I am honoured to have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org in recognition of my contribution to historical scholarship Very grateful to the RHS Council and looking forward to making a positive contribution to historical research with fellow historians

"O’Shea’s adroit presentation of the text and the contextual commentaries he provides lifts it to another level." Grateful to Mark Duncan for his generous and thoughtful review of One Man's Ireland: Memoirs of Dan Mulvihill for the Journal of the Irish Labour History Society shorturl.at/ysRJD

Sorry to hear of the passing of Martin Mansergh As vice-chair of the Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries he opened our Kerry Civil War Conference in 2023 An enthusiastic supporter of the conference, he contributed to it eloquently and incisively May he rest in peace 🙏

Inspiring evening at the Kerry Young Historian of the Year Awards hosted by the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Warm congratulations to Lucy Griffin on being announced as the overall winner The future of historical research in Kerry is in safe hands Information: www.kerryhistory.ie

Coming this October from @ucdpress.bsky.social and historian and author Owen O'Shea The first ever county-based study of Civil War politics in Ireland How and why did the Civil War shape politics and elections in Kerry in the decade after 1923? Pre-order now: shorturl.at/56pZE

Coming to a bookstore near you in October 2025… From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33 by Owen O’Shea 🔗 Preorder here bit.ly/From-B2B #IrishCivilWar #CivilWarPolitics #IrishHistory #KerryHistory @owenoshea.bsky.social

Honoured to receive such a generous endorsement for my forthcoming book from Dr Bill Kissane of the London School of Economics who has described the work as 'a first class piece of scholarship'. From Bullets to Ballots will be published soon by @ucdpress.bsky.social

A great privilege to have attended the State Commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O'Connell at his home at Derrynane today. A fitting tribute and celebration of a giant of a man whose politics and message are as powerful and relevant today as they ever were. #OConnell250

📚BOOK NEWS 📢 Really thrilled to be working with the wonderful team at @ucdpress.bsky.social to publish my #PhD research on politics and electioneering in County #Kerry in the decade after the Civil War "From Bullets to Ballots" will be published in September 2025 www.ucdpress.ie/page/catalog...

Very pleased to have my review of the new biography of Kevin O'Higgins published in Irish Political Studies. 'Walled in by hate: Kevin O'Higgins: His Friends and Enemies' is published by Merrion Press and is a welcome reappraisal of the controversial figure www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

In the four years after the Famine, 40,000 people emigrated from County #Kerry, according to Census data from the 1800s just published by the VRTI Here is my analysis of some of the fascinating material in the Census reports from 1821 to 1851: owenoshea.ie/the-people-a...

Looking forward to speaking at the Sneem Summer Festival in #Sneem #Kerry on 19 July and reflecting on the Decade of Centenaries in Kerry. What lessons can we learn from the commemoration of events over the past decade? 🎟️Free admission 📅Saturday 19 July ⏲️5.00pm ⛪️Old Church

Chatted with Radio Kerry about some of the amazing revelations about #Kerry contained in the new #census reports from the 1800s which have been released by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Will post more details in due course on my website. Listen back: www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/ker...

On 13 June 1912 Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, and a group of suffragettes, smashed windows in Dublin Castle to highlight the woman’s right to vote cause. It was an offence for which she would spent a month in prison. #Ireland #IrishHistory #HannaSheehySkeffington #Dublin #Suffragettes #WomensRights

The weaponisation of a past that few can remember for modern political ends continues. Trump suggests that Putin lost 51 million people in WW2. Quite the achievement when the Russian president was born in 1952.

Thrilled to have been granted a Commemorations Bursary from the Royal Irish Academy for an exhibition on the early years of the Fianna Fáil party in #Kerry to coincide with the centenary of the party's foundation in 1926. The exhibition will be presented during the early months of 2026 across Kerry

If your response to this video is, “That’s what I voted for”— Fuck you. Fuck you very much. You’re heartless.

Grateful to the Irish Examiner for this very generous review of my new book on Irish revolutionary, Dan Mulvihill www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Rosalie Rice’s only sin appeared to be that she was related to Irregulars, ‘a circumstance which would apply to may unimpeachable Free State adherents.’ The Kerry postal clerk suspended for having the wrong surname owenoshea.ie/the-kerry-po...

The first thing Pope Leo should do is travel to #Gaza to demand an end to the Israeli genocide on behalf of Catholics and on behalf of humanity. It would be a real statement of leadership which is so sadly lacking among so-called leaders and genocide enablers worldwide I wish him well 🙏 #PopeLeo

#OTD in 2023 I was proud to unveil a plaque in my home town of Milltown, Co. Kerry, to honour three local civilians killed during Ireland's Civil War Read more about their tragic deaths and how the theft of a small quantity of flour triggered cataclysmic events: owenoshea.ie/looting-kidn...

🔊A voice from the past Recording with Dan Mulvihill, revolutionary and republican, in 1984 in which he explains how he tried to publish his memoir in the 1970s Fifty years later that ambition is realised in my new book www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/one-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=caEX...

🎬6,000 years of history ... 🎬A stunning landscape ... 🎬Historic sites ... 🎬Special places ... 🎬Precious heritage ... Join us on 26th April to view the remarkable and spectacular story of Milltown, Co Kerry on the big screen. Register now at: www.milltownhistoryheritage.ie

What a tremendous honour to be invited to Áras an Uachtaráin this week to meet President Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins to present copies of my recent books on the history of the War of Independence and the Civil War in Kerry, including 'One Man's Ireland' www.owenoshea.ie

Later this year from Four Courts Press: papers presented at the highly-acclaimed Kerry Civil War Conference 2023 Essays from historians on the conflict in Kerry and beyond, edited by Bridget McAuliffe, @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social and @owenoshea.bsky.social www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t...

How I fulfilled the dream of an Old IRA veteran from my home town The story of how the memoirs of Irish revolutionary leader Dan Mulvihill came to be published 50 years on owenoshea.ie/how-i-fulfil...

"A tape recording from 1984 revealed an elderly republican’s ambition to publish his life story - four decades on, it has finally come to pass" My piece from the @irishtimes.com on how my new book came to be published 📚 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

COMING SOON: A spectacular new documentary film on the remarkable history, heritage and landscape of Milltown, County Kerry from the Milltown History and Heritage Society. Launching at end of April. Details to follow. Contact [email protected] www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H3-...

My thanks to the large crowd who attended the launch of my new book, 'One Man's Ireland: Memoirs of Dan Mulvihill, Maverick Republican' on Saturday night. It was a fitting celebration of a remarkable man. Available here from Merrion Press: www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/one-...

Thrilled to announce the publication of my new book, "One Man's Ireland" which is based on the previously unpublished memoirs of Dan Mulvihill, Irish revolutionary and republican who was from my home place Available now in all good bookshops and: www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/one-...

My new play Coffin Jockeys less than two weeks away from opening night @owenoshea.bsky.social @ciarraioch.bsky.social @kerrycoco.ie

Just arrived from Merrion Press is the new book from @owenoshea.bsky.social - One Man's Ireland, launching in Milltown, Kerry 29th March with @stephenrae.bsky.social. We're delighted to have signed bookplates with all our copies thebookshop.ie/owen-o-shea-...

Had a good chat with Joe McGill on the Saturday Supplement on Radio Kerry at the weekend about my new book on the memoirs of Irish revolutionary leader and republican, Dan Mulvihill. You can listen back at the link below: www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/sat... Available now from Merrion Press 📚

My thanks to Kerry's Eye newspaper for featuring my new book on Dan Mulvihill in this week's edition. The book will be in the bookshops early next week and can be bought from the publisher also at: www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/one-...

Special delivery from the postman this morning! 📚 So honoured to publish the story of a revolutionary leader from my home place and to fulfill his ambition to publish his memoir of a dramatic life My thanks to the wonderful team at Merrion Press 👏 shorturl.at/hj9tj

📢 📚 BOOK LAUNCH 📚 📢 My new book on the memoirs of republican and revolutionary, Dan Mulvihill, will be launched in Milltown this month by Stephen Rae, former editor of the Irish Independent 📅 Saturday 29 March 🕝 8.00pm Filter roimh chách 📚

On this day: 6 March 1923 #OTD Five National Army soldiers were killed in an IRA booby trap mine explosion at Knocknagoshel #Kerry It prompted a series of vicious reprisals on IRA prisoners during Kerry's 'Terror Month' as Ireland's Civil War reached a bloody climax shorturl.at/8QayS

Dan Mulvihill spied on those suspected of being sympathetic to the Nazis and/or the British during World War II He was part of the secretive Supplementary Intelligence Service reporting to Florrie O'Donoghue irishacademicpress.ie/product/one-ma…

Lovely review of 'Vying for Victory' in which I have a chapter on the impact of newspapers on the 1923 general election in County Kerry and beyond @ucdpress.bsky.social #elections #history

Two diehard republicans side by side on the Merrion Press website including my new book on Dan Mulvihill Mulvihill writes of his dismay and heartache about the treatment of nationalists in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/one-...

RIP Gene Hackman. Few if any had such a commanding presence on screen. For me, Mississippi Burning is his finest role #GeneHackman youtu.be/m03bFB0vmFA?...

A little sneak preview of the opening pages on my new book on the memoirs of Dan Mulvihill ▶️ IRA volunteer ▶️ Liaison Officer ▶️ Ally of Dev ▶️ ADC to Liam Lynch ▶️ Prisoner ▶️ Hunger striker ▶️ World War II spy ▶️ Pension assessor ▶️ Lifelong republican issuu.com/iap_merrion/...

"One night I was in the cell talking with Jimmy Daly until about 1 a.m., then went back to my cell. I was awakened by the sound of firing. Jimmy was dead. It could have been me." From the memoirs of Dan Mulvihill, coming next month: owenoshea.ie/books/one-ma...

Speaking at the Kerry County Museum on 13 March on how to go about researching your revolutionary ancestors and the best sources and archives to use A series of lunchtime talks at Kerry County Museum 📅 Thurs 13 March at 1.00pm Booking essential: 066 7127777

Thrilled to announce that Four Courts Press will publish (this autumn) the papers presented at the #Kerry Civil War Conference held in 2023 Edited by Bridget McAuliffe, Mary McAuliffe and Owen O'Shea, the collection offers new insights into the war in Kerry and beyond www.fourcourtspress.ie

Speaking to @radiokerry.bsky.social at 2.30pm today about my forthcoming talk at Kerry County Museum on 13th March on where to find information about your revolutionary ancestors 📅 Thurs 13 March 📷 1.00pm 🎟️ Free admission 📲 Booking on 066 7127777

That moment when your Nespresso delivery arrives and all seems well with the world again! @nespressousa.bsky.social #Coffee ☕️