Seumas O'Kelly

[2] Born in Loughrea, County Galway, O'Kelly was educated locally and began his career as a journalist with the Cork newspaper Southern Star.

He moved from The Southern Star to the Leinster Leader in Naas where he remained as Editor until he went to work in 1916 for Nationality, the Sinn Féin party newspaper.

There is a plaque in his honour outside the Leader's offices which reads "Seumas O'Kelly – a gentle revolutionary".

O'Kelly was a friend of the Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith, founder of both the political party Sinn Féin and its newspaper Nationality.

He died prematurely of a heart attack following a raid on the paper's headquarters at Harcourt St by British security forces.