages and a university examiner in Russian, published translations from Roumanian, Bulgarian, Polish and Czech, extensively about Baltic  and Eastern European countries, "A Bulgarian Manual," and on how to teach oneself Serbo-Croatian and Irish. A sister, Margaret Leonitia (1899-1957), was a translator in Hollywood, California, who translated into Spanish, German, and Italian the script of "Gone with the Wind." Two brothers who were Parish Priests in the London region lived to great ages: Terence P. (b. 1891) to 89 and Stephen A. (b 1890) to 101. They were believed to be the second oldest and the oldest priests m the British Isles. The father of all five was also a Denis Roderick (1860-1935) who worked in the British Customs and Excise and retired as a Commander in the British Navy. He was a nephew of the famous nuisance Eugene Francis O'Beirne, described later. An described later. An Ivan O'Beirne wrote on Indian topics in the 1890s.