[1][2] Newspaper reports from the time comment on the quality of Dripsey tweed and drapery of which 90 per cent was for export to Paris, London, Asia and Canada.
After his death in 1956, Dripsey Woollen Mills remained in the family and went on to win 8 Gold Medals at the Sacramento fair in the 1960s.
[3] In June 1924 the Minister for External Affairs, Desmond FitzGerald, appointed O'Shaughnessy as representative from Ireland at the International Labour Conference at Geneva.
[4] O'Shaughnessy restored a number of residences of character in Cork, and over his life lived in over sixteen different properties.
Among the residences he lived in were St Raphael's house, Montenotte; Windsor in Rochestown (now Rochestown Park Hotel) and Dripsey Castle (formerly the home of the Bowen-Colthurst family, and sold by members of the O'Shaughnessy family in 2015).