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From: "conaught" <>
Subject: [MAYO] Easter Week Series #19
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:35:54 -0700


Edmund John (Eamon) Duggan (1874-1936) was born in Longwood, Co. Meath and
educated as a solicitor. He was arrested in the Easter Rising, 1916. The
British court-martialed and sentenced him to three years of penal servitude
but they released after one year.
He served as Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army. He was
elected to the Dáil in 1918. The British arrested him again in 1920 and
released him in 1921. After the Truce he became the Chief Liaison Officer
for Ireland. He signed the 1921 Treaty, served as Minister for Home Affairs
in 1922, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defense and the
Executive Council. He died suddenly at Dún Laoghaire on 6 June 1936.

© 2001
Ellen Naliboff

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Selected references:

Boylan, Henry, A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Third Edition, Gill &
Macmillan, Dublin, 1998.

Connolly, S.J., editor, The Oxford Companion to Irish History, Oxford
University Press, 1998.

Foster, R.F., Modern Ireland, 1600-1972, Penguin Books, 1988.

Fry, Peter and Fiona Somerset, A History of Ireland, Barnes & Noble, New
York, 1988

Llywelyn, Morgan, 1921, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York, 2001.










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