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| File Reference |
DP3627
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| Name |
Sean O'Donoghue |
| Gender |
male |
| Address detail |
| Street |
2 York Street, Cork
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| County |
Cork
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Notes |
Date of birth not recorded on file
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| Date of death |
1922-09-28
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| Place |
Near Dublin Hill, Cork, County Cork, Ireland
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| Associated files in MSPA |
2RB275; 52APB84;
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Irish Volunteers |
| Rank |
Volunteer
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| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Battalion Officer Commanding
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| Unit |
1 Battalion
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| Brigade |
1 Cork Brigade
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| Pension Claim |
No |
| Award Pension |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyDP3627 Sean O'Donoghue.pdf
Scanned/digital copy2RB275 Sean O'Donoghue.pdf
Scanned/digital copy52APB84 Sean O'Donoghue.pdf |
| File dates |
30 May 1932 - 23 September 1953
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| Subject Information |
File relates to Hanora O'Donoghue's application under the Army Pensions Act, 1932 in respect of her son IRA Battalion Officer Commanding Sean O'Donoghue. Honora O'Donoghue died on or about 10 March 1933 before the processing of her application could be completed.
Sean O'Donoghue was killed after being taken prisoner by National Army forces near Dublin Hill, Cork on 28 September 1922 during the Civil War. Hanora O'Donoghue claims that the National Army party involved were operating under the command of a Captain Murphy who she also claims later served as "...a bodyguard to [W. T.] Cosgrave". According to information on file Sean O'Donoghue had served successively as a Volunteer, Company Captain and Battalion Officer Commanding with the Irish Volunteers and IRA between 1917 and his death. Hanora O'Donoghue claims that Sean O'Donoghue was a Brigade Officer Commanding at the time of his death and that he was also one of the IRA party involved in the shooting of RIC Divisional Commissioner Gerald Bryce Ferguson Smyth at the County Club, Cork on 16 July 1920 during the War of Independence - there is no evidence on file to support either of these claims.
File includes: original signed handwritten material submitted by Hanora O'Donoghue in support of her application; representations on behalf of Hanora O'Donoghue from Gerald Boland T.D; material referring to the ex-gratia payment of £300 (three hundred pounds sterling) by the Minister for Defence to Hanora O'Donoghue, Gurteenaboul, Mitchelstown, County Cork in 1924, following her application for compensation in respect of the death of her son - payment was made without admission of legal liability; and signed handwritten statements regarding Sean O'Donoghue's service and death from Tom Crofts and Sean O'Hegarty.
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