Katharine O'Shea

Katharine Parnell
Born
Katharine Wood

(1846-01-30)30 January 1846
Braintree, Essex, England
Died5 February 1921(1921-02-05) (aged 75)
Spouses
  • (m. 1867; div. 1890)
  • (m. 1891; died 1891)
Children5

Katharine Parnell (née Wood; 30 January 1846 – 5 February 1921), known before her second marriage as Katharine O'Shea and popularly as Kitty O'Shea, was an English woman from a political family whose adulterous relationship with Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell led to a widely publicised divorce in 1890 and his political downfall.