Captain Cuckold ; the Love Triangle of Captain O'shea, Wife Kitty and Charles Stewart Parnell Remains the Greatest Sex Scandal in Irish History. Now a New Book Reveals the Affair Was Even More Sordid Than Believed... [Eire Region]

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HAD Charles Stewart Parnell and Katharine O'Shea been in a position to marry when they first met in the middle of 1880, Irish history might have been very different.

In addition they themselves would have had a domestic existence so banal it would have defied the best efforts of even the most talented tabloid journalist to turn it into anything even remotely sensational.

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Captain Cuckold ; the Love Triangle of Captain O'shea, Wife Kitty and Charles Stewart Parnell Remains the Greatest Sex Scandal in Irish History. Now a New Book Reveals the Affair Was Even More Sordid Than Believed... [Eire Region]

For a decade they lived quietly (though hardly serenely) as man and wife, describing each other as 'Husband' and 'Wifie' in their correspondence. But for a single extraneous factor their lives together in the London suburb of Eltham would have been one of such contentment and tranquillity as to have been insufferably dull.

Unfortunately the extraneous factor was an inconv...

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