The Daily Mail (London, England), October 18th, 2007
Byline: CHARLES LEGGE
QUESTION We all know thatParnell's affair with Kitty O'Shea ruined hiscareer, but what happened to Kitty and her children with Parnell after he died?Does he have any descendants alive today?
THE woman known as Kitty O'Shea, or more properly Katie, was born KatharineWood, the daughter of Sir John Page Wood, in 1845.
She was already married to Captain William O'Shea, a Catholic Nationalist MPfor Galway, who was the man who introduced her to Parnell in 1880.
Parnell, who wasn't married, was smitten with Katie and they began a longaffair, which caused a huge scandal in ...
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