Donal O'Sullivan (priest)
Father Donal V. O'Sullivan (died 5 July 1916) was an Irish Catholic priest, and chaplain in the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles in World War I.[1] He was killed aged 26, in Albert in France, on 5 July 1916, during the attack on Bouzincourt, a part of the Battle of the Somme.[1] O'Sullivan was mortally wounded by shrapnel from a shell which exploded near him, while he ministering to a wounded English soldier, who survived the war. His brother Dr J. Ivo O'Sullivan KM served with the 5th Connaught Rangers, as a medic in the war, in Ypres, Salonika, Gallipoli, earning a Military Cross.[2]
A Chalice owned by O'Sullivan, was presented to the St Joseph's Young Priests Society, by his Nephew Dr Ivo O'Sullivan.[3]
Life
O'Sullivan was born to Dan and Hannah O'Sullivan of High Street,
Death
O'Sullivan is buried in Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery in the Somme.
References
- ^ ISBN 0225668246.
- ^ Nolan, Dónal (2 July 2016). "'Greater courage' of fallen Kerry Somme hero Fr Donal recalled". The Kerryman. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ The Chalice Archived 30 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine The Sheaf, St. Josephs Young Priest Society, Summer 2009
- ^ WWI Priest Fr Donal O Sullivan remembered at masses www.catholicireland.net
- ^ O'Sullivan, Jean (1 July 2016). "The Irish chaplain who died during service". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ Priest killed at war to be remembered by John O'Mahony, www.killarneytoday.com, 24 June 2016.
- ^ Ivo O'Sullivan Recording, www.irishlifeandlore.com
