Owen Sheehy-Skeffington
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Owen Lancelot Sheehy-Skeffington was an Irish university lecturer and senator. The son of pacifists, feminists and socialists Francis and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, he was politically likeminded and as
Sheehy-Skeffington in 1950
Owen's parents Francis and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Donal Conor David Dermot Donat Cruise O'Brien, often nicknamed "The Cruiser", was an Irish diplomat, politician, writer, historian and academic, who served as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 19
Owen Sheehy-Skeffington
…school selected by his mother in the face of strong criticism from her Catholic and Republican friends. His cousin, the diplomat, writer and politician Conor Cruise O'Brien, was a pupil there at the same time. His mother deliberately chose schools viewed as socially progressive for Owen, something that instilled in him…
Cruise O'Brien in 1973