Charles O’Shaughnessy
1826/7–1911
Irish shopkeeper, entrepreneur, and polemicist. Owned a large drapers and hardware shop specialising in shoemaking in Kilfinane, co. Limerick, Ireland. Wrote a number of pamphlets including Darwin confounded (1876).
Sources
Census returns of Ireland 1911 (www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002733293/, accessed 14 August 2014)
Ireland, civil registration deaths index, 1864–1958 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 August 2014)
D. Murphy 2009
D. O’Shaughnessy 2009
Bibliography
Murphy, Donal. 2009. Darwin’s Limerick nemesis: Charles O’Shaughnessy. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 49: 55–8.
O’Shaughnessy, David. 2009. Evolution confounded: Charles O’Shaughnessy’s rebuttal of Darwin. History Ireland 17 (3): 24–7.
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