Katharine O'Shea
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Katharine Parnell, known before her second marriage as Katharine O'Shea and popularly as Kitty O'Shea, was an English woman from a political family whose adulterous relationship with Irish nationalist
Kitty O Shea
Rivenhall Place, 1831 engraving
O'Shea in 1914
William O'Shea
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Captain William Henry O'Shea was an Irish soldier and Member of Parliament. He is best known for being the ex-husband of Katharine O'Shea, the long-time mistress of the Irish nationalist leader Charle
Katharine O'Shea
…home, Rivenhall Place, Rivenhall in Essex, with little formal education, but in an artistic and literary milieu. In 1867, Katharine married Captain William O'Shea, later a Catholic Nationalist MP for County Clare, from whom she separated around 1875. An important figure of this period of Katharine O'Shea's life…
O'Shea c. 1880