Owen O'Shea – IRISH ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL HISTORIANS

Owen O'Shea

PhD candidate

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Email	owen@owenoshea.ie
Twitter link	@OwenOShea @PoliticsinKerry @KerryPolsDates
Facebook link	https://www.facebook.com/owen.oshea.1257
Bio	I am a native of Milltown, Co. Kerry and I am the author of several books on the history and politics of my native county. A former press adviser to the Labour Party and a journalist for many years, I am the author of Heirs to the Kingdom: Kerry’s Political Dynasties (O’Brien Press, 2011) and co-author of A Century of Politics in the Kingdom: A County Kerry Compendium (Merrion Press, 2018). I was co-editor of a history of Kerry and the Easter Rising in 2016 with Bridget McAuliffe and Dr Mary McAuliffe. I currently work as Media, Communications and Customer Relations Officer with Kerry County Council and I an Irish Research Council-funded PhD student at University College Dublin, researching electioneering and politics in Kerry in the decade after the Civil War under the supervision of Professor Diarmaid Ferriter.
Areas of expertise	Political history of County Kerry; the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the revolutionary period in County Kerry; elections and electioneering; political parties, party organisation and party competition.

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Nickname	Owen O'Shea
Membership Type	Graduate Historian

Experience

Education

University College Dublin – BA (2000)

University College Dublin – MA (2001)

University College Dublin – PhD (current)

Employment

Media, Communications and Customer Relations Officer, Kerry Council Council

Former print and broadcast journalist

Former press officer with the Labour Party

Publications

Books

No Middle Path: The Civil War in Kerry (Merrion Press, 2022) No Middle Path: The Civil War in Kerry – Irish Academic Press

Ballymacandy: The Story of a Kerry Ambush (Merrion Press, 2021) Ballymacandy: The Story of a Kerry Ambush – Irish Academic Press

A Century of Politics in the Kingdom: A County Kerry Compendium (co-author, Merrion Press, 2018) A Century of Politics in the Kingdom: A County Kerry Compendium – Irish Academic Press

Kerry 1916: Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising – A Centenary Record (co-editor, Irish Historical Publications, 2016) Kerry 1916: Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising – A Centenary Record – Owen O’Shea (owenoshea.ie)

Heirs to the Kingdom: Kerry’s Political Dynasties (O’Brien Press, 2011) Heirs to the Kingdom: Kerry’s Political Dynasties – Owen O’Shea (owenoshea.ie)

Book Chapters

‘Party organisation, political engagement and electioneering in Kerry, 1927 – 1966’ in Kerry: History and Society (ed. Maurice Bric, Geography Publications. 2020)

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