Shelia Mulloy

Shelia Mulloy, née O'Malley, Irish writer and historian.

A native of Kilmilkin, Leenane, County Galway. She arrived in Paris in 1945 to study at the Sorbonne, and it was at this time that her interest in Franco-Irish history began. In 1949 she married John Mulloy, a businessman of Westport, with whom she had three children.

She was editor of Cathair na Mart, the journal of the Westport Historical Society, founded by the late Jarlath Duffy and Peadar Ó Flanagáin in 1981. She was also elected Chief of the O'Malley clan.

Bibliography

Franco-Irish Correspondence 1688–1692, editor, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1984, ISBN 1-874280-32-0.
O'Malley:People and Places, Ballinakella Press, 1986.
Victory or Glorious Defeat:Biographies of participants in the Mayo Rebellion of 1798, editor, 2010, 978 1 907179 75 4.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, May 11, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.