Eoin O'Duffy

Nationalists in the 1930s (12 person items)

"Eoin O'Duffy was an Irish nationalist political activist, soldier and police commissioner. He was the leader of the Monaghan Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the War of Independence. In this capacity he became Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1922. He was one of the Irish activists who along with Michael Collins accepted the Anglo-Irish Treaty and fought as a general in the Irish Civil War on the pro-Treaty side. In July 1933 O'Duffy became leader of the Army Comrades Association, "