Eoin O'Duffy
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Eoin O'Duffy was an Irish revolutionary, general, Garda, politician and fascist activist. O'Duffy was the leader of the Monaghan Brigade of the Irish Republican Army and a prominent figure in the Ulst
O'Duffy in Blueshirt attire, c. 1934
O'Duffy in his uniform as Garda Commissioner, c. 1922–33
O'Duffy, circa 1930
O'Duffy speaking at a rally in September 1934
Irish Civil War
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The Irish Civil War was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the B
Eoin O'Duffy
…he became Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1922. He accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty and as a general became Chief of Staff of the National Army in the Irish Civil War, on the pro-Treaty side. He had been an early member of Sinn Féin and was elected a TD for Monaghan in the Second Dáil in 1921, supporting pro-Treaty…
National Army soldiers armed with Lewis machine guns aboard a troop transport during the Civil War
The Four Courts along the River Liffey quayside. The building was occupied by anti-treaty forces during the Civil War, whom the National Army subsequently bombarded into surrender. The Irish national archives in the buildings were destroyed in the subsequent fire. The building was badly damaged but was fully restored after the war.
Dan Breen's appeal to Free State troops
National Army soldiers escorting an IRA prisoner