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Kitty O'Shea

The Uncrowned Queen Of Ireland

By Rosemary Rogers
IA Newsletter, February 3, 2024

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— Well I let her bawl away, to her heart’s content Kitty O’Shea and the rest of it until she called that lady a name that I won’t sully this Christmas board nor your ears, ma’am, nor my lips by repeating.He paused. Mr. Dedalus, lifting his head from the bone, asked:—A nd what did you do, John?— Do! said Mr. Casey. She stuck her ugly old face up at me when she said it and I had … [Read more...] about The Uncrowned Queen Of Ireland

Parnell and Kitty: A Love Story

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"On June 25 I was awakened at daybreak by my lover's tapping at my door and calling to me: 'Get up, get up, it is time to be married!'" Thus the Englishwoman whose love affair changed the course of Irish history was to recall the fateful morning when she married her man of destiny, not beneath the high eaves of a great cathedral but in a humble side-street registry office in … [Read more...] about Parnell and Kitty: A Love Story