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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO

W.C.2. Clubs: Royal Automobile. Burlington Fine Arts. Trade Union: Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers.

SHAW, Joseph, M.A. (Cantab.), Barrister, Inner Temple 1887; K.C. 1910; J.P. for Herefordshire; Chairman, Powell Dutfryn Steam Coal Co., Ltd. Son of late Joseph Shaw, of Celbridge. co. Kildare; b. 1856; m. 1885, Charlotte (d. 1897), eldest dau. of late Sir Philip C Smyly, Knt., M.D., of Dublin, and Hon. Selina, sixth dau. of 3rd Baron Plunket. Res.: 36 Bryanston Square, London, W.1.; Kentchurch Court, Hereford.

SHAW, Kathleen Trousdell, R.H.A., Sculptor. Educated Dublin, Paris, Home. London. Works: portraits of the late Earl Egerton of Tatton, the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, Lord Avebury, Cardinal Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of Ireland, Countess Annesley, and many others; also ideal figures of Mowgli, A Nymph, Myron, and a public memorial to the officers and men of the Royal Irish Fusiliers who fell in the South African War, at Armagh, Ireland; has exhibited many works in the Royal Academy and in the Paris Salon; Hon. Royal Hibernian Academician; the only woman sculptor who is a member of an academy in Great Britain; dau. of late Dr. A. Shaw, of Carlow. Res.: 30 Belsize Park Gardens. London, N.W.; Eton Studio, King's College Road, Eton Avenue, London, N.W. Club: Albemarle.

SHEEDY, Morgan M., clergyman; b. in Ireland, Oct. 8th, 1853; s. Michael and Mary (Madden) S. Ordained R.C. priest, 1876; permanent rector, St. John's Church, Altoona, Pa., since Dec, 1891. First pres. and ex-treas. Catholic Summer Sch. (dir. Reading Circle Union); V.P. Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America 4 years. Editor and pub. The Church Quarterly and Altoona Monthly. Popular lecturer. Author, Christian Unity, 1895; Social Problems, 1896; Briefs for Our Times, 1906; etc. Also a frequent contributor to magazines. Home: Altoona, Pa.

SHEEHAN, Daniel Desmond, Barrister, King's Inns 1910. Educ.: National Schools and privately; was for two years acting editor of Catholic News, Preston, and subsequently for five years editor of Cork County Southern Star; takes an active part in the Irish Labour and National Movement; Hon. Sec. Central Executive All-for-Ireland League; President Irish Land and Labour Association; M.P. for Mid- Cork 1901-06; was expelled the Irish Party because of his advocacy of the policy of Conciliation as applied to Irish politics: resigned his seat; re-elected 1907 and represented the constituency till 1918. Temp. Capt. 9th Batt. Roy. Munster Fus. with the British Expeditionary Force in France, 1915-16. Pubn.: Ireland since Parnell; b. 1874; m. 1894, Mary, dau. of late Martin O'Connor, Bridge Street, Tralee, and has issue five sons and four daus. Res.: Rockhurst, Victoria Road, Cork.

SHEEHAN, Rev. Canon Michael, D.D., D.Ph. (Bonn), M.A.; b. at Waterford City 1870; Educ. at St. John's College, Waterford. at Maynooth, and at the Universities of Oxford, Greifswald, and Bonn; Priest 1895; Professor of Classics at Maynooth from 1910, and Vice-President from 1919: Commissioner of Intermediate Education from 1906. Author of several works bearing on Irish studies. Res.: St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.

SHEEHY, David, was M.P. for S. Galway 1885-1900; and for S. Meath 1903-18. Second son of Richard Sheehy: b. 1844; m. 1876, Elizabeth (d. 1918) 2nd dau. of late Richard McCoy, of Loughill, Co. Limerick. Res.: Windsor House, Windsor Road, Rathmines, Dublin.

SHEEHY, Richard J., B.A., LL.D. (R.U.I.), Barrister-at-Law, King's Inns, 1907: Professor of English Law, University College, Galway, from 1913. Res.: 3 Belgrave Park, Rathmines, Dublin.

SHEEHY-SKEFFINGTON, Mrs. Hanna: member of Dublin City Council, M.A. (National University, Dublin): President Irish Women's Franchise League. Born Kanturk, Co. Cork; m. (1903) Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Pacifist, Editor of Irish Citizen; murdered by Capt. Bowen-Colthurst in 1916; actively associated with feminist and Irish Militant Suffrage Movement; twice imprisoned, in 1912 and 1913, for same; lectured in United States from 1916-1918 on British Militarism in Ireland: on return deported to Holloway by British Chief Secretary Short, hungerstruck and was subsequently released and allowed to return to Ireland; since then actively engaged in Sinn Fein propaganda; member of S.F. Standing Committee from 1916-1922: Director of S.F. organization from 1921-22: edited "Irish Citizen" from 1916 till its forced cessation owing to Military raids during Terror. Pubns.: British Militarism as I have known it; Sinn Fein and United States; Biography of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington; special Irish Correspondent to Irish World, New York. Res.: 7 Belgrave Road, Dublin.

SHEIL, Mr. Justice John Devonshire, Barrister, Inner Temple 1889; admitted to the Cape Bar 1889; Assistant Law Adviser to the Crown 1896: Q.C. 1898: frequently acted as Attorney-General for Cape Colony; Senior Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of S. Africa (Eastern Districts Local Divn.) 1902-12; eldest son of