William Henry O’Shea and Katharine O’Shea

Quick Facts William Henry O’Shea and Katharine O’Shea were husband and wife from 1867 to 1890. Their relationship with the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell led to a divorce scandal that terminated Parnell’s career and divided Irish nationalist opinion. William Henry O’Shea was the only son of a Roman Catholic solicitor in Dublin. Educated at Oscott and at Trinity College, Dublin, he became a cornet of the 18th Hussars in 1858 and was retired...