The Irish surname Brodrick is an anglicized form of the Gaelic name Ó Bruadair meaning “descendant of Bruadar,” a Viking personal name. There are two distinct branches of Brodrick’s in Ireland. One was located in County Cork, in the barony of Barrymore, to which the poet David O' Bruadair belonged. It was presumably a branch of this sept which settled as a Munster family in Liverk (Ossory) in Ireland, where they were well established in the 17th Century.  The other sept belonged to County Galway, the most famous of whom was Fr. Anthony O' Bruadair, the martyr.