Dr. Owen O'Shea
@owenoshea.bsky.social
History, politics, books and coffee, in no particular order. PhD from UCD on post-Civil War politics in Kerry. New books coming in 2025. Author, historian, researcher. More at www.owenoshea.ie
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Dr. Owen O'Shea
@owenoshea.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Two new books coming soon in time for the Christmas list!
My book assesses politics in Kerry in the decade after the Civil War and our edited collection includes essays from contributors to the Kerry Civil War Conference in 2023
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My book assesses politics in Kerry in the decade after the Civil War and our edited collection includes essays from contributors to the Kerry Civil War Conference in 2023
ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t...
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January 11, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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This is Minneapolis:
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
January 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
This is Minneapolis:
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
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Reposted by Dr. Owen O'Shea
Every news outlet that broadcasts Trump officials telling barefaced lies about the ICE killing in Minneapolis should display the video of the shooting on a continuous loop concurrently with the officials’ claims.
January 9, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Every news outlet that broadcasts Trump officials telling barefaced lies about the ICE killing in Minneapolis should display the video of the shooting on a continuous loop concurrently with the officials’ claims.
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I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
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Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
January 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
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important message to all bluesky users
January 7, 2026 at 7:53 PM
important message to all bluesky users
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Every hour between Monday and Tuesday, Twitter generated 6,700 sexual deepfake images.
Experts say it has become the biggest online factory of such material in the world.
This was a trend once on the darkest corners of the web - now pushed by a billionaire into the mainstream.
Experts say it has become the biggest online factory of such material in the world.
This was a trend once on the darkest corners of the web - now pushed by a billionaire into the mainstream.
The AI Minister Niamh Smyth is seeking an urgent meeting with bosses of X over its Grok feature, which can generate sexualised deepfake images. She says the function is “disturbing and deeply worrying”
#VMNews
#VMNews
January 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Every hour between Monday and Tuesday, Twitter generated 6,700 sexual deepfake images.
Experts say it has become the biggest online factory of such material in the world.
This was a trend once on the darkest corners of the web - now pushed by a billionaire into the mainstream.
Experts say it has become the biggest online factory of such material in the world.
This was a trend once on the darkest corners of the web - now pushed by a billionaire into the mainstream.
Finalising material for my forthcoming exhibition on the early years of Fianna Fáil in Kerry to mark the centenary of the party's foundation in 1926
Supported by the @ria.ie Commemorations Bursary Scheme
Full details coming soon
#FiannaFail #centenary
#history #politics
Supported by the @ria.ie Commemorations Bursary Scheme
Full details coming soon
#FiannaFail #centenary
#history #politics
January 7, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Finalising material for my forthcoming exhibition on the early years of Fianna Fáil in Kerry to mark the centenary of the party's foundation in 1926
Supported by the @ria.ie Commemorations Bursary Scheme
Full details coming soon
#FiannaFail #centenary
#history #politics
Supported by the @ria.ie Commemorations Bursary Scheme
Full details coming soon
#FiannaFail #centenary
#history #politics
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Breaking: Women's Aid Ireland will no longer maintain a presence on X from tomorrow.
@womensaidireland.bsky.social
@womensaidireland.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Breaking: Women's Aid Ireland will no longer maintain a presence on X from tomorrow.
@womensaidireland.bsky.social
@womensaidireland.bsky.social
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Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
Fr Quill’s coffin, clearly still intact after a year in the clay of Lixnaw, was ‘placed in a common cart’ at two o’clock in the morning and ‘the melancholy contingent’ of gravediggers made their way back home via the ‘Short Mountain’ road between Tralee and Castlemaine.
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‘Body snatchers’: the Kerry priest who was buried four times
Fr John Quill was the parish priest of Milltown from 1825 to 1841. A native of Listowel, he had studied for the priesthood at Maynooth and was ordained to the priesthood in 1819. He was clearly a very...
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January 6, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Fr Quill’s coffin, clearly still intact after a year in the clay of Lixnaw, was ‘placed in a common cart’ at two o’clock in the morning and ‘the melancholy contingent’ of gravediggers made their way back home via the ‘Short Mountain’ road between Tralee and Castlemaine.
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The "Mussolini of Ballymacelligott" and some of the other tales of violence during election campaigns in Kerry in the 1920s
A short extract from my book on politics and electioneering in the years after the Civil War in Kerry
Available now from @ucdpress.bsky.social
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A short extract from my book on politics and electioneering in the years after the Civil War in Kerry
Available now from @ucdpress.bsky.social
owenoshea.ie/the-mussolin...
'The Mussolini of Ballymacelligott': violence during election campaigns in Kerry in the 1920s
The Civil War in Kerry was more bitter, divisive and prolonged than most of the rest of the country. It was inevitable, therefore, that those divisions would come to a head during election campaigns a...
owenoshea.ie
January 4, 2026 at 1:51 PM
The "Mussolini of Ballymacelligott" and some of the other tales of violence during election campaigns in Kerry in the 1920s
A short extract from my book on politics and electioneering in the years after the Civil War in Kerry
Available now from @ucdpress.bsky.social
owenoshea.ie/the-mussolin...
A short extract from my book on politics and electioneering in the years after the Civil War in Kerry
Available now from @ucdpress.bsky.social
owenoshea.ie/the-mussolin...
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With this regime anything is possible…
January 4, 2026 at 5:40 AM
With this regime anything is possible…
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NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.
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Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.
futurism.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.
futurism.com/future-socie...
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The Kerry priest who was buried four times
The remarkable story of Fr John Quill, parish priest of Milltown, County Kerry who was buried four different times between 1842 and 1913
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The remarkable story of Fr John Quill, parish priest of Milltown, County Kerry who was buried four different times between 1842 and 1913
owenoshea.ie/body-snatche...
‘Body snatchers’: the Kerry priest who was buried four times
Fr John Quill was the parish priest of Milltown from 1825 to 1841. A native of Listowel, he had studied for the priesthood at Maynooth and was ordained to the priesthood in 1819. He was clearly a very...
owenoshea.ie
December 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Kerry priest who was buried four times
The remarkable story of Fr John Quill, parish priest of Milltown, County Kerry who was buried four different times between 1842 and 1913
owenoshea.ie/body-snatche...
The remarkable story of Fr John Quill, parish priest of Milltown, County Kerry who was buried four different times between 1842 and 1913
owenoshea.ie/body-snatche...
Gerard Lynch, Listowel, who has died aged 94, was the oldest surviving former TD for Kerry
A native of Listowel, he served as a Fine Gael TD for Kerry North 1969-77.
His father John Lynch was Fine Gael TD for the constituency between 1951 and 1954.
May he rest in peace 🙏
A native of Listowel, he served as a Fine Gael TD for Kerry North 1969-77.
His father John Lynch was Fine Gael TD for the constituency between 1951 and 1954.
May he rest in peace 🙏
December 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Gerard Lynch, Listowel, who has died aged 94, was the oldest surviving former TD for Kerry
A native of Listowel, he served as a Fine Gael TD for Kerry North 1969-77.
His father John Lynch was Fine Gael TD for the constituency between 1951 and 1954.
May he rest in peace 🙏
A native of Listowel, he served as a Fine Gael TD for Kerry North 1969-77.
His father John Lynch was Fine Gael TD for the constituency between 1951 and 1954.
May he rest in peace 🙏
Looking for a Christmas gift for the history lover in your life?
The three books I've authored or edited during 2025 are now available in all good bookshops
See www.owenoshea.ie
#books #Christmas 📚 🎄
The three books I've authored or edited during 2025 are now available in all good bookshops
See www.owenoshea.ie
#books #Christmas 📚 🎄
December 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Looking for a Christmas gift for the history lover in your life?
The three books I've authored or edited during 2025 are now available in all good bookshops
See www.owenoshea.ie
#books #Christmas 📚 🎄
The three books I've authored or edited during 2025 are now available in all good bookshops
See www.owenoshea.ie
#books #Christmas 📚 🎄
"A couple of tarts getting a few lashes"
The shocking assault on two Kerry women a few weeks after the end of Ireland's Civil War which sent shockwaves to the heart of the National Army and the Free State Government
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The shocking assault on two Kerry women a few weeks after the end of Ireland's Civil War which sent shockwaves to the heart of the National Army and the Free State Government
owenoshea.ie/a-couple-of-...
“A couple of tarts getting a few lashes”
A vicious assault on two sisters in Kenmare a century ago, as the Civil War came to an end, prompted a major political crisis and led to one of the most shocking cover-ups of Free State army brutality...
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December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"A couple of tarts getting a few lashes"
The shocking assault on two Kerry women a few weeks after the end of Ireland's Civil War which sent shockwaves to the heart of the National Army and the Free State Government
owenoshea.ie/a-couple-of-...
The shocking assault on two Kerry women a few weeks after the end of Ireland's Civil War which sent shockwaves to the heart of the National Army and the Free State Government
owenoshea.ie/a-couple-of-...
What's the collective noun for a group of historians??
An archive of historians??
Answers on a postcard please?
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
@gerardshannon.bsky.social
#historians #irishhistory #books #history
An archive of historians??
Answers on a postcard please?
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
@gerardshannon.bsky.social
#historians #irishhistory #books #history
December 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
What's the collective noun for a group of historians??
An archive of historians??
Answers on a postcard please?
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
@gerardshannon.bsky.social
#historians #irishhistory #books #history
An archive of historians??
Answers on a postcard please?
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
@gerardshannon.bsky.social
#historians #irishhistory #books #history
What a colourful backdrop for signing books at Connolly Books, one of my favourite bookshops in Dublin 📚
'From Ballots to Bullets' published by @ucdpress.bsky.social is now available in store
Thanks for hosting the book signing 📖✒️
'From Ballots to Bullets' published by @ucdpress.bsky.social is now available in store
Thanks for hosting the book signing 📖✒️
December 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
What a colourful backdrop for signing books at Connolly Books, one of my favourite bookshops in Dublin 📚
'From Ballots to Bullets' published by @ucdpress.bsky.social is now available in store
Thanks for hosting the book signing 📖✒️
'From Ballots to Bullets' published by @ucdpress.bsky.social is now available in store
Thanks for hosting the book signing 📖✒️
Thanks to all who turned out at O'Mahony's Bookshop for the launch of my book "From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923-33"
Thanks to Minister Norma Foley for launching the book
Now available in all good bookshops and from ucdpress.ie
Thanks to Minister Norma Foley for launching the book
Now available in all good bookshops and from ucdpress.ie
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Thanks to all who turned out at O'Mahony's Bookshop for the launch of my book "From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923-33"
Thanks to Minister Norma Foley for launching the book
Now available in all good bookshops and from ucdpress.ie
Thanks to Minister Norma Foley for launching the book
Now available in all good bookshops and from ucdpress.ie
47 books and counting!! 📚
An honour to meet author and historian, Fr J Anthony Gaughan, as he handed over his personal archives to Kerry Library.
Fr Gaughan, who is in his 94th year and a native of Listowel, is one of Ireland’s foremost historians 📚
An honour to meet author and historian, Fr J Anthony Gaughan, as he handed over his personal archives to Kerry Library.
Fr Gaughan, who is in his 94th year and a native of Listowel, is one of Ireland’s foremost historians 📚
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
47 books and counting!! 📚
An honour to meet author and historian, Fr J Anthony Gaughan, as he handed over his personal archives to Kerry Library.
Fr Gaughan, who is in his 94th year and a native of Listowel, is one of Ireland’s foremost historians 📚
An honour to meet author and historian, Fr J Anthony Gaughan, as he handed over his personal archives to Kerry Library.
Fr Gaughan, who is in his 94th year and a native of Listowel, is one of Ireland’s foremost historians 📚
The Mass Rock or 'Poll an Airfrinn' at Killaclohane Wood near Milltown, Co. Kerry, where Domican priest, Fr Thaddeus Moriarty was arrested while celebrating Mass in 1653.
Fr Moriarty was tortured at Ross Castle in Killarney and hanged under the provisions of the Penal Laws.
A very special place.
Fr Moriarty was tortured at Ross Castle in Killarney and hanged under the provisions of the Penal Laws.
A very special place.
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The Mass Rock or 'Poll an Airfrinn' at Killaclohane Wood near Milltown, Co. Kerry, where Domican priest, Fr Thaddeus Moriarty was arrested while celebrating Mass in 1653.
Fr Moriarty was tortured at Ross Castle in Killarney and hanged under the provisions of the Penal Laws.
A very special place.
Fr Moriarty was tortured at Ross Castle in Killarney and hanged under the provisions of the Penal Laws.
A very special place.