Family
On 8 September 1909, Kettle married Mary Sheehy (born 1884), a fellow graduate of the Royal University, a suffragist, and like Kettle a member of a well known nationalist family (her father, David Sheehy, was a nationalist MP). Their daughter Elisabeth (Betty) was born in 1913.
Through his wife Mary's sisters he was connected by marriage to Francis Skeffington and Frank Cruise O'Brien, father of the Labour TD and Irish government minister, later UK Unionist Party politician, Conor Cruise O'Brien. Father Eugene Sheehy, a brother of David Sheehy, was the priest who educated Éamon de Valera in Limerick.
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