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On this #InternationalWomensDay I would like to bring attention to a woman who has been lambasted by history, and horribly misrepresented. I’m talking about Katherine Parnell, and I would like to explain why you should never call her “Kitty” O’Shea. 1/15 
Katherine (née Wood) married young, becoming Katherine O’ Shea. O’Shea was handsome, a go-getter and military man, though he never fought in more than one war and never on the front lines. Captain O’Shea became an MP for the Irish Parliamentary Party. 2/18
To advance his own political aspirations he employed his wife to act as host at parties for potential allies, their marriage of young love quickly fell into a marriage of convenience. Gradually, O’Shea’s treatment of his wife would deteriorate to a mutual hatred. 3/18
