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Author and historian Owen O’Shea.
THE Killarney National Park talks series continues this Thursday with Owen O’Shea speaking on the Civil War in Kerry in Killarney House Auditorium at 8.00pm.
The talks series is free, seating is limited and it will also be live-streamed via the Killarney National Park Facebook page @killarneynationalpark
‘Terror, Turmoil and Trauma: The Civil War in County Kerry and its legacy’ will be delivered by Owen O’Shea, from Milltown, a historian and author of several books on history and politics in his native county.
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A former press officer with the Labour Party, and a former print and broadcast journalist, Owen, currently works as Media, Communications and Customer Relations Officer with Kerry County Council.
He is an Irish Research Council-funded PhD student at University College Dublin, researching electioneering and politics in Kerry in the decade after the Civil War.
His books include, ‘Ballymacandy – The Story of a Kerry Ambush, ‘No Middle Path’ – The civil war in Kerry, ‘Kerry 1916’ – Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising.
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