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 of aristocratic background whose adulterous relationship with Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell led to a widely publicised divorce in 1890 and his political downfall.