Personal Life
Nicholas O'Shea was born in Tullohea, South Lodge just outside Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary in 1862. Born of farming stock, he received a brief education at the local national school before moving to Dublin. After working in the capital city for some time O'Shea accumulated enough money in 1893 to buy a pub in Clonskeagh. As of 2009 the pub is still in existence and is still in the ownership of the O'Shea family.
Nicholas O'Shea died at the young age of forty-six in 1908.
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