David Sheehy (1844 - 17 December 1932) was an Irish nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1885-1900 and from 1903-1918 as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Born in Limerick, he had been a member of the IRB and was imprisoned on six occasions for various anti-government activities.

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  • David Sheehy (1844 - 17 December 1932) was an Irish nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1885-1900 and from 1903-1918 as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Born in Limerick, he had been a member of the IRB and was imprisoned on six occasions for various anti-government activities. He opposed Parnell at the time of the Parnell split and unsuccessfully contested Waterford in 1891 as an anti-Parnellite against the Parnellite John Redmond. In 1885 he was elected for South Galway and held the seat until the election of 1900. In 1903, he was elected for South Meath in a by-election, and held the seat until the 1918 general election when he lost the seat to Sinn Féin. He and his wife had seven children, of whom six survived to adulthood. One of his daughters, Mary (born 1884), married the MP Thomas Kettle. Another, Hanna (born 1877), married the writer Francis Skeffington. Kathleen married Frank O'Brien and was the mother of Conor Cruise O'Brien. Margaret (born 1879), an amateur playwright, married Frank Culhane with whom she had four children and after being widowed married her godson, the poet Michael Casey. Sheehy's two sons were Richard and Eugene. The writer James Joyce often visited the family home in Belvedere Square, where musical evenings and theatricals took place every Sunday evening. Joyce entertained the family with Italian songs. In 1900 Margaret wrote a play in which the Sheehy's and their friends, including Joyce, took part. Joyce took a particular liking to Eugene and had a long-lasting but unrequited crush on Mary. When he died in Dublin aged 88 it was reported that he was the oldest surviving member of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
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  • David Sheehy (1844 - 17 December 1932) was an Irish nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1885-1900 and from 1903-1918 as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Born in Limerick, he had been a member of the IRB and was imprisoned on six occasions for various anti-government activities.
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  • David Sheehy
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