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Life
| 1882-1966 [var. 1883 DIH]; 2nd President of Ireland, 1945, 2nd term 1952; ed. O’Connell CBS [N. Richmond St.]; worked as junior assistant in National Library; joined Gaelic League and Celtic Lit. Soc.; mbr. governing body of Gaelic League (Cist Cnóta), 1910; fnd-member Sinn Féin, 1905; central figure in the IRB takeover-bid of the Gaelic League, 1915; mgr. An Claidheamh Soluis, Gen. Sec. Gaelic League, 1915; his family were host to the Pearses in the days prior to the Rising; |
| Staff Cpt. to Patrick Pearse in GPO, Easter Week; interned after the Rising; opposed the Treaty; fnd. member Fianna Fáil, 1926; Ministerial offices inc. Health, 1932, and Finance, 1941; Sinn Féin MP College Green, Dublin TD till 1945; 26 yrs member of Dublin City Council; Dáil Eireann delegate to Paris Peace Conference; Grand Cross of St Gregory the Great, 1934 (granted by Pius XI);NUI hon. degree; autobiog, Seán. T. (1963); Vol. 2 ([Dublin 1972). DIB DIH |
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Works
[Sean Thomas O’Kelly], Seán T. : scéal a bheatha á insint ag Séan T. O’Ceallaigh: arna chur in eagar ag Proinsias Ó Conluain (Baile Átha Cleath: Foilseachain Náisiunta Teoranta 1963).
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Criticism
Oliver Snoddy, ‘Notes on Literature in Irish Dealing with the Fight for Freedom’, in Éire-Ireland, 3, 2 (Summer 1968), pp.138-48.
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