David Sheehy

Born in Limerick, he was a student for the priesthood at the Irish College in Paris, but left due to a cholera epidemic and later married Bessie McCoy ( Conor said they eloped, but they were both 25 years old and both fathers were witnesses at the wedding).

At the 1892 general election, Sheehy joined was opposed by a Parnellite Irish National League candidate, whom he defeated with a majority of nearly two to one.

After the death in August 1903 of James Laurence Carew, the Independent Nationalist MP for South Meath, Sheehy was selected as the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate in the resulting by-election in October 1903.

Carew had allegedly been elected in 1900 as a result of a series of errors in nominations, and his predecessor John Howard Parnell stood again, this time as an Independent Nationalist.

Hanna (born 1877), became a teacher and married the writer Francis Skeffington; they had one son, Owen, who was seven years old when his father was murdered by the Captain Bowen-Colthurst in Portobello Barracks, Rathmines, during the 1916 Rising.

[9] Joyce's novel Ulysses wittily describes an encounter between David Sheehy's wife, Bessie, and Father John Conmee, SJ, rector of Clongowes.