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 (Ciste 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; opposed 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 Éireann 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
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 Cliath: Foilseacháin Náisiunta Teoranta 1963).
Criticism
Oliver
Snoddy, ‘Notes on Literature in Irish Dealing with the Fight for Freedom’,
Éire-Ireland, 3, 2 (Summer 1968), pp. 138-48.
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)