Seamus O’Brien – Educationalist, historian and author By Topic.ie 22 March 2023 Seamus O’Brien Seamus O’Brien was born in Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow and moved to Mullingar in the mid-1970s. He has spent his entire life as an educationalist, while remaining a family man as well as becoming a well-known historian and author. 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