Owen O'Shea
Author, Historian, Researcher of Irish Politics and Irish History
Member of Irish Association of Professional Historians
Member of Political Studies Association of Ireland
PRO of Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society
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Kerry Ministers of State, 1924 to 2025
Since the position of Minister of State (previously Parliamentary Secretary) was established in 1924, just twelve Kerry TDs have held junior ministerial positions. The Ministers and Secretaries Act of 1924 allowed for the appointment of up to seven Parliamentary Secretaries to assist cabinet ministers in their duties. The position was abolished in 1978 and replaced by the post of Minister of State. Here are the twelve Kerry TDs who have served in these positions over
Blog Articles
Occasional meanderings and insights into Kerry’s past with a focus on electioneering, election results, key political figures, political culture, and the dramatic ups and downs of politics in the county over the past century.
Kerry Ministers of State, 1924 to 2025
Since the position of Minister of State (previously Parliamentary Secretary) was established in 1924, just twelve Kerry TDs have held junior ministerial positions. The Ministers and Secretaries Act of 1924
Forthcoming book based on memoir of key figure in Irish republicanism
In this unrepentant and revealing memoir, (publishing March 2025), Dan Mulvihill, a leading figure in Irish republicanism recounts his fight for an Irish Republic over several decades and his central
The only Kerry TD at the first meeting of Dáil Éireann
At 3.30 on the afternoon of 21 January 1919 a group of twenty-seven men gathered in the Round Room of the Mansion House in Dublin. Just a month previously, each
