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Kevin O'Shiel: Tyrone Nationalist and Irish State-Builder

Kevin O'Shiel: Tyrone Nationalist and Irish State-Builder

Sagarra, Eda

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ISBN10: 0716531712
ISBN13: 9780716531715
Publisher: Irish Academic Pr
Published: May 6 2013
Pages: 360
Language: English
This is the first biography of barrister, polemical journalist, and party activist Kevin O'Shiel, perhaps the only English-Jesuit, Trinity College-educated, northern Irish, Sinn Fin nationalist. Born into an established Ulster family just a fortnight after the death of Parnell and dying in the year following the outbreak of the modern 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland, O'Shiel was in many ways atypical of the Irish nationalists of his day. As an election agent for Arthur Griffith in the Cavan by-elections and as a friend of Michael Collins, he was to sit as the first judge in the Dail courts. He held various offices from January 1922 onwards, including assistant legal advisor to the Provisional and first FS government and director of North Eastern Boundary Bureau. O'Shiel was also Chair of the Garda Commission Report, and prepared Ireland's case for admission to the League of Nations. From 1923 to 1963, he served as an Irish Land Commissioner. Richly illustrated, the book draws on substantial archival research, including Kevin O'Shiel's extensive unpublished memoirs, shining a light on his life and career, and offering a rare insight into middle-class Ulster Catholic nationalist culture in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

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