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    Eoin O'Duffy (born Owen Duffy; 28 January 1890 – 30 November 1944) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier, police commissioner and politician. O'Duffy was...
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    April 1933, the ACA began wearing the distinctive blueshirt uniform. Eoin O'Duffy was a guerrilla leader in the IRA in the Irish War of Independence, a...
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    War. The unit was formed wholly of Roman Catholics by the politician Eoin O'Duffy, who had previously organised the banned quasi-fascist Blueshirts and...
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  • Dillon, and the National Guard (better known as the Blueshirts), led by Eoin O'Duffy. Cumann na nGaedhael, born out of the pro-Anglo-Irish Treaty side in...
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  • "noble born". Eoin an Ile or John of Islay, Earl of Ross, in the 15th century Eoin Ó Broin (born 1972), Irish Sinn Féin politician Eoin O'Duffy (1890 — 1944)...
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    the Blueshirts) merged to form Fine Gael – the United Ireland party. Eoin O'Duffy, leader of the National Guard, though not a member of the Oireachtas...
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  • political party in Ireland founded by Eoin O'Duffy in June 1935 at a meeting of 500. It split from Fine Gael when O'Duffy was removed as leader of that party...
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    Seán Mac Eoin (30 September 1893 – 7 July 1973) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and soldier who served as Minister for Defence briefly in 1951 and from...
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    taken by the Free State in August 1922. Collins, Richard Mulcahy and Eoin O'Duffy planned a nationwide Free State offensive, dispatching columns overland...
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  • O'Duffy is the surname of: Eimar O'Duffy (1893-1935), member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and writer Eoin O'Duffy (1892-1944), Irish Republican...
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    was named the merged party's deputy leader, with Eoin O'Duffy as party leader. However, since O'Duffy didn't have a seat in the Dáil, Cosgrave became Fine...
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    IRA officers, such as Eoin O'Duffy, alleged that the "Irregulars" had not fought the British in the War of Independence. O'Duffy claimed that the Kerry...
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    Army Comrades Association in 1932 and led by former Garda Commissioner Eoin O’Duffy, transformed into an agrarian protest organisation, mobilising against...
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    months. It was his successors, Eoin O'Duffy and Éamon Broy, who played a central role in the development of the service. O'Duffy was Commissioner in the early...
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    ammunition to the National Army. Michael Collins, Richard Mulcahy and Eoin O'Duffy planned a nationwide offensive, sending columns overland to take Limerick...
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    shirts to its members were known as the camisas verdes (Green Shirts). Eoin O'Duffy led the Army Comrades Association, known as the Blueshirts, in the Irish...
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  • among Irish Catholics, and the PTAA influenced public policy. In 1923, Eoin O'Duffy as Commissioner of the Garda Síochána (Civic Guard) encouraged members...
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    stating that Minister of Defence (Richard Mulcahy) and the Chief-of-Staff (Eoin O'Duffy) no longer exercised any control over the IRA. In addition, it ordered...
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    Northern Railway Company, based in Clones. It was there that he met Eoin O'Duffy and the two became friendly, with Hogan first joining the GAA and later...
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    Leaders Eoin O'Duffy W. T. Cosgrave Richard Mulcahy James Dillon Liam Cosgrave Garret FitzGerald Alan Dukes John Bruton Michael Noonan Enda Kenny Leo Varadkar...
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    TDs at various stages. Along with Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins and Eoin O'Duffy, O'Higgins is an important figure in Irish nationalist historiography...
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    blue shirt uniform. Blythe prepared the speeches of Blueshirt leader Eoin O'Duffy and participated in Blueshirt (now officially called the National Guard)...
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    Olustee Francis Fitzpatrick (1859–1933), recipient of the Victoria Cross Eoin O'Duffy (20 October 1892 – 30 November 1944), turns Chief of Staff of the Irish...
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    MacEntee (Belfast); Joseph O'Doherty (Donegal); Paul Galligan (Cavan); Eoin O'Duffy (Monaghan); Séamus Doyle (Wexford); Peadar Bracken (Offaly); Larry Lardner...
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    pro-Treaty leader, Eoin O'Duffy. O'Duffy looked to Fascist Italy as an example for Ireland to follow. Several hundred supporters of O'Duffy briefly went to...
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    Civil War. He did, however, dismiss Eoin O'Duffy from his position as Garda Commissioner after a year. Eoin O'Duffy was then invited to be head of the...
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    the "Army Comrades Association"), led by the former Garda Commissioner Eoin O'Duffy to oppose the IRA. There were frequent riots and occasional shootings...
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    ceasefire began, the Commandant of the IRA's 2nd Northern Division, Eoin O'Duffy, was sent to Belfast to liaise with the authorities and try to maintain...
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    the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the quasi-fascist Irish Blueshirts, led by Eoin O'Duffy. Although they were vaguely nationalistic in tone, Garibaldi and his...
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    had been approved by Michael Collins, Richard Mulcahy, Frank Aiken and Eoin O'Duffy. The Northern Ireland authorities responded by sealing-off many cross-border...
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