Father Eugene Sheehy (25 December 1841 – July 1917) was a priest, president of the local branch of the Irish National Land League at Kilmallock, and founder member of the Gaelic Athletic Association.

Sheehy was a forceful and patriotic individual whose involvement in the Land League put him in contention with the local magistrate, Clifford Lloyd.

The people fell upon their knees as he passed and seized his hands and the skirts of his clothes, while begging his blessing before he left them.He was said to have been a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, may have been on its executive committee, and was certainly in the confidence of the leaders.

[5] Sheehy was at the meeting in Thurles when the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in 1884; a photograph taken on that day shows him in the group which contained Davitt, Cusack, Power and MacKay Also in 1884, Fr.

During the evening Father Sheehy said 'No man has a right to set bounds to the onward march of a nation', and Parnell was struck by the phrase and made it his own.