Michael Sheedy (Sheehy) alleged Fenian.Tipperary
                Preface by Jenny Williams Fawcett


On the 1st of April 1867* the ? newspaper reported that a Michael SHEEHY
had been arrested at Templemore, in county Tipperary, as a suspected Fenian.
Sheehy was alleged to be a colonel in that organisation. Sheehy was brought
into the town of Nenagh, along with Michael Ryan and three other alleged
Fenians.
	"Some fresh arrests have bee made at Nenagh. Yesterday five
	Fenian prisoners were brought into that town from Templemore.
	Amongt them is Michael Sheehy, who is said to have held the 
	rank of a colonel,and Michael Ryan, also a reputed colonel. 
	Their appearance excited no popular manifestations of any kind.
	John Farrell, one of those arrested by the Kilfeacle constabulary,
	was a gardener in the employment of Count de Jarnac."

It has not yet been determined if he is the SHEADY (sic),Fenian, who died
the following year, as reported in the ? on the 6th of October 1868.*
Sheady was buried in the contraversial Golden Bridge Cemetery
at Inchicore.
	"A man named Sheady, who suffered two years' imprisoment
	under the Haveas Corpus Suspension Act as a suspected Fenian,
	died suddenly a few days ago of apoplexy, and was buried 
	yesterday in Golden Bridge Cemetery. A crowd of 1,500 or 1,600
	persons attended the funeral, many of them carrying sprigs of
	laurel."
* = sighted original record.