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O'Shea is a surname (an anglicized form of the Irish patronymic name 'Ó Séaghdha or Ó Sé'), originating in the Kingdom of Corcu Duibne in County Kerry, and could refer to:
- Alicia O'Shea Petersen (1862-1923), Australian suffragist
- Brian O'Shea (politician) (born 1944), Irish politician
- Brian O'Shea (boxer), American boxer
- Clarrie O'Shea (1906-1988), Australian labor union secretary
- Franc O'Shea, Swazi musician
- James O'Shea and John O'Shea, Victorian stone carvers associated with John Ruskin.
- Jack O'Shea All-Ireland winning Gaelic footballer from County Kerry.
- Jack O'Shea's An award winning Irish butcher.
- Jay O'Shea (born 1988), Irish footballer currently playing for Birmingham City.
- John O'Shea (born 1981), Irish International footballer currently playing for Sunderland.
- John O'Shea (1920-2001), New Zealand film director.
- John O'Shea (born 1944), Irish founder of GOAL, international humanitarian organization based in Ireland.
- John Augustus O'Shea (1839–1905), Irish soldier, journalist, and writer.
- Katherine O'Shea (1846-1921), English wife of Irish politician, Charles Stewart Parnell.
- Kelvin O'Shea (born 1933), Australian rugby league footballer
- Mark O'Shea (born 1956), English herpetologist
- Michael O'Shea (Canadian football) (born 1970), Canadian football player
- Milo O'Shea (1926-2013), Irish actor
- Natalia O'Shea (born 1976), Russian linguist and musician
- Rick O'Shea (born 1973), Irish radio DJ
- Shayne O'Shea (born 1956) Irish American, Wiccan Democrat. Founder of the Temple of the Triple Goddess.
- Steve O'Shea, New Zealand is marine biologist and environmentalist
- Tessie O'Shea (1913-1995), Welsh entertainer and actress
- Timothy O'Shea (born 1949), vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Edinburgh
- Tony O'Shea (born 1961), English darts player
- William O'Shea (1840-1905), Irish soldier and Member of Parliament
Much less commonly, O'Shea might be used as a first name:
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O'Shea Jackson (born 1969), rapper, commonly known as Ice Cube
- O'Shea Jackson, Jr. (born 1991), his son, rapper and actor
O’Shea is a country music duo formed by husband and wife team Mark O’Shea (born 16 February 1977) and Jay O’Shea (née Smith). Since relocating to Nashville, TN in 2007, the duo has seen success not only as artists, but also as songwriters, and finalists in the Country Music Television series Can You Duet.
Usage examples of "o'shea".
The house O'Shea or O'Shame, Quivapieno, known as the Haunted Inkbottle, no number Brimstone Walk, Asia in Ireland, as it was infested with the raps, with his penname SHUT sepiascraped on the doorplate and a blind of black sailcloth over its wan phwinshogue, in which the soulcontracted son of the secret cell groped through life at the expense of the taxpayers, dejected into day and night with jesuit bark and bitter bite, calico hydrants of zolfor and scoppialamina by full and forty Queasisanos, every day in everyone's way more exceeding in violent abuse of self and others, was the worst, it is hoped, even in our western playboyish world for pure mousefarm filth.
Shelly had already written a rudimentary outline of the project, and for the next several weeks I worked closely with her and Del Rey editor Kathleen O'Shea to fashion a five-year story arc, along with individual story arcs for the principal characters, all of which would ultimately be incorporated into a writers' bible.