Dr. Owen O'Shea

🗝️ New Exhibition in Killarney and Tralee: ‘Soldiers of Destiny’

Historian and UCD Press author Dr Owen O’Shea presents a new exhibition on the early years of Fianna Fáil in County Kerry, which will go on public display at Kerry library branches during February and March.

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Pleased to announce details of my forthcoming exhibition on the early years of Fianna Fáil in Kerry to mark the party's centenary this year

🗓️ Tralee Library 16-28 February
🗓️ Killarney Library 10-31 March

This exhibition is supported by the @ria.ie under its Commemorations Bursary Scheme, 2025-2026

Under the full moon: congratulations to the Kilgobnet Biddy for keeping our historic traditions alive in Beaufort tonight 🪗🎵

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The only Kerry TD at the first meeting of Dáil Éireann At 3.30 on the afternoon of 21 January 1919 a group of twenty-seven men gathered in the Round Room of the Mansion House in Dublin. Just a month previously, each of them had been elected to the British...

On this day in 1919 #OTD

There was just one of the four #Kerry MPs/TDs present at the first ever session of Dáil Éireann

Piaras Béaslaí had the honour of reading the Democratic Programme of the Dàil which had been drafted by Labour leader Tom Johnson

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Congratulations to my friend, mentor and my former lecturer at UCD, Professor Muiris Bric on his election last night as President of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society at our AGM at Tralee Library.

Muiris brings tremendous experience to the role.

Beir bua, Muiris!

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Pleased to share a sneak preview of my exhibition on the early years of Fianna Fáil in Kerry.

The party marks its centenary this year and my focus is on the origins of the party in Kerry from 1926 to 1933.

Runs at Kerry Library during February and March. Dates to be announced soon!

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Photo through the windshield of a car showing an armored police vehicle driving on Nicollet

This is Minneapolis:

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Finalising material for my forthcoming exhibition on the early years of Fianna Fáil in Kerry to mark the centenary of the party's foundation in 1926

Supported by the @ria.ie Commemorations Bursary Scheme

Full details coming soon

#FiannaFail #centenary

#history #politics

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‘Body snatchers’: the Kerry priest who was buried four times Fr John Quill was the parish priest of Milltown from 1825 to 1841. A native of Listowel, he had studied for the priesthood at Maynooth and was ordained to the priesthood in 1819. He was clearly a very...

Fr Quill’s coffin, clearly still intact after a year in the clay of Lixnaw, was ‘placed in a common cart’ at two o’clock in the morning and ‘the melancholy contingent’ of gravediggers made their way back home via the ‘Short Mountain’ road between Tralee and Castlemaine.

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'The Mussolini of Ballymacelligott': violence during election campaigns in Kerry in the 1920s The Civil War in Kerry was more bitter, divisive and prolonged than most of the rest of the country. It was inevitable, therefore, that those divisions would come to a head during election campaigns a...

The "Mussolini of Ballymacelligott" and some of the other tales of violence during election campaigns in Kerry in the 1920s

A short extract from my book on politics and electioneering in the years after the Civil War in Kerry

Available now from @ucdpress.bsky.social

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NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.

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‘Body snatchers’: the Kerry priest who was buried four times Fr John Quill was the parish priest of Milltown from 1825 to 1841. A native of Listowel, he had studied for the priesthood at Maynooth and was ordained to the priesthood in 1819. He was clearly a very...

The Kerry priest who was buried four times

The remarkable story of Fr John Quill, parish priest of Milltown, County Kerry who was buried four different times between 1842 and 1913

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Gerard Lynch, Listowel, who has died aged 94, was the oldest surviving former TD for Kerry

A native of Listowel, he served as a Fine Gael TD for Kerry North 1969-77.

His father John Lynch was Fine Gael TD for the constituency between 1951 and 1954.

May he rest in peace 🙏

Looking for a Christmas gift for the history lover in your life?

The three books I've authored or edited during 2025 are now available in all good bookshops

See www.owenoshea.ie

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That is precisely why O'Higgins was so appalled.

“A couple of tarts getting a few lashes” A vicious assault on two sisters in Kenmare a century ago, as the Civil War came to an end, prompted a major political crisis and led to one of the most shocking cover-ups of Free State army brutality...

"A couple of tarts getting a few lashes"

The shocking assault on two Kerry women a few weeks after the end of Ireland's Civil War which sent shockwaves to the heart of the National Army and the Free State Government

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