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In 1946 O'Shea and Jean Cormie
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is where O'Shea was born in 1920. His parents were both of Irish
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Part of his legacy was the many people who
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O'Shea was a lecturer, research historian, and assistant film censor and was a founding member of the
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for services to the film industry. In 1992 he received the
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He was active from 1940 to 1970, and in 1952 set up
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