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From: "conaught" <>
Subject: [MAYO] Easter Week Series #22
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:06:04 -0700


Éamonn Broy, (1887-1972) was born in Rathagan, Co. Kildare. Assigned to the
G division, the secret service of the British administration in Ireland, he
supplied Michael Collins with valuable information. When Collins was on the
run Broy hid him in the College Street police station. Arrested in 1921, he
was jailed for six months, then dismissed. After the Treaty he served as
adjutant of the Free State air force. He died in Dublin 22 January 1972.

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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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