Editing Seán T. O'Kelly (section)

==Early life==
O'Kelly was born in inner-city [[Dublin]], although his exact place of birth is disputed.<ref>''The Dictionary of Irish Biography'' indicates that he was born at 4 Lower Wellington Street, Dublin. According to his birth registration, he was born at 55 Wellington Street. Yet another source: http://www.glasnevintrust.ie/visit-glasnevin/interactive-map/sean-t-okelly/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222232241/http://www.glasnevintrust.ie/visit-glasnevin/interactive-map/sean-t-okelly/ |date=22 December 2014 }} – states that he was born in Capel Street</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last = Cowell| first = John| title = Where they lived in Dublin| publisher = O'Brien Press Limited| year = 1980| url = https://archive.org/details/wheretheylivedin00cowe| isbn = 978-0-905140-43-8| url-access = registration}}</ref> Baptised as John,<ref>Frederic Logan Paxson, ''Postwar years; normalcy, 1918–1923'' (Cooper Square Publishers, 1966), p. 34</ref> he was the eldest son of Samuel O'Kelly, a boot and shoemaker of Berkley Road,<ref name="debrett">''Debrett's House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench'' (1922), p. 123: "Sean Tomas O'Kelly, el. son of Samuel O'Kelly, of Berkley Road, Dublin; b. Aug. 25th, 1883; ed. at O'Connell Schs., Dublin: m. 1918, Mary Kate, da. of John Ryan, of Wexford; is Sec. to Gaelic League, a Member of Municipal Council, Dublin"</ref> by his marriage<ref>O'Kelly's parents' marriage registration in 1879 - they had not yet reverted to the Irish form of their names as O'Kelly and O'Dea, but still used 'Kelly' and 'Dea', a custom dating back to when surnames beginning with 'Mac' or 'O' were forbidden entry to Dublin; they were both living in 7 Fishamble Street, a tenement by Christ Church Cathedral that is one of Dublin City's most ancient streets. He is a boot maker and she is a basket maker  https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1879/11067/8049223.pdf</ref> to Catherine O'Dea,<ref>Birth registration for John Thomas Kelly, son of Samuel Kelly, boot maker, and Catherine née Day, 55 Welling Street, north Dublin on 25 August 1882 https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1882/02761/2014096.pdf</ref> and had three sisters and four brothers, two of whom were educated by [[Patrick Pearse]]<ref>Witness statement of Máighréad O'Kelly in the Bureau of Military History https://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0925.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927081624/http://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0925.pdf |date=27 September 2020 }}</ref> at [[St Enda's School]].

O'Kelly's first school was the [[Sisters of Charity]], in Mountjoy Street (1886–1890), then the Christian Brothers School in St Mary's Place (1890–1894).<ref name=dib>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/okelly-sean-thomas-o-ceallaigh-sean-tomas-a6840|title=O'Kelly, Seán Thomas (Ó Ceallaigh, Seán Tomás)|work=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]]|last=Maume|first=Patrick|access-date=8 January 2022}}</ref> His senior school education was at [[O'Connell School]], a Christian Brothers school in North Richmond Street (1894–1898). O'Kelly joined the [[National Library of Ireland]] in 1898 as a junior assistant to T. W. Lyster, remaining there until 1902, and becoming a subscriber to the Celtic Literary Society.<ref name=dib/> The same year, he joined the [[Gaelic League]], becoming a member of the governing body in 1910 and general secretary in 1915. He was appointed manager of [[An Claidheamh Soluis]], which included amongst its editors the revolutionary leaders of [[Sinn Féin]].<ref>Charles Townshend, "Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion" (Penguin 2006), p. 412.</ref>