Latest News - updated 21st June 2008
The Clans of Ireland Certificate 2008
The O'Shea Clan has renewed its membership with the Clans of Ireland for 2008 and the certificate for 2008 appears below.
Notre Dame Victory March Centennial 1908 - 2008Here is a link to a video of Video of Victory March
(duration: 8:18 minutes).
Two brothers, Michael and John Shea, students at Notre Dame and residents at Notre Dame, wrote this famous Victory March.
This link was sent in to us by Dave Shea.
Land Commission in Kerry 1883See data page for a newly added pdf file which is based on an article which appeared in the Cork Examiner, August 1st 1883. There are several references to Sheas who were tenant farmers on the Iveragh Peninsula.
Irish Family History Foundation - Launch of New Website
The Irish Family History Foundation is delighted to announce that its all Ireland Online Research Service at www.irish-roots.ie was launched on 12th March 2008 on the Jeanie Johnston Famine Ship in Dublin, by Minister Seamus Brennan, and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. It is an online paying site for genealogy. However, Kerry and several other Munster counties (or parts thereof) are not online yet.
Article on a famous Shea
An article from the Army Times has kindly been sent to us by Joseph Shea who is a member of our yDNA Project. The article is about First Lt. Richard Shea of the 7th. Infantry Division of the American Army who fought bravely in the Korean War. Richard Shea was also a reknowned athlete. Here is the article on Richard Shea. Note you may need to click to enlarge the image if your browser shows a blurred image initially.
yDNA Project gets Exciting
Several new O'Shea Surname Project yDNA results have just been released. The most exciting news is that another 37 marker match has been found. See comment no. 32 on O'Shea Blog.
Podcasts
If you want to hear a podcast which includes an interview dealing with the O'Shea yDNA Project, go to Irish Roots Podcasts and look for Podcast No. 28.
Podcast No. 16 also mentions the O'Shea Clan yDNA Project. Thanks to Mike O'Laughlin for the mentions.
Updated yDNA Project results are available on the yDNA Project page (April 2007). Also more data on the research data page.
Clans of Ireland AGM and Open Day: Saturday 28th April 2007, venue: The Dublin City Library, 142/143 Pearse Street, Dublin 1, Ireland, time: 12noon to 5:30pm. As the O'Shea Clan Society is a paid up member of the Clans of Ireland limited, we are entitled to attend.
| Sharon Shea Bossard of Chicago has recently published an interesting account of her research into her Irish roots which led her to paternal Shea ancestors in Cahersiveen, Co Kerry. Called Finding My Irish, the book also tracks the family's exploits as struggling immigrants in the US. Detailsof the book and author are available on Finding My Irish |  |
Mark Shea, intrepid Australian traveller, is back in home in Australia after his exciting 2006 world trip to make movies. His movies! One man, one movie-camera!
Brian O'Shea, Margaret (O'Shea) Jordan with Mark Shea (right) in the Cork City Library on his visit to Cork in the summer of 2006.
There are two new files (as of 3rd Nov. 2006) on the Research page:
The first is a list of Sheas (and variant surnames) as grantors in deeds housed in the Registry of Deeds, Dublin, Ireland. Some of these deeds have been examined and notes made on the content. Deeds can sometimes provide much genealogical information. Don't forget that if Sheas were grantees, you need to look up a different surname for the grantor. While every effort has been made to be accurate, it is inevitable that errors in reference numbers occur. So, please check the references before ordering deeds from the Registry of deeds, at 12 Euro each.
The second file is a list of flax growers in 1796.
Thanks to Kerrie Shea for sending us the following letter written in 1864 by a Tipperary man, John Shea, to family members, who had emigrated to Australia.
Congratulations to John O'Shea of Bantry - County Mayor of County Cork, Ireland for the year commencing July 2006
Clans of Ireland AGM and Open Day: Saturday 6th May 2006, venue: The Dublin City Library, 142/143 Pearse Street, Dublin 1, Ireland. As the O'Shea Clan Society is a paid up member of the Clans of Ireland limited, we are entitled to attend.
Newsletters
We have decided to try a new format for news items to replace newsletters. See news items above.
Newsletter no. 1, March 2005
Newsletter no. 2, August 2005
Newsletter no. 3, December 2005
Castles
Could Ballycarbery Castle, which is located near Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry originally have been an O'Shea Castle?
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