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Hace 1 día · 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 Army Comrades Association (ACA) formed to protect and promote the welfare of its members, previously led by J.F. O'Higgins, Kevin O'Higgins's brother.
2 de may. de 2024 · Professor of History at Queen’s University Belfast, McGarry is best known for his trilogy about Irish involvement in the Spanish Civil War, which included the acclaimed biography, Eoin O’Duffy, A Self-Made Hero.
Hace 3 días · It is the case many Catholics supported the ‘Nationalist’ military coup against the Spanish Republic’s democratically elected government for the reasons Richard English indicates. And some volunteers went to fight alongside Franco’s forces with former Blueshirt leader General Eoin O’Duffy.
The date set for the planned offensive was May 1922. The leader and man behind the offensive’s plans seem to have been Eoin O’Duffy, Chief of Staff of the Pro-treaty forces. In a Department of Defence Memo in 1927 it was indicated that all operations reports were given to him directly at Beggar’s Bush Barracks in Dublin.[12]
15 de may. de 2024 · There has not been an officer of such rank in the Irish Defence Forces since the 1920s, when Michael Collins, Richard Mulcahy and Eoin O’Duffy held an equivalent rank, although they are not...
11 de may. de 2024 · The newly appointed Commissioner of An Garda Síochána, General Eoin O’Duffy, met Colonel Scott in 1923 at an international police conference in New York. Scott offered to provide a medal which would be presented to an officer who ‘especially distinguished himself for valour in the performance of duty’.
8 de may. de 2024 · It is important to remember that the first leader of Fine Gael was General Eoin O’Duffy who, as Police Commissioner, planned a coup against Fianna Fáil. He was dismissed by the new government but he and others within Fine Gael continued to hold authoritarian views.
