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From: "conaught" <>
Subject: [MAYO] Easter Week Series #9
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:11:34 -0700


Seán Thomas O'Kelly, (1882-1966) was one of the early leaders of the Irish
nationalist Sinn Féin Party. In the Easter Rising he was staff captain to
Padraig Pearse in the General Post Office. Although he was not court
martialed he was arrested and interned in England. Opposed to the Treaty of
1921 he was a founding member of Fianna Fáil in 1926. He was second
President of Ireland. He died in Dublin on 23 November 1966.

He served two terms as president of Ireland,
from June 1945 to June 1959.

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Ellen Naliboff

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Selected references:

Boylan, Henry, A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Third Edition, Gill &
Macmillan, Dublin, 1998.

Connolly, S.J., editor, The Oxford Companion to Irish History, Oxford
University Press, 1998.

Foster, R.F., Modern Ireland, 1600-1972, Penguin Books, 1988.

Fry, Peter and Fiona Somerset, A History of Ireland, Barnes & Noble, New
York, 1988

Llywelyn, Morgan, 1921, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York, 2001.




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