Katharine O'Shea

Katharine Parnell (née Wood; 30 January 1846 5 February 1921), known before her second marriage as Katharine O'Shea, and usually called Katie O'Shea by friends and Kitty O'Shea by enemies, was an English woman of aristocratic background whose decade-long secret affair with Charles Stewart Parnell led to a widely publicized divorce in 1890 and his political downfall.

Katharine Parnell
Born
Katharine Wood

(1846-01-30)30 January 1846
Braintree, Essex, England
Died5 February 1921(1921-02-05) (aged 75)
Spouses
  • William O'Shea
    (m. 1867; div. 1890)
  • (m. 1891; died 1891)
Children5
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